Mercury F. Ready

> "Oh god this is filthy..." - Mercury
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* Star Road Now
* Vampire Apocalypse
* Severed Strings
* Cat

## Appearance

Mercury has a slim frame. He has very pale skin, with black hair that spikes around the sides. He has a noticeable scar under his left eye. His eyes are red, but Mercury wears green contacts.

Mercury wears purple diamond checkered suits and coats, usually accompanied with a darker sweater or undershirt and dark pants. Mercury's hands are always covered, at least to the wrist, with latex gloves.

After episode 8 of Star Road Now, Mercury shortens his hair, wears angular sunglasses, and carries around a black umbrella with 4 spikes around with 1 giant spike in the center.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

Mercury is a trained assassin with many weapons, though prefers throwing knives with wires attached to the handles.

### Vampiric Abilities

Mercury is a vampire, and as such has vampiric healing, reassembly, and the ability to suck blood, as well as;

**Mr. Fahrenheit** - Mr. Fahrenheit (otherwise known as "Hot Hands") allows Mercury to increase his body temperature to absurd levels.

**Inside Out** - Inside out allows Mercury to expel all of the gasses inside of his body.

### Don't Stop Me Now

Don't Stop Me Now has the power to control gravity and how it effects objects. It can make any number of things heavy, light, or completely weightless, so long as it either can see them, or touches them. It also learns how to change the direction of gravity, able to make things fall in other directions.

Mercury can also put on the hands of Don't Stop Me Now as gloves, giving him the ability to punch stands.

### Dream On

Dream On allows Mercury to see into the future based around himself and actions others take around him by looking into a monitor. It can see an indeterminate amount into the future, though events become more clear the closer they are to happening, however it cannot predict the actions of someone if they aren't currently awake.

## Trivia

* Mercury's middle name was originally "Fredrick" before he changed it to "Fahrenheit."
* Mercury, being a vampire, has to eat humans, though he only eats vegetarians.
* Mercury always carries things in threes (three umbrellas, three phones, three packs of gloves, etc.)
* Mercury is an old style vampire, meaning classical vampire lore applies to him, such as being weak to garlic, crosses, has to be invited in. This doesn't apply to other vampires.
* As per old style vampire rules, Mercury can turn into a bat, but never has.
* The idea behind Mercury's character was created off of a simple joke. Westley heard Richard was planning on playing a human pretending to be a vampire, so he set out to create the opposite, a vampire pretending to be a human.
* Before the Sequence Break JoJoverse was decided to be separate from the main cannon of JoJo, Mercury's backstory involved being turned into a vampire by DIO, then instead of staying to work for him, just deciding he wanted nothing to do with any bizarre adventures and leaving.
* Mercury's ability to find rafters anywhere has not, and never will be, explained.
* The show "Monk" was the reason Westley wanted to play a germaphobe.