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What is the After Camlann Big Bang? It's a fandom fest that pairs writers with artists in order to create epic fanworks inspired by the world and characters of the BBC show, Merlin!
Please familiarize yourself with our new FAQs!
Remember to check out our 2026 Schedule!
What is the After Camlann Big Bang? It's a fandom fest that pairs writers with artists in order to create epic fanworks inspired by the world and characters of the BBC show, Merlin!
Please familiarize yourself with our new FAQs!
Remember to check out our 2026 Schedule!
What is the After Camlann Big Bang? It's a fandom fest that pairs writers with artists in order to create epic fanworks inspired by the world and characters of the BBC show, Merlin!
Please familiarize yourself with our new FAQs!
Remember to check out our 2026 Schedule!
Thank you to all our wonderful writers, artists and beta readers who participated in this years After Camlann Big Bang! We hope you will consider participating again next year! If you haven't already, please check out the big bang summaries below the cut and consider reading, viewing and leaving some comments for our wonder ACBB participants! Below is the final masterlist for After Camlann 2025:
words by thelastpendragon, art by count-pudding
Summary: When Hunith foresees the dreadful future that awaits her son in Camelot, she twists fate by not sending Merlin to the legendary city. Unfortunately, destiny cares little for concerned mothers, and a certain injured blond prince ends up finding his way in Ealdor. Or: a Different First Meeting AU where Hunith is a Seer and tries to protect Merlin from the tragedy of canon by not sending him to Gaius, but that doesn’t stop him from finding Arthur injured in the woods the next day.
words by BeBraveDearHeart, art by Poffefish
Summary: Merlin was part way through his degree in medicine when war broke out in 1914. Not meeting the criteria to join up he became a doctor for the soldiers with injuries severe enough to be sent home with little hope—the stately home he inherited from his late uncle Gaius serving as a hospital. It’s here he meets a grievously wounded Arthur Pendragon whose scars are not all physical. As Arthur heals bit by bit in both mind and body, learning to walk on his prosthetic leg and all the frustration that comes with it, Merlin sees the good, the bad, and the downright ugly sides of him. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—they grow closer.
words by chaosgenes, art by clotpole
Summary: In a universe with a singular beginning and multiple endings, there are, too, multiple Merlins. But, there is only one Arthur Pendragon. And he dies in every ending, leaving immortal Merlin broken every time. To save his best friend from witnessing one tragedy after another, Arthur takes matters into his own hands—and denounces the destiny between them for good.
Or:
Merlin grows up in a world where Arthur is never born and tries to cope with a never-ending longing.
words by iJoke, art by K62256
Summary: “This is the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to me by far, and if anyone finds out about it, they will find that their life expectancy is dropping remarkably quickly,” Merlin says under his breath, flexing and unflexing his shiny new claws. It’s not that the claws are embarrassing, nor that the wings or the horns are even an issue, easily hidden by an illusion spell as they are, but rather this small, simple fact:
Merlin is 20 years old and going through fucking puberty, this time of the dragonlord variety.
words by fictified, art by feuxx
“There’s something about you, Merlin. If my uncle knew… if he’d even guessed at it, he would never have let you live. He would never have let me have you.” An ACBB 2025 fic. In this fusion of BBC Merlin and C. S. Pacat's Captive Price trilogy, Agravaine De Bois is Regent of Camelot, formerly Vere, until Arthur Pendragon comes of age. Hardship and famine have struck the land, making it easy for Agravaine's ambition to take hold; a young Akielon dragonlord - the King-Killer - is betrayed and sold into his new slave trade. Arthur and Merlin do what they must both to survive and to meet their destinies.
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Thank you again to everyone who has participated in the fest so far!
We'll be back later to wrap-up the fest and post our 2025 AfterCamlann Masterlist!
words by Camelittle, art by LFB72
Summary: Jobbing actor Merlin is despairing of ever getting his big break. With the acting world seemingly set against him, he takes a job as far away from London's glitzy theatreland as he can think of – at a down-at-heel castle in the far north of Scotland. There, he encounters a gruff, kilt-wearing shepherd with sturdy knees and the sort of Viking beard that Merlin would just love to bury his face in. But both men are hiding secrets that could blow the whole thing wide open.
