Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190724191227/@comment-14909251-20190725034219

Wilfred J. Pemberley wrote: Adam wasn't The Beast, he was Gaston.

No. He. Was. Not. He was absolutely the Beast. Some have suggested he takes on the role of Gaston (who is literally just a Disney creation) to Blake's Belle, but his inspiration is the Beast.

And why, exactly, is the idea that Cinder was pampered unlikely to you?

Her inspiration had literally the opposite kind of life. That isn't subversion or inspiration at that point. Characters don't have one-to-one matches with their inspiration, but none of them have deviated to that extent.

No, you just don't like it because it puts your desire for Cinder's redemption into absolute peril.

Honestly, I am not exactly attached to her being redeemed, though I would like to see it as she is not as obvious a play as Emerald or Hazel. I absolutely do want to see he character backstory to show her as more complex and as someone who could be redeemed rather than being some vanilla villain with vanilla motives.

While I mentioned it before, I also don't think a "redemption through death" outcome is good for Cinder. Definitely seeing that as something more likely to happen with Hazel. Whether she ends up in prison or exiled to some secluded area, perhaps wheelchair-bound on account of some complications from the whole Grimm implantation thing, I kind of like the idea of her being alive at the end.

Joffrey was always evil. I suppose you think Game of Thrones is a children's story, do you?

Game of Thrones isn't really a "good vs. evil" story. RWBY is very much framed as a "good vs. evil" story. We already have Tyrian for the "probably was never particularly good and probably not gonna stop being evil" role.