Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-1446360-20180911020951/@comment-24018437-20180911184340

I honestly took those scenes as something else. At the time, I did believe that Cinder might desert WTCH...But not because she would reform, or regret her actions. Rather, that she realizes that she's in over her head.

This is somewhat speculative, considering we don't know much about Cinder's past, but this was my theory. Cinder was obsessed with gaining power more then anything. Thus, she made a deal with the devil in order to achieve that, the 'devil' being Salem. She was so blinded by her lust for power that she never truly realized what working with Salem meant...Untill she got back to her mistress, stronger and yet weaker at the same time.

So for a time, I did believe Cinder would abondon Salem eventually. Not because she regretted her actions, but either because she realized working with Salem wasn't the smartest thing to do in retrospect and that the power wasn't worth it, or because her ambition got the better off her and she tried to overthrow Salem. To me, those scenes were meant to show her doubts when it come's to following Salem from a purely practical and survivalist point of view, and not a moralistic one.

I abonded this theory after volume 5, but I still believe that if Cinder were to ever betray Salem, I don't think it would ever be because of moralistic reasons. If she were to ally herself with Ruby (and that alone is already extremely unlikely, especially if she's dead), then it would be temporary, and purely because there is no other choiche other then her ending up dead, and they'd go right back to being enemies afterwards. And even that I highly doubt.