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[Author's Note: I don't know where this idea came from. Either way, I hope you like the story]
Blow Up Your Heart Into the Sky
In some lives, it's simple.
Uther is some sort of ruler. Arthur is his son, and always a prat.(Reincarnation can't change everything.). Morgana is usually his daughter, or niece, who constantly gives him trouble.(She sometimes sees the future, and other times she has strikingly clear dreams.) Gaius is always some sort of miracle worker, and is always working, but free, for the Pendragons. Igraine almost always dies.(When she didn't, she killed Uther, which, even though he was a giant suppressive bastard, let evil win for once. So she kind of has to die for everything not to go to hell.)
Hunith is always Merlin's mother, and she is always nice. Will is always Merlin's friend, and sometimes lover, but he always dies before Merlin. Tom is always Gwen's father, and sometimes Hunith's husband.(Which is nice because then Gwen and Merlin get to be brother and sister.)
Gwen is always sweet, and always with Merlin. (Which was strange at first, because she is also always faithful to Morgana, respectful to Arthur, and in love with Lancelot. But in every life after Camelot, they always know each other from birth. Sometimes it's because they're related, and other times it's because they grew up in the same town.) Lancelot is always amazingly heroic, and makes almost everyone fall for him. (He and Arthur are always born beautiful, and that's never fair to everyone else.) He and Gwen always run away together in the end. (Sometimes they come back, other times they don't.)
The Dragon is there in every life. Sometimes it's a ghost. Sometimes it's some sort of animal. But most of the time it's human. When the dragon is a human male he's usually an older brother type to Merlin. Or a crazy old man sprouting prophecies. When it's female the Dragon's a fortune teller. Or a strong woman type. Sometimes Nimueh and Mordred are there, but because they were so deeply involved with magic, they tend to be harder and harder to recognize as each turn goes by.
Merlin always makes a difference. Camelot was the only time he had sorcery magic, but in all of the other lives, he works magic. He still avoids Uther when he can. He almost always ends up having to serve Arthur.(And sometimes they have some sort of romance. Those lives always seem a bit better than the others.) He does whatever Morgana asks of him, because he always feels a connection to her. Gaius is always a mentor to him. He never meets Igraine. He always loves Hunith. He always hates losing Will. He never gets to know Tom well. He always loves Gwen, but even after thousands of times, he's never in love with her. He always gets saved by Lancelot at least once. The Dragon always gives him advice that he tends to ignore.
There's always some sort of evil to deal with, and there are people to be saved.
And those are the simple lives.
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Then there are the complicated lives. Where there is no evil to deal with. Unless you count social net-working cites to be evil. Or Star-bucks and McDonalds, and all the other fast food companies that slowly make the world lazy and impatient.
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One of the strange things is that their names never seem to change.(Hunith sometimes goes by 'Honey' and Gaius goes by 'Guy'. And Dragon is only called Dragon as a nick name. When it's female it tends to go by Darci.) With everything else in the world being strange and confusing, it's a nice touch that they never need to be confused about their names.
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They remember their past lives in dreams. But they never really remember their past lives. They just live their lives, and let their destiny's, past, present, and future, guide which way they go.
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The life when the Dragon's an artist named Darci is a nice, but complicated life. It's one of the few that everything works out in the end, which doesn't usually happen.
It's the one that makes the good dreams they have.
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{Author's Note~Reviews are what inspires one to upload the next part.)