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** [[CartwrightCurse No.]] [[DeathBySex No.]] ''[[DisposableLoveInterest No.]]'' Sex does ''not'' give you PlotArmor. If anything, it takes it away.

* Jaune's equipment, at one point, belonged to a woman who collected cups, had a habit of lying about her age, and almost fell for every ''[[SpearCounterpart homme]] [[FemmeFatale lethale]]'' who crossed her path[[note]]([[ArthurianLegends Sir Percival]], who quested for the Holy Grail, once spent several years thinking he was a 12-year-old girl, and tended to be ''almost'' seduced by witches and HornyDevils)[[/note]]. He has a distant relative who dressed as a woman to join an AmazonBrigade in the Great War[[note]]Robert Shurtliff, the assumed identity of an actually-female Revolutionary War soldier[[/note]].

** [[UpToEleven How to make it even more tearjerking?]]... what if more than one spirit joins him in battle? Preferably, his ex-crush Weiss, or... Ruby, and Gods forbid... All of them.

Making everyone in earshot listen to him. Yes, yes, laugh it up, but when you think about it there's a subtle sense of irony in there. Everyone assumes that his semblance is something ridiculously overpowered(which it probably could be under the right circumstances), connected to Joan D'Arc(who was actually not exactly a front line fighter) and blatantly obvious(which it also is). It doesn't have to be obviously powerful to be a game breaker, just powerful enough. In this case, Jaune's semblance makes it so that anyone who is within the range of his voice, whether or not it is possible(i.e even if they are deaf or surrounded by massive amounts of noise such as gunshots or explosions) will still hear his voice as though there was no other sound. Doesn't seem overpowered yet? Well, think about it, how annoying would it be if you heard a persistent humming that no matter what you couldn't tune out. Especially in a high stakes battle where you can't afford to be distracted for even a moment, or a song that you can't ignore. After all, there's only so much your brain can multi task. Think of it kinda like a computer, it may seem like it's performing several tasks at once, but it's actually just making a list and performing each task rapidly enough to make it look like it's multi tasking. Same thing, only far, far more dangerous. Hell, he could probably force people to dance to his tune in battle, literally, by forcing people to focus on him. It also fits in with his personality. He starts out as someone who just wants to stand out. He has seven sisters and a bucket load of inferiority, probably because with that many sisters and as varied personalities as we have seen on top of how they were encouraged to break out and do what they are good at. This presents a massive problem. If he's the youngest, then there's the thought that no matter what he does his sisters have probably already done and done better at that, and if he's the oldest then he probably had some things he was good at that his sisters began doing, maybe copying him, better. Alternative, to draw even more parallels between him and Joan, he could come from a farming family, then he probably had to take up the more physical tasks(not because of sexism but because of how he was the oldest(presumably) or because of his father being needed to defend the farm). This would also explain how strong he is despite not having had any combat training. Alternatively, Jaune's semblance actually takes things [[Main/UptoEleven up to eleven]]. Ergo, as a result, Pyrrha's simple attraction gets made into a full blown crush, his slightly dense nature becomes complete obliviousness, his inferiority complex becomes full blown angstiness, his slightly larger than average aura reserves become absolutely massive, his aura's good defensive stats becomes full blown invulnerability, moments of insight become pivotal strategies to defeat a vastly superior opponent(Deathstalker anyone), minor skills become extreme competence and so on. Finally, if people are insistent on him having a knightly semblance then it could simply be just that: he gains the traits of a knight. That is to say that when certain conditions are met a corresponding boost in abilities is gained i.e he wants to protect someone behind him from a threat so his defense stat goes up, or he wants to kill something(remember, it has to be counted as an ideal, not simply murderous feelings but a full blown ideal, such as," I must take revenge on behalf of X against this person") then his corresponding stats go way, way up, or if he has to [[Main/HoldtheLine hold the line]] then he gains a massive buff to his stamina(stamina here refers to the ability to not only sustain attacks, movements and defenses, but also to resist the effect of damage i.e he won't fall down, pass out or even die so long as he holds onto that ideal and the conditions are not fulfilled). Of course, there's also the downsides. If Jaune's opponents are weaker than him and he activates his semblance, then he actually gets weaker to match them, his luck is awful, and he has to undergo severe amounts of trauma(to go with the legendary knight motif).

