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The fact that Arthur said this just after we saw Merlin do him the biggest kindness I've ever seen anyone do another person. Like. A sorcerer just selflessly shattered his own dream, and that of many people, just so Arthur would not have to bear the guilt of killing his own father, in one of the purest and most horrifying demonstrations of love I've ever witnessed, and it went unseen and unheard, and then he had to listen to this

Sometimes it just hits me, the amount of emotional pain Merlin has been going through since the beginning of the series.

It makes me think of this post