Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191130155818/@comment-2406:3003:2002:9C9:70A2:3581:98C8:1BA3-20191201070332

We don't see Cinder returning to Salem yet for a new mission, and given she failed the last time to get Spring Maiden powers (likely not her main objective since they were tasked with getting the relic). I don't think she'll know where to head to to kill Fria, and the conversation between Weiss and Winter proposes an alternative.

Winter: "She can pass any day now, until then no one is allowed there but me"

Weiss talks about how this has all been chosen for Winter, Winter feels like she's choosing for herself.

Perhaps, before Fria passes, Weiss will enter the room, and the encounter of a new person would be lasting enough for the powers to pass to her instead. Weiss might do this to prevent her older sister from bearing the burden of living up to everyone's expectations, since although both of them escaped their father, Winter's never escaped expectations of her from everyone else in the military.

Depending on how Jacques spins it, people might turn on Ironwood instead since Tyrian has been on a murder spree to frame Ironwood and Watts is a genius, probably has a plan to destabilise Mantle and Atlas by pitting them with one another. If Ironwood seemed like the good guy again there would be someone to rally to and Salem doesn't want that.

From the looks of it FNKI aren't fully fledged huntsmen and huntresses, they're probably wondering why RWBY and JNOR have licenses. Hopefully they aren't just a cameo. Robin and her huntresses do seem to pose another problem in the upcoming power struggle, since she has the support of the people, and looks out for Mantle first. If she is at odds with Ironwood she'll be easy pickings for Watts to manipulate.

Amity Arena seems like it'll still go up, but Atlas will fall in the process.