Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-960184-20170310182051/@comment-4010415-20170311223519

Indeed. I guess, before the Maidens, the plan was just that Cinder was gonna stir up so much negative emotion that the Grimm attacked, and she was gonna deliver that speech and whatnot, then go looking for the Relic.

Quite some time back, they had said we wouldn't see Ozpin fight anytime soon, since Monty had said that Ozpin only fights when he absolutely positively has to. He said that Ozpin is "old as dirt" and prefers to leave things to the younger people. So, the reason they changed their minds and had us get to see him fight (however briefly) is because, with the Maidens added to the story, suddenly Cinder was actually a powerful enough threat for Ozpin to feel that he absolutely positively had to fight.

Pyrrha was always going to die, but the way she would die was different. I've heard that the writers said, in the original plan, Jaune was going to be partially responsible for it, so I'm really glad that it played out differently. Poor Jaune already has enough problems without the fandom saying "It's your fault she's dead." Even still, the fandom fussed at him for dropping his guard when Pyrrha screamed in pain because it led to Amber getting shot.

If Cinder did end up with the Grimm beetle from the glove getting absorbed into her body, and if that is why she was hurt by Ruby's Silver Eye powers, then I wonder if that was part of the original plan, too. If so, was there another reason she would have that Grimm beetle inside of her?