Cessily Kincaid

What if that liquid-metal robot, the Terminator, was not a robot at all, …but living?  Meet Cessily Kincaid.  She is the living, feminine, good-natured equivalent of the Terminator the Inisfreeans were looking for and knew would be coming.

 

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Table of Contents:

1. Etymology
2. Spec’s
3. Details/History
4. Powers
5. Weaknesses
6. Notes
7. Compatible & Incompatible Elements
8. Additional Notes
9. 2022 Update
10. Comics (Images Begin)
11. Live
12. How She Loves to Lick-greet Me, Her Husband, Auz
13. How She Loves Sitting Missionary for Me
14. 2024/+

 

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Etymology:

• Cessily = “Heaven” –and, in Welsh, “sixth”
• Kincaid = Celtic origin, meaning “battle leader / head of the battle”

 

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Spec’s:

• 5’4″
• 114 lbs.
• redhead
• silver/chrome-looking skin
• matching eye-irises
• perfect feminine face and figure; slender-fit
• perky C-cup breasts
• often wears a sports-bra and sweatpants, or her X-Men uniform

 

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Dossier

 Current Alias:  Mercury

 Relatives:

 Affiliation:  X-Men (Xavier Institute Student Body) formerly; New X-Men, Hellions Squad

Status

 Identity Secret Identity

 Citizenship American

 Marital Status Single

 Occupation Student

 Education High School Student

Characteristics

 Gender Female

 Height 5′ 4″

 Weight 114 lbs (52 kg)

 Eyes Silver

 Hair Red

 Skin Silver metal skin

 Unusual Features Liquid metal body

Origin

 Origin Mutant

 Universe Earth-616

 Place of Birth Portland, Oregon

 Creators Christina Weir, Nunzio DeFilippis, Keron Grant

First Appearance
New Mutants Vol 2 #2 (August, 2003)

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Biography

Cessily lived a completely normal life and was a beloved only child, until her mutation developed. Her body changed to a metallic, mercury-like substance. Her parents did not know how to deal with this change. While they did not reject her outright, they shipped her off to Xavier’s, hoping the neighbors would never know about their mutant daughter.

Xavier Institute and the Hellions

Cessily eventually made her first friend at Xavier´s in resident bad boy Hellion, who has been like an older brother to her ever since. When Cessily met Wither, who was an outcast at the school due to his death touch, she formed a crush on him, and eventually she discovered she was immune to his powers. This forged a connection between them. She stood up for Wither and got Hellion to welcome him into their Hellions clique and training squad.

The Hellions met a mutant powerbroker called the Kingmaker. When granted one wish by Kingmaker, Cessily asked to have her parents accept her. She journeyed to Portland and found her parents as open and loving as before she got her powers. When Cessily and the Hellions realized Kingmaker´s gift came with a price, they tricked him and backed out of the deal. It was only then that Cessily realized her parent’s love had been forced – they had been mind-controlled. Free of Kingmaker’s influence, the Kincaids blamed Cessily and disowned her.

M-day

Soon thereafter, the events of M-Day left only 27 students with their powers, Cessily included, though she would have preferred to lose her powers. The depowered students and staff were sent to their homes. One bus was bombed by anti-mutant religious zealot Reverend William Stryker, and Cessily’s former teammate and friend Tag was among those killed. The X-Men held a funeral for those students whose parents would not accept them, and Cessily’s anguish was very visible.

All of the remaining students were placed by Emma Frost into an all-out brawl, and the ones deemed to be the best were to be assigned to become a group of in-training New X-Men. Cessily made the team and began training to become an X-Man.

Cessily and the New X-Men defeated Stryker, Elixir killing him. Shortly afterwards the team went to help Forge who had been sought out by Nimrod for repair. During the skirmish X-23 was forced to sever a piece of Mercury’s hand to separate her from Nimrod. She later commented she’d “always wanted to lose a few pounds.” The team successfully defeated the robot due to a group effort. Nimrod was sent back in time.

Predator X and Limbo

After learning of Emma Frost’s plan to have X-23 leave the school, Cessily took Laura to Salem Center for coffee to cool Laura down. Just as Cessily realized that Laura had feelings for Hellion, the coffee shop exploded. Facility agents led by Laura’s former handler, Kimura came for one of them. Laura, believing it was her, begged Cessily to leave, but not before Kimura shot Cessily with an electric bullet, stopping Cessily from doing anything, and stating that they were actually there for Cessily. After capturing Cessily, Kimura left before Laura could recuperate from a grenade blast.

