Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-27082610-20170210153815

Cinder didn't run purely on ego though. She was confident throughout her tenure as the main antagonist, but why wouldn't she be? She held all the cards, and the heroes simply didn't know enough to be properly proactive. Also, Cinder is a Maiden. By the time RWBY gets to her, she's most likely going to have control over multiple elements like Amber did.

Can you explain what you mean with mind games on Mercury? Because he really hasn't been shown to be susceptible to that kind of thing so far. He only wanted to go over and punch Watts because thus far he's a smarmy prick purely for the sake of being a smarmy prick with nothing to back it up or redeem it.

Emerald's hallucinations can't really be resisted unless the target is already aware that something about the situation is wrong. Amber only saw through it because Emerald didn't know to cover up the scuff of dirt from her backing up, which alerted her to the fact that something was fucky.

And you keep saying "one or two fights with Cinder," what exactly do you mean by this? How many people have gotten into real fights (Cinder v Glynda and Cinder v Ruby in the CCT don't count because winning the fight wasn't the objective) with her and survived? Amber? Dead. The WF grunts outside Adam's tent? Probably dead, maybe unconcious since murdering your new army isn't a great idea. Pyrrha? Dead. Ozpin? Dead. And her team stomped their opponents in the Vytal festival, so there's that too.

Cinder is a freaking demigod who has the ability to bend the very forces of nature to her will with a thought. Not to mention the series has anywhere between 6 and 16 volumes (I keep hearing conflicting reports) left in it. She's not running into Team RWBY any time soon.