Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-14909251-20180307071921

73.Anon.52 wrote: You mean just like Tukson, or Vernal, Sienna, or Leo? or Ozpin?(admittedly he still has a chance) Roman is probably the most developed dead character and he still got not much better than Cinders. Are you seriously being for real right now? Literally only one of those characters has been in more than one Volume (disregarding Leo's very brief cameo) and only two were of any real significance in the current Volume. Also, we know like, a whole damn lot about Ozpin. Far more than we know about Cinder and the nature of Ozpin's situation means we have every reason to expect more information about him even if he sort of goes away at some point.

Suggesting that a couple of characters that appeared in just one episode are equivalent to someone who was the first major villain introduced is just ludicrous. Hell, even with Sienna popping in for like five minutes before being unceremoniously killed off we probably learned more about her and her motivations in that time and all the buildup to her introduction than we have learned about Cinder. What we know about Cinder is just the bits of her personality that were shown on screen and this vague notion of her wanting power.

Hazel was introduced just last Volume and we already know more about his background than Cinder's. No amount of arrogant posturing is going to change that killing Cinder off at this point when they have a great way to keep her alive without it being an "ass-pull" as some are foolishly suggesting, would just be bad writing. The idea of rehashing the parasitic/symbiotic Grimm relationship with another villain would be a much worse move as it becomes a lot less novel and interesting.

Truth is, every last character they have killed off made sense at the time. Either the character had served their very brief purpose and there was no where else to go with them or it drove an important part of the story forward. Getting rid of Cinder serves no purpose and doesn't really advance the story.