Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-14909251-20190314210126

73.Anon.52 wrote: While Ruby may be pure hearted, we've already seen how Cinder both acquires power and reacts to pain; she lashes out and acquires more power at any cost to not fail again.

To put it lightly, it's doubtful Cinder can survive a heal-face turn with grimm implants as they seem to be controlled by her own negative emotions and desire to kill, sure she could betray Salem, but at their core the Grimm were designed to kill life, not sustain it.

So the only way she lives through the series is either as an immortal queen of darkness, or as a cripple that if she's lucky is given actual prosthesis by Jimmy... and I doubt she'd be willing to take that power loss(expecting to survive) in the first place. I think it is important to consider the broader theme involved. A big part of this story is people being divided against each other and having to come together in spite of their differences. So, I don't think a situation where all the villains die is really selling that point. Having it just be Emerald, Hazel, and Mercury wouldn't be very helpful either. The first two are exactly the ones we could all recognize as not really being "evil" as much as deeply misguided and the third is one who might just go along with it because he is close to one of them. I don't think Tyrian would be very believable and Watts is perhaps even less believable and certainly less significant. Obviously, Salem has to die no matter what happens. That leaves Cinder.