User blog comment:AK151/"Sacrifice" Analysis/@comment-24891101-20141106084404/@comment-16241789-20141107163059

The big thing with Cinder is that we know basically nothing about her, including her age. She looks young, but the presence she commands and her strategic mind provide evidence that she could be much older than she looks. But aside from that, even as I wrote this, I started leaning more towards Raven, if only because it's difficult to reconcile Cinder's actions now with the personality displayed in the lyrics in the song.

With regards to my theory of Summer possibly suffering a slow fall from grace rather than one big sacrifice, just because she slowly falls doesn't mean she's still alive. "The moon will sadly watch the roses die". And with regards to her motif, well, it is from Ruby's perception, and I wouldn't put it below Summer to hide a gradual degredation of her character from her daughter.

Be that as it may, the theory still has some flaws that I mentioned above. Good analysis, though. I think you did hit some fairly valid points.