Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24177652-20140603235310/@comment-79.176.30.38-20140608162603

There is possibly another relevant connection: Emerald's design is not-so-loosely based off of the villain Medusa in one of Monty's favorite anime/manga, Soul Eater. Medusa was a witch, who were hunted by the "good guys" of the Soul Eater story and were later revealed to be more persecuted than strictly villainous. Medusa herself was a complicated character with numerous motivations - most of them not good - but she had some interesting qualities, such as being a mother and having a mother's love for her child (even though it manifested in twisted ways).

My guess is that Cinder knows something rotten about Beacon and that there isn't a clean line between good and evil. For additional perspective - consider that, although we associate Ozpin with the Wizard of Oz and that he is supposedly a good guy - the flipside is that he may very well be the Wizard of Oz from the book/play Wicked, who was an intolerant dictator that enslaved the native people of Oz.

I guess the point is that while we have yet to see the darker side of RWBY, we've had lots of hints that it's waiting for us around the corner and that this isn't going to be our grandmother's fairy tale.

-Nathan J Xaxson