Creator / Merryweatherey

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Lucius Merryweather is a webcomic author. He (yes, he, despite his feminine user name) specializes in anime-style trope short stories as well as Anthropomorphic Personification of various tools, from internet browsers to video game platforms to various tools. Likewise, he's really into creepy and macabre stories, more often than not having a narrative start off with cute protagonists before spiraling into some rather dark tales. Heck, even some of his shorts have these undertones, so fair warning.

Being the brains behind the webcomic, Merry usually collaborates with other artists to paint his comics and ideas, most frequently Princess Hinghoi. He currently leads Merryweather Media, which covers his original and horror content, while the spin-off group Meme Girls! focuses on his meme and moe anthropomorphism content.

Beyond his webcomic work, he regularly writes and helps produce lore videos for various VTubers, including VShojo and hololive.

Available in Twitter, Webtoon and YouTube, where he also contacts indie Japanese voice actors to voice his comic dubs. He is also a Virtual YouTuber on Twitch.

Also has a Wolf-Girl VTuber cousin named Lumi, both of them are now part of the Virtual YouTuber group Astraline.

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Comic Series

• American Weeb In Japan: An Otaku becomes a Foreign Exchange Student in Japan.
• My Succubus Girlfriend: As stated, a comic about a boy having to put up with a succubus who becomes infatuated with claiming his soul despite his resistance to her advances. Was acting forced to reboot after the original artist left the comic and he partnered with a new one, changing the style in the process.
• I Made A Comic About Internet Explorer: His most known comic (alternatively known as Browser Waifu or Internet Explorer-chan), featuring an Anthropomorphic Personification of Internet Explorer as she ventures through the life of a web browser and having to content her homicidal rival Google Chrome.
• Stalker x Stalker: Horror-romance of two Yandere and their love life, although it's mostly Romantic Comedy.
• Clinic of Horrors: Horror-comedy of a nurse working in a clinic surrounded with Eldritch Abomination creatures, people, and situations that just wanted some treatments.
• Crawling Dreams: An innocent goth girl, Nyarla, cluelessly lives her life in a Lovecraftian nightmare of a city. Luckily she's got her kitty Ghast to protect her!
• Everywhere & Nowhere: A Time-Travelling Romance featuring two Shakespearean Side Characters. Illustrated by PeaCh.
• Goth Girl & The Jock: A series centered around the unlikely romance between Tyler, a Jock, and Ophelia, a lonely goth girl.
  • Goth Boy & The Jock: A spin-off series which focuses on the relationship between a Jock named Thad and a sassy goth boy named Jasper.
• Lovecraft Girls - or How To Prevent The Apocolypse: A series centered around monsters by H. P. Lovecraft as women.
• Fox Girls Are Better: An ordinary otaku guy accidentally ordered a fox girl to stay at his apartment. Hilarity ensues and crazy things start to happen to the guy. Characters and concept originate from Lost Pause.
• Meme Girls: Probably Merryweathery's best known work outside of Internet Explorer, a series of one-shots featuring various memes turned into anime girls. Illustrated by Princess Hinghoi. Originally part of I Made A Comic About Internet Explorer, it eventually branched into its own thing. (Aside of the video game consoles below, there's also websites like Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc turned into girls...)
  • Console Waifu: A Spin-Off of I Made A Comic About Internet Explorer published under the Meme Girls banner. Features video game consoles, chiefly Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and Xbox One (the latter two are evolving to match with Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X). Considerably Lighter and Softer than its predecessor.
• Minecraft Anime/Creeper-chan: Based on the creeper of Minecraft fame, except it's a Gender Flip Anthropomorphic Personification.
• The Empty World: A webcomic starring Merry's Author Avatar who desperately tries to come up with a story he can exist in.
• My Incubus Boyfriend: A male demonic incubus was summoned to be a boyfriend by a lonely girl who has been thoroughly bullied/abused by every other people she came across (from her own family to her classmates). May get a little depressing due to the bullying theme. Gender-Inverted version of My Succubus Girlfriend, although it actually manages to be noticeably different in tone.
• Magickology: Merryweatherey's own take of the Harry Potter verse, featuring two rivaling magician girls
• Vampire Gamer: Simple little comic about a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire who's into gaming.
• Winter Moon: Risa, a seductive priestess, meets Florence, a homosexual wizard in an MMORPG. Hilarity ensues.
• Demon King GF: Alvida the Demon King accepts a marriage proposal from the Hero of the Human Kingdom for the sole purpose of ending him when they were alone together. She ends up falling in love with him for real. Illustrated by PeaCh.
• Succubus x Delinquent: Centers around Satan's daughter after he kicked her out of hell for being a lazy brat and forcing her to do her job as a succubus to corrupt human souls, and meets the titular delinquent in police station lock up after she was Mistaken for Prostitute and he got into a fight with some bullies. Illustrated by PeaCh.
• Conspiracy Research Club: Although not in his linktree, he's the writer behind Conspiracy Research Club or, he was, up until chapter 14. It's not super clear.

