Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160207164218/@comment-14138255-20160209174642

MetallicArcher wrote: @Ben

You are giving Cinder way too much credit, I think. The things people are capable of doing, specially out of fear or greed have no names.

Roman clearly strikes me as he bited more than he could chew when he started working for Cinder, but his speech sounds to me that, even if Cinder hadn't contracted him, he would have tried to jump ship to her side once mayhem started to go down.

Emerald isn't so happy with the outcome of their plans, but the question is if she will have the balls to jump ship or will stay for survival. Yeah, but she still has something about her. It's not that she corrupts them and makes them evil, she just enables their evil. Emerald was just a poor, hungry thief going meal by meal, lien by lien before Cinder came along and gave her everything she wanted in exchange for her talents. Mercury was just trying to get away from his abusive killer of a father before he realized he is just as good at killing as he was and Cinder gave him something to do with himself. Roman was just a normal criminal only in it for himself, had Cinder not come along he might have just jumped ship and move to Vacuo and establish an extortion racket. Neo...well, Neo seems to be just fine with where she is. Even Ironwood, who only brought his army to protect the people no matter the mild concern, was manipulated into looking like a warmonger and took control of his armies to prove it.

Cinder isn't a corrupter, she's an enabler. If you have evil tendencies, no matter how benign you used to be, she will bring them out.