Talk:Salem/@comment-35455126-20181007053424/@comment-35555395-20181007132954

I would say we already know Cinder's motivations she says it herself in Volume 3 Chapter 7: "I want to be strong, I want to be feared, I want to be powerful." That's why she's so desperate to get all the Maiden's power. Clearly, there's some backstory we're missing as to why Cinder wants power so bad but we can make some guesses based on her Cinderella alllusion.

Also, I'd argue Roman wasn't a good villain, all the shit he got done was on Cinder's orders and he fucked up quite a lot: didn't get the dust in the volume 1 finale, destroyed a paladin, and accidentally gave away their base of operations, hijacks the plan too early killing tons of Faunus and destroying more paladins.

The only thing he actually does right is taking over an airship and take out the air fleet but then he gets his dumbass killed and Ruby takes down the robot army so you can argue by not killing Ruby off immediately that's another fuck up on Roman's part.

And as a villain he's not scary, he's funny and charming but ineffective he's more of a henchman if anything.