Mercury & “Rope-a-Dope”
Merc (☿️ 💨) is a “nothing-broken” reward (like Raindrops Cut Stone), and thus is supported (hopefully) by Criminals' new bypass (eg. S-Dobrado, Laser Pointer, or Curupira), derez (eg. Capybara), and bounce aka. add to HQ (eg. Hermes) effects. Now, to “break without breaking” (eg. Banner), to “suffer without suffering” (eg. AirbladeX (JSRF Ed.)), and to “run without running” (eg. Sneakdoor Beta): this is the philosophy of roping-a-dope.
That is, they want Haas-Bioroid to keep punching those (bio)roided-out abs, until the German heavyweight is too tired to keep the agendas from getting counterpunched out of the megacorp's moloch maw (lol).
Also, Merc is the second Bioroid runner (after Adam: Compulsive Hacker), as well as the second ex-enslaved "criminal" (after the Clone runner Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone) to (self?)emancipate.
Their namesake (Mercury/Hermes) is a god of travelers and thieves, of boundaries and androgyny, who can:
move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine aided by his winged sandals, playing the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide"—a conductor of souls into the afterlife.
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Related — “No-Break-matters” & “Sub-Resolution-matters”:
Synergies — (central) bypass:
Synergies — (ice) derez:
Synergies — (central) server/breach redirection:
Synergies — (ice) bounce:
Synergies — (ice) rez taxing/punishment:
Synergies — sub neutralizers:
Synergies — harm mitigators: