WinterKnights: A BBC Merlin Winter Holiday Fest!

Thank you to everyone that participated in this year's WinterKnights fest!

Please continue to enjoy these wonderful works and share your work with the creators! Reveals will be going up in a few days.

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Title: Matched for Christmas
Pairing(s): Gwen/Lancelot, Merlin/Morgana
Prompt: Character A gets invited for the Christmas holidays by friends. There they meet Character B and fall in love. Get out all the tropes you like: snowball fights, cooking together, getting snowed in, whatever you enjoy.
Word Count/Art Medium: 6257
Rating: G
Contains (Highlight to view): *Please warn for possible triggers and squicks.*
Disclaimer: Merlin characters are the property of Shine and BBC. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Many thanks to the mods for their patience while I dealt with computer trouble! Thanks also to my beta, B, who isn’t on LJ or AO3 but is appreciated anyway.
Summary Morgana has nowhere to go for Christmas, so Gwen invites her back to Ealdor. There Morgana meets Merlin, who rocks her world in a good way

Link to AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35633995

Title: Just Another New Year's Eve
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur
Prompt: N/A
Word Count: 2845 words
Rating: Teen and Up
Contains (Highlight to view): *Brief mentions of hypothetical dub con kissing and teasing threats of bodily harm.*
Disclaimer: Merlin characters are the property of Shine and BBC. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: With thanks to the mods and to my beta. Happy holidays, everyone!
Summary It’s New Year's Eve, and Arthur is once again trying to get up the nerve to tell his best friend that he's in love with him. Of course, it would help if Merlin didn't already appear to be having the time of his life with someone else.

Link to work on AO3: Just Another New Year's Eve

Title: Orion
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur, Gwen/Morgana, Gwen/Lancelot (Mentioned)
Prompt: Character A gets invited for the Christmas holidays by friends. There they meet Character B and fall in love. Get out all the tropes you like: snowball fights, warm cocoa, cooking together, getting snowed in, whatever you enjoy.
Word Count/Art Medium: 22,152
Rating: T
Contains (Highlight to view): *Alcohol Use, Brief Mention of Homophobia*
Disclaimer: Merlin characters are the property of Shine and BBC. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Enormous thank you to my beta, who can be found under the username paradox_machine_40 on ao3
Summary Merlin’s spending Christmas this year at Gwen and Morgana’s home in the Welsh mountains, and when he meets Morgana’s brother, Arthur, he’s pretty sure he’s dull, pompous and more than a bit spoiled. However, over the course of shared hot chocolates, late night talks, and snowball fights, Merlin finds that he may have ended up liking Arthur rather a lot more than he originally intended.

Link to AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35454811/chapters/88376044

Title: What Does A Snow Monster Sound Like?
Pairing(s): merthur. Merlin/Arthur
Prompt: Prompt #20: Family fic: building a snowman or playing in the snow with nieces/nephews and talking about adoption.
Word Count/Art Medium: 1961
Rating: T
Contains (Highlight to view): * Slight anxiety expressed by character. *
Disclaimer: Merlin characters are the property of Shine and BBC. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: Thank you to ratsbys on discord for the beta.
Summary Arthur & Merlin watch their friends' kids for the day.

Link to AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35470144

( WHAT DOES A SNOW MONSTER SOUND LIKE? )