Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-1292715-20180314062810

Yeah that's my only gripe here too, people underestimating Cinder's power a little too much. Look I've accepted that it is most likely that she didn't survive, as I understand that maybe she really has served her purpose. I just don't believe her possible survival would be an ass-pull in any sense. I get the sense that those who would called it that only do so because they're severely underestimating maiden powers, which is basically OP compared to normal huntsmen. I just think that with her power it's still plausible, no matter how much people try to justify how implausible it would normally be.

Bottomline: Could she be dead? Most likely yes. Would it be ass-pull if she survived? Absolutely not! Rather, it'd be an impressive feat.

And quite frankly I've seen worse examples of a character surviving against impossible odds; Cid from Final Fantasy IV comes to mind, who has no magical abilities or special physical traits, is about 50-60 years old, and he free fell from hundreds of feet in the air, detonating a bomb in his hand, and lived with no explanation how. Now THAT is a real ass-pull right there.