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Jan. 23rd, 2016 04:46 amUser Name/Nick: Amanda
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Character Name: Mercedes Nillsen
Series: 22 Jump Street
Age: 19
From When?: Post-film; see history section for further details
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Her father is a major illegal goods trafficker, and she's his eager heir with her own starter business on a college campus. She frames those who inconvenience her for drug trafficking, has no qualms about killing people who screw with her, and finds people getting shot to be the height of comedy.
Item: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Mercedes, as a standard human, has no powers. However, she does have a host of useful skills. She is intelligent, clever and extremely cunning, and uses her knack for quick thinking to further her career goals and amend her plans on the fly.
She's very experienced with various types of firearms, managing to actively dual wield extremely different models in a firefight (here is a partial list of guns she's used). She's also skilled in driving and can pull off dangerous maneuvers during high-speed chases without harm coming to herself or her vehicle.
Though she doesn't look it, Mercedes is an excellent fighter in hand-to-hand combat. She can cause some real pain and disorientation just by punching, and doesn't hesitate to use her surroundings to give her an advantage, either (breaking objects over opponents' heads, slamming opponents into things, etc). She's also capable of taking a beating and staying on her feet while feeling little pain, and is surprisingly fast and agile when she needs to be, outrunning police officers and jumping barriers.
She also has a gift for the 'stealth hi'. In other words, she tends to enter a location other people are already in, and remain there for some time before they even become aware of her presence. She's managed to overhear some very private information this way.
Mercedes is at a conversational level in Swedish, which was taught to her by her father; she pretends to be much worse at it than she is in order to irritate him.
Personality:
Mercedes is intensely cynical, manipulative, and drastically lacking in empathy and sympathy. The creators of the film describe her as "a complete psychopath," comparing her specifically to Hannibal Lecter.
She might be adult enough to run her own drug trafficking ring, but she's still an entitled brat. In many ways, despite her activities, she's still a child: she's doted on by her father, who calls her pet names like "Darling" and "Pudding" (which she hates). It's her dream to go into the "family business," and rather than forbid it on sexist grounds like most mafia/cartel patriarchs would, he enthusiastically gives her everything she needs to make it happen. She's highly spoiled as a result and she alternates between the attitudes "fuck you, Dad" and "I love you so much, Daddy," sometimes from moment to moment. She petulantly admonishes him for talking during her "drug meetings" and suggesting she sell uncool "old people drugs" such as cocaine and heroin, as though these embarrassments are as commonplace as those between any teenager and their parent. Regardless of everything else, she does genuinely care for her father to some degree, and she would be upset if he were to be killed in the line of work.
Despite her childishness, she is a very violent person. While her father would prefer that she have other people do the killing for her in order to keep her record clean, she'd do so herself if he wasn't around. Whether she's the one pulling the trigger or not, she doesn't hesitate to make examples of people by ending their lives, once even preparing to shoot two of her dealers immediately for sampling the product.
While she's cold-blooded in many respects, her temper runs hot. She delights in fist-fights and becomes deeply angry if her opponent doesn't come at her with all they have simply because she's a woman (though that doesn't stop her from pretending to cry after first being hit in order to momentarily take her enemy off guard). Violence is even a turn-on for her, and she has before attempted to lean in and kiss (and even bring up sex to) her unsuspecting opponent. Furthermore, she's liable to honestly misinterpret exchanging blows as a sort of flirtation or foreplay, and reacts with genuine surprise when she's rebuffed before projecting, vehemently insisting the other person tried to kiss her. She's not easily capable of differentiating between sexual tension and physical altercation.
When she's not doing business, regardless of how she's really feeling or what she's really thinking, her default state is stoic sarcasm. This is the side she presents to the world at large, including on campus. She's always prepared for a cutting verbal assault on anyone who might irritate her, and though her jabs are occasionally accompanied by the trace of a smirk (she takes considerable pride in her sharp wit; making people look stupid by calling attention to their insecurities brings her happiness), most of them are delivered completely stone faced. Because she says nearly everything with the same deadpan inflection, it's borderline impossible to tell if any display of vulnerability is genuine or mocking--she claims to never cry, but whether that claim is true or just a cover is up for debate. Only three emotions are reliably easy to discern from her expressions. The first is anger, the second is schadenfreude, and the third is a deeply unhealthy amusement.
