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NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#32676: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:17:44 AM

you see her reaction after seen the destruction of vale? also there a brief dialogue where Cinder hit her
No, I don't remember either of those things. When does that happen?

It's pretty easy to infer that Roman and Neo were close when the only time she ever speaks and the only time Roman show's any emotion other than snark is when she's thrown off the plane.
I took that as a more generic Oh, Crap! reaction, since it went from Ruby being all-but-defeated and hanging helplessly off the side of the airship to evening the odds against her and being back in the fight in an instant. It's not like Neo was even in any real danger, given that we see her floating down on her umbrella rather than plummeting helplessly. (And even that wouldn't have been a guarantee of anything, given that virtually every character in the show has a way to break a fall, through Recoil Boost if nothing else, and most of them could tank a drop at terminal velocity anyway.)

[list of presumed motivation] See? Wasn't so hard.
The fact that we can come up with a reasonable guess doesn't change the fact that despite all the screentime the villains get, we still know very little about them. We've got some backstory for how they end up with Cinder in the first place, but that's about it (and we don't even have that for all of them). There's a large gap between "fans can come up with their own explanations that fit what we've seen so far" and "the show actually spends any time developing it".

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#32677: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:25:15 AM

I fail to see why the show leaving stuff up to interpretation, especially something as likely to be developed later as the villains' true motivations (Salem and Cinder are basically guaranteed to be expounded on), is a bad thing.

Also, Emerald says something to the effect of "It's almost sad..." with a genuinely mournful look on her face when the trio are on a rooftop with Mercury recording the carnage. And Roman responds to Neo getting Mary Poppins'd with an anguished cry of her name, hardly the reaction of an "oh shit, now the odds are even against me!". Especially considering he proceeds to wipe the floor with Ruby.

edited 18th Apr '16 11:27:06 AM by Ninety

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#32678: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:28:03 AM

[up][up] Floating right into a flock of Grimm, mind you.

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#32679: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:28:16 AM

[up][up][up]In cinder episode there is a brief moment when Emerald said something and aparenly Cinder hit her, showing she is not enterly aboard with the plan, also moment before Cinder goes to the vault, we see her reaction and she is taken back for what is happeing.

And Roman reacion said much, he actually said "NEO!" which soudn worry, granted he is also annoy that Ruby STILL fight even when odd are against her but he and Neo since to share something.

edited 18th Apr '16 11:28:37 AM by unknowing

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#32680: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:28:29 AM

Season Book 4 has to be the time for Flashbacking, learning about villains happens after they win...but they don't win-win yet.

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#32681: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:41:10 AM

wild mass guessSalem will deploy an elite mook after the heroes which will chase them for the entire Volume

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#32682: Apr 18th 2016 at 12:02:24 PM

Also, unless Cinder can absorb other maiden power, they will need more villians.....

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#32683: Apr 18th 2016 at 12:11:42 PM

Yeah, what's an Anime with only one group of villains?

They don't even need to clash, they just need to exist.

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#32684: Apr 18th 2016 at 12:23:44 PM

[up]What Im saying is that Salem will need more people, otherwise she is limited to one maiden only

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#32685: Apr 18th 2016 at 12:31:19 PM

Yeah and for extra intrigue... These Dark maidens are always trying to upstage each other

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#32686: Apr 18th 2016 at 12:37:15 PM

So what other will be? sleeping beauty will be one I think, what other fairy chararter could be use? the mermaid?

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#32687: Apr 18th 2016 at 1:05:45 PM

Oh yeah, many a motivations for the dastardly duo, Mercury and Emerald, have been well implied without being spelled out in a monologuing speech.

Merc murdered his father, a legendary assassin, who also raised him. He said he knew what a drunk's breath smelled like. When he saw Penny get destroyed and what that did to Ruby, he smiled. No, I do not need him to tell me he's a violently abused teen raised by abusive drunk and molded into a sadistic, sociopathic assassin he is now.

After snuffing Terk(?), where Emerald was the most outspoken to Cinder's criticism, the way she hung on her words. "We don't need him," followed by that slap in the black-fade. I don't need a map to tell me she's been made emotionally dependent on Cinder.

Now, Roman and Neo. Ya, when I saw it, his reaction stood out to me as Roman actually giving a damn. I don't need to be told explicitly that they have a connection.

Pyrhha had to play hero out of a misplaced sense of responsibility and paid the price for it, but hot damn did she hold her own for a while. Cinder got the mother of all surprise rounds on everyone. Ruby's power came the fuck out of nowhere.

And this entire series's scheduling meant it's tone shift came far too out of left field.

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#32689: Apr 18th 2016 at 1:34:55 PM

[up][up]Mercury seen like evil version of yang: playfull and sportman like, the diferent is that she threat fighting like that while he treat MURDER like that

(but right now I see more parallel between her and Adam)

Also cinder cry a tear when Phyrra said "do you belive in destiny?" which implies she did and something bad happen to her, also when she said "such and arrogance" is hard to said what she wants but she follow Salem, who is the grandmother to CINDE Rella.

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UndyingPhoenix Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#32690: Apr 18th 2016 at 1:38:06 PM

How is Yang like resident Edgelord Mc Stalker Emo Yandere-chan?

edited 18th Apr '16 1:38:29 PM by UndyingPhoenix

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#32691: Apr 18th 2016 at 1:43:23 PM

They both want Blake duhsmile

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#32692: Apr 18th 2016 at 1:45:15 PM

[up][up]both are rather protective of Yang, impulsive, willing to cause problem and face people for it and with very short temper

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#32693: Apr 18th 2016 at 1:55:09 PM

Plus they both probably have a connection to Raven

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#32694: Apr 18th 2016 at 2:01:03 PM

[up]also, for what we see but use charging atack into a powerfull blow, and Yang like to charg at things....like a bullevil grin

there is a reason Blake think Yang was becoming like him....Yang need to embrace the edgeside

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#32696: Apr 18th 2016 at 2:07:56 PM

[up]Yeah, everyone talking about dark phyrra, when what we need is edgelady yang.....now THAT is something I can getevil grin

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#32697: Apr 18th 2016 at 2:11:17 PM

Then Adam realizes that he loved the wrong person and he becomes the stalker of Yang.

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#32698: Apr 18th 2016 at 2:12:05 PM

[up]only after knowing that Yang is faunus all alone and grow a new arm of pure edgyness.....

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#32699: Apr 18th 2016 at 2:17:41 PM

Taking page out of Kaneki's book? Hope she also picked up some good anatomy lessons as well.

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#32700: Apr 18th 2016 at 2:19:26 PM

[up]well Kaneki is a edgelord in training, he still need a lot to work but the edge is strong on him, so yeah Yang could follow the same path

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