I want them to be happy????

merle highchurch is character of all time. chooses to be a priest like some people choose to be accountants but becomes his god's favorite anyway. fucks plants. absentee father who makes it right but knows the hurt will never go away. jealous of a ten year old. relentlessly pesters man who cuts his arm off to save his life simply because he swung the axe. doesn't hesitate to say no when he's offered a fix for that. plays chess with the embodiment of cosmic horror homicidal nihilism. chooses joy. chooses joy. CHOOSES JOY!!!!!

#youre driving in your truck down a long strip of highway#you cant tell what time it is but you’d guess about 3:42am#it was dead silent until suddenly the radio came to life all on its own#static plays for half a minute before a song fades in #and just as the beat starts#a short man appears in your passenger seat#you almost swerve off the road in shock as you insist on who how and why#and he turns to you and says ‘oh shit. youre not john. sorry’ and hes gone#as quickly has he came Tags from @lescretia

really enjoy the implication that merle is a powerful cleric not because hes particularly devout or even really that good at it but because pan just really loves him specifically. divine nepo baby

Imagine being the vessel of an all-consuming hunger and then the only threats to your existence of limitless devastation send a short, horny grandpa without a shirt to ask you to calm the fuck down.

john and merle are great because john will be going on and on very poetically about the man who saved him from his self-imposed oblivion and taught him that the journey of existence matters just as much if not more than the destination and said man will be behind him cursing out a jar of pickles he cant open. or picking his nose

yall, beauty and the beast AU where Merle finds himself trapped in a creepy castle inhabited by Final John (who, once Merle breaks the curse with his love, turns into regular John)

Bold take - Johnchurch venom AU

Johnchurch AU where John is the depressed old man who sits in his run-down house with the lights off contemplating the meaning of life, and Merle is the neighbor that periodically comes in to water his flowers, hand him a granola bar and play some chess.