She has remarked before, in the middle of a shootout, that it was "boring" because nobody was getting shot...only to crack up laughing when the guy next to her, one of her own men, took a bullet. She once excitedly called her father to tell him she was in a high-speed police chase before trying to snap a photo of herself with her hostage to commemorate the event, laughing and speeding down the road the entire time. These sorts of situations are sincerely funny and exhilarating for her. She doesn't have the ability to feel fear--which is extremely dangerous to her, contrary to her own opinion on the matter.
By projecting the image of a boring (if vaguely mean), average girl, Mercedes has always been successful at staving off any potential suspicion even as she commits terrible deeds behind the scenes (the fact that she's been able to effortlessly sniff out narcs and undercover cops in the past helps, too). In business mode, she's very forceful and possesses a weird sort of magnetism. Mercedes is greedy for power, and enjoys wielding it to cause misfortune and intimidate people just as much as she likes using it to make money. She framed a teacher for drug trafficking after he gave her an unsatisfactory grade simply because she's just that spiteful; in an even greater show of pettiness, she shot a machine gun up into the ceiling to scare her roommate when she discovered the other woman had borrowed her bathing suit without asking.
As mentioned in the abilities section, she's clever, cunning and intelligent, and she's so proud of her own intellect that she looks down on others as being woefully stupid. Mercedes has never considered anyone (except perhaps her father) to be as quick-thinking as she is. In addition, she possesses an incredible determination and drive to succeed at all costs--partly for her own satisfaction, and partly to prove to her father that she's capable of being the Nillsen drug ring leader. With her cunning, she's able to change her plans on the fly to reap the greatest possible gain.
One of the things she hates most in life is when people think she has to curb any of her appetites--aggression, violence, greed, ambition--simply because she's a woman. She's serious about making a name for herself in the boys' club that is the drug trade.
Barge Reactions: She'll react to the Barge the same way she reacts to most anything else: with snarky stoicism. Whatever shock she might experience at inhuman characters and flood-type events won't be shown in front of anyone, and any potential display of genuine vulnerability would sound as snarky as everything else she has to say.
Path to Redemption: It's important to clarify that although Mercedes displays traits of psychopathy, therapy isn't something that would help her. She holds no illusions about her actions: she knows right from wrong, knows she's a 'villain', and simply doesn't care. She puts her wants above everyone and everything else and embraces that wholeheartedly.
This is where a warden would be able to do something. Therapists, cops, they're 'goody two-shoes' types and she'd never take them seriously. But wardens all have different attitudes, life experiences, and moral/behavioral codes, and she could conceivably connect with one enough that they could get through to her!
Mercedes needs motivation to change the way she's treating people and living her life. Her relationship with her father proves that Mercedes is, to some diminished but still very genuine degree, capable of caring for those other than herself. This could be positively exploited by a warden trying to teach her to value other lives. She takes pride in her intelligence, so finding something other than the drug trade in which she could make a name for herself could go a long way. As far as physical violence goes, teaching her to channel hers into something more acceptable (like sparring with a willing partner) could aid in curbing that impulse.
Deal: N/A
History:
Mercedes Nillsen was born in 1995, in Metropolitan City (located in an intentionally unspecified state in the USA). She was raised by her father, a Swedish immigrant named Jöste Nillsen (also known as the Ghost). Jöste was infamous as the biggest trafficker of illegal goods in the city (dealing with everything from exotic animals to drugs, but mostly the latter), and due to his wealth and power his daughter experienced a very privileged childhood.
As she grew up, Mercedes determined that her dream was to follow in her father's footsteps and have that kind of power for herself. Adoring her and aware of her potential, he enthusiastically welcomed her into the world of trafficking and supplied her with everything she could possibly need: money, weapons, transportation, bodyguards, and anything she might ask for down the line. Having been spoiled from birth, she expected nothing less.
