Merlot's Librarians

Lexy

Lexy
Affiliation	None
Role	Librarian
Usual Location	Castle Draclugia
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Gender	Male
Age	Young Adult
Trait	Often lost in thought
Nature	Quiet
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Lexy oversees the library in Castle Draclugia. He's tasked with organizing and preserving the extensive collection of books—though with Merlot's general disposition keeping most of the public away, little needs doing day-to-day.

What do you think you're doing, chipmunk? I told you not to put me in your creepy Pokémon diorama. Play hard-hitting investigative journalist with someone else's life.

Lexy values intellectual pursuits over all else, even to the detriment of personal relationships: he's openly critical and abrasive towards anyone and anything he regards as oblivious, uncreative, slow-witted, or even merely boring—

Intellectual laziness is personally, socially, and globally injurious. It is a festering plague that could easily be prevented. I hardly see how not to find it patently offensive.

—though he won't pass up any chance to demonstrate how clever he is. He enjoys anything mentally stimulating, be it a book or a puzzle or a debate, and those few who manage to earn his respect may glimpse a less steely interior: he becomes passionate and talkative about particularly fascinating trains of thought. As well, Lexy has a remarkable ability to remember any detail he finds interesting, which is pragmatically useful for finding particular books in the library and makes him a brilliant strategist besides.

His relationship with Merlot is one of mutual, wary, and above all unspoken respect. Merlot's surprising insights impress Lexy, and Lexy's unabashed nature is a rare treat for Merlot. This standoff gives Lexy the unique privilege of outright refusal to wear the usual maid outfit uniform—though Merlot finds it hilarious to regularly put one on him anyway.

This is increasingly unnerving. Just who has been feeding anecdotes into this amateur armchair psychoanalysis machine?

Lexy has made something of a hobby of studying the Pokémon world, and has a back room in the library dedicated to his research. He has amassed myriad relics of questionably utility, but his pride and joy is an index of details on all 648 known species of Pokémon, assembled from notes left by the previous librarian.

Hang on just a damn minute there. The Pokédex started from his journals, but I've expanded it by an order of magnitude since I've been here, in no small part thanks to those artifacts I've gone to great pains to collect.^{[citation needed]}

As for— wait, what was that? "Citation needed"? Are you serious? What do you think you're writing here, a scholarly encyclopedia?

This Castle Draclugia-related article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective.

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Funny.

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Caldera

Caldera
Affiliation	None
Role	Bookkeeper
Usual Location	Castle Draclugia
Species	Template:Species
Gender	Male
Age	Adult
Trait	Strong willed
Nature	Serious
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Caldera is Lexy's companion and the bookkeeper for Castle Draclugia. The ability to float makes it much easier for him to reach higher shelves, and he has more direct offensive power for defending the library from the occasional attempted theft. He's also a valuable source of illumination, although trying to use him as a reading lamp is not advisable for anyone but Merlot.

Though he doesn't quite have Lexy's knack for drawing conclusions, Caldera is intensely practical, somewhat balancing Lexy's tendency to act rashly. This extends even to his speech; he frequently uses long or obscure words because he feels they capture his meaning more precisely.

Every page of every book in the library has been soaked in a solution of alum and Combee wax, rendering them resistant to Caldera's flame, as well as water damage and tearing.

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