Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11188061-20141008045121/@comment-70.72.38.180-20150309011756

Here's something I kind of want to see happen. I want to see Ruby interact with Ironwood and Cinder since they have different views on the huntsman system (at least Ironwood does. We need more on Cinder).

Ruby is no doubt the wide-eyed idealist. She seems to be in love with the ideal side of being huntress (being a hero) but not the reality because she hasn't seen the reality. Huntman are basically soliders that can  die at anytime and can be easily replaced with another huntsman. Not only that, but not all huntsmans will have the same ideals as you and are willing to fight to show that their ideals are better. This is where Ironwood and Cinder come in.

I see the two of them playing off as 'mentors' to Ruby now that Ozpin is temporarily out of power. Ironwood obvioulsy has respect for Ruby so I think he may try to teach her that "his way is necessary because it's saving more lives" and "Ozpin's and idiot" blah, blah, blah. I don't think Ironwood is evil, but I think that whatever history he has with Ozpin (he clearly never trusted him because why else would he bring his fleet? It's almost like he was expecting Ozpin to screw up) is clouding his judgment. Does he really want to help or does he subconciously want to stick it to Ozpin?

Cinder is an odd case because we don't what her deal is. I do like the idea of her being a pawn to 'The Queen'. If the Queen is Summer Rose then I wouldn't be suprised if Cinder has been 'ordered' to not take action on Ruby, but instead get the girl (and to some extent Yang) on thier side since bad things are going to happen soon and doesn't want Ruby to be in the crossfire. If not then it's a "keep your friends close but keep your enemies"  sort of thing. Either way Ruby has Cinder's attention.