Name: Merlot
Age: 17
Species: Hyena
Gender/Pronouns: She/Her
Sexuality: Asexual (All she wants is food.)
Job: “Mechanic” in Team Meta
Bio: While Merlot is technically her team’s mechanic, she’s not actually all that great at what she does. For the most part, all she can do is make broken down vehicles run again, and that’s about it. Her job is to keep their recon-vehicle up and running while they do their missions and to figure out what tech is even worth taking back to the Doctor once they find it. She’s easily distracted, has a high temper, and for the most part just wishes she could eat everything in sight.

Merlot was 7 years old when the infection burst forth into their world and caused the great calamity that affected every way they functioned as a society. Dr. Lazarus released a plague upon the world that not only was highly contagious, but brought forth legions of the undead. Dr. Eggman and the Sonic crew were actually forced to call a truce in order to work together to try and find a cure for the world’s zombification. Merlot was quickly separated from her family when the infection hit their town, and would have been lost had it not been for her childhood friend, Mint. Though he was only a year older than she was, he managed to usher her to safety before they stowed away with one of Eggman’s robots.
Team Meta is more often than not referred to as “Team Mediocre” by the other teams due to their inability to function as the others do. For the most part, Team Meta is one of the youngest teams with the least amount of tactical or technical skills. For this reason, they have been tasked primarily with search and recovery missions to bring back old bits of Eggman’s technology from his previous battles with Sonic. They are also in charge of reconnaissance in certain areas to make sure there aren’t any infected before other groups set up camps or bases there.