Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151116021418/@comment-10390252-20160209113851

The theory that 'She' is Raven or Summer is nice and tidy but it rings false on several levels unless the true identity of the Black King is known only to a handful like Cinder and that our heroes are unaware of the scorpion in their midst.

My current favorite option is the newly-emerged theory that 'She' is Cinder's mother and Ozpin's divorced wife. Bitter in a way that most scorned women couldn't even conceived, she raised Ozpin's infant daughter to be an Anti-Huntress who would do whatever it took to destroy the world Ozpin has spent his entire life trying to protect, selecting that duty even over her.

This would create an interesting kink in Cinder's motivation. It is unlikely that she has thought about the consequences if she destroys the four Kingdoms and all thst structures that have protected human civilisation. That simply doesn't matter. She has been programmed since her earliest childhood to care only about this end and not care at all about anyone and anything else. One wonders how she'll react if she suddenly realises that even her own survival hadn't been a part of her mother's agenda.

Here's the real twist: "She" is dead but she so effectively indoctrinated Cinder that she's still carrying out her agenda, now of her own free will.