Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33053086-20171110214809/@comment-27144409-20171110230250

Not what I meant. In my opinion, Yang seems to better represent a phoenix, since she actually seems to be stronger, smarter and a better fighter than before, while Cinder is still heavily scarred and missing an eye

The reason a phoenix is off the table is because it's a mythical creature, and we have no indication that those who can transform (for now only Qrow) can transform into  mythical creature, sort of like how a unicorn Faunus can't be a thing based on what we've seen and extrapolate.