Since we're told that we saw a glimpse of the real semblance in Forever Falls, one of the notable effects of the flash of light was completely healing Jaune's bruises and bleeding after (theoretically) having his aura drained by Cardin's beating. It makes sense in a character perspective for Jaune to have a BoringButPractical or SimpleYetAwesome Semblance. All auras grant minor healing and protection from injury, but Jaune's semblance takes that basic healing UpToEleven. If trained to the level of an expert Huntsmen, his semblance has the potential to reverse fatal injuries or regrow lost limbs. It'd also add a potential for comedy under GoodThingYouCanHeal, what with his ButtMonkey status.

A bit further out than the above theory, but it corresponds to being "burdened by a royal test"; we don't know how much of a CrapsackWorld this is for sure, but I consider it possible that Weiss and her brother were made to fight, with the survivor becoming heir of the Schnee Dust Company. Weiss isn't on the offense for much of the trailer because she doesn't want to kill her brother, and when she eventually does, just before the final blow, the music slows down with "I'm the loneliest of all". From the looks of it, she really didn't want to kill the Knight, whoever he was, and wouldn't it make her the loneliest of all if she was the one that had to kill her own brother? While I suppose an abusive father is a good form of "royal test", it could be taken a lot more literally. "Why won't you let me hide from me?" throws a monkey wrench into the father Knight theory for me: As far as we're aware, she did nothing to her father that would result in her feeling ashamed or afraid of herself. Adding another character into the mix just clears it up so much for me.

* Given the prevalent influence of anime (a medium famous for unrealistic hair colors) on ''RWBY'', there's no reason to think that Ruby's hair color(s) ''isn't'' natural. I mean, in a series that already has animal-people, Magitek, giant supernatural monsters, and YouGottaHaveBlueHair, MultiColoredHair should probably be the last thing that breaks suspension of disbelief.

[[WMG:Ruby will turn out to be gay or {{asexual|ity}}]]

** He's going to be voiced by Monty.
** Well, he ''[[AuthorExistenceFailure was]]''.

After [[Creator/MontyOum Monty Oum's]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure passing]], Ren will receive some injury to his throat that renders him mute since Monty can't voice him anymore. If he gets a new VA, Ren will receive surgery to repair his vocal cords, although his voice will be somewhat altered.

* Nora's mother had one eye and her obsession with knowing how things would happen became her undoing[[note]]([[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]], who sacrificed his eye to learn the future and dressed as a woman in the hopes of learning how to avoid it)[[/note]]. She has a horse-Faunus cousin by her {{Transgender}} aunt with scars in the region of her mouth[[note]](Loki, who gave birth to Sleipnir after winning a bet for Odin, and whose names include Loki Scar-Lip)[[/note]].

[[WMG: Jaune is not only Joan of Arc, but KingArthur]]

* Even if Salem temporarily incapacitated, Ironwood's downward spiral to villainy is the result of her actions. Regardless of whether or not the heroes succeeded in stopping him, [[TheBadGuyWins Salem comes out on top anyway]]: the entire Solitas will be wiped out, ultimately resulting with Ruby's legendary emotional breakdown, [[AllAccordingToPlan just as Salem planned]].

That wasn't just "I reach into your soul and turn on the switch." It was much more intimate. "I release your soul and by my shoulder protect thee." It's similar to a "Ministra Magi" in ''[[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Negima Magister Negi Magi]]''. "It is your power" means ''their'' power is ''his.''

Ruby seems to have little interest in relationships that aren't anything more or less than BEST FRIENDS FOREVER! *ahem* But shows deep friendly affection for her sister, squad, and Penny while being supportive and cheerful around Jaune and other male characters. Either way, her sexuality does not seem to affect her overall personality in any way, as she is overall supportive and trying to make the best friends she can (while heartlessly slaughtering her enemies).

* Plus that rather {{Adorkable}} moment from Episode 10 where she tells Ruby that she always wanted a bunk bed as a kid.

