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EmBELLEm wrote:

honestly manipulating glass would go against her character in a way. ok, hear me out. she was born into nothing. her "magnificent power" was literally playing with dirt. semblances can be so amazing but she gets dust. no wonder she wants power. like mercury she had to work extra hard to get where she is now. I'm sorry, but that doesn't really track with me at all. Dust is not dirt. It's the most powerful elemental substance in Remnant, and Cinder's special ability (which not eveyone has) is manipulation of it. That's an insanely powerful semblence, and would massively go against her character (as you're describing it).

The truth is, having any semblence goes against what you've described her character as. She was born with a super power, essentially, and then complains that she has no power. But of course, that goes with her character perfectly. Because her character is that she's a power hungry, hypocritical, egomaniac.

To Cinder, there's literally no semblence she could have been given at birth that would have satiated her lust for power. Her lament for being powerless is a delusion she has. Hell, she has maiden powers (which makes her a sort of demigod in this universe), and she still wants to go around absorbing MORE MAIDEN POWERS from other maidens. Think about that for a moment, would you.