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camelotremix ([personal profile] camelotremix) wrote2018-06-15 10:32 pm

FIC: It's a Kind Of Magic (The Kings and Vagabonds Remix)

Title: It's a Kind Of Magic (The Kings and Vagabonds Remix)
Creator: [livejournal.com profile] camelittle
Work Type: fic
Work URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14752139
Remixee Name: [livejournal.com profile] en_ki_duu
Link to Work Remixed: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10630128
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Length: 6,858
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: no warnings apply
Notes: Dear enkiduu. Your original story was so poetic and full of low key melancholy that it made me ache inside in the best possible way. I really didn't know how to do it justice... writing low key melancholy is not one of my strengths! But I just loved the idea that a mask can at once both hide and reveal, can enable someone to become a truer but hidden version of themselves. Which is how this rather light and fluffy magical modern-AU was born. I hope you like it!
To my fantastic and thorough and all round brilliant beta reader XXX! I am so grateful for your help; you asked all the right questions and helped me to make this a billion times better. I'll thank you properly after reveals.

Summary: While Merlin recovers from a punishing stage tour, performing as infamous live-magic sensation Dragoon the Great, he enjoys the relative anonymity of life in a small village. But when he falls head over heels for the gorgeous son of a local landowner, his magic starts playing tricks on him. Until finally, at the annual barn dance, he takes the opportunity to show Arthur who he really is...