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The Student Prince, by FayJay (R)

  • Oct. 4th, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Title: The Student Prince
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot/Guinevere
Categories: AU, Humor, Harlequin
Length: Super Epic (~147,000 words)
Warnings: A bit OOC in places, some bigotry, an off-camera hate crime happening to a minor character

Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] pandarus
Website: Works on AO3

Summary: A Modern day Merlin AU set at the University of St Andrews, featuring teetotal kickboxers, secret wizards, magnificent bodyguards of various genders, irate fairies, imprisoned dragons, crumbling gothic architecture, arrogant princes, adorable engineering students, stolen gold, magical doorways, attempted assassination, drunken students, shaving foam fights, embarrassing mornings after, The Hammer Dance, duty, responsibility, friendship and true love...

Review:
This an amazing college AU that makes me wanna haul my Yankee ass over to England Scotland (lol geography!fail) because St. Andrews' sounds super-awesome. FayJay gives us wonderful, interesting characters doing wonderful, interesting things for 35 glorious chapters. I loved Arthur and Merlin's interactions, and how they made it work, even though they come from very different backgrounds, and have very different interests. Lancelot definitely stole the show, however, as the hopeless romantic, teetotaling Buddhist. His and Gwen's lovelorn pining after each other is both hilarious and tragic at times, and I loved watching the two finally confess their love to each other :)

The Student Prince

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[identity profile] namari-lifa.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 5th, 2010 03:23 pm (UTC)
Wonderful read, could not stop from the start to the end. Had me laughing out loud and sniffing a few tears. A must read for everyone, this is how hogwarts should have been LOL!!! Hopefully the author will write a sequel!! would love to see who would eventually be brave enough to marry Kay or shove his foot in his mouth *grin*.

Thanks for adding it as a rec here. My first intro to this fandom and what a read, well written and edited too!!!
[identity profile] slyprentice.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 5th, 2010 06:48 pm (UTC)
I've been listening to the podbook for this! It's an absolutely gorgeous read :)
[identity profile] llamabitchyo.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 6th, 2010 11:59 am (UTC)
I enjoyed reading this, thanks!
(no subject) - (Anonymous) - Jan. 16th, 2012 04:26 am (UTC)
[identity profile] lolitakun.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 9th, 2010 06:17 am (UTC)
Ack! Thanks for pointing that out, how embarrassing! :P

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