Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-70.72.38.180-20150401032633/@comment-4010415-20150415062005

Spiegelmeister wrote: I kept trying to find ways to make Sacrifice work for Cinder, but it proved to be pretty hard to correlate all the lyrics to things she's done/ could have gone through. I honestly don't see how it's so hard to make it work for Cinder.

By imagining Sacrifice being about Cinder, I've put together the following possibility:

Cinder (or her boss, if she has one?) was once a huntress who, like everyone else, believed that the kingdoms' governments valued all lives and tried to keep hunters from needlessly dying. But then she discovered that this isn't the case. Each kingdom's government sees hunters as sacrificial pawns to throw away as they see fit. She couldn't stand this, so she quit and sought to find a way to change things.


 * "Close your eyes now, time for dreams. Death is never what it seems." - The people of the kingdoms see the deaths of hunters as heroic deaths, but the governments see them as intended sacrifices.


 * "Did the things you thought you should, all the things they said were good." - Cinder obeyed the government, doing what the government said that a good huntress should do.


 * "All your faith in ancient ways leaves you trapped inside a maze. Take the lives of those you need. Sow the death and reap the seed. Reap the seed." - Talking to the kingdoms' governments. The governments operate using ancient ways, from before the kingdoms became as strong and safe as they are now. They've become lost in their use of these outdated methods. They reap rewards from sacrificing hunters.


 * "Born an angel, heaven sent. Falls from grace are never elegant." - Like I said, Cinder was a huntress, but once she found out about all this, she quit. Her resignation may not have been very pretty.


 * "You can't have my life. I'm not your sacrifice. You can try, but I'm free, and you won't conquer me. I won't crawl. Most of all, I won't fall for you." - She's free because she quit being a huntress, quit listening to the government. She refuses to be sent on suicide missions, sacrificed for the kingdom. Now, if this song is actually about Cinder's boss, and her boss is Summer Rose... Summer could've faked her death while on a suicide mission and has started operating in the shadows, using Cinder. She's free because the government thinks she's dead.

Overall, I think Cinder's plan may be to change things through violence. She intends to spark war, the kind of war that will tear kingdoms apart, and once the kingdoms are ruined, she intends to have them built back up into what she believes they should be. This completely explains how she and Roman got the White Fang to work with them. Although they're humans, they have a very similar goal and methodology to the White Fang. Both parties want to change things and are willing to use violence to do so.


 * Time to Say Goodbye and Die talk about war starting up.


 * WoR: Kingdoms ended with "They are the key to mankind's survival, as long as they stand united..." and the lights of each kingdom are blown out. This pretty much means that war between the kingdoms could tear them down.

Now, what would be really interesting is if Summer is Cinder's boss, and Raven helped them get that partnership with the White Fang, possibly even being the person who helped the White Fang's new leader rise to power. It would create a lot of drama, especially if Raven really is Yang's mother.