Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36526195-20180809201505/@comment-14909251-20180810224745

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

3) Trying to turn a scared, lonely and likely traumatized child AKA the previous Spring Maiden into a sociopathic killer. And when that failed because Raven sucks at empathy and sympathy, she decided to kill her, under the excuse that "it was mercy".

4) Considering she's the current Spring Maiden, that also means she killed Spring in a way that was not inmediate and made sure she thought of Raven last.

Which makes the excuse bullshit: If Raven wanted to give Spring a merciful death, she would've killed her in a way that was swift and painless, maybe in her sleep. Alas, she clearly didn't, and it cannot be because she messed up the hit, she's too skilled and too used to killing people for that. For all we know, the previous Spring maiden was going to run away from the tribe because she couldn't take all the training same as she ran from Ozpin's group. Maybe Raven even caught her raiding their storage on her way out. Then in that moment Raven decides to kill her, but makes sure to do it in such a way so that Spring will be aware it is happening and think of her as she dies.