It's my belief that Merrill was supposed to be a subversion and a mockery of the trope, but it was so poorly done that she still comes off as just the same plain old trope.Īnd the more I examine this trope, the more I'm disgusted by it. They did it with Liara and Tali from Mass Effect, and then they did it again with Merrill. She's older than she looks, she's viriginal, she seems like an idiot but she's only half idiot, and she loves and adores the protagonist no matter what.īioWare has done this way too many times. Merrill is essentially the girl trapped in the woman's body. I think my problem is that Merrill is a really annoying, borderline-pedophiliac trope that I'm really, really tired of. She pretends to be an idiot some of the time to get out of conversations she doesn't want (with Carver in particular). I know I wrote a big, long article about how Merrill is an adult who looks like a child and as a result, has to put up with a lot of condescending people.
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