Prospera Mercury

* Prospera Mercury
* Elnora Samaya
* Youth

 Eliminate Ochs Earth for secretly manufacturing Gundams and supplying them to terrorists  (all succeeded).
Initiate "Quiet Zero" to create a world where Eri can exist freely by traveling through its data storm network.
Prevent anyone from interfering with Quiet Zero's completion at all costs (both failed).

### Crimes

Mass murder  (inc. child murder by proxy)
Psychological abuse
Child endangerment
 Gaslighting
Child abuse
Brainwashing
Incitement
Conspiracy
Unethical experimentation
Destruction of property
Attempted indirect genocide
Child negligence
War instigation
Usage of WMDs
Incrimination
Terrorism
Blackmail
 Sabotage
Corruption

### Type of Villian

Vengeful Manipulator

**Lady Prospera Mercury**, originally **Elnora Samaya**, is the main antagonist of *Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury*, the deuteragonist of its prologue and the overarching antagonist of its midquel, *Cradle Planet.* She served as a supporting character-turned-final antagonist of the first season and serves as the main antagonist of the second season.

She was a test pilot for Ochs Earth, a company that researched and developed the GUND-Format technology for use in Mobile Suits. She was forced to change her identity after the Vanadis Incident. She is also the president of the Shin Sei Development Corporation, the mother of Ericht Samaya and Suletta Mercury and the widow of Nadim Samaya.

She is voiced by Mamiko Noto in Japanese and Elizabeth Maxwell in English.

## Appearance

She is a young woman who wears grey business casual attire. Since assuming her current identity, she's dyed her once-red hair brown. The most notable characteristic is her mask that she wears over her face. She also has a cybernetic right arm which was used to save her life.

## Personality

Originally, Elnora was a kind and good-natured woman who joined Dr. Cardo Nabo with nothing but an optimistic desire use the GUND Format to help humanity. She was also loving mother and wife who cared deeply for her family and showed similar care towards her colleagues.

After the Vanadis Incident, Prospera developed a deep hatred for Delling Rembran, the president of the Benerit Group, who was responsible for ordering the attack as well as the "witch hunt" for all the Gundams. As a result, she became an increasingly sinister, vindictive, manipulative and seemingly sociopathic individual who holds no qualms about lying to and manipulating her daughter for her own ends, having implicitly indoctrinated Suletta into listening to her above all other concerns. In seeking revenge against the Benerit Group, Prospera has long since adopted their worst traits: using her own children as tools, using technology for weapons instead of medicine, manipulating unrest, and causing mass civilian casualties all for her own selfish gratification.

She handles almost all social interactions by always holding the right cards in her hand and making people follow her lead. This is highlighted in the terrorist attack on Plant Quetta, where she keeps a cool head during the attack and even takes advantage of Suletta's trusting nature to manipulate her that killing her opponents is a viable solution, which Suletta proceeds to become okay with doing with disturbing ease. Her every sentence is always some kind of mix of lies, truths and half-truths and she is able to switch between them all with startling ease.

Prospera seems rather unconcerned about practically anything that happens as a consequence of her vendetta, as long as she gets to accomplish her goals. As such, she can be extremely ruthless and has a blatant lack of empathy, shown when she fuels the conflict between the Earthian and Spacians even further by commiting a false flag operation and making it look like Miorine is responsible. She doesn't care if innocent lives are lost or whether it would cause a full-blown war. She is also quite hypocritical, as she was disgusted that Ochs Earth, which survived Delling's purge thanks to the Space Assembly League, secretly continuing to develop Gundams for warfare, trampling over the original ideals of the GUND Format, and supplyed Dawn of Fold with machines for their terrorist activities, and yet, she uses Aerial to start a war, sabotaging Miorine's attempt to win peace with a demonstration of the GUND's original medical use in the process. Likewise, she also thinks absolutely *nothing* of starting a massacre of protesters and civilians on Earth with her False Flag Operation, even though half of her own motivation is avenging the deaths of her own friends and loved ones from a similar massacre by the same forces. What sticks out even more is that the people of Earth had absolutely nothing to do with the Vanadis Incident, making them completely innocent collateral.

However, while her morals might be lacking, her politeness isn't. Prospera is unfailingly charismatic, soft-spoken, jovial and well-mannered when speaking to virtually anyone, whether friend or foe. At some points, she can even be downright charming and goofy, such as her visit to Earth House. She even manages to be perfectly cordial with Delling, casually revealing her identity to him even though he's her most hated enemy. In addition to this, Prospera is capable of showing a softer side like she did in her youth, as while she did very much use Suletta as a tool to facilitate Aerial's Permet Score growth, she has shown enough sentiment toward Suletta to keep her safe once she's no longer needed in her plans anymore.