Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-27312496-20160110191202

Mercen-X wrote: Well on the one hand, Cinder did kind of tell Merc to stay behind. But why use illusions on Ruby? Does it make any sense to mess with her head outside the context of the tournament? As I've been saying else, there has to be some kind limit to Emerald's semblance other than the number of minds she can effect. Like she has to be able to see her target for it to work, as well as the distance playing a factor. For her to effect Ruby whose out of sight and on the other side of the arena would be some feat.

It is likely that is Mercury. Looking back on it, he was only told to stay low, he wasn't told not be involved in the plan. He appears to be in an area where most people aren't allowed. So he may have been there for a reason but got a heads up about Ruby and intercepted her.