Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-98.199.152.111-20150114055618/@comment-25857155-20150114061828

A very interesting theory, I'll admit. Certainly, it's intriguing enough to entertain for a while.

Certainly, it is very rare for a villain to actually view themselves as such. More often, they are misguided, as the White Fang are, into becoming the very monsters they claim to detest. Or, like in our own world today, they are influenced by their own religious or political beliefs, and those of the people around them. I would not think it too unlikely that Cinder was once a huntress, and came across a certain knowledge she was not supposed to know. That could have caused her to become disillusioned, and upon being abandoned by her closest friends - called insane, perhaps, or thought to be a liar out for a personal vendetta - she falls from grace, taking the only route she now sees before her after being spurned by her old allies. Perhaps she was in isolation for a time, even. It could also be that she was driven some kind of insane by her fall and betrayal.

What kind of knowledge could possibly drive a powerful, impressionable, young huntress - one perhaps not so different from Ruby or Weiss - to such drastic steps? Perhaps some secret knowledge about dust, or even the origin of the Grimm?

Or, maybe the reason she is referred to as "Queen" has to do with her initiation? Perhaps that was the "relic" her team picked, and she is the only one left? The death of her team, leaving her to survive alone out in the wilds with naught but Grimm for company for months (or even years), could be enough to drive even the strongest-willed person insane. Perhaps she blames the current society for the loss of her loved one(s).

Just some thoughts, hm? =)