Thread:SpiritedDreaming/@comment-29010798-20160712111215/@comment-4010415-20160712112313

The list they made in Volume 2 was of people they could use to manipulate how the tournament went. I assume Nora was also on the list, since Cinder specifically set up JNPR vs BRNZ in JNPR's favor by pitting them against a team that had someone who uses a cattle prod and giving them a biome that produces a lightning storm. That's why Emerald said they already knew which team was going to win and Cinder agreed. She set things up in JNPR's favor so that JNPR would win.

As for the whole idea of them specifically setting things up to kidnap Pyrrha and make Ruby think that she died... HOW?! You seem to be ignoring the fact that there was literally no way they could have known any of that would play out the way it did!


 * Cinder went to the top of Beacon Tower to meet up with the Dragon and destroy the CCT's transmitter. HOW would she know that Pyrrha would follow her up there? She didn't know.


 * The rest of the students were all evacuating Beacon and being taken to a safe zone in Vale. HOW would Cinder know that Ruby and Weiss would head to the tower to find Pyrrha? She didn't know.


 * We saw Cinder already drawing back her arrow to shoot Pyrrha before Ruby even got there, and Cinder didn't even seem to notice Ruby arrive.