Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20171012080158/@comment-26018514-20171018201502

SpiritedDreaming wrote: That implies Salem approached Lionheart a decade ago, as Leo said the Spring Maiden has been off the grid for over a decade now. But we saw from V4 that him working for Salem is a much more recent thing. So you don't think She's been playing this game almost as long as Ozpin? I'm not saying she herself approached him or that they had the same kind of relationship where he openly knows how fucked he is trying to deal with her, I'm proposing the following:

1. Spring is a lower class citizen and Cinder is higher class, Cinder and Spring learn of the power around the same time, after Spring inherits the power Cinder or another higher class citizen was supposed to get.

2. Lionheart takes custody of Spring and is such a controlling douche she runs off

3. Salem approaches him through intermediaries, offers a way to change his maidens early(before death), trains Cinder for it, learns he lost spring.

4. Lionheart passes info on Amber and Salem changes Cinder's target

5. Cinder flubs it

6. Salem Coerces Lionheart more forcefully now after Ozpins "death"