Thread:Fimber/@comment-3481504-20151102233729/@comment-5102537-20151109105411

It's always hard and also unfair to be forced to decide between two people. Imagine Merlin would have to decide between Freya and Arthur or Lancelot and Gwaine, Gaius and Hunith... Uther between Morgana and Arthur, Gwen between her father and Arthur and so on.

If Arthur would go for Vivian in such a scenario it might be because Vivian is a woman and no warrior. Yes, in that time area women were regarded as the weak ones and men had to protect them. As for Gwaine and Merlin, you might be right. Gwaine is a knight and even though capable of defending himself, I too tend to believe that Arthur would choose him over Merlin. But we don't know.

I don't think that Merlin is the last person Arthur cared about. One problem might be that Merlin was a little too submissive and clingy towards Arthur. Very often, people get used to such a behaviour and take it for granted. And sometimes such submissive people even become uninteresting. Merlin obviously was something like a matter of course to Arthur, someone who would always be there and always be around.

By the way, Arthur didn't try to help Gaius when he was sentenced to death and about to die until Gwen told him to do the right thing. That's why I said that he was rather a bit more callous than passionate. He was fickle and blind to many things around him.

Nevertheless, Merlin and Arthur were friends. Just not like Frodo and Sam, for example, even though Merlin had a lot in common with Sam.