User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author-Hiatus Edition: Roman Torchwick/@comment-10390252-20141209143644

I'm going to say this much - the fact that Emerald and Mercury delivered Roman to the AK-200s, I'd say that his incarceration is entirely in line with Cinder's plans. He's also smart enough to know that turning a theft into a murder would just attract more attention at a time when his (Cinder's) plan was still far from being ready to be enacted.

Regarding the non-lethal nature of the shot in Black and White, there are two factors here. Firstly, the range was far greater, meaning more of the blast's energy has to be used to propel the dust charge. Secondly, Ruby may have blocked it with Crescent Rose. There is some indication that the weapon's structure has some energy-diffusing quality that enables her to use it to parry attacks.

Finally, I've got a feeling that Tukson was Roman's agent in the White Fang. I think that his cover was blown and that is why he was running and why Roman was slow-walking the liquidation order. Yes, I'm sure that Roman is running his own, independent scheme and will betray Cinder as soon as it profits him to do so. However, he is no friend of  the authorities and I can't see him doing anything to help them unless it's the only way he can escape from a situation with his life.