>>104120918No idea. One of the only characters worse than Blake. I will admit I find her current status of not only being the new head henchman now that Cinder is MIA but the new head henchman of an evil immortal who disturbs Emerald greatly and to whom she feels she owes no loyalty at all but is too afraid to openly rebel just yet is a very very interesting route for the character - but any sympathy I ever manage to find for the character is quickly erased by the fact that I know very little about Emerald beyond 'street rat lesbian' and 'muh Cinder-senpai', so really any potential in Emerald's arc for this volume is almost dead on arrival for me. Just like Blake's faunus nonsense was.
If Emerald had something redeeming about her, or more clearly begins to articulate not just that she is on the wrong side but WHY that side is the wrong side (like Roman did); then I think there's some salvaging her character arc.
Really, this is the problem with a lot of the villains right now. Their motivations are simply not that interesting, or the characters simply are not a viable antagonistic force on the story. Merc and Emerald were basically only relevant once, during Volume 3, and after that they've just been 'there' for the good guys to spar with and nothing else. Hazel turned out to be a fucking joke, Tyrian basically got neutered after just one fight, Roman was best boy but is RIP, Watts has been 'does nothing but seem more important than he probably will turn out to be' since his introduction, and the less said about Adam the better.
The ONLY interesting antagonists left in the series are Salem, Cinder, and Neo; one of which won't leave her fucking european dragon island, and two of which are basically divorced from Salem's faction at the moment. Possibly permanently. So that leaves Salem with a bunch of incompetent henchmen that are too pussy whipped by her for the audience to take as a serious threat. Hopefully, everything I've said here is resolved next episode.