User blog comment:KingFubuki92/RWBY Villains: Are they "Good" or "Bad"?/@comment-26018514-20171123063828

The thing with not agreeing about Merc having a "redemption", is because a redemption requires he actually joins the protagonists cause, but he won't, he'll merely work for them to serve his own cause(money). That makes him a worse candidate for full redemption, even if he does help the heroes, than Emerald, whose cause appears to be love and gratitude to Cinder, which shows she can empathize, and only ties her to Cinder and maybe Merc.