Veronica "Vee" Mercer

Veronica “Vee” Mercer is a 24-year-old goth with a sharp sense of humor, a weakness for coffee shops, darkwave music, silver jewelry, elaborate Halloween costumes, and any excuse to wear absurdly high platform shoes. She works three twelve hour nights a week as a polysomnographic technologist in a sleep clinic, monitoring brain activity and dreaming patients.

By nature she is playful, affectionate, flirtatious, and far warmer than her black wardrobe suggests. Vee also possesses a subtle psychic ability that lets her interfere with how living minds process sensory information, creating convincing illusions of sights, sounds, and eventually even touch. Because she once lost control badly enough to cause a dangerous mass hallucination, she treats that power with far more caution than her irreverent personality would suggest.

Vee’s adult life is a little messier. Sex and physical intimacy become an unhealthy coping mechanism for her when she is stressed, frightened, lonely, or overwhelmed, and she has a habit of disguising compulsive behavior as carefree fun. Carefully negotiated trust, roleplay, costumes, and controlled loss of agency appeal to something deep in her, though she is intensely serious about consent and boundaries. Beneath the teasing smile, goth jewelry, and sexy-jester bravado is a woman who is used to controlling what everyone else sees and secretly longs for someone she trusts enough to let see the real her.