[[WMG: Ruby will lose a leg.]

She'll say her goodbyes to everyone in a heartwrenching scene and her last act will be to [[BiTheWay kiss both Weiss and Oscar on the cheek]].

* In the second episode of the new volume Ren has a noticeable reaction to finding Xione in ruins and the dying hunter, and both he and Nora seem like they have some previous experience with this sort of thing. The ''MoodWhiplash'' upon finding this scene is also very reminiscent of a similar scene in ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''. Perhaps this season will be when we finally learn more about Ren and Nora's backstory?

Whenever Yang Semblance kicks in, she often lets out a big blast of fire. ([[spoiler:See her fight with Mercury]]) It looks [[AwesomeButImpractical awesome]], but it's also a sign of a seriously low efficiency. In real life, [[RealityEnsues that heat would be considered waste energy.]] Most of the times we see the fire is when someone's done something to piss her off. ([[spoiler:[[UnstoppableRage Her fight with Mercury and Junior]] vs. [[TranquilFury her fight with Torchwick's mech]]]]) Not only does she fight smarter calm, she's stronger calm as well.

[[folder:Nora, Pyrrha, & Ren]]
!Nora Valkyrie

!Pyrrha Nikos

!Lie Ren

[[WMG:JNPR will have pairings.]]
Jaune will have ShipTease with Pyrrha, while Nora will have ShipTease with Ren.
* Confirmed for the latter, though it doesn't seem (so far) to be reciprocated.
** Pyrrha is certainly acting smitten with Jaune, while Nora has twice hint dropped that she and Lie Ren are not "together together" but also finds him handsome (and her antics seem to have got the only smile out of him in the series so far). In both cases there's a ShipTease, if not an actual ship.
*** Nora comes across as more being in denial about how she really feels about Ren, possibly afraid to go further (note that only she ever denies it, and she even said it when it was just the two of them), while Ren seems to simply be waiting patiently for her to work it out in her own heart.
*** In the Volume 3 finale, Jaune/Pyrrha becomes official [[spoiler:if only for about a minute]].

[[WMG:Team JNPR gets their own songs in later volumes.]]
They (well, Jaune at least) have already had four centric episodes out of sixteen. Why not? Unless Nora already got hers with "I'm queen of the castle"...
* Pyrrha and Jaune, go figure, got their own instrumental theme.
** Half-confirmed with the Volume 2 soundtrack giving them ''three'' songs! Two for Pyrrha -- "Dream Come True" and "Shine" -- and Nora with "Boop". Jaune and Ren not having any dedicated to them may be justified with having Casey sing from their perspective being a bit too awkward...
*** Doesn't stop Jaune from getting "Cold" in Volume 3, sung by Casey.

[[WMG: Ren will be the SoleSurvivor of JNPR.]]
Of all the characters JNPR were based on, Mulan is the only one whom, DependingOnTheWriter, survived. Achilles was shot in the heel like Pyrrha, Joan of Arc was burned (and Jaune might get a DyingMomentOfAwesome being burned to death but still managing to off Cinder before dying), Thor was poisoned, and Mulan may or may not have comitted suicide DependingOnTheWriter.

[[WMG: Ren will join the remnants of RWBY]]
Building off the Ruby will sacrifice herself WMG, Ren might join the survivors afterward, and keep the team name out of respect to the fallen.

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* [[spoiler: It's more of a silvery-white, but pretty much confirmed as of V3E12]]

Exactly what it says on the tin, Ruby will be able to control and tame Grimm using her eyes. She did it to the Dragon, but since she never gave any commands it's waiting there for her to return and command it. The latter part would explain why the Grimm attack people - they were commanded to do so by the Silver Eyed Warriors (SEW's) when the people of Remnant rebelled against their rule. Salem may even be a corrupted version of the SEWs due to her seeming to have power over the Grimm.