Mini Series

• A City Called Nowhere: A Nightmare Fuel-worthy comic about a girl who lives in a city where strange things happen and what to do when said things happen.
• MMORPG: Various one-shots where Merryweatherey lampoons many MMORPG game tropes.
• Virgin vs Chad: A fledging comic adaptation of the Virgin vs. Chad meme. Chad Thundercock is the super popular, muscular guy that gets all the girls, and our protagonist Virgin is really jealous at him despite some girls trying to befriend him. But is that really the case?
• Pokémon Comics: Short comics in regards of Pokémon Sword and Shield, but especially putting emphasis of the meme 'Scottish Female Pokémon Trainer' that spawns from the game.
• Chronicles of Deathslayer: An attempt of one-shot comic longer than the usual mini-comics of Merry. Combining Shonen genre and a reversal of Isekai genre; it's a story of a gamer who played an MMORPG with the in-game nickname 'Deathslayer', who has grinded to the maximum level, but felt a little burned on the game. While taking a walk, he's in for a surprise when another player in her own avatar appeared along with a monster trying to kill him (when he's not being the invincible Deathslayer), apparently their worlds has merged. The player must come to terms with how it's happening and that he can still call upon the power of Deathslayer to at least save himself.
• Digital Love Story: Alan Dorsey is an obese and unremarkable office drone with no real social life outside of work. To escape this toiling existence, he has sunk hundreds of hours into an MMO under the pseudonym of Alister, including being in an in-game relationship with fellow player Lana. But things get complicated when Lana arranges for them to meet up IRL.
• Tomboy GF: A comic about a girl with abs who loves to exercise and her round boyfriend who's more of a lazy bum and likes girls with huge abs.

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Tropes associated with Merryweatherey comics

