User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 31: A real fight/@comment-50.189.78.215-20151116014613

Actually, given the bad guys' chess motif, I think that Cinder answers to a black KING, not Queen. Before anyone says anything, in High School DxD for example, Rias and Souna are Kings b/c they're the COs of their groups, and that's what the king piece represents. Cinder has sidekicks -Merc, Emerald and Neo- who could be the 'Pawns' in 'Queen has Pawns', making Cinder the Queen. I never once believed that Cinder was the absolute head honcho of the bad guys.

Lemme use a metaphor. Cinder is General George Patton, 'fighting' through enemy territory with her 'army' -ie her Pawns Merc, Em, and Neo- while the person she answers to -my hypothetical black king, whoever they may be- is Supreme Commander Eisenhower, sitting at a desk in London, far from the action but still in charge.

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