User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Extra Lesson: Attack on Grimm/@comment-11188061-20141017022601/@comment-24.61.230.178-20141018065136

Take a closer look at Nora's outfit. Just like Cinder's tattoo, the heart is actually a hole in the "pattern". Also notice Nora's shirt is white vs. Cinder's black tattoo. Nora's heart is on her chest while Cinder's in diametrically opposed, being at the same position but on the backside between her shoulderblades. Furthermore, they are the only two characters in RWBY that wear a heart. That's just too many similarities to be coincidental. It's as if Monty is trying to draw our attention to Cinder and Nora being opposites.

That's why I came up with the Loki hypothesis. It's already been conjectured elsewhere that Nora is based on Thor.

While Thor was red-haired like Nora, Loki has often been portrayed as dark-haired and fair-skinned, like Cinder.

Loki was also referred to as a god of fire in Norse myth, not just as a god of mischief.

I'm sure I could find more similarities. I just think there are too many already to simply be coincidence.