Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20171024153942/@comment-26463535-20171025044420

Welp, looks like there's a fourth option for the next Spring Maiden.

Let's be honest, how likely is it going to be that the current Spring Maiden will be a permanment character after this season? We've only seen her in the intro for this season so far and keep hearing about her importance. Within the next episodes where we're actually in the Bandit Camp, we'll actually meet her, giving us more room to judge. If she did stay around, she'd be another character that would need to be fleshed out while we're still getting to know Watts, Hazel, and Oscur/How the dual soul thing works in there. If we have one of our already established characters gain her power, then we get to explore new dimensions of them.

Our options? First, there's Cinder. As far as we know, there's nothing that says one girl can't be the maiden of two seasons at the same time. If that really is not the case, then that could be how Cinder strives for power. Her ultimate goal may be to aquire all four of the seasons into herself. If not, then there's only one other maiden among Salem's current forces that could acquire the power, Emerald. How would Emerald react to being forced to draw out a maiden's power? All she wanted was to not be hungry ever again, not power like this.

But things can happen. Now that Weiss and probably Yang are in Raven's camp, they have the potential to affect things. I know it was a cliche theory when the Maidens were first revealed that team RWBY would all become maidens. Ruby is defintiely not going to become one. Her silver eyes are powerful enough on their own and may make her unqualified for maidenship, especaily if her powers really affected Cinder like that. However, if any of the other three are at the right place at the right time, there is no in-universe reason for them not to have an equal chance at receiving the power. (Really four if you count Nora.)  In this instance, Weiss and Yang are the ones in the right place for now. The real question will be if they're there at the right time.