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Princess Mercury is the studious type, often the one who bugged Princess Serenity the most about her studies. She lives for intelligence and learning new things, often enjoying her studies rather than being bored. She takes most things seriously, and is the epitome of a princess through her etiquette, poise, and speech. However, she still has her own quirks. She loves to read, and thus has been caught more than once with a book in her lap during political talks. She also deeply enjoys to play the harp, and has given concerts inside Mariner Castle on more than one occasion. She does like to laugh and play; it just takes a good while for someone to break past her 'princess' self and access the girl beneath. Mercury has great pride for her planet; they are the most intelligent in the system, and she is well aware of it. However, her ego and boasting comes from the insecurities she holds about not only herself and her abilities, but of the newly-forming Golden Alliance as well. Along with that comes a personality that is determined to see things through. Once she starts something, she will finish it, no matter the cost.

Mercury has a great amount of intellect and smarts. She is the smartest of all the senshi, and isn't afraid to say so. She loves to think outside the box and challenge established things. The more challenging, the better. Mercury is also a fan of music, and is very skilled at playing the harp.

Mercury's ego and pride are rather debilitating. She is smarter than almost everyone around her, is aware of it, and has no problem almost boasting about it (in a polite way, naturally). Her insecurities in herself and the Moon Kingdom can also lead to negative thoughts sometimes. She tends to be suspicious of people she doesn't fully know, making her seem paranoid, but she's really just careful. She can have a temper, and has a tendency to be blunt when it comes to idiotic people. Her brashness may make her seem cold, if not cruel, and it doesn't help that she doesn't seem to care what others think of her.

Mercury shares a bit with her canon counterpart (her good self, not her evil alternate). Namely, the strong desire to be accepted, and the ability to lighten up once around people she truly trusts. Both her and her canon self can also be quite analytical, always thinking first before doing anything. This trait is both beneficial and harmful at the same time. Both also can and do stiffen when in an uncomfortable or awkward situations, covering up their nerves with an inordinate amount of politeness. Mercury is perhaps more conscious of her manners and decorum than Ami, solely for the fact she is representing not just herself, but her planet; and yet, that is a mirror of how Ami attempts to please her mother in canon.

As for how they differ, Mercury is a bit colder than her reborn self. As said before, she can be brutally honest till she's almost cruel, should the situation warrant it. She also has a bit more grit than Ami; the decision to stab Serenity to destroy the Ginzuishou, though it wasn't come to lightly, is probably something Ami could never do (at least, not in her 'good' mode; Dark Mercury is a whole other story).

When she first heard of the Ginzuishou's supposed abilities, she took her time, taking weeks to get all the information she could before deciding what to do. Mercury doesn't make large decisions lightly, and always makes sure she knows all the details before acting. To her, free will and free thinking are very important, so once mind control began to pop up, she knew something had to be done - not for herself, but for the sake of her friends, as well as everyone else under the rule of the Moon Kingdom. They were the ones who she was most concerned with, more than her own safety, and she made it clear when she approached the others for help that she would not force them if they were not one hundred percent behind her. The coup she planned was meant to be her last resort, and was originally intended to be as bloodless as possible. In any plan she makes, violence is used as a worst-case scenario. It may have worked, Mercury being the natural negotiator she is, had the Dark Kingdom not reared its ugly head.