Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-148.253.184.233-20200128130653/@comment-14909251-20200212064245

Guedjroy wrote: Wait, I'm confused. Are you saying that Cinder's whole village was wiped out by a Grimm attack, and her response to this was to join forces with the leader of the Grimm?

Actually, thinking about it now, that makes perfect sense, considering that's exactly what Hazel's motivation was. "What's that?  My sister was killed by the Grimm?  Hold my beer while I go team up with the Grimm queen!  That's what my sister would have wanted!" Given Cinder's allusion, the idea here isn't that there is any real sentiment regarding the rest of the people who died. Rather, it is that after living a life of abuse and suffering, what would have been the final tragic indignity of being left behind by the rest of the world to get eaten alive by soulless monsters took a turn. She was offered a "join or die" moment by Salem who dangled the carrot of no longer being the defenseless weak girl at the mercy of an abusive and indifferent world. Her choice was let the final moments of her tragically miserable life be getting ripped to shreds by monsters or join Salem and attain exceptional power with which she could inflict all the suffering she experienced on the world that had abandoned her to her presumed doom.