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** Thus without a team Oscar will be joined by Sun, Neptune, and a resurrected Penny to form Team OSPN with Team RWBY to defeat Salem which justifies the extensive focus on Sun, Neptune, and Penny despite these characters having no real purpose in the story so far, and adds to RWBY's prominent displays of RED AND GREEN colors. Yellow and Blue make green, and copper turns green thanks to chemical reaction.

Thus without a team Oscar will be joined by Sun, Neptune, and a resurrected Penny to form Team OSPN with Team RWBY to defeat Salem which justifies the extensive focus on Sun, Neptune, and Penny despite these characters having no real purpose in the story so far, and adds to RWBY's prominent displays of RED AND GREEN colors. Yellow and Blue make green, and copper turns green thanks to chemical reaction.

** Following this WhamEpisode arc, normal schooling ends, and there is a large TimeSkip.

[[WMG: The Red trailer takes place after the events of Volume 3.]]

-->[[WhamLine You want a romantic life; a fairytale that's full of charm]]

[[WMG: The "wizard" who gave the original four maidens their powers was one of the silver-eyed warriors of legend.]]
* When [[spoiler:Ruby uses her power]] in End of the Beginning, the light coming from her eyes looks similar to when Amber and Cinder access the fall maiden power. It's possible that [[spoiler:Ruby's power]] is a more powerful version of that of the maidens. The Four Maidens episode of World of Remnant seems to have been a telling of the fairy tale of the four maidens, rather than a literal account of actual events. Details may have been distorted as the story was passed down, hence why the wizard isn’t portrayed with silver eyes. This theory makes a lot more sense than taking the legend at face value, as while things like aura, dust, and the power of silver eyes are established in the world of RWBY, wizards and magic are not. It’s understandable that as the legend became distorted over time, an exceptionally powerful aura user might start to be remembered as someone with magical powers by people who wouldn’t yet know better.

* Think about it Pyrrha who was based on Achilles dies to an arrow, so Jaune who is based on Joan of Arc will most likely, be burned to death.

Sun was (apparently) able to tell Blake was a faunus just from looking at her and the crowd at the rally was able to tell Torchwick was a human (note that "Dearie" said "a human"; she didn't recognise him as an infamous criminal), although some of them might have just seen him on the news.

: And this naturally carries on into the whole of TTSG. Overall this can be taken as; "Good news! You're a {{Badass}} and now you can prove it...unfortunately this means that [[BreakTheHaughty you're a Badass]] and [[ComesGreatResponsibility you've proved it]]."

[[WMG: The Knight in the White Trailer represents Weiss's parental neglect/abuse]]
The knight is hollow inside just as her relationship with her parents is mostly nonexistent. The relationship that did exist was full of abuse, and the knight struck Weiss with a hard blow to the eye during their fight. Eventually she conquers her parents/her fear of her parents and goes to Beacon, but she still feels incredibly lonely, not knowing anyone since she probably didn't go to a normal school (good chance she would get attacked for her family name). Thus, she's "the loneliest of all," not having family or (at least at the beginning) friends.
* As of Volume 2, it seems more likely that the Knight is one of many mass-produced automatons or at the very least a rank in file soldier.
** Yes and no. It actually happened, in the manga it's revealed to be a test her father gave to her to go to Beacon. Surely a "warrior" could beat a Grimm? Said in derision, with the expectation of her failing.

[[WMG: The Crescent Rose was not intended to be used as a Scythe.]]
In the "Red" trailer, you can see Ruby hunker down into the snow/ice with the blade and begin to shoot the beasts. We can see at multiple times during the trailer Ruby gets sent flying by the shots of the gun part of the weapon. This is because it's a high caliber weapon, and the the amount of recoil it has is immense. By hooking herself into the ground, she is able to actually stand and shoot her targets without flying thirty feet through the air. This was the intended use of the weapon, the blade wasn't meant for killing, it was made for holding her in place like an anchor.
* In episode one, Professor Ozpin specifically refers to meeting another "scythe-wielder" of Ruby's caliber, so the idea of it being used as a scythe is probably more common than this WMG might lead one to believe.
* Jossed as far as the anchor part being necessary. Ruby fires it repeatedly without having to anchor herself to the ground in the first episode.
** It's possible that was a less powerful form of ammunition. Ruby again switches her weapon to scythe form before firing on the Nevermore with the rest of her team. Why would she do that if it was unnecessary?
*** Because said nevermore was coming right at them, it would be prudent to have a melee weapon on hand at that point. Also, she was pointing it in the air, without the scythe embedded in anything.
*** IIRC, Scythe Mode has much greater recoil than Rifle Mode, which implies that it fires bullets with much greater momentum (and thus greater killing power), possibly due to the longer barrel in that mode. [[RuleOfCool Or maybe it just looks cooler in Scythe Mode]], and [[CoolButInefficient Ruby is a fifteen-year-old gun nut and prefers it that way]]. Maybe it's even that Ruby is better at aiming the thing in Scythe Mode at close range, since it's balanced to be swung around in that mode.
* Uhhh... Ruby ''designed'' Rose, why would she use her in a way she didn't intend to? Are you suggesting that she intended Rose to be just a sniper rifle with huge kick and only later realized that anchor can be used as a blade? Considering that Qrow was the one who taught her how to fight and ''he'' is using scythe that isn't even a sniper rifle i find it unlikely.

