User blog comment:Doc Hamme/Those EYES...../@comment-10390252-20140728083120

My gut feeling is Cinder Fall is one of the greater 'mistakes' Ozpin told Ruby about in The Badge and The Burden. She was his student once; brilliant beyond measure whose near-intuative use of her Semblance meant that she didn't even really need a weapon, only some means of channelling and directing the energy. The mystery to be revealed is why she's doing what she's doing.

I think that there is a clue in the Volume 2 opening when she's shown looking meditatively up at one of Mr White's airships flying overhead as her eyes burn. I suspect that Mr White, very much with the approval and knowledge of Vytal's government and its international allies, is up to something very, very malign. Cinder, for whatever reason, has decided that this demonstrates society is too sick to survive. She's gathered around her all the anarchist elements of the world and is trying to collapse society so that something more healthy can spring up from its ashes.

I strongly suspect that few know what she is doing.

Oh, on the subject of chess pieces:

WHITE

King: Ozpin

Queen: Ruby

King's Knight: Glynda

Queen's Knight: Yang

Queen's Bishop: Weiss

Queen's Rook: Jaune

Pawns: Vale City PD & misc. Huntsmen

BLACK

King: ??? (Mr White?)

Queen: Cinder Fall

King's Knight: Penny

Queen's Knight: Emerald

Queen's Bishop: Roman

Queen's Rook: Mercury

Pawns: The advanced AK war-robots

Blake and Adam are wild-cards, IMHO but Blake may be the White King's Rook an and Adam the same position on the Black side of the board. I also suspect that Pyrrha is the White King's Bishop.

The chess anology isn't perfect because pieces will swap sides, adding in elements of Reversi, Checkers and even Risk.