Talk:Maidens/@comment-25110963-20160208072627/@comment-75.159.56.230-20160229060740

regardless of her eligibility (because we actually have no idea how old cinder is. could be fairly old, but has some method of looking young), cinder forcibly stole half the power. the power just needs a vessel, it doesn't seem to care once it's lodged in, because if you recall the original owner was an old, male hermit.

and beyond that, ozpin, glynda, qrow and ironwood theorized that the power might seek it's other half the moment it was freed from amber. so it naturally flooded to cinder, eligible or no.