Talk:Rising/@comment-34821057-20181102000634/@comment-25396609-20181102011055

Cinder is the one who forced her and Roman to take part in the whole "destroy Vale" thing.

They signed on willingly at first, it seems, but if you pay attention to how Roman was acting later on he seemed to go from "doing it because i got paid" to "I don't have any other choice" and in the end "This can't be stopped, and the only way for me to survive is to help her."

It can be hard to tell because of his generally aloof attitude, but the signs are there.

Ruby may have been the direct cause of Roman's death, but he would never have been in that situation if not for Cinder.