Mercy Lee - District 2

Mercy has semi-short reddish-brown hair and hazel eyes. She has pale skin and is of average height and weight. She wears plain, modest clothes. She a doctor, but since she works at home, she doesn’t need to wear a uniform. She’s pretty simple when it comes to appearance.

Mercy’s personality is what’s not quite so simple. She’s always been very caring and sympathetic, like many doctors, but most don’t let it get in the way of their duties. Mercy gets much too involved with patients; she feels their pain and grieves for them as if she’s known them her whole life. Her emotions often drive her to the point where she makes rash, unprofessional decisions. The worst of these is killing for mercy. When a patient is suffering and there’s nothing else she can do, she can’t stand watching them die a long and painful death. So she puts them out of their misery. That’s why she has to work at home, where no one will find out. She’s very talented in the medical field, so she’s even been able to develop her own drug that causes painless, instantaneous death. It comes in pills she calls “mercy pills”, which she keeps hidden for worst case scenarios. And when a patients pain becomes more than she can bear, she uses them, ending both the patient’s and her own misery.

Mercy’s family were not doctors, they were people whose job it was to harvest plants and other things that the doctors use to make medicines and drugs. It was a life that Mercy didn’t mind until the death of her brother, Candor. He was gravely injured by a piece of harvesting equipment, and the family wasn’t wealthy enough to afford surgery to save him; he suffered for 9 hours before he finally died. Mercy held his hand the whole time, and the whole time, she felt like she was enduring every ounce of pain he felt. Since then (she was thirteen), she’s worked herself up, studying from old medical books she’s found in dumpsters, and begging any doctors she knew to teach her. One saw her potential and taught her everything she needed to know to treat injuries and save lives. After her training was finished, she returned home, her only reason for learning was so that she could help people who couldn’t afford medical treatment. However, she soon realized there were some people who just can’t be helped. And that’s when she created her mercy pills, to prevent what happened to her brother to happen to anyone else. Her parents have a special naming system; her name is Mercy, her brother’s was Candor, and her two little sisters are named Patience and Hope. The reason they named their oldest daughter Mercy was because they hoped the world would be merciful to her, but that’s not exactly what happened; she ended up being the one who had mercy on the world; a world where mercy is mostly unheard of.

If you didn’t know, Candor is basically another word for Honesty, but Honesty would make a stupid name… Thanks for reading!