User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 23: Cinder and her flames of eternity/@comment-11188061-20140914104230

There's a few things I need to change my mind about.

One thing is Cinder's power level. She's a powerful Huntress no doubt, but I actually think she's below Glynda's level in a clean and straight fight. My first impression was built on the fact that she's a final boss of sorts and is equal level among the professors, but recent reveals said otherwise.

To begin with, she's obviously Ruby's 'opposing rival'. Granted, I seriously doubt Ruby can do much except surprise Cinder with some really good tactics and tenacity, but Ruby had to be at a level where she could catch up to Cinder to begin with. Do we think that Ruby can beat Professor Ozpin, even if we give her another ten years to catch up? Not likely. I don't even think ten years is enough for her to beat Glynda.

But Cinder is'' young. ''It's hard to see that when she acts so mature, but it's true. She is powerful, but I feel like she's also a cheater. So many things are a lie. She employs shortcuts to attain her strength as soon as possible. Someone like Ruby who builds her foundation slowly but solidly, is actually her worst kind of enemy.

On an unrelated note, I don't like this chapter that much because the animation flaws are incredibly jarring. Again, I must stress that Dead Fantasy from what, ten years ago had better object interaction than anything I've seen so far in RWBY. The concept that you employ a 3D background as a 2D is flawed to begin with; it works as a hack but for long term goals it's going to screw things up really hard.