Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-14909251-20151115234517

Angren Túrë wrote:

And with Cinder's ominous hint-dropping (no really, when does she ever do anything else?)

She sometimes sews.

she's still a stone cold bitch. She is pretty nice to Weiss on informal circumstances, though. Which is sweet, I guess. The entire family can't be dysfunctional. Plus, her special attack is birds. That was not certainly not the impression I got from their interaction. Winter showed only glimmers of care, but even then it was sort of patronizing. She was acting more like a stern parent than a sibling. Between her and her father, she obviously had very stifled upbringing. Despite what someone else said in this thread, I don't think Weiss would have ever been like Winter. For one, Winter is assertive and strong-willed, which is pretty much the opposite of Weiss. You rarely see Weiss be proactive and she folds easily. The comment about wanting bunk beds as a kid, but not getting them, and the relationship between them just from this episode indicates Weiss is constantly seeking love and affection from her sister yet not getting it.

Cinder literally said their "friend" got them into the mainframe. That happened, incidentally, after we saw the Black Queen appear on Ironwood's Scroll after he touched it to Ozpin's desk. So, perhaps the match-ups are decided by Ozpin or from a program on his desk at least. Not saying Ironwood is their friend, though people have certainly speculated about that being the case, just that they probably were able to manipulate the match-ups because they got into Ozpin's desk computer.
 * Okay, how well-connected is Cinder? If she can rig the tournaments on a whim, that would imply she's either got control over the network that does it (which would mean by extension, she either is or has a really good hacker), or there's someone on the inside working for her. Honestly, I could go for either one. I'm excited.

How their malware got onto Ironwood's Scroll is another matter. Did he actually put his Scroll into the CCT and it jumped on that way or did it get planted by someone close to him? In the former case it makes you wonder if that means anyone hooking their devices up at the CCT is now effectively being psied on by Cinder's crew. The latter case certainly lines up with Roman getting his hands on those Paladins.

Definitely thought of Jen Taylor's mysterious character first thing. What's interesting is Qrow talked about her "building" things and it didn't like he was talking about machines. Could be that the Grimm are being experimented on by the Big Bad to develop more fierce and deadly forms.
 * EDIT: Who is this enigmatic 'she' that the top brass keep referring to? I think we're pretty clear now that it isn't Cinder, or at least I've already ruled her out. But then who is it? My money's on Jen Taylor.