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silveryfairy · 2 years ago

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Good day! I happened to go on this blog and was seized by a strong curiosity about the character Merlot Maruta this time. Kidcore and alcohol both in one character, is definitely something new. What is his real age? Please elaborate on this guy's story if you feel like it

oh my god i forgot to check this blog's notifications and this ask has been rotting for 12 days AAYUSHI IM SO SORRYYYYY. somewhat barebones cuz im sleepy hehe

so for starters, merlot is a wreck it ralph oc! the general gist is that he's a character in sugar rush, a kid's racing game. he's got a theme of wine-flavored candy! the reason for his age problems is that his age was (in-universe) retconned by developers, who initially made him a kid but aged him up because they didn't wanna make controversy around a 'kid' character being connected with alcohol.

but his appearance and voice didn't change, just his internal coding, etc, thus giving him the vibe of a grown adult trapped in a small child's body. it's mostly played for comedy but also generally makes him a very bitter guy because he feels there's nobody really on his level around because of this. in a game populated by like 80% kids lol. he vents his frustrations by being a competitive bullying little shit

he does have a regular human au, where he's still generally the same except his inability to physically age+looking very very young is just... something he was born with, and he follows the same patterns of "being an adult 'trapped in a kid's body', becoming a bitter cruel person for it", in the way that he knows he'll never be treated like an actual adult cuz of his appearance. in reality he's like, late 20s-early 30s but can very very seamlessly pass for like. 9.

his closest, and only really, confidant is my friend fig @/hatsunoid's oc colin, who's a bartender who knows merlot's secret and is one of the only people around who treats him like a 'real' adult. they get into lots of gossip. im very fond of their friendship :D

(he also made a cameo in our other friend flux's death game rp, where he was written by vie, the person i made the nocturnes with :DD fae portrayed him very well it was great)