Talk:Hazel Rainart/@comment-29933641-20180113180252/@comment-10390252-20180113182026

All of Salem's inner circle seem corrupted in some way: Hazel by grief, Cinder by her lust for power (possibly as a way of escaping an abusive childhood), Watts by his desire for his science to be freed from ethics and the law and Tyrian simply because he's a psychopath. Salem seems to have used those psychological flaws as things into which she could put her hooks to turn them into willing agents of the dark under the delusion that she would give them what they want without any long-term cost to them.