In which BBC Merlin's characters get the Hallmark movie treatment. In Scotland. Because Arthur obviously needs to wear a kilt and strut around the highlands looking pretty.
words by Dendral, art by samwinjester
Summary: He was cursed, he knew, by his own actions. Had he listened to his own heart, Arthur wouldn't be stuck, repeating the same day again and again. But while time looped itself, Arthur's mind did not. Merlin couldn't help him this time. He would solve it on his own; he had to.
Arthur's terrible no good very bad Groundhog Day.
words by sonny_d, art by kissme-withyour-cherrylipstick
Summary:
Summary: Said the Sun to the Earth; “I will go, and I will return, again and again, until my light is gone.” And the Earth, certain now of the pattern, began to hope for the next arrival even before the present warmth had faded.
“I will follow you anywhere. I will always return to your side,” Merlin says quietly, not as promise but as truth. Arthur smiles, as if Merlin has said something obvious, something already known.
Said the Sun to the Earth; “Even in my absence, I will still be with you. You will carry my heat in your stone, my gold in your fields.” And the Earth, unable to speak, answered with a turn of the seasons.
“You’ve always been here,” Arthur says, and in the weight of those words is a history they have not yet spoken aloud.
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Merlin is pushed much too far in his secret keeping, so far that he's driven into a comatose state that reveals his magic to Arthur. While Arthur grapples with this devastating news and tries to figure what he's to do, Merlin rots in his strange dreams built up over years of secrets and guilt, striving against himself to tell Arthur the truth.
words by thetreeofwillow, art by SpacePolice Dude
Summary: In the weeks following being revived by the Cup of Life, strange circumstances have been following Leon. The fire in his chambers seems to light and douse itself, the wind dances across his face, and water seems to caress his hands. But nothing is stranger than the root that shoots straight up from the ground to save his life from an arrow aimed at his heart. And stranger still is the answering blossom of warmth in his chest when it does.
But what does it mean? Surely, it can't be magic. Magic corrupts. It's to be reviled. He can't have magic.
Can he? And why is Merlin suddenly so interested in him?
words by Excited_Insomniac, art by Chapollyn
Summary: Commander Arthur Pendragon leads the mission to Jupiter to establish a nascent colony in orbit around the gas giant. But once they arrive, a series of inexplicable accidents lead to EVA Specialist Merlin Emrys' death, and Arthur spirals into grief and guilt, jeopardizing the whole mission. Merlin, however, is not dead, but rather abducted by the draconic derkesthai aliens, who force him into changes both physical and mental. They want to send a message to humanity, and Merlin is to be the messenger. Unless he refuses to obey...
words by Author: tomatopudding, JetGirl1832, art by RainbowRelyea
Summary: It has been several months since Lena Luthor had the memories of her former life as Morgana Pendragon awakened. Now she's just trying to live her life, love her girlfriend, and learn her magic. It doesn't take long before this fairly peaceful existence is interrupted by the return of someone Lena has never expected to see again. Little does she and Merlin know, Lex Luthor is hiding a secret in his mind. An enemy Merlin hasn't had to deal with for a long time. Click HERE for the fic and HERE for the art!
words by Tansyuduri, art by Funkie_Moon
Summary: Born with many inherited health issues, Merlin Emrys had dedicated much of his life to environmentalism and vigilante hacking. He is hired as a token environmental adviser for Albion Enterprises LTD in the aftermath of a tell-all book published by the CEO’s daughter. There, he meets Arthur, the CEO’s son, and is swept up into a whirlwind friendship and blossoming romance. It’s something he never intended — especially since he plans to hack the company from the inside. And, most especially, because Merlin is determined to be single for his entire life. But, he is drawn to Arthur, and Arthur is drawn to Merlin. They fit together. It's almost like they are two sides of the same coin. With so many things separating them and yet so many things drawing them together, Arthur and Merlin's destiny remains uncertain. Even as, once again, the future of Albion (Enterprises) rests on both their shoulders.
