Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.92.94.93-20171028030319/@comment-34633327-20171029213452

MajoraSolaris wrote: he made everyone think Yang was a crazy bitch To be fair, he didn't make everyone think that, Emerald just altered the way it was shown. Yang was already known to have a bad temper, and Emerald made her think Mercury was attacking her. Even so, Yang still shot him in the leg in the illusion, which would still cripple him despite being self-defense, and her saying "Thats what you get" didn't help. Even if he really did attack her, there were ways to disable Mercury without shooting him in the leg. She could have dodged then punched him. She could have just dodged. But she went straight for shooting him despite his aura being down.

I am not demonizing Yang for the record, I am merely playing devils advocate for Mercury in that all he did was walk towards Yang, and pretend his leg hurt after being shot. He was shown repairing his leg later, so the shot did do some damage. Had Mercury been attacking but had real legs, Yang would have damaged his leg severly anyway. She's lucky Mercury had Bionic Legs, otherwise, self defense or not, she would have crippled an opponent, which would disqualify RWBY anyway. What they did wasn't make the people think Yang was crazy, they used one of Yang's more negative traits to their advantage by creating a scenario where that trait would be shown at it's worst. So if you're saying they made everyone think Yang was a crazy bitch, then she was one long before the fight via that source of logic.