With the resolve to distinguish herself as more than just "the Ghost's daughter," she decided to base her budding empire around the sale of the cutting-edge designer drugs her father never cared to deal with. She settled on a substance called WHYPHY (an acronym standing for Work Hard? Yes; Play Hard? Yes). A mixture of Adderall, ecstasy, and a secret cocktail of other chemicals, it gave the person consuming it four hours of extreme focus for studying followed by an intense, hallucinogenic trip. By mixing the drug with gelatin, starch, and sugar, she created laced gummy bears.
After graduating high school, Mercedes was accepted to Metropolitan City State College. She had applied with the express purpose of building her first drug trafficking ring on campus. The student body never used the library (preferring the computer lab and digital research over physical media), so her father (and members of the Mexican cartel he'd teamed up with) periodically left bags of the raw product in hollowed-out library books for his daughter and her dealer(s) to retrieve.
Mercedes faked developing a deep friendship (and eventual relationship) with her roommate, a woman named Cynthia Watson, until Cynthia agreed to be her first dealer. The two young women made quite a profit selling WHYPHY to other students, with Mercedes managing supply acquisition behind the scenes and Cynthia playing middleman.
At some point Cynthia started using WHYPHY herself, and gradually developed a drug-fueled paranoia that led her to believe her life was in danger. She visited the roof of her dorm for fresh air one night, ended up locked out of the building and walked off the roof in the middle of a trip, accidentally killing herself.
Another student named Maya Dickson took pity on Mercedes, who'd been feigning grief since the incident, and agreed to room with her next semester so Mercedes wouldn't feel alone. As Maya's father was a cop (the head of Jump Street, in fact), Mercedes agreed immediately, hoping for an opportunity to pick up on sensitive police information.
After botching an attempted undercover raid on the Ghost, former Jump Street investigators Greg Jenko and Morton Schmidt were reinstated to Jump Street and sent to Metro City State. Undercover as students, their objective was to determine who was dealing WHYPHY on campus, as everyone involved in the investigation assumed Cynthia was an innocent customer. Mercedes clashed with the two of them almost immediately, pointing out that they were clearly far too old to be freshmen. When her roommate Maya began a relationship with Schmidt, Mercedes initially used the opportunity to torment him about looking old. After she became positive he was a cop based on his age and odd behavior, she exploited the chance to feed him misinformation regarding Cynthia and her death.
After breaking into the room Mercedes and Cynthia used to share, Jenko and Schmidt discovered a hollowed-out library book which had been left behind. They encountered the Ghost and his men at the library in the middle of a drop-off, but their attempt to take him in was botched so badly that the Ghost and his men got away entirely and Schmidt was exposed and expelled. This left Mercedes mostly free to continue building her business. In order to both keep suspicion off herself once and for all and to satisfy a grudge, Mercedes planted WHYPHY all over the office of her psychology professor for giving her a B-. He was arrested, and the case was closed after police mistakenly identified him as the ringleader.
Mercedes and her father planned to bring a massive amount of WHYPHY to Puerto Mexico during spring break, where Mercedes could recruit a great number of new dealers and revitalize her sales. By enlisting students from schools all over the country, she'd not only make far more money but assume full control of the underground WHYPHY market as well. Come spring break, everything worked out as planned: the sales her new dealers made during the vacation alone made her thousands of dollars.
During a bar meeting with her new recruits, her father, and her father's men, where she outlined her business plan, Jenko and Schmidt snuck their way in (unsatisfied with the case's conclusion, Schmidt had uncovered that the Ghost was paying tuition for a student at MC State and hypothesized that this student could his child; Jenko had heard about the WHYPHY being brought to Mexico). Mercedes prepared to shoot two of her new dealers when she realized that they were high on their own supply, and when her father intervened and told her to let his men do the job, the two cops made themselves known. After a tense standoff and some elaborate bluffing, the rest of the Jump Street organization burst in and a firefight broke out.
Mercedes shot a member of the Jump Street team and jumped a bar counter to escape. Her father survived and the two ran off in separate directions. Wielding both a handgun and a machine gun, Mercedes shot Captain Dickson and took him hostage in front of his shocked daughter, who'd to the bar during her own spring break vacation. She was pursued by Schmidt in a high speed car chase, and left her hostage in the car to flee into a hotel. She got the jump on Schmidt while he looked for her, but he managed to disarm her and she was forced to engage him in hand-to-hand combat.
