MerlinISMagic. Surely this makes him more than a little different?

I have this Headcannon that because of all his various powers, Merlin is physically quite different to what is usually expected in medical science and Gaius is completely fascinated by absolutely hates it.

I’m talking things like one day he comes stumbling into their chambers with an arrow clean through the left side of his chest, wheezing but somehow Not Dead.It’s because like his dragon kin, Merlin’s heart is on the right side of his body. Gaius swears off everything Merlin related there and then. (He lasts about 30 minutes).

Or how under the concealment charm tied to his neckerchief, Merlin’s eyes are naturaly a blazing gold all the time, fuelled by the magic in his veins. Surprisingly, they also allow him to see quite well in the dark. ‘Like a cat’ Gaius remarks when he finds out about it.

His teeth are a little too pointy? Or at least his canines are. It’s Merlin’s most obvious ‘Medical Mystery’ trait but fortunately nothing that can’t be explained away easily enough. It does however add another point to the creature side of ‘Human vs Magical Being’ tally Gaius has been keeping in his head. For scientific purposes. Of course.

Merlin’s speed and agility are much greater than it has any right to be, even if you take into account the amount of physical labour he does for Arthur; The boy practically flys over the ground. Unfortunately the knights don’t realise this until they bet all their money he couldn’t beat Gwaine in a race.

He can talk to animals too! Mind-speak is easiest but his other method has Gaius tearing out the little hair he has left because his ward Should Not Be Able To Do That. To talk to animals, Merlin simply replicates THEIR language: be that neighing, breying or barking. Laws of Vocal Chords be damned, Merlin can do it.

To top it all off, the Knights aren’t wrong when they banter with Merlin about how little he weighs. Gaius is just glad it shields the boy from anyone thinking too hard about the definitely unnatural fact HE could even lift Merlin with one hand if he so pleased. They’re not sure if it’s an Emrys thing, a hollow-boned dragon thing or if there’s some pixie blood mixed in there but Merlin is secretly quite pleased when his creeping footsteps make much less sound than anyone else’s.

Gaius dreads the day he has to treat Merlin for an illness which isn’t immediately obvious because Dear Albion it could be ANYTHING.

BONUS: for anyone with magic, Merlin can be spotted from a mile away because he literally LEAKS it. Again, Gaius says this is Not Normal and no magic should be coming out of him if he’s not actively wanting it too but the druids spot his unique trait a mile away and it puts other magic users at ease when they’re around him. It’s like a giant warm blanket.

Visum Tenebris

Watercolor, colorpencils, copic markers and acrylics on Arches paper.

Another sketch that turned on being a.. Quick drawing? Once I get inspired is very difficult for me to stop giving details.

I made this first as a design for a coloring page for the Dark Fantasy Especial Issue of Colouring Heaven and now is one of the rewards for a lovely Patron. *- *

https://www.patreon.com/enysguerrero

Enys Guerrero is creating Melancholic Mystic Art | Patreon

Using as a model the gorgeous @mirurunpr

Not sure how many will see this. I haven’t posted on here in a long ass time cause of lack of motivation to. But imma try it. Here are some doodles I’ve made in the past few days of some characters that will be in a story I am writing. Hope y'all like.

xshayarsha:

“There is a certain irony here, because many of the first werewolves to be outed in society from the 16th through the 18th centuries were actually women. Just as our American ancestors had their Salem Witch Trials, Europe had its Werewolf Trials, and a large number of the so-called “werewolves” tortured and burned at the stake were female. […] In the 17th-century werewolf trials of Estonia, women were about 150 percent more likely to be accused of lycanthropy; however, they were about 100 percent less likely to be remembered for it.”

“Here’s also a pronounced lack of female werewolves in popular culture. Their near absence in literature and film is explained away by various fancies: they’re sterile, an aberration, or—most galling of all—they don’t even exist.Their omission from popular culture does one thing very effectively: It prevents us, and men especially, from being confronted by hairy, ugly, uncontrollable women. Shapeshifting women in fantasy stories tend to transform into animals that we consider feminine, such as cats or birds, which are pretty and dainty, and occasionally slick and wicked serpents. But because the werewolf represents traits that are accepted as masculine—strength, large size, violence, and hirsutism—we tend to think of the werewolf as being naturally male. The female werewolf is disturbing because she entirely breaks the rules of femininity.”

—Julia Oldham, Why Are There No Great Female Werewolves?

Author Patricia Briggs writes the Mercy Thompson series about a shapeshifter who marries a werewolf. The werewolf is a pack leader, and the pack includes female werewolves who shift into werewolves. Ms. Briggs fully describes the female shifting and what they look like. These are well told stories that include other magical (fae) creatures. Not everyone believes a powerful woman is ugly.

My entry for Eldarya-br “Flecha do Cupido” (Cupid’s Arrow) contest.

In resume, we have to edit a cupid look with pink and red items from Valentines events (with few exceptions). It was so fun! Tho I don’t think I’m going to win… Oh, and I also edited a pet, but is more like a ripoff-hybrid baby of Hanajoo and Lovigis.

Just some diagrams about magic featured in one of my Merthur fics. (https://archiveofourown.org/works/36478567)