Emberald

Emberald is the femslash ship between Cinder Fall and Emerald Sustrai from the RWBY fandom.

Volume 2
Emerald appears to be under Cinder's direct command and obeys her orders without question. Emerald seems to have the utmost respect for Cinder and greatly values her approval, sometimes even addressing her as "ma'am" instead of by her name, and eagerly going out of her way to perform tasks for her. In "Best Day Ever", she enthusiastically greets Cinder when she appears. Conversely, after being rebuked for acting impulsively, Emerald looked saddened and said that she would not do anything without her orders again.

Volume 3
In volume 3 Cinder, Mercury and Emerald all set their fall of Beacon plan in motion. Emerald takes part in framing Yang for hurting Mercury and then framing Pyrrha for killing Penny. They then both watch the destruction together from a rooftop. In "Beginning of the End" it is revealed that part of Emerald's loyalty to Cinder is due to being saved by her from living on the streets. Whatever affection toward Cinder she has in connection to this is not equally returned, as Cinder can be heard striking Emerald and reminding her to know her place when Emerald speaks out against recruiting Mercury Black.

Volume 4
After the Fall of Beacon, in "The Next Step", Emerald appears to worry about Cinder deeply, due to Cinder's injuries causing her to be unable to speak at an audible level. As a result Emerald ends up being Cinder's interpreter and relaying her speech to others. She also helps Cinder train by conjuring up illusions of Ruby which Cinder uses her new maiden powers on.

Volume 5
In "The More the Merrier" Emerald reveals to Ruby her debt to Cinder and is willing to serve Salem for her. In "Haven's Fate", Emerald breaks down in tears after realizing that Cinder was defeated (and might have been killed). This causes her to scream in agony as she inadvertently activates her Semblance on everyone in her grief.

Volume 6
In "So That's How It Is", it is shown that without Cinder, Emerald has become vulnerable to fear those around her, especially Salem herself. She is later shocked to find that Cinder is still alive. In "Lost", she confesses to Mercury that she thinks of Cinder as family, she taught her everything she doesn't know and she cares for her deeply. But when Mercury blatantly tells her that Cinder never cared for either of them, Emerald quickly denies his accusation and later caused Emerald to become enraged enough to lash out against him.

Volume 8
In "Divide", Emerald was happy to see Cinder return to them and attempted to excitedly greet her and express her faith that she would come back only to be saddened and stop in her tracks when Cinder harshly tells her to be quiet. In "Fault" despite their time apart and Cinder's own degrading and disrespectful tone to her during their Reunion, Emerald is still shown to retain her strong loyalty and devotion to Cinder despite the way she treats her. She jumped at the chance to help Cinder during her plans to go behind Salem's back to obtain the Winter Maiden powers despite Salem ordering her to stay put.

In "Amity", During Cinder's fight with Penny Polendina, Emerald constantly followed Cinder around as the two Maidens battled in order to provide assistance to her if needed. She was then shown to smile confidently at Cinder as she began getting the upper hand in the battle. She later provided support to Cinder by using her Semblance to conjure several illusions to confuse Penny. After Cinder is defeated by Penny and knocked unconscious, Emerald immediately and runs to her side to check if she's alright. She angrily lashed out against Penny when she came close and despite knowing that she stood no chance of actually winning, threatened to fight against her and destroy the Amity Communications Tower controls before she could take her down.

In "Midnight", Emerald was overjoyed upon seeing Cinder waking up and defended her from Mercury after he began belittling her for her choice of going against Salem's orders and that Cinder never cared for her. Emerald is disheartened once again when Cinder told her and Mercury to get out. Despite everything, Emerald was horrified and sympathetic towards Cinder when Salem began punishing her for her actions by inducing pain in her Shadow Hand.

Fanon
Emberald was a popular ship in the early volumes of RWBY, since it was glaringly obvious that Emerald cared for Cinder and looked up to her. It waned in popularity as the volumes went on as it became obvious to the audience and even some of the characters in the show that Cinder doesn't care about anyone or anything except herself. Nevertheless, it still has a small fanbase.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Their ship name comes from the word ember, since Cinder has a fire based semblance and the last part comes from Emerald's name.