Honestly, I can almost see Emerald as a good guy. Well, sort of. Her backstory reminds me of Zhalia Moon from the cartoon Huntik: Secrets and Seekers.

Spoilers ahead, so yeah. You have been warned.

Zhalia grew up in an orphanage in Amsterdam, where an Organisation operative named Klaus adopted her and trained her in stealth, deception and other stuff spies need, so she could work for the Organisation. Zhalia did so with great success, primarily because her adopted father, Klaus, sent her on these missions and he was the first person to ever care for her. Her last mission, infiltrating and destroying the team of Dante Vale, ended a bit different, though. Dante trusted Zhalia, and she came to realize that he and his team were her real friends. So, she eventually turned against Klaus and joined the good guys.



And now back to RWBY. I think Emerald is at the point where Cinder just has to send her infiltrate Ruby´s team to have Emerald become good. Well, at least Emerald would use her talents for the good guys then.



Man, imagine Emerald and Ruby trying to get along with each other, since Ruby has already figured out that Emerald was partly responcible for Yang being disqualified from the Vytal tournament and Penny being killed...