Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24098614-20180508224452/@comment-34724302-20180526074435

Arkantos95 wrote: Masma93 wrote: The way she talked about it to Yang and her reaction to Cinder's words imply far less that she helped Spring to suicide or killed her to save the tribe than the Spring Maiden indeed trusted her like Cinder and Yang guessed and that she repaid that trust with treachery and murder because Spring wasn't living-up to her standarts. Both cases you're referring to are assumptions made by people who know fuck-all about Raven or the what went down between them. And need I remind you that Spring was going to die regardless if she was weak. Which, by all accounts, she was. She fled Haven because she couldn't handle Leo's training, and then, no matter what Raven did, she couldn't get any stronger. Weak Maidens are how you get Cinder, I cannot stress this point enough.

Also, I would like to point out that Raven's plan saved literally all of the protagonists. Cinder and Hazel together would've slaughtered all of them. Yet both people turned out te be right because Raven all but outright said that she indeed killed the Spring Maiden intentionnaly. And Spring staying weak might be a hint of how good Leo and Raven are as teachers because it's not sure that Spring wouldn't have progressed with someone stronger than Leonardo and more understanding and compassionate than Raven. And a Maiden being weak or Raven's later actions which weren't heroic at all don't justify or excuse the fact that Raven betrayed and killed a little girl.