Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-26018514-20190316184317

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

I think people judge Cinder too strongly here. She wants to kill Ruby because Ruby messed her up. However, that doesn't mean she has to turn good to get over it. Her injuries were a result of Salem's machinations ultimately, and if she were to learn Salem's plan isn't exactly what she was wanting, then she is more likely to temper her hostility to Ruby. By all appearances, Salem's plan is to bring the relics together, summon the Gods, and wipe out humanity. Cinder wants power, but does she really want to wipe out humanity? I mean, she probably would die too. Except the show doesn't just end with Salem's death... What do you expect her to do after that? "Gee thanks for helping me kill Salem, Ruby, I'll just open this new farm if you leave me alone..."

Cinder has the skills and motivations of a killer, and her arm and eye matters because unless she deals with the loss in a healthy way that is completely OoC for her with her current alignment AFTER Salem's death, she's going to need to follow her skills(which short of retraining are killing, mainly humans and not Grimm), and the prime motivating forces will aim those skills at RWBY, if not Ruby specifically. You don't look for power to fulfil a dream to open a tea shop.