Any thoughts on how Cinder's character arc is gonna play out? I feel like she's very set in her ideal of "gain more power, use people against eachother" mentality and its just gonna keep biting her in the ass. Do you think she's gonna survive this new volume?
i think she’ll survive this volume (i mean, as of the end of volume 6, she is at least three weeks behind the heroes, so she might not show up for a while anyway) but her constantly assuming the worst of other peoples motives (taking it at face value that Raven wanted Qrow dead, believing she has convinced Neo to focus her ire on Ruby just because she said Ruby is to blame and scared Neo into stopping the fight) is gonna bite her in the ass again - Neo is very much set up to stab her in the back and swap sides (not out of any moral reasons but the heroes are her best bet if she wants to take Cinder down)
i do think this will be the volume the heroes find out about her Grimm arm and why Ruby’s eyes have been able to affect her, and that will probably come with Cinder’s conditioning worsening (as a result of being stabbed in the back and the Grimm inside her having to plug the damage, and likely Salem punishing her for trying to abuse a loophole in trying to get Neo to kill Ruby for her when Salem wants Ruby alive)
and this is less a prediction and more a hope, but the series finally making the foiling between Cinder and Yang more explicit and setting them up to go head to head