Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-49.145.55.183-20160105105522/@comment-190.218.41.34-20160105192719

That is however assuming that Mercury did indeed amputate his legs by himself. There are multiple theories regarding at what time did he actually get his prosthetics. If we do assume that Marcus was the one to cut off Mercury's legs without or against his will, then Mercury would indeed count as an amputee since he was the victim of his father's abuse. And being both an alcoholic and an assassin that was purposefully seeked by Cinder to recruit does speak volumes of how much of an upstanding citizen Marcus Black was NOT. I personally believe that eigher Mercury cut off and replaced his legs with mechanical ones to kill off Marcus and run from home (as evidenced by the house burning in the background) in which case Mercury wouldn't really count as an amputee since he did that willingly. OR Marcus amputated his son's legs without Mercury's consent and replaced them with the prosthetics, in which case he would be a victim of abuse and a more 'acceptable' disabled character... Or, well, at least that's what I think.

All in all though, I think the FNDM is just throwing shade at one of the show's most dark and tragic character because he's male and everyone and their mothers wants their Yuri ships to become true and sail because they're thirsty AF for LGBTQIA+ characters, hell some are even completely overlooking the show's growth as a series and plot for ships! Back when Neopolitan was about to kill Yang witha sadistic smile on her face it was apparently shipping fuel, a hatelove kind of ship for the FNDM but when it is a male who fucks Yang up it leads to unnecessary hate just because Yang fans be Yangry. I honestly expect the FNDM to keep sending hate to RT just because the show in Canon occasionally shoots down headcanons once in a while.