Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1292715-20181223044830/@comment-14909251-20190426230339

73.Anon.52 wrote: Not really, It was implied that all the darkness did was give her destructive impulses and pain, and given Cinder having grimm in her body is essentially the same thing, Salem has implied that all she needs to control it is to make it fear her the most. It is one thing to control one Grimm in one's own body and another to command a whole army of Grimm and be able to mutate them as she apparently manages to do according to both what we've seen and what Qrow has mentioned. The God of Destruction did show a clear ability to control the Grimm, so it is plausible her immersing in the pool gave her that ability as well. Maybe it was simply that they no longer recognized her as human.