** If anything, she later realized the blade could be used as an anchor, as there are frequent moments where we see her utilize the rifle part of Crescent Rose not as a weapon, but to PROPEL herself and the scythe(one time even using it just so the recoil would cause the blade to cut a beowulf in half). Consider the fact that she's a small girl with a huge scythe. That thing's going to be pretty dang heavy for her. It's likely that she took that into account and designed it so that the rifle's recoil would also assist her in swinging the blade when she's in rifle mode.

* Jossed:[[spoiler:Team RNJR take down the Nuckelavee grimm from Ren and Nora's childhood.]]

The reasoning is straightforward: The only two time Cinder has been directly mention to or by Ruby since the Fall of Beacon, Ruby has become uncharacteristically angry, and it's clear [[It's Personal]] for her. And just look at Cinder in V4. She clearly wants to go after Ruby herself, and she ''practices murdering her via Emerald's illusion.'' Finally, we know Ruby's Silver Eyes make her the only person currently on the side of Good who can go toe to toe with Cinder and actually stand a shot of winning. My theory is that as the series goes on, the conflict between the two will only become even more personal than it already is, and that will wind up driving character development for both girls.

The part where she's on stage is a representation of how she is being brought up to be TheWomanInTheQueenlyMask one day and needs to keep up appearances in front of the world, while, below the surface, hidden from her faceless audience, she's constantly struggling with her inner turmoil: Her abusive father, her fear that she could turn out like him one day ("fear of what's inside me"), her desperation to reach an unattainable perfection, and the scar that reminds her of her imperfection (and, perhaps, of the aforementioned abuse) every time she looks in the mirror.

[[WMG: , Weiss will kill a villain and end up with them as a summon]]

*** More likely, it'll [[OneOff never be mentioned again.]]

Episode 2.06 tells us that her mother left her and her father, and that she hasn't given up looking. In the Yellow Trailer, she's asking if anyone has seen a particular woman. It adds up.

Whenever Yang Semblance kicks in, she often lets out a big blast of fire. ([[spoiler: See her fight with Mercury]]) It looks [[AwesomeButImpractical awesome]], but it's also a sign of a seriously low efficiency. In real life, [[RealityEnsues that heat would be considered waste energy.]] Most of the times we see the fire is when someone's done something to piss her off. ([[spoiler:[[UnstoppableRage Her fight with Mercury and Junior]] vs. [[TranquilFury her fight with Torchwick's mech]]]]) Not only does she fight smarter calm, she's stronger calm as well.

* The ability to detach her arm and propel it with a fair amount of calibre will end up saving her (or someone else's) life in a critical moment. Bonus points if it's in a fight against Adam.

** Next, Spring; She appears to be the youngest of the four and looks to fit the energetic GenkiGirl persona. She is also the hardest working of the sisters, spending her time making the world a better and more beautiful place for the Wizard. Ruby is the youngest, has the same personality and is a Wide-EyedIdealist trying to make the world a better place for everyone, even being the first of the team to get back out into the world and make a difference after the Fall of Beacon.

* Given that is semblance is heavily implied to be shield-like/defensive it would make sense if he cannot only block physical attacks but mental ones as well.
** It would also tie into the above WMG about how Jaune being left of the list will be important.

So what if, a member of the Arc family, hypothetically name Josefus Arc, hypothetically, a Mistralian (his family came to Shion frequently, maybe) OR Mantalian General who broke seeing too many of his men (or his wife...) got massacred in the Grimm Offensive, [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (or almost killed by a stray Grimm]]) he decided to find a way to stop this from rehappening.

Even if his family has a history of being Hunters, maybe his parents don't want Jaune to live such a dangerous life (one parent dead due to Grimm, surviving one doesn't want the same fate for Jaune perhaps?). However, since Jaune knows about his family legacy, he probably made a deal with his parents: "If I can get into the school, you have to let me go." Cue [[spoiler:getting the fake transcripts, and faking his way into the school.]] Ozpin has probably figured all this out, or knew from the start, and is letting Jaune continue as a Hunter because he believes Jaune has a good deal of potential, and just needs to use it. Might also explain Ozpin's SinkOrSwim tactics, he is trying to force not only Jaune, but everyone to their full potential.

