The real butterfly nebula looks like this lol

... where 'quick' is in the historical sense of "not dead/living", so "living silver".

We only adopted the name 'mercury' because of an alchemical association of each planet with a metal: quicksilver, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin.

Quicksilver was "Mercury's metal" (well: "Mercurius")

Haha mas sei icon já tá de chapeuzinho

(traz as mágoas todas para superfície do copo)