Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-24260323-20140603142356

BenRG wrote: If there is anyone who might be a common controlling influence, I think it might be Cinder.

This is an outgrowth of my theory that Cinder just wants to watch the world burn. She has no real goal or objective except bringing society crashing down into ruins, partly so she can see the look of horror on Ozpin's face before she incinerates him. With this in mind, ensuring that Faunus suffer persecution, thus adding recruits to White Fang's numbers, assisting an anarchic criminal to undermine the world's security apparatus and help White Fang get into the position where it can fight but not win a war would be in line with her objectives.

Villains who simply want to watch the world burn for no reason are terrible villains. It's like a saturday morning cartoon villain who wants to destroy the world, but hasn't thought of what happens after that or what they actually gain from doing so.