* Or at least something he thinks is a HeroicSacrifice at the time, he might get out safely. Maybe team Juniper gets cornered and needs time to escape, so Jaune steps up, since everyone else [[spoiler:got into Beacon fairly, as opposed to tricking their way in]] and he figures he's MoreExpendableThanYou, and anyway as the leader, he should be the one to step up for the team. Possibly this could tie into Pyrrha's story and how her name will become significant - the rest of the team escapes, possibly with important information or having completed an important mission, but Jaune is left behind.

** To expand on the myth surrrounding Crocea Mors, that Nillu acquired the sword by getting it stuck in his shield in a duel with Ceasar. In WoR, it was revealed that the Warrior King of Vale used the Relic to destroy the Atlesian/Mistrali army, right? Maybe Jaune's Great-grandfather was one of the unlucky enemy soldiers or general there, yet like with Nillus he confronted KoV and managed to disarm the man with his shield. Maybe because of this, Jaune's Great-Grandfather was deemed worthy of keeping the Crocea Mors half of the Relic (taking in the WMG that the Relic of Destruction is made up of two halves, like on the emblem of Vacuo.)

[[WMG: Jaune isn't based on Joanne of Arc, He will turn out to be based on Julius Caesar instead]]

* Jossed. Pyrrha will definitely ''not'' have any children in the future after Vol3E12

While he wasn't skipped ahead like Ruby, somehow Jaune got to Beacon without knowing ''any'' of the basics. He's from a heroic family who pulled strings to push him forward even when he wasn't prepared� and the bodyguard's to ensure he survives. That SuperEmpowering ritual Pyrrha used is unlikely to be standard issue.

[[WMG: Pyrrha won'the become the Fall Maiden.]]

* Nora's mother had one eye and her obsession with knowing how things would happen became her undoing[[note]]([[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]], who sacrificed his eye to learn the future and dressed as a woman in the hopes of learning how to avoid it)[[/note]]. She has a horse-Faunus cousin by her [[[Transgender]]] aunt with scars in the region of her mouth[[note]](Loki, who gave birth to Slepnir after winning a bet for Odin, and whose names include Loki Scar-Lip)[[/note]].
* Pyrrha's mother will sleep with absolutely anyone and anything [[[Series/{{Blackadder}} animal, vegetable, or mineral]]]. [[note]]([[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus]], who took on many forms and ReallyGetsAround. I don't recall him crossdressing, but birthing Athena and Dionysus might count)[[/note]].

** If WoR's latest video on Faunus is any indication, which Qrow narrates, he speaks from the perspective that favors humanity. Itt's unlikely that either Branwen is a Faunus at this point but given their ability too [[spoiler: shape shift into their namesakes that has nothing to do with their Semblances or know little about their own origins being foundlings raised by a bandit tribe]] they could be a different breed of Faunus that hasn't been covered yet. It's also mentioned that if humans and Faunus breed together it's a role of the dice what their child will one or the other. So far characters we can cross off the list:

Alternative to the above. Weiss will gain, or possibly already has, a stepmother. However, as a twist on the [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]] allusions, the woman will be much more affectionate and understanding than Weiss' presumably [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]].

[[spoiler: We don't know how Ozpin learned the Relics attract Grimm, but it's possible he figured out how to alter them to be untrackable. Once he rigged the Choice Relic, he cast it out somewhere into the world, hidden in plain sight. From there, it changed hands until it was claimed by Pyrrha. Pyrrha's best known for her choices - taking destiny into her own hands. In V6, the means Ozma was finally killed is the same as how Pyrrha was killed. In V5, Ozpin says that the Beacon Relic is well hidden, but doesn't elaborate - since he doesn't know where to find the Relic. In V4, the blacksmith that upgraded Jaune's gear commented on the quality of the metal he provided, that metal being the circlet. In V3, Pyrrha's circlet survived, despite that attack being magic. It explains Ruby hearing Pyrrha in her dreams, as her powers and the Relics come from the Brother of Light, and Pyrrha likely had the Relic for years. And since Ozpin honestly answered Ruby's question, Jinn would have no reason to reveal anything. With the show going to Atlas, where the Creation Relic is, one can only guess what happens when three Relics are assembled.]]