Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.70.92.41-20151228204640/@comment-25343309-20160417021036

71.75, that makes no sense at all, why would they go to the trouble of hiding from everyone in plain sight and manipulating the matchups just to commit cold blooded murder on global television, thus blowing their cover wide open? especially since Yang isn't an important target, she's just a student. Cinder's overall goal was to obtain the full power of the Fall Maiden, to do that she needed a massive distraction, so to start she tricked yang into "maiming" Mercury in cold blood, as preparation for the fight between Penny and Pyrrha, where she could use that attack as one more nail in Beacon's coffin and cause mass panic, and a resultant Grimm attack, which gace Cinder the opportunity to sneak into Beacon and kill Amber, taking her power in the process