Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161228024928/@comment-25936766-20161228174057

ChishioKunrin wrote: Then, why did Ruby's silver eye flash affect Cinder, when we were only told about it affecting Grimm? Being more specific about what we were told....Qrow told Ruby about the legends, which consisted of SEWs vs Grimm. He only spoke about their legendary powers being used against the Grimm, to great effectiveness.

Basically, they never said it only affects Grimm. The tales just never mentioned about what it does to people. And given SEWs were described like heroic figures, it's more than likely that the tales never mentioned about any SEW attacking people. It would be like a beloved king slaughtering his own people, if it happened.

So I'll make an analogy to explain how we can take the Silver Eyes: Imagine a magical sword that can 1-hit-kill Dragons. One can still kill people and other creatures with that sword, but it's just designed/meant to kill Dragons easily, so it does that with more effectiveness. Against anything else, it's just a fancy sword.

Based on both possibilities however, I think of 2 theories:

1) The eyes do affect humans, and Cinder was damaged by them. They just aren't as effective. In Pokemon speak, they are super-effective vs Grimm, but deal normal damage vs non-Grimm. The Grimm inside her probably made the damage be super-effective.

2) The eyes do not affect humans, so Cinder herself wasn't damaged. But, the Grimm inside her was damaged by the eyes, and due to their....connection, when the Grimm was damaged, so was Cinder.