Spider Star

# Mercury Macias (Earth-1324)

### Relatives

Pedro Macias (Father), Annie Macias (Mother, Deceased), Isabella Macias (Paternal aunt), Gabriella Amato [Maternal grandmother], Unnamed grandmother [Paternal, Deceased], Unnamed grandfather [Maternal], Unnamed grandfather [Paternal]

### Friends

Nora Roberts, Madelyn Lee, Mateo Sao, Alejandra Perez, Betty Green, James Hall, Dorothea Brown, Inez Nguyen

## In World

### Occupation

Fighting Crime, Attending San Diego High School

> "Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light."
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> *— Mercury*
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Mercury "Merc" Macias is a 16 year old mixed Mexican-Italian American teenager from San Diego, California. He was bitten by a radioactive spider which altered her DNA which lead to becoming Earth-1324's one and only Spider-Star.

## Appearance

### Personal

Mercury has dark brown curly hair that goes down to her shoulders, light brown eyes, and he has a few freckles trailing across her light medium golden skin colored face. She tries to put on some mascara and gloss but usually runs out of time and she is always sporting jet black painted nails. He usually wears dark blue jeans and large jackets and tries to sneak in stars wherever he can. Usually wears Converse but he also enjoys a nice pair of Air Jordans or any Nikes.

### Spider Suit

Spider-Star's suit is made up of 4 primary colors. In the center of the suit, there is a yellow (#F8E5A9) star with a black spider in the middle, then following the yellow star is a dark blue (#2A2F7C) star around it, a purple (#8A45AF) star then surrounding the one before, and then finally a pink (#CA69CE) star around the purple. If she has time, he’ll put his hair into braids starting from the top of her head-but a makeshift bun will work. She has a cool indigo colored backpack with pins (Star Wars resistance pin, a Mockingjay symbol from THG, a genderfluid flag circle, and Mari from Omori) and patches (American flag with an eagle, cool Mexican flag embroidery, and silly space lesbian patch). Mercury uses the front clip on her backpack, so it won't fall off while swinging. He will also occasionally wear a blazer over suit for fun (has two pins, the Fireflies symbol from TLOU and a super star pin). The onesie covers his whole body, making her physical appearance unknown (except for his fingerless gloves, no one is paying attention enough to notice that though.) She will always wear Air Forces with his suit, because he feels like she's barefoot, even under the onesie.

## History

### Early life

Mercury was born as an only child in the suburbs of a county in San Diego, but later moved to the city when she was 4. Mercury lived a pretty average childhood, attending school while living in a three-bedroom apartment in downtown San Diego. When Mercury was almost 8, his mother had been diagnosed with brain cancer. The sickness quickly took over her body, and on April 14, 2015, she passes. The months following the tragedy are difficult for the Macias family, and in the September of 2015, Isabella Macias moves in to help Mercury and Pedro, taking the spare room that used to be Annie's office.

### The Bite

On the evening of November 30, 2022, Mercury is looking through storage boxes to find X-mas decorations, when a Genetically Altered Spider jumps onto his arm. Being terrified of spiders, she quickly wags her arm to get it off, but the spider resists, and bites his arm. Not noticing the event, Mercury quickly flicks the spider off her arm, grabs a box, and smashes the spider. Mercury then pleasantly decorates the apartment, looking forward to the joyful holidays ahead.

The next day, Mercury sleeps past his alarm. She wakes up in a sweat, still tired from the nightmares throughout his sleep, and sees the already sunlit sky out of her window. She quickly gets ready for school, while feeling odd. He feels like she can feel her skin around her, everything is too loud and intense, his thoughts are so loud its hurting her ears, her hands feel sticky no matter how much he harshly scrubs, and she feels too warm, even for late Autumn in Southern California. Pushing aside these odd symptoms, he attends the school day. Everything seems to be going okay after Mercury relaxes and none of her friends notice his weird behavior until in World History class. When he walks in, she is immediately reminded by her teacher's daggering stare that he forgot to turn in a 30-point writing assignment the night before. Immediately stressed by this, he can feel the strange symptoms from the morning slithering back in. As class goes on, the students are told to open a textbook. When flipping a page, Mercury's sticky hands loudly pull a page out of the textbook.

After receiving stares from classmates and a 2-minute-long lecture after class, she walks into the hallway, accompanied by her best friend, Nora. After describing to Nora how strange he's felt all day, Nora decides to come over to Mercury's apartment after school. Once they are in Mercury's room, he describes to her friend his odd symptoms, including his stickiness, to which Nora suggests that she should attempt sticking to the wall. Mercury jumps up, and her two hands stick to the ceiling. He then slowly pulls his feet up, feeling much stronger, she is able to stick upside down to the ceiling. Mercury and Nora spend the rest of the evening testing out Mercury's new abilities.

### Becoming Spider-Star

Mercury continues learning her abilities within the next few weeks until December 17th, when on the walk back home from school with Nora she sees a student getting jumped. Without thinking, Mercury jumps in and defends the student, punching the aggressors hard. The student is later discovered to be Mateo Sao. Mercury and Nora then run away, and they begin assessing a plan for Mercury to become a hero.

Mercury and Nora brainstorm the ideas of a suit and Mercury proposes for the suit to include stars, since she is always including them in his doodles, the two begin making a simple outfit with a black hoodie, black mom jeans, a navy beanie, a face mask, and old Air Forces all with a few stars doodled and bleached around the outfit. The outfit hides Mercury's identity enough, and after a few weeks of wearing it while fighting crime, he makes it into the news.

## Trivia

* Mercury has a fish tank in his room, she has 7 fish named Bee, Kel, Khi, Micro, Pluto, Robin, and Theo.

* Mercury is in a band with her friends called The Reds. The band consists of Mercury, Mateo, Betty, James, Dorothea, Inez, and eventually Jayden. Mercury plays an electric guitar with a sky-blue body and a maroon neck.
* Mercury is very passionate about music. As well as being in a band, he also loves listening to music. His favorite music artists are Taylor Swift, Boygenius, The Smiths and Mitski.
* Mercury loves space. She has space posters all over his room and when he was younger, she wished to be an astronaut. Mercury shared this love with his mom, Annie, which is why she named her one and only child after her favorite planet, Mercury, despite all of Pedro's protests.
* As well as loving space science, Mercury also loves world history. He hates math and finds it difficult, although, after discovering his new spider-like abilities, she decided to study physics and its basics.
* Mercury loves watching TV. Her favorite shows are The Office, Community, and especially The Last of Us, when talking to Nora, Mercury can be seen playing The Last of Us Part II on the TV in her room; he also has a pin on her "Spidey-Blazer" with the Fireflies symbol on it. Mercury's favorite movies are La La Land, Turning Red, Titanic, and movies from the Star Wars franchise.[1]