Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-25936766-20180315112557

Actually, that does not sound as believable as you think.

Cinder did not look at all like if she was KOd even after she took the Thunder Punch to the face. At most, she looked tired, but even then, not tired enough that she could possibly lose consciousness.

And whether she could break free depends on how she was frozen. Raven was just frozen externally, encased in ice, and her Aura was high at the moment. Breaking free is believable.

But if Cinder was frozen from the inside, then it is not believable because her Aura was down at the time, and she would be receiving great internal damage from the frostbite, which at the very least would interfere with her Aura's recovery, unless she takes the "WILLPOWAH, UNLIMITED WILLPOWAH" route that Hazel took.

Using Aura too much in itself can tire one out, and if Cinder is tired she wouldn't be able to slow herself down as well as she could if she did break free before crashing against something. And that's if she got tired from the hit or the frostbite, if she ended up unconscious mid-flight because of those things then she literally can't do anything.

And, of course, if Cinder could've really broken free from the ice so easily, she would've definitely done it before Raven and Yang even finished talking. Alas, she did not.

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I do believe she survived, but I do acknowledge that everything's stacked against Cinder here. No Aura, flash-frozen entirely, falling down an unknown height until she hits something, and so on. Even if she broke free, there's the question of "what the hell could she eat?".