Individual Character's full name: Spencer Robertson
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: N/A
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Date of Birth: May 5, 1990
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Omaha, Nebraska
Nationality: American
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Mexican / Irish
AppearanceHair color and style: Medium brown, worn straight down to her mid-back.
Skin Tone: Tan
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5’5”
Build: She got curves for miles.
Visible mutation: N/A
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Dancing skeletons around the lower left half of her rib cage. A few more privately located tattoos. Nipple piercings, helix, and two holes in each ear.
Other features: She’s got a very approachable and open face. Not a RBF in sight!
Everyday clothing style: Spence loves the oversized comfy trend as well as the “show off your midriff" trend. Basically, it’s gotta be on trend and it’s gotta be tailored to fit snug or to fit loosely on purpose. She’s not one to look sloppy.
Uniform: N/A
Sleepwear: A loose shirt and nothing else
Miscellaneous clothing: For her day job, Spencer dresses somewhat more professionally. Skirt suits or khakis along with button up and tailored jackets.
CharacterPersonality: Seductive, sensual, and toxic. She is passionate and wild and her intensity is strangely engaging to the point where it’s easy to get wrapped up in the whirlwind that is Spencer. She takes very little issue with swindling, cheating, or lying to get what she wants. Life is for taking advantage of, living to the fullest, and exploiting. She can derive thrill from negative or positive attention, so long as she gets attention. That leads her to often be reckless, dangerously impulsive, and hedonistic. She’s not crazy; just a gambler.
She values experiencing all sights, sounds, smells, and tastes that the world has to offer. Most of all, Mercy enjoys showing people a good time, solving problems, and taking advantage of smart opportunities.
Hobbies/ Interests: Reading, entry-level gaming, people watching, coffee, trying new things, yoga, music, fashion
Job or part time job and description: Gossip columnist
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Being irrelevant, that she’ll someday lose her touch, that she’s not really in control of herself. Spencer also has a tendency to accidentally flip words around in a sentence like she’s often thinking too fast for her own mouth.
Special talents: Spencer is a writer with a keen sense for trouble. She can find it. She miiiight have started it, but that’s beside the point.
MoralityGood/ bad/ neutral/ other: Not really bad, but totally selfish. Spencer lives in a Spencer-centric world. Spence has learned to do things her own way, for herself. She’ll take whatever she can unapologetically.
MutationsMutation description: Inhibition Lowering PheromonesSpencer’s power is a mental suppression of the cognitive and physiological processes that impose restraint. Those in her influence experience a subtle freeing feeling, increased bravery, a desire to smile and agree, boosted connection to personal desires, desire for self-expression, and a general release from guilt or connection to consequences.
Typical Pheromone Exposure Progression:- At 1 minute, those around Spencer feel more relaxed.
- At 5 minutes, those around Spencer feel more free and agreeable. Think 2 drinks in.
- At 10 minutes, those around Spencer have enough pheromones in their system to potentially impair judgement.
- At 1 hour or more, there is the potential to wake up tomorrow with a new tattoo and no idea how you got it.
Strengths: It’s like being drunk without having to take a sip. Being around Spencer is like being on top of the world. There is no physical impairment, just a freer self. Effects differ based on the person’s starting impression of Spencer, time spent in proximity, and skin contact. She can eventually change a hostile character's attitude around.
Weaknesses and Limitations: Spencer’s power is a subtle influence that takes time and exposure to work. It is entirely up to the character how it manifests.
Like alcohol, not all those affected will become agreeable. It is a magnification and freeing of what already exists within a person. Some may become more belligerent, more grumpy, more sad, etc. Whatever it is, it’s just more accessible and magnified.
Spencer is immune to her own pheromones, however, the closer in proximity and longer she is around someone else, the more attuned she becomes to a person’s pheromones. This produces a similar effect for Spencer (ie, relaxing and impairing judgement) with a slightly delayed timer.
Physical AbilitiesGeneral Physical Capabilities: Average to meh with the exception of flexibility. Her interest in yoga keeps her limber.
Fighting Style: Why fight?
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: If forced into a fight, she gon’ get pummeled. Running works in most cases.
History Of Your CharacterAt age 13, Spencer Robertson was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She was successfully cured of her disease after undergoing a year and a half of chemotherapy and radiation treatments that resulted in Spencer losing her hair, her spot on the dance squad, and much of her friend circle. She became depressed, gained weight, alienated everyone.
Then puberty was kind to her. (Cough, mutation activated, cough.) She got curves. She got friends... of a sort. She got an internship at the local paper. She found her passion and success in investigative gossip.
Spencer attended NYU from 2009-2014. She graduated Cum Laude in Cultural Reporting and Criticism with a minor in Magazine and Digital Storytelling.
Now Spencer works for a local newspaper, sniffing out rumors and especially mutant-specific stories.
RoleplayWhat’s your OOC alias?: Ghost
Where did you learn about this site?: The year was 2008 and Google was not yet evil...
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: Raine, Noel, Jude, Kalos, AJ
Sample RP:Tiny backpacks were “in” so of course she had one. Her phone and some bare essentials like an ID and credit card could squeeze in, but hardly anything more. Definitely not anything useful like a laptop or camera. Spencer blamed the patriarchy. Her laptop wouldn’t fit in her pockets either…
She got bumped and the laptop in her arms spun out of her hands and across the icy sidewalks until it rested beneath the front left tire of an SUV.
She was so stunned that for a precious second, she did nothing but try to discern if that was real. That…. That was her work laptop. And that actually just happened.
”Excuse me.” She turned and grabbed the back of the coat of the one that had to have done the bumping. He scowled, but Spencer smiled her winningest smile; she caught flies with honey. A little explaining and some near-tears and the gentleman who had once been in a hurry now offered to carry the corpse of the laptop to the nearest BeastBuy. Spencer was shocked, absolutely shocked, to learn that it could not be repaired.
An hour later, she was walking out with an upgrade. Her hard drive had been moved over, and as an added bonus they threw in a rather professional looking laptop bag. It wasn’t her style, she’d have to find a different one, but it was free. And free had its own appeal.
Though, nothing in life was actually free… The doorman cleared his throat, gaining Spencer’s attention and directing it to her top button. Her top button was connected to her second button hole, the second to the third…
”Thanks, Ray.” She debated fixing it right then and there, but she was going to be tardy already. Why risk it? Spence ducked into the ladies’ room to make herself presentable and reiterate her affirmations to herself in the mirror.
I am a professional and I value my job. I have willpower. I make my own choices and I am in control. No hijinx at work.She didn’t believe every word, but her therapist said that one day she might.
