Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-9595000-20160825195008

ChishioKunrin wrote: I know. I'm not trying to argue that he could turn good. I was exhausted when I suggested them throwing some kind of plot or development at us that would lead to Mercury going to the good side, but now that I'm more awake, I realize how ridiculous that was. Whether we like it or not, Emerald seems to be the only candidate that makes sense. She's working for Cinder because Cinder offered to take her off the streets and take care of and feed her. She did bad things to survive. She seemed like she might have felt bad for the people who were dying in the fall of Vale. That how I feel. It was never stated that Emerald really enjoyed what she did while working with Cinder. I mean, she could've enjoyed it, but most of the time, it was just small, isolated moments where she seemed to enjoy the misery caused by them. But on a large scale, like with the attack on Beacon, it might have triggered something in Emerald, made her see how devistating her actions were. Maybe she feels guilt, since her illusions are what set these actions into motion.

She never wanted to cause this much chaos. She was just trying to do what she did before she joined Cinder: survive.