Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-14909251-20190719235927

Megadracosaurus wrote: So...Her rubbing the deaths of people into everyone’s face with a smile on her face (something Jaune points out) isn’t even the smallest hint that she enjoys killing and overpowering people? Or that she decided to try and kill Weiss just because she knew it would hurt Jaune? That she taunts her opponents in battle by bringing up their dead loved one’s that she killed? the fact that, as Sentry pointed out, with murdering and planning murders with a smile?

Somehow that doesn’t make it clear that she’s sadistic?

At this point, you’re looking at Cinder through rose-colored glasses. You view as what you want her to be, as opposed to what the show is portraying her as.

EDIT: And before you argue that she tried to kill Weiss because she was an easy target and because they were in the middle of battle, do keep in mind Ruby was wide open for an easy kill and she’s already had Jaune pinned down. If she really would have killed anyone for the sake of combat, she’d killed either of those two. Not slowly walking up to Weiss and taunting Jaune about it.

And no, the excuse of psychological warfare doesn’t make sense either. Jaune was already enraged and underleveled, and she had him pinned down. There was literally no reason to target Weiss other then to mess with Jaune. She tried to kill a person her victims cares about in order to taunt them.

But yeah, no. That’s not sadistic at all. Noooooo. She acts like she enjoys killing, she talks like she enjoys killing, she constantly does sadistic things...But she's not a power-hungry sadist. She does everyone one would do, but she isn't one herself. Makes sense. To say there was "literally no reason" is kind of absurd. Weiss was one obstacle and taking out one of the opposing side can demoralize the whole group, not just the one she is fighting. Jaune being outmatched doesn't mean he isn't an obstacle causing her difficulty. After she took Weiss down, even if temporarily, it basically took two to four of their team out of the fight. Jaune stopped fighting to help Weiss and Nora and Ren stopped to defend them.