Cinder

Cinder is a supporting character in The Scratched Universe. She is introduced in Episode 06 – Smoke & Mirrors.

Cinder is a Pyro class mercenary who is mainly focused on scrapping duty. She does these activities alone within a squad of random mercenaries; or along her group of similar ruffian, punk-like Pyro friends - including her romantic partner, Smoke.

During the events of EP:06, Cinder is briefly seen as she contacts Smoke by phone, worried and confused by her absence in the Tour of Duty they had planned to do together. Smoke reassures Cinder with a partial truth and she returns to the field prepared to tackle on Gray Mann’s robot hordes.

## Biography

### Early Life

Cinder has always been known as a full-time Scrapper. She met Smoke through a particular operation, going along with him through out all the missions of the operation itself, they started speaking to one another. This drew the attention of her small group of similar ruffian Pyro friends, to her dismay and disapproval of their overprotectiveness. Eventually, they grew to trust Smoke and allowed him within their group.

It is known through Smoke’s words that they and Cinder have been in a romantic relationship long before Smoke’s inevitable anomalous body transformation from their stand awakening. Fortunately, nothing seems to have changed between the pair’s romance as evident by Smoke’s comment on Cinder “switching sides faster than auto balance”.

Cinder is aware of Switcheroo’s existence but is not bothered by it due to her strong bond and trust with Smoke. She cannot see Smoke’s stand but feels physical contact from it, to both Cinder and Smoke’s amusement. Cinder also knows Switcheroo’s name and treats it like another friend, or sometimes like a ‘pet’ through jovial interactions or quips.

### Painting Hobby

Cinder has taken a liking to painting many of her Last Breath mask collection, to her own acknowledgment that her painting skills are not so great, but she doesn’t care.

## Appearance

Cinder is a female Pyro with a rather thin build in the torso region, while still having the same puffy appearance on her limbs. She wears a Burning Question fedora on her head, while having a Last Breath mask – customized with paint, engravings and decals by herself; a Cute Suit jacket on her torso, leading up to her neck but not covering the bottom half of her mask region; a scrapping duty badge is also embedded into her suit’s combat straps, depending on the operation/mission; her legs are covered by Breakneck Baggie jogging pants.

Her last breath mask is often changed daily depending on what Cinder thinks would fit best for the day.

## Personality

Cinder is an assertive, direct, honest, and brash mercenary, who is not afraid to speak her mind out if someone gets on her bad side.

When talking with people she doesn’t know, she’ll be brief and interact very little with them, saying only what is necessary. However, Cinder’s attitude is not out of malice. Cinder will respect people who respect her. Outside of her thug or punk like looks; demeanors; and her friend circle, she is quite the civilized and intelligent mercenary.

She is a team player and will actually actively provide help and give advice to her fellow teammates, along with giving orders to her team if it is considered as required from her perspective during scrapping duty missions.

As evidenced by Smoke, Cinder can carry matches due to her expertise, experience and tactics in the entire Scrapper business. This is also why she’s considered as the leader of her group of ruffian friends.

Behind all of these aforementioned facts about Cinder’s personality, she has shown to be extremely caring and kind towards her closest people – the most important one being her partner, Smoke. Smoke is the only one who managed to gain Cinder’s trust in such a way that she can behave as a completely different person.

## Abilities

Cinder does not appear to have any supernatural or anomalous properties, as she cannot see Smoke’s Switcheroo. It can safely assumed that she is a normal Pyro mercenary who uses their many weapons and arsenal.

## Trivia

* Cinder was very subtly teased in Blackimus’ Slice of Life series: specifically EP6 during its bloopers, where Yúlia speaks the word “cindered” and Vixen outright mentions this being a spoiler for TSU;
* Cinder is voiced by Kirstin/Kirby;
	+ She is a part of a YouTube channel called theduckgoesmoo, that has also reacted to The Scratched Universe series itself;