Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160130155211/@comment-10390252-20160201105930

@JadenLan,

Actually, I see Cinder as being a lot more like the bad-guy from the last season of Legend of Korra: Almost terrifyingly driven but still generally sane, driven more by a need for 'getting even' and 'having what I deserve' than anything else. More a coldly sociopathic megalomaniac than a raving paranoid psychopath like Alula.

The only idea that comes to my mind is that, in the middle of the Final Battle, Ruby turns to Cinder and asks why she's doing it. "Why? So I can fulfill my destiny and rule of course!"

"Rule over who and what? You may have not noticed this but an awful lot of people are dying and civilisation is crumbling around us." Cinder looks around her, her smile starts to slip and her eyes start widening in alarm. "It's easy," Ruby continues, her voice sliping into a 'Summer Maiden' tone, "to get so focussed on the means that you don't think about whether the ultimate consequences will fit your goals."