hi……any meroma headcanons/thoughts :] ?
HI......... WOWIE. i am so excited to answer this hehe... i have Many many thoughts about meroma... <3 i'm going to throw in some mersol too, hopefully that is a-ok!!
i'm a big. Big fan of soulmates/destined partners/etc so i really enjoy entertaining the idea of solomon and merlin Knowing they would end up together even if the details are Blurry. here's an Old joke tweet from 2023 that i made that sums this point up.
jokes aside i do think it'd be Really Really cool if solomon "foresaw" merlin's existence... and while merlin can only see the present, i think he would definitely sense someone watching him...
one of my Absolute Fave things is the idea of merlin having a true form as a cambion. something a bit horrifying and more demonic (but still a pretty boy at heart!). roman himself asks for merlin to show his "true form" so surely it's out there. i don't think merlin would like showing that true form to many people, but roman would be one of the people who know about it (because merlin trusts roman). i just think the idea of merlin breaking his usual demeanor of being the Nice Kind Joyous Big Brother Next Door and instead being an unhinged demon is awesome. roman is a normal human so he'd not really be able to handle All Of That but somehow he'd still manage to. solomon #hacks or whatever........
i think a lot about merlin's relationship with (not) being human and how that parallels solomon not being allowed to be human, and how in my eyes, that really makes them perfect for each other. merlin is half human but his identity and emotions are more like an incubus's. he Most Definitely experiences emotions but one must look at it from a nonhuman perspective. his emotions are Very Very distorted. he won't understand what love is in the same sense of your average person. but he definitely feels love! solomon on the other hand... never had any freedom nor could he choose to even feel emotions. goetia took care of feeling what he couldn't. up until he was given the chance to make a wish... and he became roman. side note but i adore that he picked his own name. so much. it's so sweet how he adores "romance" so much that he named himself after the concept that specifically humans (of the future) experience... anyway, these two have aspects of them that make them human but for their own reasons, they cannot experience what which makes oneself human. so tl;dr they get each other. they understand each other enough to banter at each other and pretend to hate each other.
by merlin's own words he hates grand casters. so he hates himself (lol once again i tap the sign that is "merlin is way more human that he'll willingly admit") but i think it's really Awesome he claims in his conversation with usolomon (lev goetia) that he prefers og!solomon in a Really Roundabout way... acting more solomoncore is not a good thing, lev! don't do that! on the topic of this, yes, merlin hates grand casters enough to act as solomon's personal therapist. totally hates them. i do think magi☆mari started out as a joke or a prank but eventually merlin did find himself giving genuine advice to roman. and he enjoyed doing so. very much...
everything i touch becomes transgender so Ya. t4t meroma is where it's at. everyone hop on. i like thinking solomon doesn't cut off his Huge Boobs (ahem... sorry) but as roman he has top surgery. know the difference. merlin can take any form he wishes. but trans masc merlin is near and dear to me!
i've always been Really fond of merlin bonding with mash (it's galahad's fault) but it makes 40000000x more sense when you consider that mash is roman's blorbo too. this mash can fit so much family in her heart.
usually height differences are cute but meroma/sol is Really special because they are both 178cm!! isn't that crazy. it's so cute.
i like to think merlin saw fuyuki happen and checked in on roman after the whole thing. maybe without letting himself be known at first, but i Really do think they talked in roman's dreams even before Everything at chaldea happened. merlin is a curious creature...
only a semi-thought but i have another funny meme image for you. How Can I Fit The Animuspheres Into This.
back to the lgbt side of things. i like to imagine merlin is a men-liker (despite all of the comments about women. Don't fall for his tricks he is Gay...) while roman is bi!!!
i associate cherry blossoms (meaning: transience) with merlin because Duh. but for roman it's pink roses (meaning: "secret" love, trust). <3 and for solomon it's lilies of the valley (meaning: return of happiness, purity, and sweetness ). both roses and lilies are associated with solomon in irl judaism if you're curious, but even if they weren't i really think These Are The Flowers that suit him.
this is getting long and my cat has decided to stand right in front of my keyboard so as a parting gift i offer one of my fave meroma moments. What the hell was this.