Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20171021151743/@comment-5430952-20171022081739

ChishioKunrin wrote: I wouldn't say she was one of the Branwens, and she might not have been a bandit it all, but she could have grown up in an area of Mistral with high crime and black markets.

Qrow has a problem with bandits despite once being one because he has decided that his morals are against doing the things that bandits do. Cinder, meanwhile... clearly has no moral objection to mass murder, which is something bandits do. I'm not saying she was expelled due to her morals, more to the effect that she was deemed "too weak" to remain in the tribe and was thus expelled and left to die. Hence her desire to be strong, feared, and powerful.

Though growing up in the murky side of Mistral, hmm, it would definitely coincide with her "Cinderlla" allusion. Maybe we'll find out in this Arc, it would be the perfect place for it since the story's set in Mistral.