Dive into the world of Mercedes’s characters! These are the characters that God has spoken to Mercedes over the past couple years. Visit https://www.mercedesshepherd.tumblr.com for plenty of more characters!
Year of Creation: 2011
Appears in: Cherry Christmas (age: 8)
Milo and the Green Light (age: 11)
Cherry is super compassionate and always thinks of others before herself. She is the creator of the Cherry Ornament, which she sells to raise money for a faraway homeless shelter.
Year of Creation: 2012
Age: 16
Appears in: AVERIE: Beyond Dead Field
AVERIE: Before Raging Rulers
AVERIE: Being of Bravery
Averie is a super thinker and always chooses to be brave in a slave world. Being quite daring and brave, she isn’t afraid to go against the crowd and she knows what she’s capable of.
Year of Creation: 2016
Appears in: Hairy Halloween (age: 55)
Hairy's Story (age: 0-55)
Hairy Carnival (age: 55+)
Hairy (Harold Binkle) is a super inventor of many hair products (and sometimes robots) that can make your hair grow super long very fast, or even make your hair edible like candy! He is a quite strange, goofy and eccentric character.
Year of Creation: 2011
Age: 70+
Appears in: The Friendly Man, the Bitter Woman and their Wicked Children
The Friendly Man (Benjamin Rabbles) is a struggling scientist who always chooses to see the good side of everything and remains grateful in every situation. He is the opposite of The Bitter Woman. He also created what is known as "Dance Cube" (or "Simulation Cube")
Year of Creation: 2016
Age: 70+
Appears in: The Friendly Man, the Bitter Woman and their Wicked Children
The Bitter Woman (Yuna Rabbles) sees the bad in every situation and tends to be filled with anger, worry, sadness and fear. She is the opposite of The Friendly Man.
Year of Creation: 2012
Age: 27
Appears in: AVERIE: Beyond Dead Field
AVERIE: Before Raging Rulers
Face it with Fabian
Fabian is your everyday thinker who is capable of thinking more, but out of fear of judgement, chooses to remain seemingly thoughtless. He is usually nervous, fearful and caught between whether to follow the crowd or not.
Year of Creation: 2015
Age: 12
Appears in: The Coconut Candy Creature
Tomas and his misfit group of friends are constantly up to no good. Though Tomas tries to stay out of their antics, he usually ends up becoming the centre of it—for example, he’s the one that ended up dressing up as the Coconut Candy Creature! (Which is actually made of an illegal substance!)
Year of Creation: 2016
Age: 10
Appears in: Hairy Halloween
Muffy is a daughter of The Friendly Man and The Bitter Woman who suffers from the disaster hair experiment The Friendly Man once created by accident.
Year of Creation: 2015
Age: 10
Appears in: The Last Oum (Who Ruled the World and Stuff)
Pim is a naïve and gullible young Oum who is easily fooled by his world and society’s standards. Compared to Averie, or Fabian, for example, he has no thoughts at all.
Year of Creation: 2016
Appears in: Hairy Halloween (age: 40)
Hairy's Story (age: 0-40)
Hairy Carnival (age: 40+)
Icky Poo Poo is an incredible robot dog who was created by Hairy Binkle for a science project in high school. Icky is Hairy’s best friend. Just like Hairy, he is pretty wild, eccentric and quirky—but without a human voice, of course.
Year of Creation: 2015
Age: Unknown (really old though)
Appears in: The Last Oum (Who Ruled the World and Stuff)
King Garth is a really old king and the last Oum ruler that ever existed. After Jums took over the Um World, King Garth was painted gold and then later thrown off his throne to live in the wild. As the years go by, more and more of King Garth’s gold paint continues to fade away.
Year of Creation: 2015
Age: 50+
Appears in: The Coconut Candy Creature
Hairy Carnival
Mr. Diddledoop (Andy Diddledoop) is the co-owner of The Carnival! Prior to running The Carnival, he was a dancer. Though he no longer dances, Mr. Diddledoop still carries around his dancing cane, typically just to poke people or gesture at stuff.
Year of Creation: 2011
Appears in: Cherry Christmas (age: 3)
Milo and the Green Light (age: 6)
Milo is a super smart and observant young boy who constantly feels like there’s something out there protecting him. He compares this feeling to the green light of a traffic, and then later understands it as God.
Year of Creation: 2010
Age: 13
Appears in: Quetzal
Clay is a super creative and misunderstood pottery artist who cannot sell his work because it is seemingly useless. Nevertheless, Clay continues to do pottery and doesn’t let what anyone says stop him.
Year of Creation: 2010
Age: 13
Appears in: Quetzal
Piper is an incredible musician who fears letting others know of her musical talent. She is secretly a part of her school’s band and wishes she could play music openly.