"I honestly have no idea who the Merovingian is, though it seems that he has something to do with bugs in the system"[...]
I suspect that the Merovingian is one of the previous Neos from a previous Matrix, with Persephone being his Trinity -- perhaps they were the first ones -- but are now computer constructs. That's why his henchmen from the first film are from an older Matrix; she wanted the kiss from Neo because to the W brothers a "real" kiss from a living lover is somehow quantifiably better to a computer simulation than one from a computer simulation of a loved one.
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"I honestly have no idea who the Merovingian is, though it seems that he has something to do with bugs in the system"[...]
I suspect that the Merovingian is one of the previous Neos from a previous Matrix, with Persephone being his Trinity -- perhaps they were the first ones -- but are now computer constructs. That's why his henchmen from the first film are from an older Matrix; she wanted the kiss from Neo because to the W brothers a "real" kiss from a living lover is somehow quantifiably better to a computer simulation than one from a computer simulation of a loved one.