Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-14909251-20180310235936

BlizzardDragon wrote: Pure? Emerald? She is willing to let the world be fucked over all out of a misguided devotion to a single woman. People give Hazel crap for siding with Salem and damning humanity over his dead sister, Emerald is doing the same but for a single woman who treats her like crap.

As much as I want her to redeem herself, she isn't pure. She showed only one moment of remorse, and two volumes later she literally says she doesn't give a damn about what Salem wants, just that she owes Cinder much.

That is a personal bias then, not an accurate summation. And even then, right now there are three kinds of feelings for Emerald I've come across. Those that hate her and want her to die, those that want her to redeem herself, and those that want her to go further into villainy. So 2/3's of them would buy it.

Even then, there are good alternatives, namely Salem, Watts, Tyrian, and the new Villain they confirmed for Volume 6. All of them have more to offer to the plot then Cinder does, seeing as she currently is just treading the same water over and over now.

And before you bring up the Grimm Bug again, consider that they don't need to bring it up anymore. They've explored what they've could: What it is (A parasite that fused with Cinder), what it's job was (Absorb the Fall Maiden Powers), its risk in being used (turns the wielder into easy victim of SEW, no aura can cover it, and requires dominance over), and any additional benefits (Stretchy arm). They don't need to rehash it, cause if anything, its more a liability to Salem's plans than anything.

And, two questions for you:

1. What argument is there against her death outside of "No Backstory" (Which can be done post mortem) "Feud with Jaune and Ruby" (Which isn't a neccesity) and "Grimm Bug" (Which you have made clear is something you want to see, not something they should continue further)

2. What can you use to justify her reasonably surviving that battle outside of an asspull The best argument against her death is that we didn't see her die in any respect. Being frozen isn't dying, especially not in a series such as this, and someone falling from a great height that we have already seen can basically fly is also not proof of death, particularly when there is no idea of where she would be falling. Literally the only argument for why she must be dead in this scenario is "she was badly injured and she didn't immediately come back" as if this isn't a universe where the former is already established as useless and as if the former isn't easily argued against (she could just have been knocked out).

As far as Emerald goes, I'm not seeing is perfectly pure, but her motives are much purer and she shows signs of remorse, regret, and a greater innocent relative to literally every other villain involved. There is just nothing about her character that would say "future super-villain."