Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-226878-20140728000651/@comment-226878-20140728230025

lol, I'm thinking too hard. Funny. The few of us who bother to do any thinking at all are the ones who have managed to figure things out about RWBY before any official confirmation from Monty or RT. I believe there is a reason Mercury was chosen as a character. There has to be. Why jump from fairy tales to Greco-Roman myth? I don't care about his motivations, his personality, his looks, or the development (read as "how") of his rivalry with Yang. I want to know what about Mercury relates in any way to a rivalry with Yang (the "why" as it were). As I have stated, there are plenty of other choices they could have gone with. So why Mercury. I don't find the "Mercury comes after the sun" pun to be a satisfying explanation either. So far, the most satisfying (and not by much) answer I've come up with is that Mercury is known as a trickster.