Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-226878-20140618162515/@comment-1173941-20140622111226

Yeah, I hadn't realized Mercury is based on Hermes until I read Mercen's post. (Mercury is just the Roman(!) equivilant of Hermes anyways.) "Mercury" in the myths has a set of shoes that let him fly. So ChisioKunrin is probably most right with his guess.

Emerald does have a sort of Egyptian thing going for her, which is curious. Both their names trace their origins back to latin, but that's probably just a coincidence. If there IS a "God" theme between Mercury and Emerald, it'll probably become clear later on.

Roman and Cinder is already confirmed to be based on other stuff, but that doesn't mean there can't be plenty of references and connections with mythologies.