Thread:Maki Kuronami/@comment-26518737-20180706124629/@comment-26518737-20180706134410

I'd prefer to leave it up to you to trim the entire section of unconfirmed speculations, if you care about it so much. This would shrink the section by factor of four at the very least. And also by factor of two or three  after trimming repeatitions.

>I don't see it. Salem and Cinder have few similarities with each other.

They behave themselves in a very similar manner: calm and collected when things go their way, but with a temper when it doesn't. Salem also disdains failure and uses insults for motivation. They might have different motivations, but their behaviour is surprising similar. The only part where they differ is that we are yet to see Salem showing any flashy moves.

>the middle part is arguable, since she does have connections with Salem's crew.

Ties != connections. "Connection" means you know a person, "tie" means you carea bout a person. I fail to see any genuine affection from Cinder towards Salem's crew or anyone at all. Feel free to provide a link to an episode proving me wrong.

>This one is speculative since we don't know enough about Cinder to say that's true.

Insecurities about weakness are definitely there (Salem used it to motivate Cinder in the episode I linked) and they cannot appear from a thin air. The talk with Salem indicates that Cinder didn't change her motivation all that much, so her insecurities should predate the association.

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So, I fail to see ANYTHING to cut from my paragraph: everything I posted is infered from the show in a direct, logical matter.