Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161228230634/@comment-25936766-20170107125413

Arkantos95 wrote: But then why is Cinder alive? The Dragon has the excuse of being the biggest and therefore oldest and most powerful Grimm we've ever seen, but Cinder was a relative novice with her Maiden powers. Why didn't it just straight-up kill her

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The reason I don't think it affects the Maidens is because we've only been told of its effects on the Grimm I've mentioned it twice already and will now do the same: There are 2 possibilities with the SE:

1) It affects humans, but is super effective against Grimm. This means it affected Cinder regardless of Beetlejuice. The latter may just have made it Super Effective.

2) It only affects Grimm. Cinder herself was inmune, but Beetlejuice was not, and due to their connection, when the latter got damaged, the former did as well.

At the same time, remember Cinder has Aura, the Dragon does not. And "being a novice" with those powers, both goes against what we see in the show, and doesn't change anything. Overall, it's believable that Cinder wasn't straight-up petrified.

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We've only been told of it's effect on Grimm, because Qrow described the legends, which only told stories of SEWs fighting Grimm. They were like heroes, paragons. Obviously, none of those stories would be of said Heroes and Paragons using their powers to hurt other people.

How many times have you seen a Superman story where he attacks innocent people? The only time as far as I can remember, was Injustice.

It's not that the powers don't work on people. It's that the stories never show the SEWs using them on people.