Editing Mercy

Evan "Mercy" Phillips is a character in the [[Justicars: For Great Justice! | Justicars]] game on Rpg.net.<br><br>

=== Stats: ===
==== Qualities ====
*Connection: Mentored by the Master Magus - Mercy is being trained in the heroic arts and the harnessing of his skills by Septagram.
*Motivation: Inspired by Justice - Evan wants to prove to himself and his new found associates that he can be a hero.

==== Challenges ====
*Social: Mystic Runaway - Evan currently lives in the mystic community center that Dashiell Morgan and Jack Kent helped to estabilsh in the wake of the events on the day of the Mystic Pride Parade. He has the back-swept pointed ears of his elven heritage and the canted cat-like eyes that glow when his danger sense is activated.
*Personal: A Mother's Secrets - The woman Evan knows as his mother clearly knows more about his powers and secrets than she was willing to tell him. According to Septagram the locket that she gifted him was created by a powerful witch or wizard. Evan is terrified of the day his mentor asks him to pursue it.
==== Alter Ego Forms ====
===== Squire Form =====
Origin: Birthright (+2 to power level; Used for Danger Sense)

'''Abilities'''<br>
Prowess 2 <br>
Coordination 3<br>
Strength 3<br>
Intellect 4<br>
Awareness 2 <br>
Willpower 3<br>

'''Powers'''<br>
Danger Sense 3<br>
Super Senses: Extended Sight 2<br>
Super Senses: Extended Hearing 2<br>
Regeneration 5<br>

'''Specialties'''<br>
Expert Stealth<br>
Occult<br>
===== Knight Form =====
Origin: Birthright (+2 to power level; Used for Strike)

'''Abilities'''<br>
Prowess 6<br>
Coordination 4<br>
Strength 5<br>
Intellect 4<br>
Awareness 2<br>
Willpower 3<br>

'''Powers'''<br>
Alter Ego: 1 Squire Form<br>
Strike (Slashing) 7<br>
Force Field 6<br>
Reflection 3<br>
Fast Attack 2<br>

'''Specialties'''<br>
Master Weapons: Blades<br>
Occult<br>
=== Background ===
Evan Phillips mystic heritage appeared around his 7th birthday when his eyes began to glow right before he fell down a flight of steps in his mother's apartment building. Even though he felt every bump bruise and broken bone they had all healed by the time he and his mother had reached the ER. Soon after that his mother gave him a necklace with a small locket on it. Inside there was an old picture of her as young woman and a pair of dried rose petals. Emblazoned on the front was a Templar cross. She said that it was so she would always be around to protect him and made him swear never to take it off.
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Because of his pointed ears and weird cat-like eyes Evan became the target of a vicious group of bullies who reveled in the fact that Evan's regeneration made it so there was never any proof that they had done anything. Unfortunately Evan lacked any real skills to defend himself so even though he knew they were coming he could do little about their assaults on him. His bullies would often beat him until he begged for god's mercy since he was inhuman. It wasn't until he cried those words out that they would stop the abuses.
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He soon ran away from home and from school when his mother wouldn't take up his cause, telling him that as long as he wore the locket she was there for him.
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He eventually fell in with Kracken's small army of mystic teens as they didn't look down on him for his weird ears and eyes. He quickly felt at home and was even willing to go along with Kracken's plans because his bullies deserved it. It was only after seeing [[Septagram]], [[Amarantine]] and the rest of the Justicars attempt a peaceful encounter with his new leader, the Evan realized that revenge was not the right idea. When Septagram offered to train the mystics to harness their powers Evan leapt at the chance.

Soon his new mentor discovered that the strange locket with its rare rose petals was heavily enchanted and he asked Evan to remove it. The moment he did there was a flash of light and suddenly the small weak Evan Phillips stood at least a foot and a half taller, and had piled tons of muscle on to his frame. Moments later a glowing energy steeled around the shocked young man, forming into armor a sword and shield of pure concentrated Magical Energy. 

Now Septagram knew why the borrowed powers of the mystics had manifested as the arms and armor of Folklore, somehow Evan had become a focusing point for that power and his suppressed strength had shaped the borrowed power in the same way that re-bar shapes the concrete around it.

Now the young man has joined the Justicars as MERCY, his fae heritage serving him well as a scout and when he is forced to fight he is able to yank his locket from around his neck and assume the glowing mantle of the Knight of Mercy.