Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-114.79.60.17-20160626164308/@comment-5428260-20180606222711

StellaCartoonlover wrote: I actually had an idea for Mercury's semblance, but I dunno if it makes sense at all. I thought that maybe Mercury's semblance works like the opposite of Yang's. She grows stronger with every hit she takes. I thought maybe instead of getting stronger himself, Mercury could make his opponent weaker or something. Like short-circuiting their aura for a few seconds, giving him time to get in a few potentially fatal blows without their aura working as a defence or healing mechanism. It would also make a little sense based on the metal mercury since it's poisonous, but that might be a stretch. I was actually thinking about that. What if he can somehow make slight adjustments to someone else's aura? Like weaken them a bit?

I always kinda found it strange to see the Merc/Yang fight, where Yang comes out with exactly 16 points of aura. One less and she would've lost, a bit more and she maybe wouldn't have reacted in the same way. So how did this exact aura status come to be?

I like the idea of Merc having something to do with that.