Mercedes Constantine

> Why do people keep referencing me to the car? I've been around longer than that has ever been introduced.
>
> - Mercedes

The offspring of a demon from Purgatory and a human, Mercedes is a light-hearted adventurer who was cursed with a sigil that unwillingly transported her throughout time. That was, until she was transported to a certain timeline, where her time manipulating abilities have been nullified, now having free range. A woman of many skills and knowledge of the past, present, and future. She currently is the Commissioner at the New York Police Department, not only having to deal with petty crimes but also looming supernatural threats.

## History

### Origin

Mercedes was born during the medieval era. Her father was a powerful demon from a dimension known as purgatory, while her mother was a simple peasant renowned for her singing talents. Her mother died, which in turn spawned a mob to hunt Mercedes down because one of them suspected the child for witchcraft and the mother being in a relationship with a demon. A sigil on the back of her hand - a curse brought to her by her demon father - transported her throughout time and into different eras.

### Temporal Crossings

Mercedes has been across time, staying in certain eras for months and maybe years due to how unpredictable each transition was.

#### Wild Wild West

The Old West, 1885. Mercedes had seemingly been transported to another land besides Europe. It wasn’t known to her at the time, but she could immediately feel the shift in difference. The landscape was rocky, barren like any other desert, except for some light foliage that grew out of the ground. The crimson glow had transported her into a small cave, just in front of the entrance. She walked out, with her bag and the trident she carried with her. Off in the distance, she could see a decaying town amidst a lingering mirage. Walking towards it, she has now met a completely different type of people, a far cry from what her people were in her village. Loud, annoyingly boisterous, obnoxiously head-ache inducing, vulgar-- every bad connotation. She was eight years old at the time, and didn’t speak the common tongue. It was a weird sighting, seeing some random girl with a funky looking trident suddenly appear in their town. She saw and noticed that a particular building was rather active that morning-- the Saloon. Mercedes instinctively walked up to the building and entered inside, and was met with immediate silence. It was a good 30 seconds of silent judgement to the young Mercedes. One of the men at the tables asked who she was, and she simply tilted her head to the side, not knowing a single word the man had said. Another person acknowledged the little nubs on her head, which was actually protruding horns in their development stage. Another 30 seconds of silence. After that, they went back to their usual antiques. Mercedes was overwhelmed, as such can be said, and quickly exited the building, where she was met by the sheriff and the mayor himself. The sheriff asked her a series of questions, none of which she had understood. In short, the mayor took her in since she didn’t have anywhere else to go. And so began her life in the Wild West.

Mercedes learned English during her time, as well as some other skills. Overtime, she began to discover her powers as a demon-human hybrid, and finally found her sorcerous potential over demonic and dark arts. She usually kept it hidden from her adoptive father, who was the mayor of the town. Mercedes also had the time to finally train with her trident, which she’d brought along. By the time she was eighteen years old, it was time for her to finally leave and explore the world. She was given a nice goodbye by the townspeople, and she finally left the town she had been in for the past ten years.

#### Apocalyptic Universe

There was a time when she was sent into another universe, unbeknownst to her. Mercedes later spawned in a ruined seattle, right after leaving the town back at the Wild West. It was the year 2058, though it was a point in time when the world was already destroyed by local energy manipulators known as the Super-Psychos, to which humanity was locked up in mega cities underground to avoid bringing attention to them. There, along her travels, she met an augmented human known as Aspen Midwich. Together, they traveled across distances until during a fight with a powerful cosmic entity, she was forcefully sent back in time and, while in the process, a tear had opened up and returned her back to her original universe, not remembering what had happened. From that point on, she continued to travel through time.

### Otherverse

Eventually, she would spawn in another era dubbed "Otherverse". It was where she realized that the sigil on her hand stopped emanating temporal energies, meaning it was nullified for the time being. It was a breath of fresh air, now being able to venture into the new lands without having to leave unwillingly. Deciding to take another course in jobs, she joined the Police Academy and became the Commissioner of the NYPD.

