Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-14909251-20190317225744

73.Anon.52 wrote: Except the show doesn't just end with Salem's death... What do you expect her to do after that? "Gee thanks for helping me kill Salem, Ruby, I'll just open this new farm if you leave me alone..."

Cinder has the skills and motivations of a killer, and her arm and eye matters because unless she deals with the loss in a healthy way that is completely OoC for her with her current alignment AFTER Salem's death, she's going to need to follow her skills(which short of retraining are killing, mainly humans and not Grimm), and the prime motivating forces will aim those skills at RWBY, if not Ruby specifically. You don't look for power to fulfil a dream to open a tea shop. I don't know why you are so arrogantly confident that somehow Cinder's character arc can only play out one way. None of these things you are mentioning mean she is irredeemably evil or that her character can only ever be a villain. We don't know why she is looking for power exactly, but, again, we can infer based off her inspiration that it probably isn't something she seeks for its own sake. There is no reason to believe she would be okay with some plan that involves killing off all of humanity, including herself.

Although Tyrian's motivations aren't too clear, the situations of Hazel and Watts clearly indicate that Salem has a habit of using people who are in some way desperate. Cinder isn't a sociopath and definitely at times has shown hint of desparation and that is really the root of her hostility to Ruby. She wanted to be powerful and was brimming with confidence that she finally had real power, only for Ruby to come along and undo all of it. Yet there is a clearly something deeper to all of that resentment.

Point is, Cinder has already had some shocks to her system. First humbled by Ruby, then humbled by Raven, and she is already going against Salem in pursuing her vendetta. Were she to realize that the person she was doing all of this for, who made all these promises of power and put her in this situation, was planning something that would likely mean the death of her and all of present humanity, she wouldn't be happy. It would make her question what she is doing even more.