Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24098614-20190414084546/@comment-26018514-20190421062510

Keep in mind, it's not entirely clear she actually intended to kill her brother, if she had really wanted to she would easily have been able to kill him as a maiden, but she didn't. That entire "help me kill my brother" plan was likely just her way of addressing that she knew Qrow would be among their opposition, and mollifying Cinder that Raven was invested enough to enact the plan, especially if it meant killing him, because Cinder's entire trump card was the lives of the bandits, so had she hinted she cared about him at all to her, he could have become another liability to Raven, and tipped off to Cinder that this would all go pear shaped at Haven.