Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170217011737/@comment-28522425-20170221185931

KNN005 wrote: It has occurred to me actually. But that's telling. Most villains couldn't be bothered with coaching and teaching their fellow villains. Especially when they're adults that they don't need to corrupt to their way of thinking. Salem spending more time with Cinder would makes sense if she's doing it strictly because Cinder is a weapon to her and she wants it in top shape for the battle to come. But if she sees ol' Cindy as a tool why did she bother defending her against Watts' trolling or reassign Tyri' to hunt down Ruby. The coaching. The tsundere peptalk during her training. The helping her with the healing. Trust she gave her to drop Beacon on her own. The fact that Cinder is allowed to hire and bring in new members like Em, Adam and Merc. Without question as far as Ive seen. We never saw once that Salem ever told Cinder no. Seems she get free reign as long as she succeeds. Seems like favoritism if all the members don't get that treatment. Salem, more than ANYBODY, should know that any organization is stronger when all of its members are working together and united. She didn't need Watts spreading any unnecesary malice between its members, that's why she put an end to it.

Salem is healing Cinder because apparently, she is the only one who can. Who else is gonna help Cinder control that thing inside her?

And again, she sent Tyrian after Ruby because she showed herself to be a threat to her plans when she managed to seriously injure Cinder. Spring, on the other hand, was nowhere to be found, and giving that she was not a threat, capturing her could wait.

Don't get me wrong, as far as we know Cinder might actually be Salem's favorite, but as of right now, we really can't tell because we have barely seen Salem interact with the other members of her group.