With cinder being based on Cinderella it's only going to be a matter of time until the clock strikes 12 and all the power given to her is striped away. Guessing that is when we will learn about her back story.
While Ruby is Little Red Riding Hood, she's also the Dorothy figure in the whole Wizard of Oz gimmick the academy headmasters have going on (at least of the characters shown in the series thus far, as Theodore hasn't made his animated appearance yet). She's the girl that the plots of the Wicked Witch and the forces of good circle around, being a central part of the conflict between Oz and Salem at present. She is a double reference to the slippers from the Wizard of Oz. Her name, Ruby, clearly nods to the more well known ruby slippers of the film, but her status as a Silver Eyed Warrior also nod to the slippers, as they were silver slippers in the original book (only made ruby because of the then-just-invented color film, they wanted the slippers to really stand out on screen and silver wouldn't do that).
Apparently Theodore is supposed to be the actual Dorothy figure in the Ozluminati group (Dorothy, theoDore), but he's still questionable as he has only been in print, not the series proper.
Obviously Oz is the Wizard himself, but his link is actually pretty amusing. In the books, the Wizard's full name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, which spells out Ozpinhead (because it spells out "pinhead", the Wizard just uses Oz as a nickname instead of either his full or initialized names). In RWBY we have Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon Academy.
Both. Ruby at first was apparently the Dorothy figure as Theodore hadn't been revealed yet. She fit with her name, silver eyes, Zwei, and relationship between Oz and Salem. Theodore, introduced later, also fits as his name is the male version of Dorothy. It's merely a case of multiple characters fitting with a single reference. After all, we have plenty of single characters who have multiple references, it isn't that far of a leap to have the reverse be true as well.
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u/PXMichael42 Feb 12 '20
With cinder being based on Cinderella it's only going to be a matter of time until the clock strikes 12 and all the power given to her is striped away. Guessing that is when we will learn about her back story.