• Anthropomorphic Personification: Be it internet browsers, video game consoles, to even a creature within a game or an internet meme.
• Calling Your Attacks: "CHAD SMASH!!"
• The Cameo: Both Virgin and Chad appear in one panel in Digital Love Story greeting Alan Dorsey when he goes to the gym with Robin.
• Casting Gag: The English version of "Seto Kaiba's Girlfriend?" features LittleKuriboh as both Yugi and Kaiba, due to the immense popularity and legacy of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.
• Cerebus Syndrome: Many of his comics start off innocent and humorous enough before really getting dark and disturbing. How dark it gets usually varies on the tone of the story. Some are just simple Black Comedy, but other outright veering into a Cosmic Horror Story.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Stacy is very obsessive on Chad and doesn't like it when someone gets captivated by his... 'Chad'-ness.
• Creator Thumbprint: The Cthulhu Mythos is a common theme in his works.
• Cruel Twist Ending:
  • The ending of Digital Love Story reveals that Alan's happy ending with his wife was actually a VR game he was addicted to in an attempt to dull the pain of his loneliness. Subverted in an addendum where he straightens up, ditches the game for good, goes to a gym to lose weight and enters a happy relationship with a fit Gamer Chick named Robin who helps him get his life together.
  • In a one shot titled "Love from Light Years Away", an alien woman receives a message from a scientist, welcoming any intelligent beings to Earth. She thinks he looks cute and sets a course for Earth which is 30 light-years away, and when she arrives, she breaks down as she finds Earth an irradiated wasteland. (the "punchline" being that it took 30 years for the radio signal to leave Earth and reach her ship, and in those 30 years a nuclear war broke out and Earth was destroyed). However, in Goth Girl & The Jock it seems she figured a way to go back in time to prevent the war, or that story takes place in alternate universe, as both the alien woman and the scientist make cameo appearances.
• Disguised Horror Story: Many of his comics start off normal, only to have a dark twist of some sort.
• Gender-Blender Name: Merry is a feminine sounding name, and he mostly puts up Internet Explorer (or occasionally Google Chrome) as his avatar. This causes many other internet persona that knew him to think that he's a female... conveniently missing out that his very first video uploaded in YouTube is showing that he's completely a dude. Eventually, the newer audience would be cleared up on this with his V-Tuber model, who pretty solidly falls into the Bishōnen category.
• Gender Flip: As shown with the browser and console comics and the whole Meme Girls, in which he expands more (from internet websites to applications to some video game characters, like Minecraft or Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout). Even PewDiePie got gender-flipped for a one shot, and PewDiePie likes it.
• Genius Bruiser:
  • The musclebound elf in the MMORPG comics is shown to be highly intelligent despite his muscles and defeats his enemies by muttering overly intelligent/nerdy babbling.
  • Chad Thundercock is not just a hypermuscular dude, he gets an A+ in his quizzes too.
• Humanoid Abomination: The Wizard is a lot more disturbing than his original Virgin vs. Chad portrayal.
• Informed Species: The title character of Cockatoo Bird Anime Girl! has a dress and headpiece to make her resemble a bird, except it actually resembles a cockatiel.
• Lovable Jock: Chad Thundercock defies the stereotype of a jock who tends to be bullies to weaker people. He's a charming Nice Guy who's also a Gentle Giant, being supportive to Virgin despite his jealousy and does not like guys who did follow the aforementioned stereotype (or in his words, does the 'beta move'), as Brad would attest after getting punched in the face by Chad for trying to bully Virgin.
• Mistaken for Gay: According to him, anyway.
• Named by the Adaptation: It's revealed at the end of the Virgin vs. Chad comics that Virgin's actual name is Kyle.
• No Dub for You:
  • All of the official comic dubs on his channel are voiced in Japanese with English text, though there are English fan-dubs on other channels.
  • An official channel, Merryweather Media EN, now exists.
• Phrase Catcher: Most of the time the female Pokémon Trainer/Gloria is revealed to have a Scottish accent and tendencies, her talk-mate would murmur "Oh no. She's Scottish."
• Sadist Teacher: What's that? You forgot to do your Japanese lesson and Duolingo-chan caught wind of it? Hope you remember how to beg for mercy in Japanese.
• Shout-Out: The short 'Genie and 100 Lamborghinis' had the heroine set up by the titular Jackass Genie make a face that looks like Aqua when she lost her Blessing-Enhanced Rock-Paper-Scissors with Kazuma.
• Take That, Critics!: After one of his artists was harrassed over an Ugly Guy, Hot Wife comic, it was announced that the following month's comics would solely consist of this theme out of spite.
• Terrible Artist: Shown whenever he tries to draw something. He sticks to the writing for a reason.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: This is basically what Chad had to say to a typical big bully, though much shorter than a longass speech, he got the point across:
  Chad: Brad!! Picking on people smaller than you... is a BETA MOVE, bro!
• That's No Moon: "That's not the moon" tells that if you're alone on a moonlit night and it looks like the moon moves, to go back inside until it passes. It then shows what looks like a nightmarish bug with a moon-shaped angler carrying two unlucky victims.
• Too Kinky to Torture: The Tank in the MMORPG series is waaay too enjoying of the damages given to her by the skeleton, akin to Darkness.
• White Magician Girl: Subverted with the Healer in the MMORPG series. She's supposed to be the caring, compassionate healer of the team, but she does not take insults lightly, subtly threatening that she'll not heal anyone who badmouths her. After all, she's the one who decides about who gets to live and who gets to die. The second Healer plays with this. She is caring, compassionate, but she snaps and refuses to heal the tank after he insults her performance one too many times.
• You Don't Look Like You: Stacy from the Virgin Vs Chad comics looks quite different than the standard picture of Stacy in the meme.◊ For one, she sports Girlish Pigtails and has more anime-ish eyes than the rest of the cast.
• YouTuber Apology Parody: Made one wherein he used his dog model and communicated entirely in weird dog noises.

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