Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-10390252-20160825091400

Oddly enough, I can see a sort of pseudo-redemption (at least in the audience's eyes) for Mercury. Basically, I can see a scenario where Ruby kills Emerald in a fight (possibly after realising Emerald's role in Yang's downfall and Penny's death). Mercury goes berserk and tries to fight his way through the melee to get to Ruby. Cinder coldly tells him that the battle is lost; he can run with her or die with Emerald. He runs but it turns out that he always had a soft spot for Emerald and it becomes increasingly clear from his fixation on revenge on Ruby that he'd been mostly in the game for Emerald's sake (he's too cynical to adopt any cause except his own and Cinder doesn't pay that well).

It might just be me but it might change our view of Mercury if he were revealed to be a Black Knight of sorts who had been attempting to support and protect a women on whom he was crushing and who had then been reduced to near-insanity by her death. If nothing else, it might make an interesting contrast with how Jaune had moved forwards from Pyrrha's death.