Mercury Stratos

• Species

  Other

• Species (Other)

  Unity

• Age

  35

• Gender

  Female

• Residence

  Canterlot

• Hometown

  Canterlot

• Occupation

  House Speaker

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• Physical Description

  She stands as tall as an alicorn, but is a bit larger around than the princesses. She lacks a horn or corporeal wings, but makes up for that with designs on her fur coat where her wings would normally sprout that separate when a magical field is applied to allow flight. She also has feathers that come from the edge of her ears that allow her to focus and control her magic. The use of her magic is usually accompanied by a deep yellow-orange glow coming from the normally white runes that are inscribed on each feather. Her coat is an off white and is usually well kept along with her mane. Her hooves end in a golden-yellow design that becomes solid before it reaches the hoof and it matches the coloration of her mane. Note: this isn't any form of dye. Her mane itself is a well kept, long and curly golden-yellow just like her other accents.

• Backstory

  The pony who Mercury used to be is named Azalea, and she is a part of the extended royal bloodline. She is close enough in to have inherited two rather important businesses to the war effort, one of them MegaMagiTech Industries is one of the largest proponents of small consumer or military grade electronics that involve adding a magical matrices to contain data and process user input. They are a competitor to and produce clone parts for companies such as Stable-Tec and several military contractors involved in creating power armor. She grew rather greedy in her ventures as a business mare, using her royal ties to get her way when the government changed, she managed to get the money and resources to continue the operations straight from the new ministries with various contracts.

  The Unity project caught her eye during a conversation with the OIA director, and once it was proven successful at converting a batch of ponies into alicorns, though the experiment had been modified since the original inception required a central host pony to coordinate the powerful mass of alicorns and distribute power to them so that it was manageable for them. Unbeknownst to the royal family when the offer was presented to them, the plot to erase their greedy ways and return some to a more humble stature was well underway and the second rendition of the Unity Project was just one of the few methods they figured might be met with some success as it was quite the proposition for anyone to gain the power of an alicorn. Of course Azalea agreed to the project's test as she was quite taken with greed and a power play like this seemed to have nothing bad about it mentioned in the briefings on how the project would transform all of them into beings of great power. Unfortunately for the lot, they were deceived and they only learned of this once the experimentation started, and the effects that had been granted to the blank host took effect. The host pony was a preprogrammed clone of the pony formerly known as Trixie, the original host candidate for the first generation of Unity. Her manipulative nature was programmed to tear all of the negativity from the group of newly formed specially created ponies, their original forms paling in comparison to their new bodies once they stepped out of the vats. Once they had confirmed the subject host was successful in stripping away the candidates memories and predispositions of going right back to performing actions that would lead them right back into the rut they had just tried to pull them out of the subject was terminated causing permanent retrograde amnesia of all of the affected memories to all of the candidates and even accidentally causing primary bodily function loss in two candidates. The survivors were all provided a chance at therapy to regain their proper faculties and resume their tasks if they so wished.

  Azalea was quite unsure about life for about a month after her transformation and decided to take her chance at a new life in stride. She was at least still in her status and with the greed stripped from her she was more humble and willing to help seek an end to the war and the efforts that maintained it so that a de escalation would be possible. Though of course it wasn't just her change that helped to cause this, but her efforts conjoined with the others who changed helped turn the tide of a revolution in the government to make sure that a more diplomatic approach was taken as tensions were high among the two tired armies and their harsh experiments. Due to the overwhelming power the alicorn forces that had been the first Unity subjects wielded under the control of their host several decisive victories turned the tide of operations as a wave of megaspells had been unleashed, nowhere near a full scale attack, but several of the larger cities showed off their pristine shields as the damage done by each spell going off took its toll on the surroundings. The counterattack was swift and lead to an annihilation of a large portion of the remaining zebra forces during their march to the capital. The ponies having gone through Unity being immune to the radiation damage incurred as the megaspells went off ahead of them let them raze the ground and uproot the forces on their way to the capital to force a surrender.

  Once the proceedings had taken place and the treaties forcing the combatant nations to stand down the equestrian army was finally put to rest, finally leading into an era of peace. This let Azalea, under her new alias of Mercury Stratos, find her new calling and new cutie mark even, being a messenger for the royal proceedings. She discovered this through her many dreams of the past and future, and discovered her ability to influence events and correct disturbances with great concentration. She henceforth took on the official title of Countess Stratos and became the royal messenger of both news and official diplomatic matters in the new order.

• Personality

  (Canon World)
  She is a very calm, collected individual that does her best to represent her house responsibly. Her history is a lot less tragic in the canon world as she is not starting out as a part of the Fallout Equestria pre-annihilation corrupt houses. She is quite a lot more flexible once comfortable with someone both in and out of her position. Once you're in her inner circle you'll find a huggable big pony that you can lean on and talk to just like anypony else!
  
  (AU FoE)
  She is quite regal, taking her duties seriously in the rebuilding of the world that was being carved out from the ashes of the ruinous war. As long as it's not someone threatening the order she can be quite friendly. She wields the power she was given with great reverence, and she is glad to be a part of the chance to build something better in place of the old corruption.

• Likes

  Orchestral music, an occasional romance novel, and those cute little chocolates! She enjoys doing writing for both her speeches and other public service work, and occasionally dabbles in more imaginative works.

• Dislikes

  Difficult ponies, and those that lie and waste her time.

• Magic Spells

  Telekinesis

• Abilities

  Magical Flight

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