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@ WC-83

Here's my take on the "Crimson going to the Dark Side" scenario:

Crimson joined the school at the same time as Ozpin and Glynda. She is very capable but unlike Ruby she has a very cynical air about her. She is someone that has been through the harsher side of life (maybe she's an orphan maybe she just had a lot of people kick her around when she was young....) Eventually she graduated from Beacon on the same team as Glynda and Ozpin. Eventually, she saw something that made her lose her faith in mankind. Maybe it was some display of corruption or greed or abuse of power or something like that.

Anyways, she eventually decides to stop protecting humans and decides to just fight for herself. To that end, she uses henchmen like Torchwick to do her work for her.