Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-25936766-20161004151216

BenRG wrote: -To impress Cinder? She can be very sadistic, I'll bet!

-She also seems to resent the protagonists, so there could be a 'revenge for being happy' thing in there too.

-Now you sound like Alhazad....

-That would justify her hating them and such, but would not justify her inflicting a mental breakdown.

But, speaking of revenge, I can definitely see her trying to inflict one on Ruby, if she knows about what happened to Cinder. (We know her VA's voicing some lines, but we don't know Cinder's role in Vol.4), or what she thinks happened to Cinder at least. The possibilities that I can see for that are:

1) Ruby froze/KOd Cinder with that flash of light (she may recover from that early or late into the Volume).

2) Ruby left Cinder in a bad state (injured, weakened, or something similar).

3) It was just a flashbang, nothing happened to her.

Given Emerald's possible fangirlism or at least admiration of Cinder, I can see her trying to crush Ruby's psyche if (1) or (2) happened, as revenge.