User blog comment:MrGrey27/Cinder, Emerald, the white fang- and Sonia from Fire Emblem/@comment-25195920-20140801051815

Facinating, and accurate, little chilling to see how close it is. Wonder if Monty used FE for inspiration. Myself an amateur writer i do know how hard it is to be perfectly original in your writing, a fact that got pointed out by a college during an ego demolishing review session so if he did take some inspiration from FE i wouldn't be upset or too suprised but he also could have come up with this and it just happened to be close. Personally i got enough faith in Monty to say he takes nods from some places but makes it his in creative ways. As for Cinder and Co. sneaking into Beacon in the first place, i'm betting they are posing as visitors from another academy.