Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26417457-20190905232433/@comment-14909251-20190913060849

Kaitryona Acheron wrote: Cinder can be the villain without executing defenseless opponents and civilians. I think there's a difference between her competence as a villain and her ruthlessness as a villain. And I think it's important to evaluate her ruthlessness as well.

I tend to think ruthlessness means a little more than not sparing people who are threats.

The Mistral woman was definitely not her enemy. That was a civilian.

She was a witness and Cinder was a fugitive. While she had not yet seen her face spread everywhere, she would have every reason to believe they failed and she would have to be on the run. It would not be wise for Cinder to let a witness tell everyone about her.

We certainly haven't seen anything that resembles fondness for Emerald from Cinder.

Well, this is another thing we haven't really seen. Presumably, if Emerald shows up in Atlas and runs into Cinder, we will get some idea as to how the relationship really works. Of course, that assumes they meet up in circumstances where they could interact.

When somebody asks you to do something, and you skirt it by looking for a loophole; what you've actually done is confessed your intent to subvert that person's directions.

I am not disputing any of that. Point is, in her own way, she is trying to technically not defy Salem. Could be out of fear or could be out of loyalty. The latter seems a little more likely and more compelling.

It could very well just be laziness, but I like to think that you're right on this one. But I caution you not to expect any kind of sprawling, in depth backstory. I never expect anything so specific. However, I do think it is likely we will get more than we did with Adam.

we still don't know anything about. . . Watts . . . backstories.

Gonna interject to note that technically we have been told he is a disgraced Atlesian scientist.