ARMY GIRL

Raive. Low activity. 30+. EST.

She is close with her maternal aunt and cousins, though she doesn't see them often due to her work. Raised Catholic, she's on the fence of agnostic theist but still celebrates Christmas and Easter. This is usually when she gets to see her mother's side of the family.

Over the years she distanced herself from her father's side, especially after finding out that Roy was biologically her father. There's a lot of difficult feelings because of that, and so Meryl doesn't really interact with the rest of the family all that much. Sometimes she feels bad because of this, but ultimately it's not that big of a deal.

She's lived on her own since she was 18 of her own volition. Her mom was upset because of this, as she didn't want to lose her daughter the same way she had lost her husband. If it were up to Carolina, Meryl would have stayed home until she was in her 20s and pursued something less dangerous. Or at least become a cop, if she really needed to.

It's 3am and maybe she's awake splashing cold water on her face, but she's fine god dammit. That's the first thing that comes to mind as she stares at herself in the bathroom mirror. It's cold because the cabin doesn't really have much of a heating system, save for the fire place, and that petered out sometime between snores. Not for the first time she has to wonder what the hell she's doing out here.

Her mother would tell her she's being reckless. You barely know how to wipe your own ass, but you think he's your future? She cringes at her reflection, glancing back the way she'd come. Well, her mother hadn't survived terrorist, had she? She hadn't endured bullet wounds and torture; that was all on Meryl and if it brought her closer to him...

Another cringe as she hears the tell tale sign of creaking floorboards. Likely for her benefit, and wasn't that just great? She's not glass.

Meryl is biracial, with her mother being Puerto Rican--Carolina Serrano-Silverburgh.

Meryl's an army brat through and through. One can say she's a bit brainwashed in regards to the army, but her various experiences shook that faith in the government quite a bit.

In regards to gender, Meryl considers herself a nonbinary woman and so uses She/They pronouns. She doesn't really have anything else to say about it except that she's fine with her body and self, but also feels something other. She's not a man, but she's not a woman in the entire sense of the word and so feels comfortable with "they/them" even if she prefers "she/her".

Part of this is due to feeling like she has to prove herself just because she's a woman. As someone who has aligned herself strongly with the idea of being a soldier, Meryl therefore has seen herself as just that-- a very agender sort of being. That said, she doesn't see herself as entirely nonbinary.

She's asexual. It's true that part of the reason for this is preliminary psychotherapy and limited gene therapy to reduce her interest in men, but it's something she felt even as a child prior to entering into the armed forces. After her short relationship with Snake, she experimented dating women, but came to the conclusion she's more straight than anything else.

She has a wonderful relationship with her mom... although it soured a little bit when she found out about everything with Campbell. She got over it, though, and they made up.

Due to everything that happened on Shadow Moses Island, Meryl pushed for an assignment on the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division and went up the ranks until she was the commander of Rat Patrol.

She occasionally offered assistance to PHILANTHROPY via Hal, purposefully avoiding any line of communication with Snake.