I am not immune to this

"I want you to always be you" is one of the most powerful lines ever written.

It implies loving the other person inside and out, cherishing every last detail about them. But it's not just the plain meaning that makes it so special. It's the way it was delivered in the moment it was delivered. It was a farewell, it was a fervent last wish, it was Arthur giving Merlin something he had never dared think he'd get: his full acceptance for whom he truly was. It was Arthur telling Merlin 'I finally know you, and I accept you and love you with everything I have. You are clumsy and foolish and funny and kind and loyal and yes, magic, and I love every single facet of you to the point I couldn't bear it if you lost any of them. You are perfect to me.'

We have so many 'I love yous' in so many shows. This is far better. It's everything we could have dreamt of getting, and we got it. Not an 'I love you' but an 'I love everything that makes you be you' coming from the one character we would never have expected it and being given to a beloved protagonist who had been living in fear of his other half’s rejection from the moment they met.

It simply cannot be bested. And it makes me cry every. single. time.

I've got some tricks up my sleeve
takes one to know one
you're a cowboy like me

and i wake with your memory over me.