Thank you Mercedes

So this whole time I feel as if the stories we've read have portrayed women as weak, pathetic or dependent. While Ofelia's mom is somewhat so, I was glad to see Mercedes step up to the Capitan.

I was very impressed with her bravery to sneak things to the enemy right the captain's nose. She defied the very man she worked under. Then when the captain threatens her to tell him everything by torturing her, she attacks him. ( I wonder how he lived and was able to continue moving around and all, he was a beast! haha) But even after that, when she tells the captain that his child would know nothing of his father, I smiled. She's tough, she was not putting up with his crap anymore.

So thank you Mercedes for finally going against this pathetic, weak, docile, stereotypical female archetype.