The Student Prince

by Fayjay

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Very amusing and smile inducing.

When I started this I was like...you have got to be kidding me---Prince Arthur, Merlin, and Gwen?! *exaggerated eye roll* But as ridiculous, or maybe because of it, I actually got into the groove with this fanfic Round Table in modern Scotland story. If it had tried to be serious, it would have failed, but it had just enough tongue-in-cheek to keep it amusing--not lame. 

Meet Merlin, warlock extraordinaire and Arthur's roommate. A mere commoner, but gotta love his description of home:

"Yeah. Gnome-napped. It's a rough estate – no gnome is safe."

Faithful and dogged friend Gwen:

"He's – you – he – what?" Gwen looked like a five year old whose sugar high had just been interrupted by the news that Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy had all been massacred."

Prince Charming himself making a fine second impression:

"There must be some other clueless drooling yob out there with the conversational skills of a ring-tailed lemur who needs to be given a place to rest his weary head, and who wouldn't try to use me as a comfort blanket like a blithering infant when I was in the middle of trying to keep him from choking on his own vomit."

Academic mother and Arthur's cousin, Morgana's objets d'art, aka fashion sense:

It looked very much like a peacock and an ostrich had engaged in a bloody battle to the death, and the scattered remnants had been haphazardly woven together into hat form.

The legendary Great Dragon:

'No' seems such a flimsy and inadequate little word to express how very little interest I have in hearing you rambling on about that particular topic," said the dragon. "Your mating rituals are roughly as fascinating to me as the eating habits of snails."

The frightening and wise, Morgause:

"Life doesn't have to be all 'Romeo and Juliet', you know, unless you let it be. It can be 'Twelfth Night' instead, and everyone can stay alive and have their cakes and ale, even if they don't end up with the one they thought they wanted."

This is wildly entertaining if rather heavily British. The language, pop culture references and general inter-British country sniping about how one's better than the other are all full force, all the time. A fun read, sweet and just taunting in the teasing for a good portion. So like a slow burn or go home.

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