Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-27234079-20190702022956

Jumping in on this train against my better judgement (since I'm bias because favorite character). While I do think she's likely going to die, I feel like they could pull off a redemption in the long term, considering how they presented Locus in the Chorus Trilogy from RvB. Locus was presented as cold, heartless killing machine who had been secretley fueling a civil war for the rewards he'd get. But, once the main characters had gotten into his head, it's revealed he was mainly using that as a mask to cope with the mental trauma of that, and he begins to question his identity and whatnot. This eventually lead to a redemption. I could see them having Ruby do something similar whenever she and Cinder meet again, but I doubt Cinder'd get off the hook as easily as Locus this. That said, I do think having RWBY/JNR just tag team her (due to Cinder just becoming obsessed with revenge) and defeat her that way is just retreating Felix's entire character progression which seems...boring. I