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Words fail when you try to describe Angela Ziegler, known world-wide as Mercy. How can you convey to a naive listener the evils she has done? Hundreds kidnapped off the streets for cruel experiments. Whole towns killed by genetically engineered viruses. Hidden labs, filled with blood and things to turn a man mad. There is little wonder why Mercy is the most wanted-person globally.
Angela Ziegler was once an aspiring student in the Swiss Medical Academy. Although aloof and arrogant, Ziegler worked on numerous projects and her greatest achievements was the development of nanobots, that revolutionised the medical industry. She was to receive a full doctorate, until her other projects came to light; human experiments. This had been the basis Ziegler built the technology of the century. Abominations of science, tests on pain limits, using nanobots to completely change a living person's DNA. Ziegler fled, but not before releasing a plague that quarantined Zürich for years and killed more than a hundred.
I was in classes with her. I kept my distance though. I was actually kinda scared of her, of her eyes. We once dissected a pig, and I didn't even know where to start, but she just picked up the knife and started carving. Just… so elegantly, like she had done it a thousand times before. But… she looked so bored. And I complimented her, just for something to say, and she looked at me, and her eyes… like she wanted to carve me like the pig, and… she would find it more interesting. - Unnamed academy student
Angela later approached the terrorist group Overwatch during the period which they were expanding outwards from their anti-omnic roots, to more conventional activities such as the drug trade. Angela offered a group a deal; she would supply the group with medical aid, and perform enhancement therapy in it's members, in return for a steady stream of test subjects. Although many in the organisation hated, and perhaps even feared Ziegler, Jack Morrison decided to agree. A possible factor was their sexual relationship, which ended when Angela attempted to dissect Jack.
Overwatch provided a wealth of new opportunities for Angela to ply her twisted trade. "Caring" for it's members physical ailments aside, Angela also developed chemical weaponry and was often involved in interrogations, sometimes for the simple joy of it. Her biggest use to the terrorist group however was on the battlefield: as well as being a battle-medic, the terror she caused gained her the moniker Mercy.
Shooting the enemy is easy. Watching them be tackled by a shrieking angel, then medically cut into pieces is terrifying. I saw her use some wire to flay a man's skin off. He screamed for mercy, until she cut open his throat and removed the voice box. He was still alive for an hour, I think. Through the whole campaign, I knew where that demoness was from the cries of "Mercy, Mercy." - Overwatch soldier who fought in Russia. Surrendered in return for safety, committed suicide
During Mercy's time in Overwatch she worked on numerous important projects. When Hanzo Shimada was thrown out of his clan, Mercy rebuilt him into a weapon Overwatch then used against their Shimada rivals. Another living weapon Mercy worked on was Amélie Lacroix, who was physically altered and brainwashed into the assassin Widowmaker. Amélie's programming failed after she was forced to kill her husband, with the shock allowing her to break Mercy's brainwashing. Mercy's personal magnum opus is Fareeha Amari, codenamed Pharah. After meeting the daughter of Ana Amari when she was at a young age, Mercy became very interested in her. While her mother was already training Fareeha as a soldier, Mercy took it a step further a put her through numerous brainwashings. The end result was Pharah, the perfect soldier who would follow any order.
Shortly before the Taskforce Talon raid on the Overwatch HQ, Mercy was working on a new strain of nanobots that would deteriorate cells, and rebuild them at the same time. She was asked by Morrison to infect his second Gabriel Reyes with the strain as he had discovered Gabriel had been giving information to Taskforce Talon. Mercy did so happily, then watched the brief one-sided fight between the two former friends before she took Gabriel's supposedly dead for study. Gabriel was far from dead however, and Mercy was forced to flee from him. Meeting up with Pharah, and learning Talon had begun a raid on the base, Mercy decided it would be a good time to quit Overwatch. After collecting her research, and fighting through Talon soldiers, the two vanished.
The raid on Overwatch had been intended to defeat Overwatch in a single blow: instead it is merely scattered. Some may see this as good, but I don't think so. Take Mercy for example. Before, we knew roughly where she was, what she was working on; now we know nothing. The only thing we currently can be sure about Mercy, is that whatever she is working on, we will not like it. - Taskforce Talon officer, during raid debrief
It is currently believed Mercy is continuing her work in some secret lab, Pharah acting as her bodyguard and lover. A global manhunt is still in effect, but she has not been found in the five years since the fall of Overwatch, and now it is likely she will either be asked to rejoin, or seek them out herself. If she does, Overwatch will regain the fear it once commanded. All from a demonic angel….
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Sorry this took so long. Stuff been happening, yada yada, who next? I want to do Jack and Gabe last, to sort of round it all off, then I've decided we will go into short stories! Starting with Mercy. Cause she is kinda mad.
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