Like, I've never been a huuuuuge fan of Evil!Mercy AU's because mostly they seemed either like... made by people who were determined to hate her to begin with or made by people who just have the very willfully ignorant and boring assumption that "Good is boring." I'm not saying it couldn't be done in the hands of a writer who really knew what they were doing, but for the most part it was being done by people who just kind of put me off of the concept altogether because for me, a major interesting point of Mercy's character is the burnout of trying to put good out into the world and repeatedly being screwed over by it, and Mercy turning evil just seemed like a gross, obvious, and oversimplified approach to that.
That being said, I think what this new battlepass season has revealed to me, is the other secret reason why I don't like Evil!Mercy AU's: Listening to Lucie Pohl try and sound genuinely evil as Mercy makes me cringe.
Like it's one thing if she's being silly and theatrical about it in Mercy's Witch and Devil skins but "ooogh I'm so scary" just... really doesn't land with the Mercy voice for me.
"There is a whole galaxy out there. Full of people who will reach for you. You have to let them. Find that person who seems farthest from you, and reach for them. Reach for them. Let them guide you."