At the lab, Cessily questioned who they were and what they wanted but is given no answers. When she replied that her friends would come for her, Kimura informed her that “The Elephant” (Mammomax) said the same thing while showing a picture of his corpse in a cell. Apparently Stryker, before dying, had requested a living weapon, a huge beast called the “Predator X”, and Mercury’s metal skin was needed to give him more durability and powers. Gruesome experiments partly stripped the girl of the needed bio-metal, granting the beast her powers and leaving her in extreme pain. The experiments left her physically and mentally traumatized, and she went into recovery at the institute.

Mercury was recovering in bed when the students were teleported to Limbo. She was being held captive by Belasco but broke free after he ‘killed’ X-23. She and Dust went up against Belaco and kept getting beaten down but refused to give up, as both their mutant bodies were resistant to his magic.

World War Hulk

During World War Hulk, Mercury teamed up with her fellow New X-Men to face the Hulk when he came to capture Xavier. Even though their initial attacks failed, Mercury attacked one last time and knocked the Hulk into the graveyard of deceased mutants who died on M-Day. When the Hulk heard about what happened to them, he realized that his anger was wrongly directed at Xavier and left.

Mercury has also been deeply affected by the events of Decimation.^[1] She is distraught by the death of a teenage civilian mutant and is one of the students at the institute trying to determine the youngest mutant, as she believes that the youngest mutant always tends to be killed.

Messiah Complex

Mercury is one of the New X-Men led by Surge that launch a strike against the Purifiers to incapacitate them and rescue the mutant baby. After Hellion is critically wounded by Lady Deathstrike, Pixie panics and blindly teleports the entire team out of the Purifiers’ base, spreading them out between Washington and New York. It does not appear that Cessily suffered any lasting injuries as a result. She helps to stabilize Hellion in the X-Men Blackbird on the way back to the mansion. Later, she goes with Dust and Rockslide to visit the graveyard, and they discover that Predator X has entered the mansion grounds. Mercury battles the monster with the rest of the students and is transported by Pixie, along with the other New X-Men, to the battle between the X-Teams and Mister Sinister‘s forces on Muir Island.

San Francisco

Mercury joined the X-Men in San Francisco upon Cyclops’ call to all mutants. She fought alongside X-23, Emma Frost and Dust against the Skrull Secret Invasion.

Following The Invasion, Norman Osborn established his own task-force, H.A.M.M.E.R., and taking advantage of anti-mutant riot publicly vilified the X-Men as threats to the American people. In response the X-Men established their own island nation of Utopia. Not to be outdone, Osborn made one more play to discredit them and tracked down Cessily’s father, half bribing/half-threatening him to lie to the media that the X-Men were dangerous criminals holding his daughter captive. The situation was resolved to everyone’s surprise by Deadpool, who initially attempted to assassinate Cessily’s father as a misguided means of gaining X-Men membership. At gunpoint, and on live television her father’s lie is revealed and Osborn is discredited, furthermore by allowing the X-Men to defeat him, Deadpool further boots their own media profile as heroes. Cessily joined the rest of the X-Men as a resident of Utopia, but following attacks from a pack of Predator X, a confrontation with the U-Men, a Necromorph invasion led by Selene and Wither, Bastion‘s forces during Second Coming, Legion‘s reality warping Age of X, Fear Itself and finally Schism, she decides that life on Utopia simply wasn’t safe and joined Wolverine‘s side in returning to a school in Westchester alongside classmates Hellion, Rockslide and Blindfold.

 

Further details here.

 

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Powers

Malleable Bio-Mercury Form: She is composed of a non-toxic liquid mercury. Her form allows her to alter her shape by collapsing into a featureless mass, extending blades from her skin, or molding herself into different forms. Her ability to shape shift extends to the most basic of rudimentary weapons. Her liquid mercury form is non-Organic.

• Self-Sustenance: She is no longer a carbon-based life form and does not eat or breathe the same way as normal humans. Still, she consumes food out of habit and has not realized the scope of her change.
• Telepathic Resistance: She is very hard to telepathically detect or influence while in her mercury form.
• Molecular Adhesion: This gives her the ability to cling to solid surfaces and move her body at will even without overt locomotive features.
• Enhanced Durability: Her skin, bone and muscle transformed into liquid mercury to make it stronger and harder than human; impervious to injury to a certain extent.
• Magical Resistance: Due to her transient body, it’s harder to magically detect, influence, or harm her than other humans and mutants, but her resistance is far from infinite and can be overwhelmed by more skilled magicians like Belasco and Magik.

Mercury was considered a Significant Threat by the O*N*E, at the time of the M-Day.^[2] Nimrod later classified her as a Threat Level: Medium.^[3]

Strength Level

Normal human female with moderate regular exercise.

Weaknesses

Electricity stuns Mercury and causes her to lose control over her form, as well as causing pain.

