Talk:RWBY/@comment-174.21.50.232-20200103014125/@comment-25936766-20200103183800

Cinder was affected by the Silver Eyes simply because her used method for getting the powers made her part-Grimm in the process. The Maiden powers themselves don't make her weak to the eyes, its that Grimm bug she used.

Supporting that, Raven was also hit by the SE blast and did not show any effects, while Cinder practically fell in pain. And if that wasn't enough Ruby and Maria's talk about the eyes makes it clear that it shouldn't affect Cinder, since as far as Ruby knows, she's human, not Grimm.

This is just precisely what I meant in the last paragraph. Things are explained so poorly that MK are just asking for big misunderstandings, which leads to many seeing retcons and inconsistencies everywhere. Makes you wonder what grades they got in English.