Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151213004227

Kecske wrote: I don't think Mercury got his knee broken tbh. I never broke a bone, but I'm fairly certain if someone shotgun blasted your knee's side from point blank without 0 protection, causing them to break, you wouldn't be like "Ah! My leg!" You'd be like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YOU FUCK" ( assuming you didn't pass out )

Also I'm not sure if Mercury deliberately put her down to 16 aura, just a point above "death", since they know her semblance is basically an enrage effect (And Mercury had to lose for the plan to be successful), and the expression he has when yang "explodes" is kinda like "Ugh. Lets get this over with." ( and he didnt go over to yang to be sure he won. Even after that rain of death, if he REALLY wanted to win, he would've. )

P.S.: As much of a psycho Mercury seems to be, I felt so sad when he asked why she attacked him. That VA is really good. It was only point blank in the illusion. If you watch the playback on the giant TV screen, she didn't actually shoot him point blank in reality.

Secondly, he screamed when she shot him and instantly fell to the ground and curled up in the fetal position.

I'm having a hard time thinking of any other reason they would put the sound of something breaking for when she shoots him in the knee if it didn't break.