Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-26882656-20160121174452

How did Mercury get his prosthetics?

Some people think his legs got damaged so badly during the fight with his dad that he had to have them amputated. But if his legs were damaged to that extent, how was he able to stand when Cinder showed up? And he managed to find bandages to to bandage himself up between the time he defeated his father and Cinder and Emerald, who were watching him, showed up? And the only place where he got hurt is the thigh?

Another theory is that his father did it. Maybe Mercury got hurt (maybe a mission went bad or maybe by Marcus himself when he was drunk) so badly he needed new legs. And during the procedure Mercury was in agony and he snapped at Marcus for everything he did to him and that's how the fight happened.

In the flashback picture only his thighs are bloody which makes me think of the place where his prosthetic legs connect. Like he bled after the operation. If his legs got hurt during the fight wouldn't it be more random, not just two symmetrical places.