Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-34724302-20181202223032/@comment-4141313-20181205222151

I don't see Salem and her forces as the kind to let someone get arrested unless it was a deliberate power move. She could have easily let Lionheart turn around and get arrested, as I doubt he could have actually escaped, but he outlived his usefulness and got killed.

And he didn't sign up with Salem, he signed up with Cinder. He has very little use to them outside of potential loyalty. Only reason he and Emerald haven't been killed yet is potentially due to perceived loyalty. And we saw both his and Emerald's reactions to Salem's domain in Volume 4, and his own reaction to Salem in Volume 6. People talk of an Emerald Redemption Arc, its only fair to give Mercury one too.

Seriously, what is with the hate boner for Mercury?