Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-73.69.5.166-20161116215511

Okay, so I noticed something interesting in the first scene of 'The Next Step' that I didn't get a chance to talk about until now. Well, okay, I noticed several interesting things in that scene, but there's one in particular that I feel needs to be discussed: The eye colors of the new villains. Watts, Hazel, Tyrian, and Cinder ALL have gold eyes. If it was just one of them having the same eye color as Cinder, I'd chalk it up to coincidence, but all of them? And all having the same hair color too? AND all working for Salem?! Okay, let me rewind a bit.

Remember 'Beginning of the End'? We got several fairly important questions answered (eg how and when Merc and Em fell in with Cinder, how and when they got Torchwick on board, how and when they got the White Fang on board, how and when Cinder got her fire powers) but there's one question that that episode never answered for us: how and/or when did Cinder fall in with Salem? That's where I think the eyes of the villains, old and new, come in.

Looking at the titular team, the rules of heredity on Remnant clearly work pretty much the same as they do irl:
 * Ruby got her hair and eyes (and the superpowers they came with) from Summer,
 * Weiss is the best example as she and both of her siblings inherited their coloring from Mama Schnee,
 * Blake got her hair color from both the people in the opening that we assume are her parents and got her eyes and adorable kitty-ears from the person who is presumably her mother, and
 * Yang inherited Tai's hair color (her eyes, though, are a bit tricky).

The Silver Eye powers, and the silver eyes themselves, are hereditary, and hair and eye color (not always, but often enough for my purposes) can be passed down from parent to child. Team WTCH all look like they could be blood-related. What if they are?

I know I seem like I'm bouncing around grasping at random straws, but please just bear with me just a little longer. When discussing what to do about Ruby, Hazel said that they've "dealt with their kind before", more-or-less confirming that these guys are responsible for Summer never coming home. But what if he was just speaking in more general terms, not like "We killed a Silver-Eyed Warrior about 15 years ago, this little girl should be easier than that one", but more along the lines of "We've been taking out Silver-Eyed Warriors for years, generations even, so I don't see the need to really rush to take out one little girl"?

In 'End of the Beginning' (sorry for more bouncing around, I'll bring it all back around soon, promise), Cinder was talking to, calming down the Grimm Dragon (I'm not referring to it as Kevin, because one of my best friend's name is Kevin). Qrow said that the silver eyes allow a person to "strike down Grimm with a single gaze", and the way Qrow described the first time Ozpin told him the story, I got the impression that it's not a well known "fairy tale" like that of the Maidens.

What if the story of the Silver-Eyed Warriors was so obscure that even Ozpin didn't know all the details, because those details have simply been lost to history? What if one such lost detail is that the Silver-Eyed clan had a rival clan of people with GOLD eyes whose eyes also had special powers, the power to communicate with, possibly tame Creatures of Grimm? I think the Silver-Eyed Warriors could have and would have justifiably villified this group of people with the power to tame these shadow monsters that exist solely to wipe out mankind. It could also explain that one scene in 'Beginning of the End' where the screen was black but we heard Beowolves growling and Emerald say "This is impossible"; Cinder was demonstrating her Gold-Eye powers of Grimm-taming!

Now Salem, being sentient and not feral like all the other Grimm we've seen, would be immune to these powers. Being sentient and God-only-knows how old, Salem could have seen these Gold-Eye powers as useful to whatever her plan is. She somehow (I'm guessing less-than-pleasantly) "hired" this Gold-Eyed clan to be her agents on the inside of human civilization, and this is how Cinder came to work for Salem: her ancestors did, as did the ancestors of Tyrian, Watts, and Hazel, because they're basically all one big, evil family.

Tl;dr: Cinder, Tyrian, Watts, and Hazel are all related, their gold eyes give them the power to communicate with/tame Grimm, and they've been working for Salem for countless generations.

Thoughts?

-He who is AWESOME 