#meckett

[cheerful-shrimp]

Sketch of Beckett wearing Mercer's coat. My heart melts with love for them 😭

I like this art much more than yesterday's. I hope you like it too!

[fred-erick-frankenstein]

a little something ☺️

[ellena-asg]

Mercer about everyone:

for meckett fans if they are still here (?)

[rattenmann]

i got this template from @kickingthepirate

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

I don't understand Meckett and I don't understand the octopus/pumpkjn appeal. How does it work? sell it to me becaus now i'm curious???

I mean, Mercer/Beckett is a classic Servant/Master dynamic but with murder and a general ruthlessness to both characters which is always a lot of fun to engage with.

I remember first liking them because of that conversation they were evidently in the middle of when Governor Swann is brought in. At some point Beckett says to Mercer something like, 'So you see, Mercer, every man has his price even for that which he didn't expect to sell.' (Very rough paraphrase.)

At the same time, in that scene, Mercer is listening to Beckett and Swann talk while faffing about with that telescope of Beckett's, which is not something he should be doing as a servant but clearly has no compunctions with making use of Beckett's things which means it's something he has long, long been allowed to do.

And I thought it interesting that Mercer was allowed such freedoms and that Beckett and Mercer were evidently having conversations of a somewhat philosophical nature, that Mercer felt comfortable enough to disagree with Beckett - and evidently thought Swann wouldn't have a price when it came to Elizabeth, which is a really interesting insight into Mercer's character, and that Beckett clearly respected Mercer's opinions on these matters.

Later, when Beckett is about to die on the ship, he sees across the battle the ship that Mercer was on switching sides, indicating that Mercer is likely dead, that's when his face hits the 'oh fuck, I'm fucked' look. And I've always loved interpreting that scene as Beckett believing, even to the very end, that somehow Mercer might rescue them. That when Mercer is dead, that is when everything is over.

Fundamentally, their comfort and comradery and the innate trust between them is very well rendered and makes writing them together a lot of fun.

They are murder and blackmail husbands and I love that for them.

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Mercer and Davy Jones isn't one that I've actually written. I've just enjoyed talking about it with people because it's so fucked up given how Davy Jones kills Mercer - it is so intimate and so vindictive and so brutal.

I know most would see it as revenge for Mercer taking Davy's ship from him, but I love reading it as revenge for some past betrayal or hurt. That Mercer did something, a long time ago, and Davy has never forgiven him for it. And heartbreak is a classic one for that!

We know that Davy is capable of love and deep wells of emotion, while Mercer on the other hand has three (3) emotions and one of them is Murder!!. I think Mercer has a fundamental ruthless coldness to him, on a deep soul level, that doesn't exist in Davy Jones even though Davy is a hard and cruel man.

Not to say that Mercer can't feel things, I think he feels some warmth for Beckett and obviously an absolutely insane bonkers level of loyalty to the man, but I can see him tearing someone's heart out and not even really registering that he is doing it.

So, I think Davy and Mercer had this past situationship of some kind, God knows how or when, but then Mercer is like "alright, I'm done, I'm bored, moving on" and fucks off to old blighty and Davy Jones hasn't seen him since. Cue POTC and the whole fall out from that.

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Basically, it's something like this:

Beckett: Really? The squid man?

Mercer: Octopus, but yes.

Beckett: Why? Seems unhygenic.

Mercer: I was twenty-five and bored? You and Walpole were all up in each other's wigs, my lord, as a general reminder of past Decisions.

Beckett: We are not relitigating me and Walpole... was it any good?

Mercer: I've had worse.

Beckett then gets weird about it and possessive because Beckett likes possessing everyone and everything in his vicinity and Mercer finds it endearing because he's not ok and the rest is history.

[nelsonssssxx]

Help I was just rewatching POTC 3 with my grandad and he was just slagging Beckett and Mercer off the entire time lmao 😭

[mgenchanted]

Meckett in 2025

[goddessofstupdity]

Ship Life

A requested Cutler Beckett x Ian Mercer fic

Posted on ao3

1st Chapter WC: 504

I've been bullied by @rattenmann into writing this as a gift for him, I don't know if it's good at all but the last chapter will be out for christmas.

>:(