Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-24698450-20160728132009/@comment-4010415-20160728200340

True, but I think the best situation for Cinder's plan is the one that happened. The audience wouldn't have been quite as pissed if Mercury still had Aura and it seemed like Yang was lashing out like a sore loser. They would've been like "Ugh, wow, what a sore loser! You lost, get over it! It's just a friendly tournament!"

However, what played out in the audience's point of view was:


 * Yang won.


 * Mercury had 0% Aura, which was visible on the scoreboard.


 * Yang decided to be a bitch and attack Mercury for being a loser. ("That's what you get, you little- huh?")


 * Mercury's leg was broken because he had 0 Aura, and he was left sitting on the ground scared, in pain, and confused.

That situation is a lot more infuriating and disgusting than Yang being a sore loser and lashing out.

Honestly, I think it wouldn't have mattered if Yang hadn't reduced Mercury to 0 Aura. Cinder probably would have used the Black Queen virus to make the scoreboard say that he had no Aura left.