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Hayoon

Hayoon Sun (a.k.a. Haylee)

Hayoon 'Hayleigh' Sun, aka Mercy, is a student at the Saint Anne Orphanage and School, a devout Illuminate of the Church of the Golden Sun, and former best friend of Charity Cruce. When Charity, aka Vendetta , was ousted from her super team the Nightstalkers she found herself torn between the friendship she has relied on for so long and the mission she had dedicated herself to without question.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Mercy is surprisingly strong for her small frame. Although she is the weakest and smallest of the Nightstalkers, through pure force of will she endures the same training the strongest does. This leaves her more than capable of dispatching most of the thugs and vermin the Nightstalkers encounter during their missions. Her teacher, the Mother Superior, thinks she is holding herself back due to her hesitence to do harm to others, even those who murder her without a thought.

Identifying Characteristics

Mercy has a notch cut out of her left ear from a knife fight she broke up between students at the school. The injury never quite healed properly, and reminds her daily to never turn her back on an injured foe, no matter how small they are.

Special abilities

Mercy is easily the weakest combatant of the team, but is not completely ineffective due to her touch telepathy which works even through armor and clothes. This allows her to not only read the thoughts of her foes, but also inject commands, and even used to fully paralyze them. These only last minutes after the touch however, and cannot be used to enslave villians, as much as the Mother Superior would enjoy that weapon.

Specialized Equipment

Unlike her team, Mercy fights without weapons, relying on incredible reflexes and speed in combat. She can easily cover the distance before an assailant can get a shot off, applying her touch telepathy to disable foes, or turn them against their own.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Hayoon Sun was found waiting in the rain on the steps of the Saint Anne Orphanage and School at the age of 9, with two younger brothers holding her hands. Thrust into the chaos of the school, she found herself at a loss on how to navigate the prison like nature of the place, fraught with bullies looking to prop themselves on the new outsiders. The Sisters gave her the name 'Hayleigh', hoping it would help her fit in despite her broken english and ignorance of the culture of Edge City.   She was willing to take the abuse herself, but soon found herself being beaten by a group of larger boys who had attempted to rob her brothers of their few possessions. The boys were suddenly beaten down by two girls not much older than Hayoon herself, Amara and Charity. The two took her under their wings, and before long they became unseparable.   Her friends devout Illuminates, Hayoon found great comfort in the light and the teachings of the Church. She soon had the admiration of both the Sisters and the other students for the gentle kindness and generosity she showed all. But she had little patience for the abuse she had suffered when she came to the school. The trio became a sort of police force, there to mediate disputes that the Sister ought not know about, and punish injustices that were beyond the administrations reach.   As she grew older, and was better able to lead by example rather by force, she found her friends drifting away. She would often find the two missing from their bunks, returning with bruises and cuts in the early morning, dismissing her concern with few answers. But during the difficult time when her Shifted abilities manifested, her friends brought her to the catacombs to give her some time and distance before wading back into the chaos of the school. They even managed to hide her from the Mother Superior, who had been training them to eventually take the mantle of Nightstalkers. Neither of her friends thought she could survive the training, being too kind and soft for the brutality they endured nightly.   But the Mother Superior had had her eye on Hayoon since the day she had arrived at the school.

Personality Characteristics

Virtues & Personality perks

Mercy has a incredible sweet tooth, and often hides away goodies. Such things are contraband when one trains with the Mother Superior.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Only her best friend, Charity Cruce, calls her Hayoon.

Family Ties

Hayoon and her two brothers Jihoon (James) and Junseok (John) came from parents deeply indebted to the Las Plagas cartel. The father was a drug dealer who was addicted to his own product, and the mother a gambling addict. When payment came due, the pair tried to sell their children to the cartel and fled town when that failed. This is how the trio found their way to the doorstep of the Saint Anne Orphanage and School, as neither the police nor the neighbors had any interest in handling children children who couldn't even speak English.

Religious Views

Mercy is a strict adherant to the letter of the law of Illuminanism.

Relationships

Hayoon

Best Friend (Vital)

Towards Artemis

5
-2

Honest


Artemis

Best Friend (Vital)

Towards Hayoon

5
4

Frank


Shared Acquaintances

Wrath Mother Superior

Ethnicity
Year of Birth
2016 CE 16 Years old
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Gender
Female
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Short brown bob
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Polished Citrine
Height
5'4"
Weight
110lb
Known Languages
Hayloon is fluent in Korean, with English being her second language. Having learned English late in childhood, she still has problems speaking in a way that doesn't invite mocking behind her back. As such, she tends to speak quietly and slowly, ennunciating each word, which many take as a lack of intellect. Despite this, the Sisters at the school are well aware that Hayloon has a better understanding of Latin than anyone at the institution, including them.

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