alive

Yeah, me too. I mean, I know she´s a freaking psycho who´d destroy an entire city and trigger a chain reaction that would lead to the end of humanity as we know it (after all, that´s LITERALLY what she already did), but I can´t help but look forward to more episodes with her. Not so much because of her, though, but because of those she interacts with. Especially Emerald.With all we´ve seen of Cinder, I´d actually expect her to tell Emerald that she´s of no use anymore and give her an hour to pack her things before she has to go back to where they first me. Sure, Cinder would do the same with Mercury in this case, but just the thought of this might be enough to get Emerald to strife towards power so that Cinder keeps her around.I´ve already worked on a fanfiction where Emerald uses her semblace to provoke one argument between Cinder and Tyrian after the other, with the goal of, and that´s where it gets really dangerous, making Salem mad. Emerald then suggests that perhaps Tyrian would like if he had a prostetic stinger. Arthur (Dr. Watts) then sais that he could do it, but he needs the right material AND information from the servers of the Atlas Military.Emerald goes to get it, and when she returns, she asks Salem if there´s anything else that could be done. After several missions, some of which include surviving in the Grimm-infested land around Salem´s castle for a certain time, Salem sends Emerald, as well as Tyrian, to capture the Spring Maiden.During the entire fight, Emerald keeps her distance and uses her semblance to make the Spring Maiden see and hear her (Emerald) everywhere. After the Spring Maiden´s aura is completely gone, Tyrian paralyzes her with his poison to ge ther back to Salem. Emerald, however, kills the Spring Maiden, who now thinks only of Emerald, and gains her powers. Tyrian is pretty mad that Emerald disobeyed a direct order from Salem (capture the Spring Maiden), but Emerald sais that they captured her alive, and that the new Spring Maiden, namely herself, is less trouble getting to Salem´s castle than the old one, since they don´t have to explain why they carry around a half dead woman.Back in the castle, Salem asks where the Spring Maiden is, and Emerald just shows off her powers a little. After explaining everything to Salem, Emerald gets to training her new-found powers, eventually getting into sparring with Cinder. Needless to say, Salem tells them to go literally anywhere other than inside her castle when they have a sparring match.