Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43756665-20200112065842/@comment-32346149-20200121173532

Everybody mistakenly thinks that this series is building towards a final showdown between Ruby and Cinder. It isn't, for the simple fact that Cinder is not Ruby's nemesis. She's nobody's nemesis. Cinder is a glorified grunt. Just a force of nature that goes around fucking shit up.

M&K are clearly building Salem up as Ruby's true nemesis. Salem (it appears) killed Ruby's mother, and Salem (not Cinder) is actually a threat to Ruby. Cinder, on the other hand, could be dispatched by Ruby at literally any moment. She's trash, just like Adam, and I suspect she'll be disposed of like trash in the near future (much to the chagrin of the Cinder fanboys).