Professional Robyn Hill Simp

A look worth fighting for!

Oh boy this is gonna be fun.

Here's the thing: femininity in Cinder's eyes is deeply intertwined with class and with power. Femininity in her world (and ours to be frank) is designed to be performed by upper class women. Long hair, deftly styled make-up, jewelry, pretty dresses, pretty manners...the ideal woman is the high class woman, and the Madame never let her forget that. Cinder's mother and sisters get the long hair, the heels, the pretty clothes. She gets a plain unisex uniform bleached so white not even her hair ties have color. This isn't subtext, by the way, it's text. When we see her torture Cinder for the first time, the Madame chastises her by saying "Now that wasn't very ladylike, was it?". Femininity is power. Femininity is elite. Femininity is not for people like you.

I believe that Cinder, even if she didn't have all of that hanging over her head, would genuinely like some feminine things. She'd probably wear high heels and shiny things regardless, it just seems very her. But because she's had that upbringing, it's all tainted. It's not about what she likes and wants to wear, it's about power. It's about being a lady, because her inability to be a "true" lady, denying her femininity, was the bludgeon they used to keep her down. The silky voice, the sexiness, the tranquility....none of those aspects of femininity is really her, but she performs them anyway because that's what a "lady" does. She might like some forms of it, but it's all tainted because she performs femininity not to represent herself but someone she wants to be.

Woke: tentative truce between Neo and RWBY until they escape and then she's their enemy again

It's an idea that makes sense, y'know? If she's immortal, can't be killed, then the next best way to stop her is to imprison her. Seal the evil in a can. She might escape, and cause problems in the future, but she would be stopped in the here and now.

But with Salem's backstory, that becomes a supremely fucked up thing to do to her. Recreating the way her father abused her in order to stop her. And all our heroes know her backstory now, they know what they'd be doing! There absolutely would be hesitation to do such a thing, because it is incredibly morally dubious.

By popular demand, the transformation of Magnhild! ⚡️

Nope!

Now, to be fair, Clover's semblance was introduced in a way that portrayed it as "balancing out" Qrow's. That the two together ended up creating a net neutral. That probably did some work in dissuading people from thinking of it as overpowered.