Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.167.112.74-20170228120401/@comment-4010415-20170412171606

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

- (I'm the one) "That was ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun", (Overrun) "By the hate and the beatings defiled by a father".

Here's where semantics make things difficult. The first sentence leaves too much to the imagination, unless he's supposed to be a mole faunus. The second sentence would imply that he was beaten up by his father, but the lack of a coma means his father defiled those beatings.

It's the one closest to implying he was abusive, though it's all from Merc's perspective and thus it's subjective (as in, "Marcus didn't really hate and beat him up as much/often as Merc implied). Just because you believe your parent is abusive it doesn't mean they actually are abusive, at least when thinking straight. And even a nice parent can be hated by their children, and hate twists perception.

And I will assume they don't mean "Defile as in rape", but "Defile as in ruin the appearance and purity of something". We all know Jeff Williams' grammar isn't great, to be fair. It could be that he intended for a comma to be there but didn't realize he should put a comma there to get his intended meaning across.

"Defile as in ruin the appearance and purity of something" can come across as meaning that Marcus is the reason Mercury has prosthetic legs - he ruined Mercury's legs in some manner.