AVF_Mercedes

Faith and piety can lead many a strong and diligent person to making costly mistakes, overlooking details or dropping their guard when they should be on high alert. For Mercedes Bordelaux the realization and capitalization on those traits allowed her to rise to become one of the world's deadliest predators. Once a middling pred having to fight everyday for what most would deem "scraps" she managed to hunt down a middle aged man. As she toyed with him she noticed he began to pray feverishly to whatever gods he believed in, begging them to save him from his fate. They did not, but as he melted away inside of her this spark blossomed into a full blown wildfire in her head. "Do these little morsels truly believe prayer could save them?" Mercedes thought to herself. After a few days in thought an idea hit her with the full force of a truck. Why not create her own church, marketed towards prey and being a safe space for them, when of course secretly they would just be delivering their delicious selves directly to her. It took a while, some discreet disappearances hear and there, some hefty investments but soon her plan came to fruition. People from all over the world would join her flock, vulnerable people looking for a save place to practice their beliefs and soon they began praying at the alter of the predator who they believed could save them. Mercedes herself being the figurehead of this new religious phenomenon soon grew to eclipse it herself. Billborads, televised sermons and interviews plastered her face everywhere and with her soothing voice and honeyed words the boost in visibility only caused her numbers to grow. Of course behind the scenes things were just as some could imagine. Mercedes truly did not have a pious bone in her body and her times away from delivering sermons were filled with drugs, sex and devouring those poor souls who once believed in her, not that she ever truly loved them back though. Should you ever attend her sermons be wary of what you may end up uncovering, it may not just be your sins disappearing in the confessional booth.

((One of the many predators found in A_Voracious_Future Please see the main profile for more details on the world in which Mercedes and the other predators occupy. To take a look at her and the other's handiwork please check out AVF_Graveyard!))