Mercedes Araent

Mercedes in 2020

Claude Araent (Alive, Son)

Misty Macguire (Alive, Adoptive Daughter)

Laura Vilapinio (Alive, Granddaughter)

> ***"Times I got a gun in my skirt is the times I need some money."***
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***Mercedes Emilisa Araent*** (Birthname: ***Mercedes Emilisa Vilipino***) is a notorious Vice City gangster and the Assistant of the Mariah City Senator. Though she's not the strongest, she singlehandedly made the Vice City gangs cower at her presence.

## Personality

Mercedes is introduced as a troubled young adult who is prone to violent urges and arguments. But when working for a person she is extremely loyal and willing to do anything..Unless it's wrong in her eyes and emotions. For her family and friends she acts like she doesn't care for them but secretly wants the best for them.

When she is double crossed or genuinely doesn't like a person she is shown to be ruthless with no remorse in her actions, killing them in any way fit. She does have a soft side though, when meeting the Mariah City Senator in 2020 she is seen to be a kind and happy person and with her son she is seen to be very protective and want the best for him.

## Appearence

Mercedes is shown to be an attractive young Mexican woman with light amber eyes and dark brown hair (That is dyed purple in 2020) she stands at 5'10 in height and has an athletic body-type. In 2038 she has gotten much skinner and her hair would be its natural color. She'd wear bright red lipstick in both 2020 and 2038.

Outfits in 2020:

-She wears a short black leather jacket, a golden cross hangs from her neck (Raised as a Catholic) and she wears a pink shirt and striped pink and black leggings with black boots.

- After giving birth to son she'd wear a light purple dress with multiple designs on it, Purple leggings and purple high-heels.

Outfit in 2038:

- She would wear a black leather coat with a tiger fur collar and then she would have a tiger fur short-skirt with black leggings and black high-heels.

## Background

Mercedes was born to a single mother named Lisa Viliapino and an unknown sailor father, she would grow up in Vice City with her two life-long friends, ***Britana Vercetti*** and ***Dawn Love,***[1]All of them would be inspired by gangsters and want to be one when they all grew up. Dawn would always love Mercedes but hid it. As they grew up their bond only got stronger in the group as they would start doing crime at the age of sixteen, Britana would go back home and refuse to commit crimes anymore. They would meet a man their age named ***Ason Jackson Maxwell*** and would make him the replacement fot Britana. When Mercedes turned eighteen she was robbing a gas station and was arrested for a year. Once she got out at age nineteen she found out her mother died during the robbery. She would be called by AJ to the Malibu Club, where her plunge into the Criminal Underworld began.

## Trivia

* She named her son 'Claude Joey' based off of her mentor in the Forelli Family. Who was killed by Mr. Vercetti.
* After leaving for Mariah City, Birneta would become the boss of the Vercetti Family.

* She would change her last name back to Viliapino after her granddaughter is born.