Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.136.247.156-20151027043341/@comment-27124136-20151030170256

73.Anon.52 wrote:

Urano23 wrote: Emerald went there to kill Tukson, not to pickpocket him. I could agree with that if she had made a comment to Mercury saying that he overdid it and that they didn't need to kill Tukson, but she didn't. She looked perfectly calm and happy with having her job done. but she went there to kill him because he was a loose end... Mercury only went there to kill... he didn't care in particular that he had to, he just used the excuse, neither was ordered to do so but Emerald went to impress Cinder because of her relationship with Cinder, and that she knew Cinder wanted him dead, but Mercury didn't care why, only that killing him was something to do. You can't expressly prove that. We never get Mercury's perspective on it. Only Emerald's. Like he didn't say "Yeah I only tagged along cause I could." Emerald took the lead and expressed the reason they did it, you can definitively attribute that to emerald, but you can't definitively not attribute it to Mercury as well, cause there's nothing in any scene that suggests he wasn't doing it because he assumed that's what Cinder wanted.