Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-14909251-20190704235046

Megadracosaurus wrote: I agree. The lines I want to be strong, I want to be feared, I want to be powerful. aren't the words of a revolutionary who is willing to do bad things for a good cause, or someone who doesn't truly believe in what she's doing. Those are the words of a tyrant in the making, one who is willing to anything and everything to gain power, no matter who she has to kill. And that's exactly what Cinder has been.

I have actually explained this one quite a few times, in this very thread even. People seem to think she no real reason for wanting power other than wanting it. However, another reason to want is because one has long been powerless before others. To some she apparently sounds maniacal, but to me she sounds desperate. She is inspired by Cinderella, who grew up in an abusive home with a step-mother and step-sisters who made her their pliant servant.

Presuming Cinder had an equivalent life, is it a shock she would be so desperately obsessed with power? This may boil down to Cinder not having had anyone good in her life and, unfortunately, the first person to dote on her happened to be an immortal witch with her own designs. She gave Cinder a chance to stop being trampled and to be the one doing the trampling. Perhaps she actually has some grievance against the Kingdoms of her own. We don't know.

73.Anon.52 wrote:As I've already explained to you that is BULLSHIT, while scale wise annihilating a planet is more death than Cinder wrought, Vader knows more populous planets existed that the fear of that weapon would control their populations, as I've said before, there are thousands of planets under imperial control, there are more out there that aren't a part of it, the destruction of Alderan wasn't likely even 1/100th of the human population of their universe.

Cinder tried annihilating 1/5th or more of her universes human population, period. that is a far worse crime on the scope of being evil.

I think this is a rather absurd way of looking at it. A world of difference exists between personally killing people and helping organize a plot that gets people killed and could have potentially got more killed. Vader murdered off his subordinates and his old mentor like they meant nothing to him. Maybe you could say he had plenty of people and so they were disposable, but Cinder hasn't really shown that kind of brutality.