Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.167.112.74-20170228120401/@comment-25936766-20170412170629

Darkest =/= "Suffered the most", you know. And the "references" in that song (the only one that says anything at all about M&E) don't say much.

-(I'm the One) "...Born in a nightmare, a murderer's son", (Got no gun) "But I gleam like a blade and I'm harder than Iron".

"Born in a nightmare", can mean many things, personally I think it implies a bad childhood with terrible conditions, but that doesn't mean Marcus was abusive per se.

- (I'm the one) "That was ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun", (Overrun) "By the hate and the beatings defiled by a father".

Here's where semantics make things difficult. The first sentence leaves too much to the imagination, unless he's supposed to be a mole faunus. The second sentence would imply that he was beaten up by his father, but the lack of a coma means his father defiled those beatings.

It's the one closest to implying he was abusive, though it's all from Merc's perspective and thus it's subjective. And I will assume they don't mean "Defile as in rape", but "Defile as in ruin the appearance and purity of something".

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@Terminus: Cool, because Adam became like that due to the Faunus hate and Blake ditching him. Mercury did not end up like Adam at all beyond having no qualms about killing people.