Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4148456-20160201013715/@comment-66.102.6.198-20160201022130

Even before the "Beginning of the End" episode I was speculating that Emerald had been living on the street trying to survive before Cinder took her in. Or as the episode showed, took her on as an apprentice. There are plenty of militias, terrorist groups, gangs, and cults around the world that are looking for people to recruit that come from the same kind of background as Emerald did. Why you may ask? Becuase as terrible as those groups are they still offer a better chance at life to their recruits, due mostly because of just how bad the new recruit's life was before they where approached more than anything else. Remember Cinder only had to promise Emerald that she wouldn't be hungry ever again, and Emerald became very loyal to Cinder. So loyal that there is fan art and fanfiction of Emerald either being an outright lesbian for Cinder or is in a "Sempai Please Notice Me" state (rember her failed attempt to hug Cinder in the first episode of volume two).

The thing is Emerald might be the kind of character who's only going along with the plan because Cinder told her to. To Emerald, Cinder is the reason she doesn't sleep in a gutter at night while starving. So even if she has misgivings about what she's doing, she'll likely still do what she feels Cinder would want her to do just out of a sense of loyalty and the fact she is endebt to Cinder.

Bottom line though for Emerald to turn good guy, one of three things has to happen. Cinder has to be gone or dead. Cinder betrays Emerald. Or somehow Cinder becomes good herself or tells Emerald to become good.

-Defcon Deceiver