Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-172.56.38.80-20160111002916/@comment-190.218.41.34-20160111015841

There are multiple theories flying around that either the Mercury Ruby witnessed is an illusion placed on here by Emerald after Ruby noticed her in one of the Colosseum's front seats since once Ruby noticed her Emerald seems to have glared at her, almost like if she was concentrating on placing an illusion on her since the only other time Emerald has looked like she's glaring and concentrating is when she placed that hallucination on Amber.

Another theory is that the Mercury in front of Ruby is actually Mercury and he was laying low by using staff-only hallways and stuff and that once Ruby and Emerald saw each other, she contacted him to interfere before Ruby finds something out, or that he chose to reveal himself willingly and the reason he was there in the first place is because Cinder is about to start another phase of her plan in which she needed him in there for some reason or another.

And then of course there's the several Mercury-haters who swear he's just an idiot and was there because he is, well, an idiot. Though this os highly unlikely since Mercury has shown he is rather smart a couple of times before, and quite frankly it's quite stupid to believe he was there just because of the lolz.

Personally, considering that not even Mercury is dumb enough to disobey Cinder who clearly wants nothing but total obedience from him and Emerald, I believe that unless there is a clear motive established for him to be there, I believe the Mercury before Ruby is an illusion created by Emerald so she can sneak behind Ruby and take her out like she did with Coco; a swift strike from her sickles right to Ruby's face.