Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160226002630/@comment-25936766-20161005122421

Alhazad2003 wrote:

Emerald: I've always hated characters that toy with people's minds, that's a serious pet peeve of mine. And yet Emerald seems to be proud of it, shows how little she thinks of other people. 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?).