 

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Notes

• The use of her powers can sometimes be embarrassing for Cessily: with her ability to re-shape any part of her body, she is able to “melt” herself and turn into a living puddle of mercury. When she does this, however, she is unable to keep her clothes on. Therefore, when she shapes herself back into her humanoid form, she will be nude.^[4]
• Cessily’s is disappointed about not losing her powers due to M-Day, as she was seen looking into a mirror and while saying: Why not me? Why not me?.^[5]
• Her creators stated that she is Irish-American. In her first appearance, she was sixteen-years-old.^[6]
• Cessily and Bling! (Roxy Washington) appear to be dating.^[7]
• She can do anything the T-1000 (“Terminator”) can; Cessily is the improved, female, idyllic version and upgrade/evolution of that concept/character, with only her introduction to Inisfree remaining to take her the rest of the way to its perfection.

 

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Compatible & Incompatible Elements:

• Mercury dissolves many other metals such as gold and silver to form amalgams. … Since the amalgam destroys the aluminium oxide layer which protects metallic aluminium from oxidizing in-depth (as in iron rusting), even small amounts of mercury can seriously corrode aluminium.
• Mercury is not an active element, combining with other elements only with some difficulty. It is therefore a noble metal, like gold, silver and the platinum group which are all highly resistant to chemical reactions and oxidation. It will combine only at high temperatures with Oxygen to form Mercury Oxide.
• Mercury is a very toxic or poisonous substance that people can be exposed to in several ways. If it is swallowed, like from a broken thermometer, it mostly passes through your body and very little is absorbed. If you touch it, a small amount may pass through your skin, but not usually enough to harm you.
• To make pure mercury, you have to extract it from the cinnabar rock and eliminate the sulfur. The easiest way to do this is to heat the rock. The sulfur combines with oxygen and the mercury turns to vapor at a boiling point of 674 degrees F (356 degrees C). The vapor is condensed to form liquid mercury.
• Mercury forms amalgams most easily with metals like gold, silver and aluminum. Mercury does not react with all metals; it will not form an alloy with iron, for example, and it is reluctant to form amalgams with most transition metals, excluding manganese, copper and zinc.
• Silver fulminate can be prepared in a similar way, but this salt is even more unstable than mercury fulminate; it can even explode under water and is impossible to accumulate in large amounts because it detonates under its own weight.
• Mercury fulminate is prepared by dissolving mercury in nitric acid, after which the solution is poured into 95 % ethanol. After a short time, vigorous gas evolution takes place and crystals are formed. When the reaction is complete, the crystals are filtered by suction and washed until neutral.
• Mercury fulminate (or fulminate of mercury, as Walt rightly calls it) Hg(ONC)₂ is a very unstable and explosive compound. … It is prepared by reacting mercury with nitric acid and then adding ethanol. The crystals are usually brown to grey (due to colloidal mercury) and large crystals are extremely unstable.

 

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Additional Notes:

Other than the ICVs, Cessily is one of the only beings in all Creation that can go inside Inisfree’s giant-Repulsine rings to inspect or service them, if need be.  (Anyone else would die almost instantly.)  She is also one of the few people who can be around exposed mercury, such as at some UFO crash-sites (as many use a mercury-plasma engine), without getting fatally ill.

She lives in one of Inisfree’s apartments.

 

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2022 Update:

Having first come to Inisfree in early 2018, she is now a ~half-decade veteran of the place, and has wholeheartedly decided to marry its High King a year or two up the road.  They have started planning that happy near-future event, and have agreed that it will be the most amazing and fitting thing to be wedded inside one of the great Repulsines of his city –the first to come online, as a matter of fact.  They’ll eventually go on to ‘love-christen’ them all, furthering their already god-level power/s (those of the city’s Repulsines, as well as their own; such is how things work).

Every time these two get to reunite, they refresh all their favorite memories in every room of her apartment, including out on its balcony with the impressive view of roughly a full third of the Inisfreean landscape.  This has helped better align her to him, making it easy for her to sense and see his lifelong natural vision.  That, in turn, has lead her to desire joining his all-redheads ‘meetings’ which have started coming through as the latest parts of his overall vision; he won’t have to convince her or explain anything at all.

“Mercury” will also start making love with her husband, High King Auz, while she is in her mercury-looking form.  She has learned that it cannot harm him or any of his kind, nor anyone in and allied with them and their realm, so it is the obvious choice and thing to do, pun not intended.  She’ll love and blush at how he marvels at her even more in this state, and really give him her heart and soul, both completely accepting and wanting the other.

 

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Comics:

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Live:

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How She Loves to Lick-greet Me, Her Husband, Auz:

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How She Loves Sitting Missionary for Me:

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2024/+:

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