User blog comment:Marinettedupaincheng1011/Good guys gone good/@comment-25936766-20170504232502

They might try to abandon the Villain Team, but....it's Salem. She has a castle-fort surrounded by pools that breed Grimm. They might try to leave, but whether they survive afterwards is a different question.

I say "try to leave" because while Emerald and Merc might be convinced, or decide, to ditch the bad guys for one reason or another, I don't think they will become "good guys" per se. At most some neutral third party.

Some mention Emerald's "it's almost sad" line back when Vale was getting rektd, but I don't feel that it was sympathy or pity at all. I feel it was condescence. Hell, she knew she was helping Cinder ruin Beacon and maybe Vale, and still went through with it. "Second thoughts" don't quite work that way.

And Mercury.......he feels like he's just doing things for the lulz, without a real damn, like a sociopath.