Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39492511-20190807174432/@comment-14909251-20190812224405

73.Anon.52 wrote: I just don't see Emerald going darker as helpful to anything, if you have her sliding down the rabbit hole as the darker dark we'd lose any sense of morality within those scenes, something that can cause AIA and other terrible tropes, that isn't to say she can't stay with the baddies, but short of 100% replacing Cinder and Salem there really isn't room in the stable of evil characters for a darker gem. One thing it could do is have Hazel or even Mercury become concerned for her changing. It wouldn't totally rule out later redemption, but perhaps then it wouldn't be as simple and straightforward as her just one day getting sick of what she is doing.