Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-34633327-20171002160810/@comment-23892177-20171003065722

Weird headcanon: I think Salem actually respects humanity (willing to acknowledge their strength when united), and is basically waiting for Ozpin to demonstrate what humanity's made of by showing their best: if they're right, they'll win, despite her best efforts to divide them. She in turn does her best to unleash terror and throw the world into war in a sort of "come at me Oz" way. It's a competiton between the two. Except his underhanded-ness and secrecy disillusions her: if you can't defeat evil without MORE evil, there's nothing worth saving.