Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26955524-20161126192429/@comment-26397825-20170221043736

69.138.248.186 wrote: Cinder either had a weak semblance or low aura. Her desires to be strong, powerful and feared made me wonder if she was pushed around lot. Ruby didn't think the glass shards were her semblance and I think we only see the fire powers after she gets half of Amber's power. Nah, she used it in the fight against Amber too. Even did the whole 'turn her surroundings into glass'.

And the clothes glowing thing was shown in V1 and again in V2, which was actually before the Maiden storyline was created (Monty came up with it on the tail end of V2), which suggests her clothes are infused with fire dust at the very least.

I'm not saying that she may perceive her sembalnce as being weak or useless, but she did at least have some of the fire power before she became a Maiden.