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Character Name: Mercy
Age: 18
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft/Rank: Apprentice Healer

History: Mercy's early life was pretty uneventful, her mother was a weaver and as Mercy was an only child spent many hours teaching her daughter the tricks o the trade. Mercy always felt that her mother wished for her to be a weaver herself - and understandably so as the craft was seldom lacking for work. As she grew however Mercy gained a growing desire to follow in her fathers footsteps as a healer and when she grew old enough apprenticed under him.

She spent several years like this, working diligently to someday become a surgeon and spending her free time with local friends. When the serch dragon and his rider appeared Mercy was somewhat startled when she was asked to come to the Weyr and stand - and it would certanly put a hamper on her life plans now wouldn't it? But on the other hand...it was a chance to see someplace new, learn something diferant and who would turn down an adventure like that? If i didn't work out and she failed to impress by the time she aged out..well she could always go back to being a healer right? And certainly there must be healers in the Weyr that could work with her from time to time...Her decision made Mercy set off or this new adventure.

Description: Although she is not what one would call incredibly beautiful, she's not plain either. Mercy is what one might call the girl next door and her cheerful personality tends to make her seem prettier then she is. Her hair is medium length and reddish brown in color with natural highlights ater spending hours in the sunlight. Her features are soft and she has an athletic build. Mercy is a bit vain about her hair often braiding several strands and tying feathers,beads and other such things into it when she can. She also likes to dress nicely feeling that it is important to look good for any given situation, and enjoys testing the talnts her weaver mother taught her and making her own garments when she has the chance.

Her skin is typically tanned - espechially in summer when she spends a great deal of time in the sun but pales in the colder months, her eyes are a smokey blue color.

Personality: Mercy could probably be described best as even tempered with a stubborn streak a mile wide, typically she's cheerful and pleasant - sometimes entirely too cheerful, but once something is ingrained in her head as 'right' or the 'proper way' to do things good luck on trying to change her mind! She is a creature of habit and sometimes has trouble adjusting to sudden and wide reaching changes in her life and she can seem a bit out of sorts until she readjusts to this new situation.

For the most part, however, Mercy seems driven by an overwhelming urge to heal 'the broken', whether physically or mentally. She often plays the peacekeeper, doing her best to smooth ruffled feathers after an argument or explaining away comments or actions which might be taken the wrong way. She's typically up-beat and never shys away from a good time. She tends to consider almost everyone she meets as a friend and has a burning desire to know everything that going on at the Weyr at all times. She's not a gossip but she certanly collects information like one.

She does not appear to be a leader at first glance - while it is unusual for her to volunteer to be the organizer of a group or example...she does tend to befriend whomever is technically in charge and express her own thoughts and opinons in order to sway things in the direction she thinks to be best, though she seems content to let others take the credit when these ideas actually work. Mercy likes to help...but dislikes being the center of attention because of said help and so she is more of a behind he scene manipulator then anything else, this is likely due to some inner self confidence issues though she tries hard, sometimes to hard to project the image of a confident young women.