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Negaverse: Lt. Hypersthene

Name: Mercedes Soledad Cuevas

Nicknames: Mercy

Age: 15

Birthday: March 12th

Sign: Pisces

Blood Type: O+

Fav. Food: cakes of all kinds. Spicy chicken.

Hated Food: cheese. Anything coffee-flavoured.

School: Crystal Academy

Hobbies:
Swimming – Which helps since she’s in the school’s swimming team. As a kid, she was deadly afraid of water, and she was pretty much forced to take swimming lessons to overcome her phobia. The day she discovered she couldn’t sink like a stone, everything went so much better and she gained a lot of agility once dropped in a pool. However, while she feels completely safe in a pool, she is wary of natural bodies of water, and no talisman whatsoever can change that.

Drawing – Mercedes draws book characters, dragons, and an unhealthy amount of skeletons and more disturbing stuff as well, the latter of which is highly frowned upon by her family. So she draws more people and dragons. But frankly, she’s more talented for gothic themes. In the margins of her notes, one can occasionally find skulls, cute mythic creatures, and odd symbols.

Occult, horror stories, and symbols – So far, she’s made up a nice collection of horrible but cliché stories involving dead people who are still wandering in various buildings in the city. Her favourite tales are all about the hospital. When she’s not busy terrifying young and naïve souls with her made-up stuff, she collects protection symbols (with little to no research of the meaning behind them most of the time, often leading her to actually use negative symbols). Whenever she doesn’t feel at ease somewhere, she makes sure to bring or draw one of the many symbols she knows, and feels like at home again. Superstitions, anyone? Well, she dismisses other common superstitions (black cats, the number 13, etc) as bullshit in the worst cases, and as more positive symbols to add to her collection in the best. Also, she believes in psychic powers, curses, ghosts and parallel dimensions.


Gemstone: Amethyst

Virtues:
Imaginative – There’s not just one way to do things. Problems don’t have one, but a truckload solutions. Things aren’t made to be used in just one way. And so forth. She’s not just dreaming about fantasy worlds and stuff, she can also apply her imagination to realistic situations and bring it a new perspective.

Stubborn – Once she’s been assigned a goal, Mercedes doesn’t give up. No, really, she doesn’t. Whatever happen, and no matter how long it will take, she will achieve it. Eventually. Don’t get in her way, she’ll step over you(r dead body). She’s very patient, and when she seems to have forgotten about her projects… she actually hasn’t. Nope. At all. It’s just moved into the long-term future.

Observant – She may not look like it, but Mercedes is actually careful and attentive to her surroundings. Her large eyes scrutinize even the details in her area. This way, it’s hard to actually surprise her. Of course, the thing is her short-term memory is not exceptional; she won’t remember details after a minute unless they struck her. She’s also able to find patterns or special shapes in everyday things, which is a completely useless skill. Did you know that the city’s biggest libraries are located at the corners of an almost perfect square? Blink and you’ll miss it!

Flaws:
Envious – This schoolgirl is a green-eyed monster who secretly envies you for knowing where you come from, for getting what you want, for having friends, for having talent, for having anything she doesn’t have. Her stare will pierce you if you complain about something you have that she doesn’t. Down there, she would like her friends’ life; it’s obviously better or more interesting than hers.

Superstitious – She feels naked without at least one talisman with her. She’s started getting interested in occult symbols after reading one novel too many, and has only been adding more cheap accessories to her collection. When it comes to protection symbols, quantity>quality. She can go as far as wearing a Christian cross, a satanic pentagram and pagan symbols at the same time. After all, at least one of them HAS to work. She tones it down in public, thankfully, which reduces the risk of offense. Does she know their origin or meaning? Most of the time, nope. Confronted to such ignorance and inconsideration, any specialist can and WILL facepalm. (I know I would.)
If she doesn’t get to at least draw a random symbol somewhere? Mercy is going to get anxious and terribly bitchy.

Affective dependence – She might not look like it, but it’s not a good idea to make friends with her. She will eventually pout when you show interest to anyone else, she will criticize your other friends without being prompted to, and invade every inch of your intimacy. The worst part? She does it out of “love” and won’t understand why you’d ever ask for a break of any length. Mercedes can even end up harassing or stalking you because she’s that clingy.
Weakness.

Monologuing – Mercedes likes to… err… talk to herself. Yes, even with people around. She tends to speak her mind out loud. It can be especially obnoxious when she says her opinion of you while you’re still there. “No, don’t worry, I don’t mind waiting. Damn, you’re so slow. I don’t have all day either.”
It can even apply to her plan of action if she’s not careful about it, in a typical villainy fashion. “That’s right, I am gonna jump in your way and tear your godamned starseed out like I did for that gal, c’mon, try and hit me, just do it already, it’s not like you had any better plan in mind anyway … I don’t think I should have said that out loud.”
In short? Mercedes comments her life a lot and has to refrain herself from saying things she nonetheless know they are inappropriate. Need a narrator during a battle? This is a job for Mercy!

Physical Description:

Hair: short, bowl-cut. Pale purple. See here: http://public5.tektek.org/img/av/1002/d03/1502/20d7641.png

Eyes: large, pink eyes.

Face: round and cheeky. Freckles.

Body: tan. Short, hourglass build.

Fashion: cute colorful dresses, orange headband. She also wears a few harmless symbols (mostly eyes or Hands of Fatima) as pendants or earrings.

Additional notes:

-Mercedes has a phobia of natural bodies of water, as mentioned above. She can keep herself together as long as her feet are on the ground, but once she touches the water, she freaks out and screams. She only trusts pools and similar artificial areas where she learnt to fight her fear. This embarrassing fact is only known to close friends (the kind who doesn’t know enough buddies to trigger her jealousy). When cornered, she will pretend to have a rare skin allergy to salt in the seawater.

-When it comes to protection symbols, quantity>quality. She can go as far as wearing a Christian cross, a satanic pentagram and pagan symbols at the same time. After all, at least one of them HAS to work. She tones it down in public, thankfully, which reduces the risk of offense. Does she know their origin or meaning? Most of the time, nope. Confronted to such ignorance and inconsideration, any specialist can and WILL facepalm. (I know I would.) Sometimes, she even makes up symbols. lol u cant hurt me i can has ankh lol

-Why Negaverse? Hypersthene’s got a chance to join the most supernatural side of the world, why would she refuse? Plus, she can fight for the sake of another universe that validates most of her beliefs if not all. And being able to unleash her frustration on those ungrateful ex-friends who tried to reject her is too good of an occasion. It’s like she doesn’t even need a justification to steal souls (excuse me, starseeds).
As for why the Negaverse would want her… first, she won’t need much of an explanation to get to the job. Secondly, despite what she thinks, Hypersthene is full of hate and bad vibes. Third, she would make good use of her boosted agility and strength thanks to the sport practice.