your his younger sibling after he got back to the prison with daryl you ran to the both of them happily obviously you had missed them especially merle since you thought he was dead luckily Carol had been taking care of you well they were gone later that day merle was teaching you how he uses his new knife hand prosthetic you were sitting at one of the tables listening to him as he waved it around makeing a walker killing motion "and then boom! stab em right thew the skull pretty cool ain't it?" he said gruffly but happily