After beating the hell out of Schmidt for several minutes, she retrieved her gun and fled before turning back to the still-pursuing (and unarmed) cop and holding him at gunpoint. Captain Dickson, having freed himself from the car, caught up and held her at gunpoint, causing her to use Schmidt as a human shield. After an exchange regarding who would get to shoot first, Mercedes was taken down by Maya Dickson, who'd followed all of them: she snuck up behind Mercedes and knocked her down with a large decorative art piece. Mercedes was taken into custody alive.
[NOTE: this is where canon events end; in order to bring her to the Barge, I had to think up a potential death. I've picked one that I think is fitting with her characterization.]
A couple months after being arrested, her aggression got the best of her and she intentionally provoked a fight with another prison inmate. She was doing great until the other woman unexpectedly pulled a shiv and stabbed her to death.
Sample Journal Entry:
[There's a young blonde woman speaking into the camera. Unlike many inmates, she doesn't seem confused or frightened by her sudden appearance here. She doesn't look like she's fazed by much of anything, actually; her face is blank, stoic. When she opens her mouth, her voice is much the same. Deadpan. Every word spoken with the same inflections. Whatever she's actually feeling at this moment, it's a complete mystery.]
So I'm assuming I'm in hell. Is that right? I felt myself die and then woke up in an exact copy of my dorm room. I'm actually pretty sure that's the furthest possible point from heaven.
[She'd never make it into any kind of heaven, a fact of which she is well aware.]
So, tell me all about hell. Is it better or worse than prison? Am I gonna have to wear that orange jumpsuit again? I don't like it, it makes me look boxy.
Sample RP: Voice Test sample here.
Special Notes: If there's an event in her history that anyone doesn't remember from the film (such as her shooting a Jump Street operative), it's because it was taken from a deleted or extended scene on the blu-ray!
User DW: on file
AIM/IM: on file
E-mail: on file
Other Characters: Elise Rainier
Character Name: Mercedes Nillsen
Series: 22 Jump Street
Age: 19
From When?: Post-film; see history section for further details
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Her father is a major illegal goods trafficker, and she's his eager heir with her own starter business on a college campus. She frames those who inconvenience her for drug trafficking, has no qualms about killing people who screw with her, and finds people getting shot to be the height of comedy.
Item: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Mercedes, as a standard human, has no powers. However, she does have a host of useful skills. She is intelligent, clever and extremely cunning, and uses her knack for quick thinking to further her career goals and amend her plans on the fly.
She's very experienced with various types of firearms, managing to actively dual wield extremely different models in a firefight (here is a partial list of guns she's used). She's also skilled in driving and can pull off dangerous maneuvers during high-speed chases without harm coming to herself or her vehicle.
Though she doesn't look it, Mercedes is an excellent fighter in hand-to-hand combat. She can cause some real pain and disorientation just by punching, and doesn't hesitate to use her surroundings to give her an advantage, either (breaking objects over opponents' heads, slamming opponents into things, etc). She's also capable of taking a beating and staying on her feet while feeling little pain, and is surprisingly fast and agile when she needs to be, outrunning police officers and jumping barriers.
She also has a gift for the 'stealth hi'. In other words, she tends to enter a location other people are already in, and remain there for some time before they even become aware of her presence. She's managed to overhear some very private information this way.
Mercedes is at a conversational level in Swedish, which was taught to her by her father; she pretends to be much worse at it than she is in order to irritate him.
Personality:
Mercedes is intensely cynical, manipulative, and drastically lacking in empathy and sympathy. The creators of the film describe her as "a complete psychopath," comparing her specifically to Hannibal Lecter.
