Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-62.112.11.138-20171013052400

It's also worth noting, if the fairy tale references hold true at all, Mercury is The Girl with the Silver Hands.

Abusive parental figure, check. Tremendous evil that comes to claim them, check. Prosthetic limbs, double check. The only differences in their arcs are the Girl's being a victim instead of murdering her victimizer, commitment to goodness defending her from the evil (the Devil in her case), and her eventual happy ending. And Mercury has time for that one.

Mercury's prosthetics being his legs kind of meshes neaty with the gender and alignment flip too. Could be wrong (and the Mythological Mercury/Hermes references are obvious AND confirmed, so) but it feels like an awful big coincidence otherwise.