Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-14909251-20190402233424

Alhazad2003 wrote: Not necessarily, Team JNR will keep fighting the war even if Cinder is dead, especially since they know more of what's at stake than Cinder probably does. And you seem to forget, RT has shown villains' backstories posthumously, they could've easily done so with Cinder had she perished in Haven. I can see them doing the same for Adam in Volume 7, thus proving they don't need him alive to tell his story. And frankly, I wouldn't be the least bit offended if Cinder got fridged, she's long lost her chance to be of any interest to me, so I certainly wouldn't miss her. They certainly can do a character's backstory after the fact, but there is a certain impact of having the character tell or reveal his or her own backstory in some way that exposition from another character can never really satisfy. Adam, while we don't have his whole backstory, we do have enough clues to suggest it was a pretty bad one. So far, the only thing we really have that seems to give insight into her motivations are a few scattered lines in the beginning of a Volume 3 said where she talked about wanting power and to be feared. It says something, but it says a lot less than what was said simply by revealing Adam's scar, even though I feel that too was still somewhat inadequate.

However, Adam was never a particularly central character to the overall story. Mostly, his story was central to a sub-plot about the treatment of the Faunus. Part of what is important about knowing Cinder's motivation is knowing how these people would come to serve Salem. Hazel's reasons have already been revealed and we can somewhat infer the kind of situations Tyrian and Watts were in based on what little we know of them. Of the four, Cinder is probably the only one whose background and motivations are still a complete mystery. Even Salem's background and motivations have been made clear enough. Given Cinder was the first major villain introduced, it would be just plain ridiculous if she was also the only one of out of the group we never learned more about.