Talk:Mercury Black/Behind the Scenes/@comment-62.112.11.138-20171013054406

Posted this on his bio page, but reposting here for a more appropriate section.

It's also worth noting, if the fairy tale references hold true at all, Mercury is The Girl with the Silver Hands.

Abusive parental figure, check. Tremendous evil that comes to claim them, check. Prosthetic limbs, double check. The differences in their arcs are, like which limbs they lose and the gender flip, mirror opposites; the Girl's being a victim instead of murdering her victimizer, commitment to goodness defending her from the evil (the Devil in her case) instead of leading to signing on readily with them, and her eventual happy ending. And Mercury has time for that one, or a villain comeuppance.

Could be wrong (and the Mythological Mercury/Hermes references are obvious AND confirmed, so) but it feels like an awful big coincidence otherwise.