Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160226002630/@comment-5430952-20161006080221

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: What makes you think that? I haven't seen Emerald ever show any kind of real pride in her Semblance's ability. Really, she seems to treat it more like yet another way to solve problems and do things. Like a handy tool, but no much else. And she at most simply tricked people with it. Made distractions and tricks, but never truly toyed with anyone's mind. Except Pyrrha, but I'm absolutely sure that's because Cinder told her to, not because Emerald wanted to. Her lack of remorse about it meanwhile, it's because she doesn't like any of the good guys, which doesn't mean she thinks little of others (after all, if you saw a jackass you hate get beaten up, would you feel bad for them?). Oh she definitely took pride in it, just listen to some of the lyrics from "I'm the One," Casey Lee is singing from Emerald's perspective in the song:

''I'm the one

Who rose out of filth and was loved by no one

Delusion

I'll steal til you're blind and defeat you from inside your mind ''

''I'm the one

I'll race with your eyes and you'll never outrun

Illusions

Will conquer your mind and will make you fulfill my design''

Pretty much speaks for itself, sounds like someone who enjoys toying with people to me. Those are the type of characters I hate the most, that and getting away with murder or worse. And since she's been hanging around Cinder so much, I can see her picking up Cinder's belief that "people are nothing but pawns." Yeah, it might not be fun for her now, realizing what she's wrought, but that doesn't excuse what she's wrought. For all we know she'll forget about Vale and go right back to doing it again, sickening. >:(