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[hope]

Okay, so this may be the fever talking, but you know how there are a million college/university Merlin AUs? And half of them are set in a US university?

Well, I'm seriously tempted to write one set in an Australian university.

Please, someone either talk me out of or in to this...

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[hope]

Oh god. This is going to be totally ridiculous.

[derryderrydown]

It's Merlin! If it's not ridiculous, it's not true to the source text!

[hope]

Exactly! And, you know, Australia is a colony. Except it is a University AU, so perhaps instead of Arthur's destiny being to unite Australian and NZ, it's to oust footballer yuppy Uther from head of the student union.

[copracat]

Because they don't want to fund the LGBT student group and Arthur wants to support his mate Merlin and Merlin's bloody annoying boyfriend? Merlin was a charity kid at Timbertops, right? That where they met because, like, Arthur didn't go to Geelong Grammar.

Actually, I don't know how student union funding works these days. Fees were compulsory when I was at Uni so we had, you know, ALL the resources.

[hope]

They were compulsory when I went there, too. I think it'll probably need to be set in my era. Or go like, semi-FICTIONAL or something.

I thought Timbertop was a GG thing?

[copracat]

I failed to write my sentence properly. Yes, Timbertop is a GG thing and yes, I meant that Arthur surely went there.

[hope]

Also, Gwaine's dad was totally a lawyer or something, but Gwaine insists on doing Creative Arts and swans around in leggings doing performance art in the north court and so forth. Which sickens Arthur. But gives Merlin big, awed hearteyes (he's from Shep ffs!).

[copracat]

Couldn't Gwaine's dad be some Pilbara iron magnate? Lawyers love the arts. Number of law graduates I know who write plays or act or direct: more than can be counted on one hand.

[hope]

You just made me have a coughing fit from laughing. YES HIS DAD IS TOTALLY A WA MAGNATE!

And Gwaine now spends his time protesting the police state of tram inspectors by lying dramatically with his theatre friends on the tracks at the unimelb interchange.

[copracat]

I bet he wrote a long impassioned letter to Julia Gillard about how important the mining tax was and not to back down. Possibly he quoted a Billy Bragg song.

Sorry. You're writing this, aren't you?

[hope]

I'm thinking of it as more of a collaborative piece.

Gwaine tries to seduce Merlin with Midnight Oil.

[nixwilliams]

Merlin isn't into sell-out ALP MPs, though.