Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26226441-20180127223551/@comment-26018514-20180221210416

Autisonm wrote:

I can see what you are suggesting but it seems to leave out any reasoning as to why Salem brought the maiden powers up in the first place. You are suggesting that either A. Cinder was afraid of Ruby or B. the parasite was afraid of Ruby....

B. If the parasite was scared of Ruby then it would have started hurting Cinder and we didnt see that either. Cinder seemed to not be in any pain at all. You could say that it happened after but wouldnt the grimm be gone from her body then? The SE do 'strike down' grimm after all which implies it kills them and a parasite isnt exactly strong. Salem brought it up because she was mollifying Cinder, she doesn't need to bring up the specifics of the weakness to the others(or even Cinder) because they don't need to know, the others do all need to know she stole/has the maiden powers, not that the process of doing so gives her a crippling weakness

B. is what I was saying, Cinder didn't know about the weakness nor is she herself Grimm, and the parasite WAS afraid and did do damage to Cinder in its haste to escape, watch the death of Pyrrha again, Cinder never turns towards Ruby at all(she leaves her right side facing Ruby), yet she yells a confused "WHATTTT?" as though experiencing discomfort before the SEW wave even hits her(after her eye mask is off) the later damage we are shown is:

Petrification/scarring damage all along her left side, her face starting at the eye, and her vocal chords it would have gone past to get to her now replaced with Grimm arm, the side facing away from Ruby where her parasite would have run to escape the SEW.