Ellis Mercia

Inspiration for Ellis' design - Dio Junyou Weinberg from the anime "Buddy Complex"

## Status

### Affiliation

Speedwagon Foundation (current employer)Jeremy Quick (Coworker and Acquaintance/Friend)

### Occupation

Agent of the Speedwagon Foundation's Supernatural Division

## Appearances

### Debut

Session 31 (Season 1)

Ellis Mercia features in the latter half of Season 1, being a representative of the Speedwagon Foundation. He assists Benjamin and Lambrusco with their trip to Italy, to finally put an end to the Apex Cult.

## Appearance

Ellis is established as a tall and well-built figure, being capped at a height of 6'3", and a weight of 205 pounds. His naturally light blonde hair is quite messy, and his sky blue eyes have a natural attentive gaze associated with them.

Most of the time, onlookers will see Ellis donning his signature dark green trenchcoat, with the badge of the Speedwagon Foundation plastered onto the upper right part of it. This trenchcoat is usually coupled with a pair of regular light blue jeans, and a pair of light peach colored service boots.

## History

### Early Life

Next to nothing is known about Ellis' early life before Season 1. The only visual indicator of Ellis' early life is in Session 41 of Season 1 in La Cima, where Dr. Mente displayed flashbacks to every Player Character's pasts, which included Ellis as an 8 year old playing with a Power Rangers action figure.

### JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Binding of Chains (2019)

On November 4th, 2019, Ellis Mercia received a mission. He is to investigate the suspected terrorists "Benjamin", Ruun Danolds, Jeremy Quick, Bradley Wilheim, and Kira Langley Enterprise, in hopes of finding a lead against the Apex Cult to put an end to them. The Speedwagon Foundation's only lead so far was the location of Benjamin's home in Greentown, Ohio, so that was Ellis' first stop.

#### Meeting Benjamin and Lambrusco

Ellis' first stop was right out front of Benjamin's House, which he went to via taxi. Per Nelson's suggestion, and with a lot of persuasion on his part, Ellis went with crocs on. He double checks the files he has on Benjamin to ensure he has the right stuff, but gets interrupted by noticing a feminine Ben lookalike staring at him through Benjamin's window. He takes this as a cue to knock on the door, which the lookalike responds by letting Ellis in. He learns about Benjamin's Stand, They're All Those of Justice, and that the Ben lookalike is indeed actually Ben. Benjamin immediately puts the offer on the table to team up against Apex, and Ellis accepts the offer. Soon after he says this however, he is dragged off by Benjamin to go find Lambrusco.

The duo find him by some clothing warehouse, and Ben takes over the majority of conversation for Ellis, up until he is finally able to introduce himself and offer a method to get to Italy safely, provided the trio wait a while. The trio decide to crash at Benjamin's house for a while. Fast forward a while, and Ellis and Ben hear weird vibrating downstairs, and go to investigate it, only to see Lambrusco being restrained by a robotic figure. He simply mentions he is heading to Mission Beach and says goodbye, and after a failed attack from Benjamin, the two vanish.

While brainstorming ways to get to Mission Beach quickly, Benjamin gets lucky enough for They're All Those of Justice to make them a portal straight to Mission Beach, which the two take, only to land in the water. The duo buy new clothes at a nearby store, and start the search, with Ellis searching for underground entrances to pinpoint where Lambrusco could be, and Benjamin looking for spies.

#### Meeting Singola

While investigating, Ellis and Ben both notice what seems to be an android choking a young girl, and connecting the dots that an android(when Lambrusco's kidnapper was an android) is choking out a young girl probably means something important needed to be stopped, so the duo interrupt the android and push it back. Ben goes after the young girl, who has ran away, and Ellis stays to fight the android. Ellis dominated the fight for the most part, only getting only serious injury, up until the android self destructed, seriously harming Ellis and making him fly back towards Ben and the young girl. He gets back up quickly, and the young girl writes on her drawing tablet that Lambrusco should be under the hotel building, and introduced herself as Singola.

The duo + Singola make their way down the hotel's elevator after inputting the code 0007. Once arriving to the correct floor, they step out, only to see what looks to be 3 mechanical models similar to the one Ellis fought outside, and one on a gyroscope which was getting a brain and spinal cord inserted into it(Singola wrote that the process was called "roboticization"). They made their way through the laboratory, stopping once they reach Lambrusco inside of a glass cell. Brainstorming ways to break the glass after a standard punch was merely reflected, Ellis decided to show off his ability, by asking Ben to attack him, and having Retribution use the absorbed energy to shatter the glass. With the glass out of the way, Ben went to pick Lambrusco up, but not before a forcefield was put around him, and the android who kidnapped Lambrusco appears before them all.

This forces Ellis and Ben to initiate combat with the android, and although their normal attacks do little to no damage, using it's own machinery against it proved effective. While the android did attempt to bargain with Ellis, incentivizing him to betray the group by revealing Lambrusco was apart of the Apex Cult, he was eventually taken out of combat by the android vibrating his skull, unable to move. He does eventually get up though by the time Ben is having a seizure, courtesy of the android, and kills said android.

#### Road to Manhattan

From here on, the group finds a map of what look to be Apex Cult "checkpoints", and after finding a train nearby, the group takes it, stopping at each checkpoint to investigate them.

**In the Arizona checkpoint**, the group found D. Ferdinand hooked up to wires muttering about something, and took some boxes that displayed some videos relating to Operation Stahl Blitz Laufen.

**In the Kansas checkpoint**, the group gets caught in an illusion of Rome by an enemy Stand user, wielding the Stand "Disco". The illusion sends them into the middle of Rome, right before the nuke is dropped, which Benjamin quickly prevents from being dropped. At the end of the illusion, the Stand user gives Ellis a pair of metal legs to have for "safekeeping".

**In Manhattan**, the group notices a Speedwagon van, the one that Ellis called earlier to have Anubis picked up for quarantine, and opening it up, seeing the Speedwagon Foundation members inside with their mouths foaming, and their pupils dilated. The Stand that did this would soon reveal itself, as [Vaporwave], a light Blue Stand with noticeable features such as the cone shaped head, a leather jacket, and a shotgun fights the group, and knocks Singola out. The Stand eventually retreats though, taking both the Speedwagon members and Singola with it. Instinctively, Ellis saves Singola, and immediately regrets it as he is unable to save his underlings as well.

He soon gets his chance to save his underlings though, as they travel deep into Trinity Church, and encounter Lucius Stahl, currently making the unconscious Speedwagon employees undergo roboticization. The group put a stop to that quickly though, and Ellis gets his coworkers out of harm's way.

However, not too long after that, a audio message from Lucius plays, and the group leave, but Singola suddenly starts looking worried, and urges for Ellis to give her the bionic legs. With a decision very unlike what Ellis normally does, he entrusts the bionic legs to Singola, also regretting it immediately as she makes a rush for Lucius' metal skull. He does however get some of his Karmic Energy into said skull before Singola puts in it, so should he need to, he could theoretically knock her unconscious, or possibly kill her, nearly instantly.