Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.136.247.156-20151027043341/@comment-69.136.247.156-20151028024753

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I think Emerald vocalizing her disdain for team RWBY is more her trying to reassure herself that she hates them as doubt settles in. I know personally, I would like to know more about Emerald and Mercury just because it seems they get screen time but not much backstory or motivation. We know they serve Cinder, that's it. We know Roman and Cinder don't get along. plenty of circumstances in other media and real life when someone who is forced to go undercover, ends up sympathizing (or empathizing? I always mix them up) with the people they're supposed to be enemies with.

Right now Emerald doesn't have motivations to turn good and without knowing what motivates her to be evil, guessing at what would cause her to switch sides is just guessing. However, I think her interaction with RWBY will beging to change her character. Mercury, not so much.

I think the antagonists could stand some developement, especially the ones closest to the heroes. I'm ok with Cinder remaining mostly a mystery as she still seems to be pulling the majority of the strings, but I'd love to know what is making the others tick.

The only other antagonist who strikes me to be on a similar level of evil as Cinder is Neo, but I suppose this is fueled mostly by mystery as she hasn't yet spoken. And in no way do I think Neo is as cunning as Cinder, Neo is just merciless as has been shown when she almost killed Yang and her stomping a downed opponent in the Vytal games.