Thread:99.45.171.100/@comment-27404492-20170406212527/@comment-99.45.171.100-20170407003349

ChishioKunrin wrote: So... the old theory that Cinder used to be a Huntress who turned her back on the kingdoms might not be too far off. Maybe she's a Huntress who trained at Haven, and that's one reason why she was able to pose as a student at the tournament and why Team SSSN, who attend Haven, never went "I don't recognize that woman." Eh, I dunno.

I edited some of the pages that had the more theoretical wording on them, but I dunno if I missed anything.

At least we know that Salem and the Relics were planned from the very beginning, unlike the Maidens. Miles said the Relics and the story of the brother gods was his very first major contribution to the planning of RWBY, and they said that Salem was designed early on as well. Cinder being an ex-huntress is HEAVILY implied from her theme Sacrifice, yeah. I want to see her backstory and what exactly Ozpin did to her to make her realize he's not entirely the paragon he presents himself as.

I know they were planned. Part of the reason I don't like them is that the Maidens actually work a lot better as a plot device. They feel a lot more natural and a lot less formulaic. I have a theory that Monty was planning on completely revising his original plan, and was in the early stages of replacing rocks with Maidens while he was working on V3, but now is not the time for it.