OKAY FOLKS I'M DOWN FOR MERLE DOING SOME DREAMWALKING AND I'M THROWING UP SOME HOSTING PROMPTS TOO. I'm running on like. idk a 4-3 ratio of hosting vs walking? i'm playing a little fast and loose and just kinda seeing what happens with open posts/etc. i'm also tossing out a little mix of both general dreaming and straight-up more or less memories. COME SCOPE SOME OPTIONS YO
delight 1: join merle doing what delights him most! well i mean. he's a guy who delights in pretty much anything as a personal choice, but this is one of them: ADVENTURING, SONNN. and it's pretty straightforward! merle and his group of choice out traveling on the road, just a stone's throw away from a coastline. just. nice peaceful weather, changing scenery. people in this dream party will probably swap in and out as the dream goes on, nothing super consistent bc it's Merle. the most likely candidates showing up will be his two kids, mavis and mookie, who people can pseudo-meet in both this dream and the love dream below, and pretty much anyone from that ol' IPRE crew. who doesn't wanna hang with dream davenport??
delight 2: MEMORY TIME?? it's definitely in one of the most spoilery parts of canon, but it's a good'un. i guess the basic gist is merle's hangin with the avatar embodiment of a Big Evil Thing for the umpteenth time and he gets to give a very heartfelt good little speech about what brings him joy. it doesn't end like super great but he does get in a badass line that he's still proud of, so.
sorrow: get your ass down to Goldcliff's city center, we got a sendup to the end of the Petals to the Metal arc from merle's fresh and very guilty perspective on the entire affair. we got a big beautiful cherry blossom tree raining petals! we got genuine gotdang regret that... merle probably wont talk about tbh, but come hang with him anyway. ill provide a link to background music for a mood setter.
hope: its straight-up memory time dawg. in the adventure zone there's an arc called "the suffering game" and in that arc there's a scene titled "arms outstretched", which you can experience firsthand from the merle perspective! i'm gonna write it as emotionally as i can and i'm gonna provide a link to mood music for this one too. plus maybe a link to an animatic to give a full perspective? idk.
fear: man hey you know whats great to dream about? basically the bad ending that that one mirror showed you in that one event where the world where your kids live gets got and you're left truckin' like you never even lived there. Love That. merle could actually show some actual genuine bad emotions and be really not about this? sounds fake but ok
love: CHANCE 2 TO MEET MERLE'S KIDS IN DREAM FORM STEP RIGHT UP. because this dream is deadass just hanging out on the beach with people from his life that he loves and/or likes. a big long steady stream that basically adds up to a huge beach party that people are wandering in and out of! merle could in fact make some shitty beach jewelry to give away. mavis and mookie (his kids that he is a dad of) will probably be the most consistently present throughout the entire dream. the IPRE crew (which does include taako and lup and magnus, yes) will also probably feature a lot! as for the rest, It Is A Mystery. im still figuring it out. merle has a lot of love ok
confusion: once upon a time merle got like 100 years of memories wiped the heck out of existence, which included even vaguely recognizing the kickass found family he made over all those years. they all got flipped turned upside-down and forgot each other. which was like super awkward bc it happened while merle was hanging out with his good bud. this is gonna be a weird, hazy kind of dream shenaniganry. half-memory, half-static, half-merle not making any dang sense, all confusion, and also on a ship hundreds of feet in the air.
merle highchurch (with adventure zone spoilers)
delight 1: join merle doing what delights him most! well i mean. he's a guy who delights in pretty much anything as a personal choice, but this is one of them: ADVENTURING, SONNN. and it's pretty straightforward! merle and his group of choice out traveling on the road, just a stone's throw away from a coastline. just. nice peaceful weather, changing scenery. people in this dream party will probably swap in and out as the dream goes on, nothing super consistent bc it's Merle. the most likely candidates showing up will be his two kids, mavis and mookie, who people can pseudo-meet in both this dream and the love dream below, and pretty much anyone from that ol' IPRE crew. who doesn't wanna hang with dream davenport??
delight 2: MEMORY TIME?? it's definitely in one of the most spoilery parts of canon, but it's a good'un. i guess the basic gist is merle's hangin with the avatar embodiment of a Big Evil Thing for the umpteenth time and he gets to give a very heartfelt good little speech about what brings him joy. it doesn't end like super great but he does get in a badass line that he's still proud of, so.
sorrow: get your ass down to Goldcliff's city center, we got a sendup to the end of the Petals to the Metal arc from merle's fresh and very guilty perspective on the entire affair. we got a big beautiful cherry blossom tree raining petals! we got genuine gotdang regret that... merle probably wont talk about tbh, but come hang with him anyway. ill provide a link to background music for a mood setter.
hope: its straight-up memory time dawg. in the adventure zone there's an arc called "the suffering game" and in that arc there's a scene titled "arms outstretched", which you can experience firsthand from the merle perspective! i'm gonna write it as emotionally as i can and i'm gonna provide a link to mood music for this one too. plus maybe a link to an animatic to give a full perspective? idk.
fear: man hey you know whats great to dream about? basically the bad ending that that one mirror showed you in that one event where the world where your kids live gets got and you're left truckin' like you never even lived there. Love That. merle could actually show some actual genuine bad emotions and be really not about this? sounds fake but ok
love: CHANCE 2 TO MEET MERLE'S KIDS IN DREAM FORM STEP RIGHT UP. because this dream is deadass just hanging out on the beach with people from his life that he loves and/or likes. a big long steady stream that basically adds up to a huge beach party that people are wandering in and out of! merle could in fact make some shitty beach jewelry to give away. mavis and mookie (his kids that he is a dad of) will probably be the most consistently present throughout the entire dream. the IPRE crew (which does include taako and lup and magnus, yes) will also probably feature a lot! as for the rest, It Is A Mystery. im still figuring it out. merle has a lot of love ok
confusion: once upon a time merle got like 100 years of memories wiped the heck out of existence, which included even vaguely recognizing the kickass found family he made over all those years. they all got flipped turned upside-down and forgot each other. which was like super awkward bc it happened while merle was hanging out with his good bud. this is gonna be a weird, hazy kind of dream shenaniganry. half-memory, half-static, half-merle not making any dang sense, all confusion, and also on a ship hundreds of feet in the air.