Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.136.247.156-20151027043341/@comment-26018514-20151028173146

Phantomlink959 wrote: Mercury is definitely NOT a sociopath. Sociopaths are unable to form meaningfull connections and honestly don't ccare about anything other than themselves (although most of them are super good at faking it) It;s the minor detals that can be used to tell.

The biggest thing is, he does legitimately seem to care for Em in some way, seemingly in a best friend sense based on their banter, which is something a sociopath is quite simply incapable of.

Second is that sociopaths... Not so good at the following orders thing, and Mercury has thus far been a follower, he is not manipulative enough. Sociopaths exist on a scale, most Sociopaths can easily follow orders, they are intelligent and can understand how things are done, you just cannot expect them to adhere to social concepts like loyalty, or empathy.

He has shown no love for Emerald at all, banter is banter, the only thing going for him in that regard is that he hasn't killed her, and she is quite useful, so it would make no sense for him to do so.

Mercury has no problem killing someone and shows no remorse or empathy about straight up murdering someone, and he also shows little to no actual loyalty to Cinder(as opposed to Emerald) other than acknowledging she gave him a job, and he completed it