#sergeant meryll

[greencheekconure27]

Random Yeomen of the guard thought:

If Dame Carruthers is the Tower personified like "When our gallant Norman foes" and "Night has spread her pall once more" suggest, then how much of her crush on Sgt. Merryl is actually about what he represents to her?

Not as a man but as a respected yeoman, perfect living embodiment of duty to the Tower much like she considers herself to be.

Except the very thing that allows her to force him to marry her like she always wanted is a betrayal of said duty by both of them- him by helping Fairfax and her for covering it up for a price. It's not a happy ending for her either (no matter what she thinks in that moment) : she's betraying what she loves most for a man who doesn't want her and will resent her, and isn't even what she thought he was in the first place.

[gibdethethirteenth]

So I'm reminiscing about the production of Yeomen I was in. I played Phoebe and the Meryll family decided to play it like we were actually a family of sorcerers living on Tower Green. Thus why Phoebe knows so surely that Fairfax isn't actually a sorcerer. Our Leonard also played the First Yeomen so he came back after he was supposed to be gone. So we figured it where Leonard cast a spell to make sure no one noticed him as a new Yeoman, Sergeant Meryll cast a spell to make sure no one recognized Fairfax, and Phoebe cast a spell to distract Wilfred during "Were I thy bride" as well as intending to cast a spell on him to make him fall out of love with her before their wedding date.

We also had a quiet agreement that the Meryll family was rather disgraced later down the road, which caused them to fall more into the merchant class. As time passed, sorcery became more of an entertainment. Eventually, a descendant of the Meryll line surfaces at the wedding of Alexis Marmaduke and Aline Sangazure: John Wellington Wells.