Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171123054740/@comment-34633327-20171128194707

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: BenRG wrote: I wonder if we're being given a hint of some future division in the dark faction with this issue of the limitation of divisibility of magic. We know that Cinder wants power and to be respected and feared. Ultimately, there is one person in this world who doesn't feel that way about her: Salem. I wonder what plots might be brewing in Cinder's head to remove that obstacle? I think the more likely division is that Cinder isn't some cookie-cutter villain. Maybe this is a contentious discussion, but the idea of her being obsessed with power and being feared as a black mark on her begs a question. Why does she want power? People may be operating with the assumption that she wants power for its own sake, but given her source of inspiration is Cinderella it seems more likely that she wanted power because she was in a desperate situation and wanted to escape it. Salem was the Fairy Godmother character to save her and she is indebted to her. At times we get a glimpse of her being decidely lacking in malevolence. I imagine there is a great deal about her we don't understand and if she turns on Salem, it may be due to that better nature buried inside her coming out. Perhaps it will even be Ruby who brings it out.

The problem with that is one of the sentences she said right before she said she wanted power.

Cinder :  I want to be feared.

Feared doesn't really scream benevolent. Whether she has good in her is an unknown, but whatever she wanted the power for, it was because she wanted someone to fear her, she wanted to intimidate someone.