User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: What is Cinder's plan?/@comment-5217560-20140804062226/@comment-24218038-20140804221845

Now for admiring us for having some clues... You can too. Let me show you how I analyse with Cinder.

We are clearly shown from the start that she an antagonist so that's my starting point. So let's analyse her.

Who is Cinder? What can we discern from her appearences? She is cool, collected and always in control. She never raises her voice but when she talks, it always carries a hint of threat.

'''What is her goal? '''That's what we've been talking here but let's find out from the show what we already know about it. We know she needs dust to achieve her goal, a great amount of dust. From the policemen in front of the shop, we know that it's unusual and that it's difficult to understand why she needs it. We also know that money is not a motivating factor. In the very first episode of volume 1, we see Roman actually telling the shop owners that he's not interested in his money BUT we also know that she's been hiring junior's goon, has an ever increasing fleet of planes and a growing army. That means resources and money. So she's obviously not broke. We may not know her overall goal but those are a good starting point.

Why is she doing all this? We've gleaned a bit on it in he previous paragraph. First, by her attitude and her resources, we know this is not a spur of the moment thing. This has a fair amount of planning backing up her plan. In turn that means it is elaborate, So to prepare so long mean she her reason for doing lies in her past. this is not a stupid  spur of the moment thing. In turn that means possibly revenge, redemption, control, or even heroism might be her motivation.

Can you speculate out of this? I sure can!