She might be adult enough to run her own drug trafficking ring, but she's still an entitled brat. In many ways, despite her activities, she's still a child: she's doted on by her father, who calls her pet names like "Darling" and "Pudding" (which she hates). It's her dream to go into the "family business," and rather than forbid it on sexist grounds like most mafia/cartel patriarchs would, he enthusiastically gives her everything she needs to make it happen. She's highly spoiled as a result and she alternates between the attitudes "fuck you, Dad" and "I love you so much, Daddy," sometimes from moment to moment. She petulantly admonishes him for talking during her "drug meetings" and suggesting she sell uncool "old people drugs" such as cocaine and heroin, as though these embarrassments are as commonplace as those between any teenager and their parent. Regardless of everything else, she does genuinely care for her father to some degree, and she would be upset if he were to be killed in the line of work.
Despite her childishness, she is a very violent person. While her father would prefer that she have other people do the killing for her in order to keep her record clean, she'd do so herself if he wasn't around. Whether she's the one pulling the trigger or not, she doesn't hesitate to make examples of people by ending their lives, once even preparing to shoot two of her dealers immediately for sampling the product.
While she's cold-blooded in many respects, her temper runs hot. She delights in fist-fights and becomes deeply angry if her opponent doesn't come at her with all they have simply because she's a woman (though that doesn't stop her from pretending to cry after first being hit in order to momentarily take her enemy off guard). Violence is even a turn-on for her, and she has before attempted to lean in and kiss (and even bring up sex to) her unsuspecting opponent. Furthermore, she's liable to honestly misinterpret exchanging blows as a sort of flirtation or foreplay, and reacts with genuine surprise when she's rebuffed before projecting, vehemently insisting the other person tried to kiss her. She's not easily capable of differentiating between sexual tension and physical altercation.
When she's not doing business, regardless of how she's really feeling or what she's really thinking, her default state is stoic sarcasm. This is the side she presents to the world at large, including on campus. She's always prepared for a cutting verbal assault on anyone who might irritate her, and though her jabs are occasionally accompanied by the trace of a smirk (she takes considerable pride in her sharp wit; making people look stupid by calling attention to their insecurities brings her happiness), most of them are delivered completely stone faced. Because she says nearly everything with the same deadpan inflection, it's borderline impossible to tell if any display of vulnerability is genuine or mocking--she claims to never cry, but whether that claim is true or just a cover is up for debate. Only three emotions are reliably easy to discern from her expressions. The first is anger, the second is schadenfreude, and the third is a deeply unhealthy amusement.
She has remarked before, in the middle of a shootout, that it was "boring" because nobody was getting shot...only to crack up laughing when the guy next to her, one of her own men, took a bullet. She once excitedly called her father to tell him she was in a high-speed police chase before trying to snap a photo of herself with her hostage to commemorate the event, laughing and speeding down the road the entire time. These sorts of situations are sincerely funny and exhilarating for her. She doesn't have the ability to feel fear--which is extremely dangerous to her, contrary to her own opinion on the matter.
By projecting the image of a boring (if vaguely mean), average girl, Mercedes has always been successful at staving off any potential suspicion even as she commits terrible deeds behind the scenes (the fact that she's been able to effortlessly sniff out narcs and undercover cops in the past helps, too). In business mode, she's very forceful and possesses a weird sort of magnetism. Mercedes is greedy for power, and enjoys wielding it to cause misfortune and intimidate people just as much as she likes using it to make money. She framed a teacher for drug trafficking after he gave her an unsatisfactory grade simply because she's just that spiteful; in an even greater show of pettiness, she shot a machine gun up into the ceiling to scare her roommate when she discovered the other woman had borrowed her bathing suit without asking.
As mentioned in the abilities section, she's clever, cunning and intelligent, and she's so proud of her own intellect that she looks down on others as being woefully stupid. Mercedes has never considered anyone (except perhaps her father) to be as quick-thinking as she is. In addition, she possesses an incredible determination and drive to succeed at all costs--partly for her own satisfaction, and partly to prove to her father that she's capable of being the Nillsen drug ring leader. With her cunning, she's able to change her plans on the fly to reap the greatest possible gain.
One of the things she hates most in life is when people think she has to curb any of her appetites--aggression, violence, greed, ambition--simply because she's a woman. She's serious about making a name for herself in the boys' club that is the drug trade.
