Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-26018514-20160111074536

Grimmstride wrote:

There's a difference between an intentional shoddy job, and perfectly executing orders. He's an assassin, it isn't like he could kill Yang on the stage. So the idea of faking his loss hurts his pride doesn't come across for me. He voiced he had no problem staying under the radar, smiling while working on his leg. Nothing suggests his pride has been hurt at this point. It's not like his orders were literally, "You're done. Do nothing." It was more like, "Stay out of sight until the plan starts."

Now, I could see him wanting to kill Yang as the plan goes by to show her his real talent. But that feels more like a natural choice of self confident Mercury than, "My pride as a killer has been damaged."

But hey, that's just how I see it. My point is the loss itself probably feels like a slight, and now he is likely "stretching his legs" and attempting to take down another peg on the secondary objectives to-do list... we have already seen this behavior from Cinder's team.

Ruby likely is on the list, but I doubt Yang is presently on it... because;
 * 1. her death complicates things by throwing her matches results in doubt
 * 2. her relation to Raven is likely known by the group, given Neo's encounter they likely know... if indeed Yang wasn't targeted for the express reason of flushing Raven out in the first place, which is quite possible as if she is a maiden it explains why she won't come to the rescue again and why she left in the first place

on another note Illusions hardly make sense at this point, there would be no illusionist who would benefit from showing either of the 2 characters... or revealing illusions are a possible suspect.