Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.59.184-20140809221526/@comment-26397825-20151109021518

I would like to point out that Cinder has been stated as being "Not much older than the girls", which means she is not significantly older like you said. Plus, she has changed her outfit, so RWBY and Glynda haven't seen her again in her red dress. Instead, they've seen her in the black Mistral uniform, and Cinder's tan-vest-bandages-jeans outfit. Think about it. Dark night, you're in a fight, all you see is a girl with black hair wearing a red dress helping a criminal, and her features a re covered by shadows.

By your logic, they should be going up to every girl with black hair who wears red and saying "You're a criminal!" They'd still miss Cinder, simply because she's not wearing red anymore, and instead would look like complete and utter idiots.