Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-67.171.134.135-20150521032555/@comment-70.192.14.109-20150708191621

Also, just another thought: What if Mercury's semblance is the ability to mess with other people's semblances and auras? Since Mercury (or at least Hermes, his Greek counterpart) is sorta the god of mischief and our Mercury seems to like messing with people's heads, it would make sense with his character. It would also give us an explanation as to why he wanted to know Phyrra's semblance; maybe he has to know a person's semblance before he can screw with it. That way, during the tournament, he can try the aura resealing thing on her. This could play into Cinder's plan by having other people's faith in their abilities shaken, leaving Cinder and her goons pretty much unopposed at Beacon. After all, if the great Phyrra Nikons can't win, what chance does anyone else have? Or maybe I'm completely wrong, but at least I can say I tried.