Fourth Floor Common Room; WEDNESDAY Evening [ 03/18 ].

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

It was a little ironic, that this should happen after Saint Patrick's Day, but a suddenly bearded and Irish Cal McStephanides (which was a very ancient clan name, don't you know?) made haste to the common room. He was driven by a great swell of sweet pride, and could not wait to tell the world.

"Oy!" he announced, to no one and everyone in particular. "Did ye hear about our Merlin?"


[[ so very open, especially once our Merlin gets here. This post is a beautiful concoction of four holy things: muns in the same room under the influence of each other, insanely sexy bearded icons, Irish PBs who aren't playing Irish characters, and this which is NSFW. But it is Win For Life. ]]

[[also, you saw nothing *waves hand* ]]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin, meanwhile, was trying to disappear behind the couch before anyone noticed this display.

It was Christmas all over again!

"Cal, no!"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Git on out from behind thar," said Cal, waving his hand. "Ye should be proud. Yer a gay man naow."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I am proud," Merlin muttered in a way that wasn't proud at all. "Ye jus' keep tellin' everyone! Ye can' do that!"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Course I can. I should! Jus' watch me naow; maybe I'll make ye a nice sign."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"No!" Merlin cried, looking absolutely horrified. "Ye wouldn'!"

[mauledbyabear.livejournal.com]

Emmett walked into the room and sort of eyed the two guys in the room for a couple moments.

"...dude, Ears. I didn't even know you had the testosterone to grow a beard," he said after a moment.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal jumped right on the chance to tell someone, anyone, the great news the moment he showed up.

"Did you hear about our Merlin?" he asked, and then puffed his chest with utter pride. "He's a gay man naow."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin's beard shrank down a bit, trying not to draw any attention to himself there.

[mauledbyabear.livejournal.com]

Emmett's eyes widened a bit before he burst out laughing.

"Oh my god! A gay man? Really?" Emmett couldn't stop laughing. "What will Badgerface say?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Really really," Cal nodded. "Honest to God Allmighty, he's a gay. And we're all so proud of him, too. Who's Badgerface? You've a boyfriend already, Merlin? That's not the rent boy, issit?"

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan hadn't found food quite greasy enough for his hangover in the fifth floor common room -- when you've still got one after sleeping fourteen hours or so, it takes a lot to help cure it -- so he'd decided to wander a floor down.

"I've heard we've got one, yeah," he said, rolling his eyes. "What about 'im in particular?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"He's a gay man naow!" Cal answered in his newfound Irish drawl, beaming with pride.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin was trying to hid behind the couch now, anything to avoid his roommate's overly proud declarations of his sexuality.

He just hoped for no chocolate body parts.

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan blinked, stared a moment, then grinned. "Are ye, then?" he asked. "I don' suppose you've got a boyfriend, have ye?"

Something had to be going on here. Ronan wasn't quite sure what. Still, whatever it was, it was hilarious.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Have you, Merlin?" asked Cal, inappropriately interested and pleased by the prospect. "'Cuz if you have, we should really be talkin' to yer grandma 'bout sending awl tha' money for those nice rent boys."

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire was looking for Cal or cereal, possibly both. She found one of the above. "You grew a beard?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"What'ya mean, grew it?" asked Cal, stroking the stubble with pride. "I've had me beard since I was practically fresh out of the womb! But tha's no matter. Did you hear about our Merlin? He's a gay man naow!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Cal!" He was a horrible roommate. Worse than his ma.

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"Merlin's gay?" Claire laughed over Merlin's words, more amused by that than alarmed by anything else just yet. "Awesome. Did he get a boyfriend?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"None tha' we know of," Cal said, nudging his bearded friend in the ribs a little with a grin. "He's a bit good on that sly thing, but we've gotten 'im a few rent boys to tide him over, 'aven't we, Merlin?"

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine was... oh. let's face it, she was checking other floor's kitchens to see if there was anything in the cupboards that wasn't Cool Ranch Doritos because there is a limit to how many days in a row you can eat those things before corn starts sprouting from behind your ears.

Ooh, bonus! "Hi, Mer--- WHOA."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" Another person to tell! This was excellent; at this rate, the whole world would know! "Did you hear about our Merlin?" Cal asked, but didn't give much time for an answer. "He's a gay man naow."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Like the sign wouldn't do that already.

"Francine!" Merlin looked shifty and bearded for a moment.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Yuh-waaaaah?" Sad to say? She hadn't even registered the sign, or Cal, quite yet. Because beard. "You have a beard. That's--" Hot. "--new."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"New?" Cal frowned a little. "No, it isn't. He's alwa's 'ad it, almost since the day 'e was born! What's new is tha' e's a gay man naow."

Cal nodded stoutly. It was important to mention it as much as humanly possible.