Mercy Bio from App

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Mercedes 'Mercy' Thompson is the daughter of an unwed teenage mother and a Blackfoot Indian who used to do the rodeo circuit. They were only together for a very short time and he was killed in a car accident before he ever knew Mercy's mom was pregnant. He was also, unbeknownst to Mercy's mom, what is known as a walker - a person who can shift shape in a way not tied to the phase of the moon - into a coyote in this case. Mercy's mother knew nothing about this until as a baby Mercy began shifting into a coyote pup in her crib. Her very young mother wasn't prepared to handle this and after consulting with an uncle who was a werewolf, sent Mercy off to live in Montana under the protection of Bran, the Marrock or the leader of all the werewolves in the country, and his pack (also called the Marrock after their leader).

Her foster parents died when she was fourteen (her foster mother died trying to become a werewolf and her werewolf foster father then committed suicide), and she lived on her own from that time on, though she remained in Aspen Creek, Montana with the pack until she was 16. She was not particularly well-liked by a number of the pack due to her different nature and her knack for getting into and causing trouble. The female werewolves also weren't too happy that she'd be able to have children and they wouldn't. (In this canon, female werewolves miscarry any babies because the shift into a wolf is too hard on their bodies. And, as a side note here one can only become a werewolf by being savaged so badly by another werewolf that either you die or you turn.)

She fell in love with an older were named Samuel - the Marrock's son - and when the Marrock caught them kissing in the woods he told Mercy to pack her things and that she needed to leave and return to her mother's. She and Samuel planned to run off together and get married until the Marrock told her Samuel didn't really love her and only wanted her because she would be able to bear him children.

At that point she ran off alone, and ended up on her mother's doorstep after all - discovering a stepfather and some half-siblings, none of whom had any idea she even existed. This would be the point in canon that I'd pull Mercy from.

In canon, Mercy stayed with that family until college where she received a degree in history and promptly went off and became an auto mechanic working with a member of the fae named Zee and nominally at least under the protection of Adam, the alpha of the local werewolf pack in the Tri-City area. At that time the fae had still not come out to the public. (Werewolves don't come out to the public till the end of the first book.) When they were forced to, Zee had to give up his business due to huge anti-fae sentiment and he sold it to Mercy. She lives in an old single-wide trailer which is basically in back of the alpha's house - though she's quick to point out that she was there first and he could have chosen to build his house elsewhere. She enjoys antagonizing him by leaving an old 'parts car' in the back yard, knowing it offends his sense of order.

She lives in a slightly uneasy accord with the members of the local werewolf pack - who aren't terribly thrilled with having a coyote associated with them - until the circumstances of the first book have an unknown werewolf turning up at her garage and pulling her into a series of events that have her saving the life of Adam, the alpha of the Tri-City area, reconnecting with Bran and Samuel when she brings Adam for them to be healed, getting involved with the local vampire seethe (where she discovers that her lamb necklace - chosen because she can't stand crosses and Jesus was the Lamb of God - does actually work effectively as a faith symbol), and ends with Samuel moving into her trailer in a quiet effort to win her back, and her beginning to date Adam - who, as it turns out, has declared her his mate to assure that the pack will protect her. She believes that is a political move, but it turns out to be much more.




Mercy is slim and about 5'6" tall. She has black eyes, longish straight black hair and although she has Native American coloring her features are more Anglo. She's not beautiful, but cleans up well enough.

Mercy is very strong-willed, independent, and curious. She's about 31 years of age at the beginning of her canon, but will be coming to Fandom at the age of 16. She's always felt like an outsider - both as a coyote growing up with werewolves as well as someone who needs to hide what she is from the world at large. However, that perspective has served her well and allowed/ will allow her to observe, learn about, and make friends with other supernatural beings such as vampires, witches, and the fae as well as get along well with normal humans.

She's been independent from a young age - living on her own from age 14 to 16 - and known for either finding trouble or having it find her. Living within a werewolf pack taught her to know when to be submissive - or at least appear that way - and when to assert herself. She has learned how to play the game of appearing to be submissive while actually doing as she chooses - a very fine line to walk. She also knows that sometimes backing down from a dominant being is too dangerous to do and has stood up to some amazingly scary characters no matter how frightened she might be inside.

She's smart and well-educated, with a dry sense of humor. She finds life in a werewolf pack to be claustrophobic and violent and later in life will be very glad to only be on the outskirts of the local pack. She's scrupulously neat in every area of her house/work/life except her bedroom, which can often result in a struggle to find clean clothes to wear. She attends church each Sunday and always wears a necklace with a lamb on it - her version of a religious symbol. She had a bad experience with a cross when she was first attending church as a little girl and finds them very off-putting, thus the use of the lamb (Christ being the lamb of God).

She can also be very gentle and kind-hearted. In canon we see her taking in a stray werewolf, watching out for the Alpha's teen daughter; and helping a battered woman just to name a few. Not surprisingly, this sort of thing also gets her into a great deal of trouble from time to time.

As her 16 year old self, she'll be less self-assured than she is in canon. She's had a whole lot of traumatic experiences in the past two years and she's trying to make sense of it all, find a quiet place to heal her wounds, and wants very much to be able to at least pretend to be normal and not a freak. In her world werewolves and vampires and such are not out to the public (though some of the fae are) and she needs to hide what she is from everyone. At Fandom, though, when she sees that people are open about what they are, she'll open up.




Mercy is able to shift into a coyote at will. Because she's only about 32 pounds in her coyote form she's able to shift while still clothed, though she then needs to struggle free of her clothes. She's not tied to the phase of the moon and doesn't need to change, though she doesn't feel quite herself if she goes too long without it. In her coyote shape she's faster than a werewolf and has enhanced smell and hearing that carries over somewhat into her human shape. In either shape she can tell someone's emotions and whether they're lying from their scent, though she's less accurate in human form and with people she doesn't know as well. She's also able to detect vampires, werewolves, fae, and various magic users from their scent. She is stronger than the average human, though not as strong as a were. Silver doesn't harm her, but she also doesn't have the accelerated healing that werewolves have.

She has some immunity to vampire magic and it's hinted at that 'walkers' were somehow dangerous to vampires, which is why the vamps worked hard to eliminate all of them. As far as Mercy knows she's the only walker around.

She is also able to see and talk to ghosts and has some limited ability to influence them.

In terms of more mundane abilities, she has an affinity with cars (and in canon becomes a great mechanic, specializing in Volkswagens and other German made cars). She's a good shot and knows how to make her own bullets. She also knows how to pick locks.




Mercy will be coming to Fandom just a couple of months after having left Montana and turned up on her mother's doorstop. So... she's left the only home she knew two years after losing both her foster parents; had her heart broken when Bran made her see that Samuel didn't love her, but wanted her for the children she could give him; and discovered that her mother has had a whole other family for *years* that Mercy didn't know existed and who didn't know Mercy existed.

While her mother's new family has accepted her with open arms, Mercy's really hard to lie to and she's certainly aware of how tough this whole mess is on everyone. In an effort to try and make things easier, she's decided to NOT shift at all, to try and hide that whole part of her so she can be more normal. She pretends well, but it's not easy or particularly helpful, so when her mother contacts Bran for suggestions he mentions this school he's heard of on this little island... And off she goes.