Barge Reactions: She'll react to the Barge the same way she reacts to most anything else: with snarky stoicism. Whatever shock she might experience at inhuman characters and flood-type events won't be shown in front of anyone, and any potential display of genuine vulnerability would sound as snarky as everything else she has to say.
Path to Redemption: It's important to clarify that although Mercedes displays traits of psychopathy, therapy isn't something that would help her. She holds no illusions about her actions: she knows right from wrong, knows she's a 'villain', and simply doesn't care. She puts her wants above everyone and everything else and embraces that wholeheartedly.
This is where a warden would be able to do something. Therapists, cops, they're 'goody two-shoes' types and she'd never take them seriously. But wardens all have different attitudes, life experiences, and moral/behavioral codes, and she could conceivably connect with one enough that they could get through to her!
Mercedes needs motivation to change the way she's treating people and living her life. Her relationship with her father proves that Mercedes is, to some diminished but still very genuine degree, capable of caring for those other than herself. This could be positively exploited by a warden trying to teach her to value other lives. She takes pride in her intelligence, so finding something other than the drug trade in which she could make a name for herself could go a long way. As far as physical violence goes, teaching her to channel hers into something more acceptable (like sparring with a willing partner) could aid in curbing that impulse.
Deal: N/A
History:
Mercedes Nillsen was born in 1995, in Metropolitan City (located in an intentionally unspecified state in the USA). She was raised by her father, a Swedish immigrant named Jöste Nillsen (also known as the Ghost). Jöste was infamous as the biggest trafficker of illegal goods in the city (dealing with everything from exotic animals to drugs, but mostly the latter), and due to his wealth and power his daughter experienced a very privileged childhood.
As she grew up, Mercedes determined that her dream was to follow in her father's footsteps and have that kind of power for herself. Adoring her and aware of her potential, he enthusiastically welcomed her into the world of trafficking and supplied her with everything she could possibly need: money, weapons, transportation, bodyguards, and anything she might ask for down the line. Having been spoiled from birth, she expected nothing less.
With the resolve to distinguish herself as more than just "the Ghost's daughter," she decided to base her budding empire around the sale of the cutting-edge designer drugs her father never cared to deal with. She settled on a substance called WHYPHY (an acronym standing for Work Hard? Yes; Play Hard? Yes). A mixture of Adderall, ecstasy, and a secret cocktail of other chemicals, it gave the person consuming it four hours of extreme focus for studying followed by an intense, hallucinogenic trip. By mixing the drug with gelatin, starch, and sugar, she created laced gummy bears.
After graduating high school, Mercedes was accepted to Metropolitan City State College. She had applied with the express purpose of building her first drug trafficking ring on campus. The student body never used the library (preferring the computer lab and digital research over physical media), so her father (and members of the Mexican cartel he'd teamed up with) periodically left bags of the raw product in hollowed-out library books for his daughter and her dealer(s) to retrieve.
Mercedes faked developing a deep friendship (and eventual relationship) with her roommate, a woman named Cynthia Watson, until Cynthia agreed to be her first dealer. The two young women made quite a profit selling WHYPHY to other students, with Mercedes managing supply acquisition behind the scenes and Cynthia playing middleman.
At some point Cynthia started using WHYPHY herself, and gradually developed a drug-fueled paranoia that led her to believe her life was in danger. She visited the roof of her dorm for fresh air one night, ended up locked out of the building and walked off the roof in the middle of a trip, accidentally killing herself.
Another student named Maya Dickson took pity on Mercedes, who'd been feigning grief since the incident, and agreed to room with her next semester so Mercedes wouldn't feel alone. As Maya's father was a cop (the head of Jump Street, in fact), Mercedes agreed immediately, hoping for an opportunity to pick up on sensitive police information.
After botching an attempted undercover raid on the Ghost, former Jump Street investigators Greg Jenko and Morton Schmidt were reinstated to Jump Street and sent to Metro City State. Undercover as students, their objective was to determine who was dealing WHYPHY on campus, as everyone involved in the investigation assumed Cynthia was an innocent customer. Mercedes clashed with the two of them almost immediately, pointing out that they were clearly far too old to be freshmen. When her roommate Maya began a relationship with Schmidt, Mercedes initially used the opportunity to torment him about looking old. After she became positive he was a cop based on his age and odd behavior, she exploited the chance to feed him misinformation regarding Cynthia and her death.
