Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-172.58.217.253-20160701170327

24.114.67.60 wrote: 73.69.5.166 wrote: 172.58.216.208 wrote:<br13. Personally I think that Neo is a member of Cinder's faction based on the fact that she was on her "team", she may has been placed with Roman as a liaison for him. Also whose to say that he didn't know about Salem, he at least new enough to now that a war was coming and that it would be best to be on the winning side as shown to in his very ironic last words. "You'll know what you need when you need to know." That is what Cinder told Roman at the end of V2E1. Would Roman NEED to know about Salem if his part in the plan was 1) Steal Dust, 2) lead the WF into causing a breach of Vale, 3) Trojan prisoner, and 4) fuck shit up with a hijacked battleship. How would knowing about Salem help him do his part in the evil plan? Roman's skillset is stealing and being a magnificent bastard; even if he'd lived, I'm pretty sure he's served his purpose. And looking at his ironic last words, being told that the sexy, scary pyromancer that's had him by the balls for the better part of a year is working for a humanoid eldritch abomination that may-or-may-not be the Queen/mother of all Grimm, might cause him to think that his best chance of survival would be to spill all the beans in hopes of a plea bargain. Keeping him in the dark keeps him under control.

As for Neo, 1st: she was introduced helping Roman, and 2nd: when Ruby knocked Neo off the airship Mary Poppins-style, Roman showed an emotion he'd never seen from him: concern for someone else. This indicates that Neo and Roman have been a duo since before Cinder showed up. Combined with the fact that Neo's insane, Roman can probably control her better than any of the others. Ergo, what Roman doesn't know, Neo doesn't know, and it keeps them both in line. As for being on Cinder's team in the tournament, A) it's smarter on RT's part to make Cinder's fourth a character we've already met and adore, and B) Neo's combat skills and ability to disguise herself down to her eye color makes her perfect for infiltrating a fighting tourament, and C) RT needed to have her do something while Roman's busy being a Trojan prisoner as mentioned above.

-He who is AWESOME