Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-5277710-20131108120234

BenRG wrote: Okay, I'm really not in the positiont to give a detailed reaction at the moment but I'll say this much:

1) As I have maintained from the start, Cinder is pulling the strings with Roman. Whether she's following her own agenda or is the Dragon to distract us from the real Big Bad remains to be seen;

2) Ruby still has a long way to go; Roman took her out easily because she forgot that, in combat, 'distracted' is spelt 'D-E-A-D';

3) Penny... I'm not sure. A lot depends on the moral stance of her creator/handler. If he's basically a guy who's trying to make himself a daughter or a champion for the world, all will be okay. If she's a robot assassin and he is either amoral or bad then she could easily be a lot of trouble... unless friendship works its magic again;

4) At this point, it seems that Sun is a Han Solo rather than an infiltrator. That said, it isn't beyond the bounds of possibility that he's a deep-cover WF agent sent to undermine our heroes from within. It's just that I think it's more unlikely. I'm looking forward to plenty of Han Solo/Princess Leia-style love/hate flirting between him and Blake;

4(a) And possibly between Sun and Weiss too... Somehow the way she turned around at the end to specifically berate him really reminded me of the way Han somehow got on Leia's bad side before the two even really knew each other;

5) What, oh what, is Cinder's plan? What requires Roman's organisation, White Fang and as much Dust as can be stolen? I'm starting to think that she wants the Hunters destroyed and she's amassing a criminal/dissident Faunus army whose only common goal is to eliminate the Hunters. I'm pretty sure she has her own agenda; she's just using Roman and WF as expendible tools;

6) Regarding Cinder's identity, 'Cinder' will probably turn out to be a pseudonym. I'm sticking with her being a fallen Summer Rose but that's only a personal preference right now. She could easily turn out to be Yang's bio-mom or a completely unrelated character. Whoever she is, though, Qrow and Ozpin clearly think she's their personal problem;

7) The Queen: I would argue that there are actually two queens on the board right now - Cinder and Ruby. Both sides are developing bands of pawns (although I would argue that Ruby's ally group are far more formidable pieces than the lowly, expendible pawn);

8) Blake is definitely a 2nd-generation WF member, hence her telling Sun that she was "born into it, really". Someone on the Roosterteeth forums pointed out that her flashback to kitty!Blake, she had the same part of her upper left arm covered as she does in contemporary scenes; I'm thinking that might be covering her barcode/concentration camp tattoo. After all, she was "born with no life / into subjugation / treated like a / worthless animal". It will be another lick of grey paint in the grey-on-grey morality of the SDC/WF war if Faunus laborours are kept in conditions little better than slavery. i like your points of 6-9. Cinder cant just want this for no reason and if Ozpin and Qrow seem to have given it their personal attention then big things must have happened in the past. 7... i like the way how you think both Ruby and Cinder are queens. although im pretty sure Ruby wouldnt treat her friends as pawns but its a good way of saying it nonetheless