Mercykill

Mercykill is the het ship between Mercy and Reaper from the Overwatch fandom.

Canon
Angela joined Overwatch at a young age and became the head of medical research. She discovered new uses for nano-biology and how to use it to heal injuries and illness. She developed the Valkyrie suit, so that she could use the tech on the battlefield, taking the call name "Mercy" when she did. After Overwatch was disbanded, Mercy continued to use her tech to heal others.

Gabriel Reyes enlisted in the Soldier Enhancement Program to fight in the Omnic Wars. During this time, the U.N. established Overwatch. When the crisis was over, Reyes was made the leader of the black ops team Blackwatch. Over time Reyes began to resent Jack Morrison, and they got into a fight at the Overwatch Swiss HQ. The fight resulted in an explosion that seemed to kill Reyes and Morrison. Reyes was able to get to Talon, and took the name Reaper. He tracks down Overwatch agents and kills them.

Mercy and Reaper were both in Overwatch before it was disbanded. The two would have interacted less during their time at Overwatch together, since Mercy was the doctor for the main Overwatch team, while Reaper was the leader of Blackwatch, and would have been going to their doctor, Moira.

Although there aren't many interactions between them, their shared dialogue seems to support that something happened between the two. Specifically involving Reyes' powers.

Fanon
The pairing is more common among Overwatch fans. Many ship the two based on their opposing personalities and positions. There's also ship support from their shared dialogue, which many expand upon in fic and art. Many will also depict Mercy as being a light in Reyes' life, given the dark path that he's gone down.

A less common concept is Mercy reacting to Reyes being alive and becoming Reaper. Fans tend to focus on the reactions of the Blackwatch team, but shippers will focus on Mercy's reaction. Mercy's reaction is dependent on the creator, but most will depict her as conflicted.

Like all Overwatch pairings, many fans draw the two together in their variant skins. One that is used together more often are their Halloweenskins. This is most likely due to their characters in Junkenstein's Revenge, are on the side of Junkenstein. It's also due to the Halloween skins being more in contrast to Mercy's normal characterization. She is more mischievous and less moral, which works well with Reaper's current status.

On AO3 it is the third most written ship for Reaper and the fifth most written ship for Mercy.

Fandom
FAN FICTION


 * Mercy/Reaper on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * Mercy is 37 while Reaper's age is unknown

Variations

 * MercyKill76 refers to the ship between the two and Soldier: 76