## Personality

Mercedes during her time as an adventurer was a catious one, as to not draw in the wrong crowd but it didn't hide the usual friendly and amicable nature of the superdemon hybrid. Contrary to demons being hulking brutes with death in their mind, she tries her best not to kill or hurt people, unless of course she gets mad. As the Police Commissioner, she is more experienced and analytic, as a high-ranking police officer should. She still is rather curious and at times naive. Mercedes evidently has a Southern Accent.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Superdemon Hybrid Physiology:** Mercedes is the result of crossbreeding between a human and a demon, or a more evolved version known as a Superdemon. In a biological sense, Mercedes retains more human features, like pale skin and a relatively normal organ system. However, she does possesses more demonic features, which is the stereotypical tail that she usually hides. Due to more dominant genetics from her father's side, Mercedes is equipped with an arsenal of supernatural capabilities; like demonstrating superhuman physical characteristics, or even assuming a more demonic form.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Mercedes can lift around 75 tons at most, though she can also lift more than what she is capable of utilizing her strength to accomplish many things, like being able to make concrete walls crumble to dust with a few punches or being able to create faint shockwaves to enhance her striking power.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Mercedes is superhumanly fast, and much faster than the demons that are below her. She can go, at minimum, subsonic levels though is capable of peaking supersonic levels.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Mercedes is superhumanly durable, to the point that most bullets would just shatter upon collision, barely scratching her. She can withstand remarkable amounts of punishment.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** Mercedes has lightning fast reflexes.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Mercedes possesses a musculature that produces little to no fatigue toxins, enabling her to do long tasks without stopping.
	+ **Semi-Immortality:** Mercedes is immune to aging and every contaminant, being unable to die from conventional means.
	+ **Bio-Fire Generation:** Mercedes has the ability to generate and manipulate biologically generated fire. There are additions to her biological frame, being the inclusion of several unknown organs that enable her to do such feats. Mercedes can incinerate and tear through objects and entities with focused blasts of fire. As such, she is immune to other fire attacks and can seemingly generate limitless amounts of bio-fire.
	+ **Demonic Transformation:** Mercedes can assume a more demonic form, one that stays true to her origin. Being able to manifest resilient scales, strong wings, and be more connected to demonic sources and locations, drawing power and empowering herself in the process. Her current powers are multiplied in every aspect, making her much more of a difficult foe. Mercedes is also capable of manipulating nether and chthonian elements to great degrees and masterful proficiency.
* **Sound Manipulation:** Mercedes has the supernatural ability to psychically manipulate soundwaves. Sound is a periodic disturbance or vibration that propagates into acoustic waves, generating from mediums of transmission such as gas, liquids, or solids. Mercedes is capable of manipulating these pressure waves with masterful precision and control, being able to use such a versatile and deadly weapon for both offensive and defensive purposes. Mercedes is capable of using a wide range of attacks consisting of sound, which includes concentrated bolts of sound and ballistic screams that can eradicate all that is in the path. Mercedes can also absorb sound, rendering the sound attacks of other people useless, and also grants her an immunity to her own attacks. She can also convert sound into energy, then project them at enemies with explosive results. A trait that Mercedes seems to show is her ability to "hear everything". Her manipulation of sound is on another level, being that she can now hear things from across lengthy distances, even being able to "hear" thoughts and some cosmic anomalies. Mercedes can also manipulate her own voice, being able to replicate nearly every voice with perfection.
* **Magic:** Mercedes is oozing with mystical potential, and she unlocked such abilities. This unlocks a wide range of magical spells and variations that are at her disposal. The most common spells that she uses are simple psionics and teleportation. There are two variations of magic she knows and can use -- Sigil and Demonic (Also including Dark Arts, Destruction Magic). Through the use of sigil magic, she can cast writings or symbols that allow her to accomplish spells from other magics depending on the corresponding symbol. The Demonic Arts allow her a wide range of destruction and dark abilities, with her most used being the manipulation of demonic elements and energy.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Intellect**
* **Skilled Bartender:** She is renowned for her abilities as a bartender.
* **Talented Singer:** Mercedes has an incredible and stable voice
* **Experienced Dancer:** Mercedes is pretty good at dancing, knowing several forms.
* **Firearm Proficiency:** Mercedes has knowledge on how to use firearms, from handguns to assault rifles.
* **Polearm Proficiency:** Mercedes is able to use the trident and any type of spear with mastery.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Mercedes knows advanced forms of CQC and some martial arts.
* **Unbelievably good at Pictionary**

### Weaknesses

* **Curse:** While the curse allows her to be more connected to purgatory and other hellscapes, the curse is known to pass her around in different timelines, unwillingly. It makes staying in one place not as effective, and the transition to one place to another can be quite unpredictable.
	+ The curse's time traveling affects have been nullified for an unknown reason, indicating that manipulators of time are also able to achieve the same effect on Mercedes.
* **Weak Point:** The sigil on the back of her hand can be stabbed or shot at, which can hurt Mercedes to immense degrees and bypass her durability.
* **Regulations:** Mercedes, as a conscious act, regulates her own superhuman characteristics and lowers them to below peak human. This is because she does not accidentally want to hurt anyone too much and reveal that she is supernatural.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Trident of Massacre:** A demonic artifact. It is created from the ore that originates from Hell, and is further strengthened with hellstone lining from hell, and is powered by a bit of nether. The trident generates an infinite amount of demonic energy which can be used to do certain tasks. It's currently in a storage unit, waiting to be used again.
* **CORE-11 Revolver:** The gun that Mercedes uses in her police work. Notably from another era - and another world - the revolver was manufactured by an armament agency from the year 2457. The revolver has the same shape as a regular one, but has a weird barrel used to create laser bullets and a cylinder magazine that uses special energy munitions.
* **A Notepad:** A block of paper that houses most of her writings based on her day-to-day life and illustrations, sort of like a diary. She affectionately calls the notepad "Mr. Notie", though is too embarrassed to actually reveal this to anyone.

### Transportation

* **Cadillac Eldorado:** A cool convertible, a version that had been taken from 1967.
* Flight via wings, levitation/propulsion via magical telekinesis.

### Facilities

* **Mercedes' Apartment:** An apartment in downtown Manhattan. Neatly furnished and always clean.
* **NYPD Headquarters:** She has her own office and everything, and also having access to much of the inner departments and facilities located within the Headquarters.
* Several staches scattered around the globe, containing valuable objects such as vintage cars, ancient tomes, and even magical artifacts like the Cloak of Aviation.

## Trivia

* Mercedes actually used to be married - and to a werewolf of all people. She still has the engagement ring kept somewhere in her house.