History Characters / MercyHillsPack

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Played straight within Mercy Hills pack, inverted among any other pack. Within Mercy Hills, he's considered a worthy successor in a line of visionary and progressive Alphas. The other packs think he's eccentric and self-centered at best, manipulative and greedy at worst.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Abel had to go through a number of challenge fights to become Alpha, including one by the shifter doctor, Sebastian, who would later challenge him again over Bax.

Youngest brother to Abel and Quin, and a tax lawyer-in-training.

Bax's: Fan, Teca, Beatrice, Noah, Taden.

* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Mercy Hills ''is'' richer than the rest, and Abel wants prosperity for all his people.

* MoneyIsNotPower: Averted. The shifters know well that money ''is'' power, as most packs are hauntingly poor and even Mercy Hills falls well below the poverty line by human standards. Abel uses this to smooth a few wounded egos, and stab a few others, by providing a show of ''relative'' economic power with an open bar at his and Bax's mating ceremony.

* TheManBehindTheMan: A heroic example. Bax mentions that he "sometimes" helped his deceased mate Patrick with paperwork, as if his experience and insight —and Patrick's negligence to do the slightest bit of paperwork even to ensure a future for his heir— didn't make it abundantly clear that he had been doing all the actual work of running Jackson-Jellystone.

* BadassBureaucrat: Bax can gracefully navigate around the most arcane and explicitly bigoted systems, without stirring the slightest backlash, and leaving all parties placated at the end.

Holland's younger brother.

* BlameTheParamour: It isn't explained how the affair started, but Mitchel holds the power of life and death over omegas like Usher. Though Usher tries to find love and care in the relationship, it isn't something he ever really had the power to refuse, and Mitchel still has the nerve to blame the young omega for his despair and suicide.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Although he isn't reckless, Cas certainly prefers taking life easy as opposed to Abel's and Quinn's heroic drive.

* PastimesProvePersonality: He's a skilled carpenter, very indicative of his slow, deliberate, and attentive personality.

* SmugSuper: And, unfortunately, he's justified in thinking that way. Few packs have any medical practitioners at all, let alone a fully trained doctor.

Uncle to Bax, Holland and Usher, Alpha of the Buffalo Gap pack. He's a stern, traditional man. He does care for his nephews in his way, but also holds conservative views about how omegas should behave and blames them any time they experience hardship.

* BigDamnHero: All the main love interests have a strong streak of this, but it's specifically a character-defining trait for Abel.

The only omega born in Mercy Hills in several decades, Bram has both benefited and struggled with the pack's uncertainty about what to do with him. On the one hand, having no omegas around made Mercy Hills lose a lot of the prejudice, leaving Bram with a degree of freedom that the new omega transplants are shocked by. On the other hand, it also created an environment where the young shifter was uniquely scrutinized, leaving him itchy to break boundaries with no peers to help him navigate safely.

* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: He has the most career ambitions of the main omegas, even though it takes some doing for Duke and Abel to convince him to take the opportunities.
* DestructiveRomance: Bram plays a dangerous game flirting with alphas in a reckless attempt to make Duke jealous enough to claim him. It does indeed create a disaster when Bram misses a party due to his heat, and one of his suitors hunts him down and [[spoiler: rapes him, impregnating Bram and creating the spiritual and physical link that omegas form when they have sex during their heat]].