Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25045079-20140718183544/@comment-27596920-20140721014017

So Cinder's hair tips are light grey and for some, that indicates that she's older than she looks. For me, it's not really. Just at the tips? It could be how her hair grows. If she were getting older, the whole strands of hair would turn grey, not just the tips.

So I agree, probably 24-30 (a good wide range). I would say she's probably recently, but not real recently out of Beacon or skipped out for some reason. I think Emerald and Mercury are probably her age. They could have been in Beacon with her or she just recruited them. But you can't exactly post a poster up saying you need associates for evil plans. So she must have met them some other way and connected with them.

Maybe they were friends in school. Maybe not. Maybe she did someone find them. However, they are either just a year younger or a year older than her. I'm saying a year older as a possibility just because they have that look that could actually surpass Cinder's age by a year or two.

Maybe I just like the idea of Cinder being younger than her associates, which would actually be funny if she were. I doubt it though. They're probably a year or two younger than her.