Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.70.92.41-20151228204640/@comment-4010415-20160225035250

Plasmarift wrote: ChishioKunrin , y ou wrote "Gee, which do you think would piss people off more?

I don't know how many times I have to say this (I've felt like I've written it a thousand times and then commenters say that I'm claiming the exact opposite).
 * Yang loses and hits Mercury in the leg and walks away, but Mercury is perfectly fine.
 * Yang wins and hits Mercury in the leg, "BREAKING" HIS LEG, causing him to scream out in pain and collapse onto the floor."

In either case, if Yang LOST or Yang WON, Emerald still could have tricked Yang into attacking Mercury and seriously INJURYING HIS LEG. The outcome of the fight does not seem to matter at all when you put it in that perspective. This is my main argument as it could explain why Mercury turned his back if he knew, remembered, or cared for that matter, that the buzzer needed to go off. If this was the case, he wouldn't care if he let his guard down for a second.

You also wrote " Then, as he turns to face Yang,  he's smiling ."

 I've watched the clip. He wasn't smiling when he turned around. All I saw was a look of surprise in his eyes just before Yang attacked.

1. Here's the thing... In order for Yang to injure Mercury, he has to have 0% Aura. But he can't win and have 0% Aura. Get it? Aura shields people from injury. They get injured when there is no Aura protecting them. The only way for him to win is to not get below 15% Aura, so he couldn't win and have peopel think he was injured.

2. I provided you with a screenshot of Mercury smiling as he's turning to face Yang. The look on his face before he turns around to face her still gives me the impression of him thinking "Show time" or "Here we go". There's a bit of smugness to it, rather than surprise. He's not surprised, at all, that she got up. He doesn't show surprise until he turns around and sees her coming toward him, even though he knew there's nothing else that explosion could've possibly been.