Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-25936766-20160722173646

In other words, either Emerald's attempt at redemption is rejected, or she is forgiven but not forgotten (in other words, they let her join, but won't be all friendly and trustful of her).

While I admit both possibilities with Emerald are possible, I think it would be more likely that Emerald doesn't even try to redeem herself, but instead become Cinder 2.0 and try to kill Ruby for doing who-knows-what to Cinder, the person that pulled her out of the streets.

Of course, these things aren't mutually exclusive. I can see her trying to redeem herself after that.