After breaking into the room Mercedes and Cynthia used to share, Jenko and Schmidt discovered a hollowed-out library book which had been left behind. They encountered the Ghost and his men at the library in the middle of a drop-off, but their attempt to take him in was botched so badly that the Ghost and his men got away entirely and Schmidt was exposed and expelled. This left Mercedes mostly free to continue building her business. In order to both keep suspicion off herself once and for all and to satisfy a grudge, Mercedes planted WHYPHY all over the office of her psychology professor for giving her a B-. He was arrested, and the case was closed after police mistakenly identified him as the ringleader.
Mercedes and her father planned to bring a massive amount of WHYPHY to Puerto Mexico during spring break, where Mercedes could recruit a great number of new dealers and revitalize her sales. By enlisting students from schools all over the country, she'd not only make far more money but assume full control of the underground WHYPHY market as well. Come spring break, everything worked out as planned: the sales her new dealers made during the vacation alone made her thousands of dollars.
During a bar meeting with her new recruits, her father, and her father's men, where she outlined her business plan, Jenko and Schmidt snuck their way in (unsatisfied with the case's conclusion, Schmidt had uncovered that the Ghost was paying tuition for a student at MC State and hypothesized that this student could his child; Jenko had heard about the WHYPHY being brought to Mexico). Mercedes prepared to shoot two of her new dealers when she realized that they were high on their own supply, and when her father intervened and told her to let his men do the job, the two cops made themselves known. After a tense standoff and some elaborate bluffing, the rest of the Jump Street organization burst in and a firefight broke out.
Mercedes shot a member of the Jump Street team and jumped a bar counter to escape. Her father survived and the two ran off in separate directions. Wielding both a handgun and a machine gun, Mercedes shot Captain Dickson and took him hostage in front of his shocked daughter, who'd to the bar during her own spring break vacation. She was pursued by Schmidt in a high speed car chase, and left her hostage in the car to flee into a hotel. She got the jump on Schmidt while he looked for her, but he managed to disarm her and she was forced to engage him in hand-to-hand combat.
After beating the hell out of Schmidt for several minutes, she retrieved her gun and fled before turning back to the still-pursuing (and unarmed) cop and holding him at gunpoint. Captain Dickson, having freed himself from the car, caught up and held her at gunpoint, causing her to use Schmidt as a human shield. After an exchange regarding who would get to shoot first, Mercedes was taken down by Maya Dickson, who'd followed all of them: she snuck up behind Mercedes and knocked her down with a large decorative art piece. Mercedes was taken into custody alive.
[NOTE: this is where canon events end; in order to bring her to the Barge, I had to think up a potential death. I've picked one that I think is fitting with her characterization.]
A couple months after being arrested, her aggression got the best of her and she intentionally provoked a fight with another prison inmate. She was doing great until the other woman unexpectedly pulled a shiv and stabbed her to death.
Sample Journal Entry:
[There's a young blonde woman speaking into the camera. Unlike many inmates, she doesn't seem confused or frightened by her sudden appearance here. She doesn't look like she's fazed by much of anything, actually; her face is blank, stoic. When she opens her mouth, her voice is much the same. Deadpan. Every word spoken with the same inflections. Whatever she's actually feeling at this moment, it's a complete mystery.]
So I'm assuming I'm in hell. Is that right? I felt myself die and then woke up in an exact copy of my dorm room. I'm actually pretty sure that's the furthest possible point from heaven.
[She'd never make it into any kind of heaven, a fact of which she is well aware.]
So, tell me all about hell. Is it better or worse than prison? Am I gonna have to wear that orange jumpsuit again? I don't like it, it makes me look boxy.
Sample RP: Voice Test sample here.
Special Notes: If there's an event in her history that anyone doesn't remember from the film (such as her shooting a Jump Street operative), it's because it was taken from a deleted or extended scene on the blu-ray!
