Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-26018514-20190329031650

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: I disagree, Cinder herself isn't that much more important to the plot since Salem could always replace her ... Unless Cinder's backstory is something like "descendent of Oz and/or Salem" but until they release that backstory we wouldn't know it was. Are you talking about Salem taking her place or do you mean introducing a new character to replace Cinder?... This isn't a series where you have a line of "big bads" with their own group of "lesser bads" to run through. Only one Big Bad exists in this series and no "lesser bads" could be introduced that would be as effective for plot reasons unless you have characters flip alignments. RWBY has its existing group of villains and is unlikely to grow that by much, if at all. So the question is who can fill the role Cinder fills and the truth is no one. Hazel is too nice, Tyrian is too mean and crazy, and Watts is too smug. I'm talking about the potential of a character taking Cinder's place had she died in V3 or V5, then we had been introduced to another member of Salem's circle that had inherited her powers, using the screen time that Cinder took in those following volumes to establish said new character.

We were introduced to said circle out of no-where, another person wouldn't have made a difference being added at any time, and still wouldn't be that surprising tbh.