User blog:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Antagonist, Cinder Fall

Hello and welcome to author analysis. Today's topic: Cinder Fall

We see Cinder twice and both times, she made an impression. Monty and company have a balancing act to do with her. She must look strong enough to be the main antagonist and mysterious enough for us to be unsure of her role in RWBY. If you read my previous blogs, you know I do not believe her to be the main antagonist. Now let's see if we can pierce a little through her mystery.

As with my previous blog, let's start with her motivation. The holy trinity of bad guy's says their motivation stems from at least 1 of 3 possibilities. Greed, revenge or power. Let's check each shall we? First greed, this one we can safely remove as all operations she planned has been for dust and not money. What about revenge? Ah! This one seems to fit better. If we had only seen her in her fight against Glynda, I would have dismissed revenge but when we hear her talking with Torchwick in ep16 it gave me pause. She seemed to have a cold fury barely contained in the conversation. So revenge is likely. Finally power, this one is more difficult to say since right now she seems on top of the totem pole. I do not dismiss it because I do not feel she is on top really.

Now the big question, why is she stealing such quantity of dust? To answer this question we have to ask what is the use of dust? The only use we've seen of dust is to enhance combat. Bullets, weapons even people. When you add this to the question you get an obvious answer. To build an army. The only reason one could need so much dust is for an army. Unless we find out another use for dust, this is the only logical answer.

So Cinder, her team and Torchwick are building an army. To what purpose? Why do you build an army? To conquer. This is where it get's interesting. Despite building an army, I feel both Roman and Cinder could just be misguided and trying to prepare to stop something else. Or they want to conquer Remnant. Either way it's gonna be fun to watch.

Next on author analysis, i'll be reviewing the four trailers starting with red. See you next time!