Do you think Cinder's story will be about ending the cycle of abuse or whatever?
I mean I think thatâs a major part of the whole showâs story. One of the major themes of RWBY is Legacy, what we get from those who came before, and what we leave behind for those who will come after. And part of that idea is improving on and exorcising the bad of what you inherit.
Weâve already seen Blake and Weiss break the cycle. I think the cycle will totally be further broken.
But Cinderâs story specifically, while I do think will also break the cycle of abuse, I donât think will be about it.Â
If anything, I think a major theme in Cinderâs story will be Redemption itself.Â
Cinder is introduced to us as this scheming villainess, all confidence and swagger. We see her abusing the much more sympathetic Emerald, weâre told her motivation is solely to gain more power. And when weâre given the origins of our villain team in Volume 3, Cinderâs is held back.Â
Cinderâs origins are held back from us for a massive chunk of the series.Â
She kills a main character. She makes it a mission to kill another. She nearly kills a third.Â
We are given every reason to root against her.Â
And then... weâre shown her backstory. Weâre shown the abuse that went into making the Cinder we know. Weâre shown her trying her best to work inside the system, trying to escape the ârightâ way. Weâre shown her abusers trying to take that away from her, and in the heat of the moment she kills them.Â
And weâre shown her being branded as irredeemable for it.Â
Thatâs the entire reason why Cinder is a villain, why sheâs a bad guy. Because she made a mistake as a teenager and was told she could never walk back from it. That the thing she wanted most, her freedom, would never be hers. That running is âall sheâll ever doâ.Â
All the hurt, all the pain that Cinder Fall has caused throughout the series is because she doesnât think she has the choice to be better. Because society says she has to pay for her mistake, and pay on their terms, and that means sacrificing the one thing sheâs ever wanted. Freedom.Â
And she wanted to be a Huntress! She wanted to help people! She could have done so much good!
RWBY is genuinely saying that if you brand someone as irredeemable, incapable of being better... then they will accept that being good, becoming better, is not an option.Â
That even if you donât like it, even if you have every reason to root against someone... you have to give them the chance to be better.Â
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