Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180112214926/@comment-34347119-20180115203543

2001:8A0:D239:EE01:6D73:583A:7B93:A2E wrote: Tinkerloki wrote: My point of saying Ruby could end up being the next Fall Maiden is a bit far fetched I do admit. But when you think about it Salem wants her for whatever reason possibly dealing with her eyes being silver. Would she even suspect Ruby of being the Fall Maiden in the first place if it were to happen?

Also, I feel that in relation to the maidens Salem is one of the originals and that perhaps she somehow managed to keep her Maiden abilities all of these years. But also she possibly thinks the Maiden powers together is the only way to kill Ozpin permanently too. Also possibly if she is an original maiden maybe she didn't want to be one in the end and wished revenge on him in that way.

Also has anyone ever thought that Salem just is the original creator of the Grimm and was there when Ozpin created the first maidens and wants him gone because she saw how much power he had. She found him as a threat that needed to be removed. Ruby being the last one on Cinder's thoughts is pretty believable. It wouldn't, however, make for good storytelling, though. Ruby is pretty OP already. I mean she's not since SEW only affect Grimm and she doesn't even have control of when she uses them, but I am guessing that the last part will change. And of, course, Salem would think of Ruby (isn't that the immediate option if Em doesn't gain the powers?). She knew how much Cinder wanted revenge.

As far as we know only until very recently, the Maiden's powers stop being passed via Maiden's death. So much so, Ozpin didn't even know it would work on Amber-Pyrrha. It makes no sense Salem is an original Maiden because that doesn't explain her being alive for centuries and there would be no reason for her to lose them. Not to mention, she would already have 1 relic. Well, it didn't pass to anyone because she was still technically alive and put in the chamber. so it would've been passed to Cinder if she had died right then and there after being attacked but Qrow intervened. So we don't know that it recently stopped passing to someone willingly upon her death.

But I actually thought of something in dealing with Ozpin and Salem. There was a story mentioned somewhere about 2 brothers one ended up being evil and the other good. I can't remember how the story went exactly. What if it wasn't 2 brothers but a brother and sister. What if Ozpin and Salem are the two from the story and that's why she's been around for so long and that is also why Ozpin is as he puts it cursed with the reincarnation. Because the story of the maidens had a good deal of truth to it seeing as it turned out that he was the one to create the original 4 maidens.