Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.70.92.41-20151228204640/@comment-4010415-20160223025406

Plasmarift wrote: I don't see how it would be "much much worse" because either way, when she attacks him, it's bad behavior and that was the complaints of the people watching.

Lastly, he didn't smirk when she did her explosion. In fact, when she charged at him after activating her semblance, he looked surprised. And there are moments during the fight where he looks annoyed and ticked off, the kind of reaction you have when someone gets a hit in on you you weren't expecting. Gee, which do you think would piss people off more?


 * 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.

I'm pretty sure the second one would piss people off a hell of a lot more because in the first situation, he's perfectly fine and can move on to his next match as they go through the singles rounds, while in the second example, his leg is "broken", he's taken out of the tournament, he's in pain. That's what I mean by it being "much much worse". It's worse because she actually fucking injured him, as far as the rest of the world knows, as opposed to just harmlessly hitting him.

If she just hit him while he still had Aura and looked like a sore loser, people would get over it after a while and have mild irritation over "That girl who acted like a sore loser" because everything would just move on like normal and Mercury would be able to fight in another match! But she won and then supposedly broke his gorram leg, which made her look like a ruthless bitch who maims people for being weak losers!

As for his reaction to Yang making an explosion behind him, the impression I got was along the lines of "Here we go" or "Show time." Then, as he turns to face Yang, he's smiling. He's not surprised that she got back up, at all, nor is he annoyed. He didn't look surprised until after he turned around. When he looked surprised, that was either him being surprised at how quickly she was moving toward him or him faking surprise.

Either way, he walked away acting like he won, when THE BUZZER DID NOT GO OFF. Sorry for the bold and caps, but I'm really fucking tired of repeating that part over and over again! He damn well knew that Yang wasn't beaten, but he turned his back to her and walked away, giving her an opening, instead of finishing her off.

Mercury threw the match.

I am tired of everyone having this same exact conversation over and over in this thread, and I'm tired of having to repeat myself.