Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-86.143.10.83-20160207173711/@comment-25266931-20160209212609

BenRG wrote: I am in favour of Cinder withdrawing, espeically if Ozpin (and maybe Ruby) prove to be too tough to handle easily.

She has the Fall Maiden's powers and Vale is a ruin that will take generations to restore, if it can. The Atlesian military has been humbled and the whole world has been shown how helpless governments, Huntsmen and the military are to protect them. So, arguably, it's 'mission complete' for her and it's time to move on to the next phase of her plans... or, more specifically, the plans of her as-yet-unnamed mistress.

Volume 4 may be entirely the characters recovering from what happened and trying to prepare a counter-move. Cinder and her allies (possibly including Neo, who has sworn vengeance on Ruby for Roman's death) are more background presences, rarely if ever seen but a shadow hanging over the world. I'm with you accept for the backburnering Cinder and rest of the villains. It'd be a weak season to just have everyone training to get better to beat them and only fighting Grimm. I say everyone needs to move over into the world gather intel and diversify their skill repitorie.

@Harold of Meridian:

I don't want her to win, but one episode isn't enough time to beat her AND Adam AND a giant dragon AND Emerald & Merc.

@Wiki Contributor:

I agree. I grew to like Torch's sarcastic boardway style comedy. Plus I want him killed on screen by a true hero, not some random Grimm. That said: Most people say that he and even Adam are redundant now that his Maiden power is in play.