Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.59.184-20140809221526/@comment-26397825-20151110020848

Well, in the case of the fight against the Grimm, everyone was busy with said Grimm, and Cinder was no where around the good guys during the wrap up. Or at least, I didn't see her. She was instead on a rooftop overlooking everything, and Adam turned up. That emans the glimpses the good guys would have gotten of her would have been in the heat of battle, when they didn't really have time to look at her and think, "Oh hey, that's the chick who Ruby fought." And Glynda turned up a bit later to do the clean up and rebuilding of the wall, so she wouldn't have gotten the chance to see Cinder.

In the tournament, Cinder is shown using her fists and feet in hand to hand combat, and no real pyrotechniques are seen by any of the characters. Plus, I'm sure fire dust mages are a fairly common thing, seeing as fire dust is easily bought from any store. Girl who isn't wearing the red dress + fire dust magic isn't really going to make them automatically think of the woman they fought way back in the first episode.

As for Ruby fighting Cinder in the comms tower - again, fire dust is readily available at any store and I'm sure fire dust mages are a fairly common thing in Remnant. Plus, Cinder fought mostly with glass, as Ruby notes, with fire dust as a back up, like many people have done (Weiss can use fire dust, Glynda can use fire dust, etc).

The other stuff I have nothing to say about, I'm just pointing out the reasons for why Cinder hasn't been recognised yet.