[[WMG: The show will move in seven-episode cycles]]
Six episodes of character development/comedy/filler, one episode of fight scene. We'll see in episode fifteen.
* There was a fight scene in Episode 10.
** True, but it lasted about 30 seconds and the rest was character development.
*** Jossed as of episode 14, which had a respectable fight one week ahead of schedule.
*** Respectable, yet not epic. Episode 16 contained a fairly epic fight scene.

[[WMG: Red Like Roses Part 2]]
Applies to Team RWBY in general and not just Ruby.
* The full song seems to clearly illustrate a relationship between two individuals. The only member this does not work for is Yang going strictly by FairytaleMotif. Ruby is the only real candidate as the song is clearly about a relationship between a mother and a daughter.

[[WMG: The trailers all occur on the same night as the first episode.]]
When Roman shows up at From Dust to Dawn, he complains about how hard it is to find a dust shop open that late, which would imply he hasn't planned this in advance. Given he was speaking to Junior in the Yellow trailer (and uses his mooks), it makes sense that he hired them and set off to do some heistin' on the spot at once (otherwise he could have checked the opening times). Ruby (a schoolgirl) is out pretty late...why would that be? Given Yang was out on a mission of some sort, perhaps Ruby took the time to visit the gravesite and had just got back into town at the end of the Yellow trailer. As for Roman's poor planning; what could force his hand, and for that matter, why might a shop decide to stay open that late? This could be explained by an incoming shipment of dust. If Roman knew that the next shipment of dust was going to be blown up (Cinder could easily have had something to do with Blake and Adam's raid and told him), he might have impulsively decided to grab some while he could (or maybe he agreed to strike out against a Dust store as a good will gesture towards the White Fang), and the shopkeeper kept his shop open so he could get his new stock in before closing up for the night (a train large enough to need two sets of tracks might only be able to travel every so often). Meanwhile, Weiss's father hears about the train job and makes her childhood difficult (this would explain why she mentioned a simple act of sabotage as if it was the worst thing on a list including the murder of family friends). In summary the day could have gone something like this;
* Yang sets off looking for leads on...whoever she was looking for. With her sister gone, Ruby decides to visit Summer Rose's grave. Blake sits down on a tree stump and broods.
* Yang spends the day searching for leads and hears that Junior "knows everything".
* Ruby's battle ends and she heads back to town. Adam and Blake begin their TrainJob.
* Roman hears about the train job (or knew in advance and decided to take advantage of it on a whim) and decides to rob a dust store. He heads to Junior's nightclub to get hold of some {{mook}}s.
* Yang arrives at Junior's club as Roman leaves to rendezvous with the mooks Junior rented him.
* Ruby meets Yang (as per the end of the Yellow trailer). News of the train job reaches Weiss's father.
* Mr. Schnee takes out his frustration on his daughter, possibly via making her fight a giant mechanical knight[[labelnote:Alternative Theory]]The knight was some sort of assassin the White Fang sent as part of a multi-pronged attack to coincide with the train job.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:Other Alternative Theory]]The battle with the knight was part of some sort of final exam Weiss passed to graduate from whatever school she was attending (the castle-like setting could have been a private school of some sort). Her dad had to rush off to deal with the aftermath of the train job and missed it.[[/labelnote]]
* Ruby finds a dust shop that's open late (waiting for a shipment of dust) and decides to see if the new issue of Weapons Magazine's in.
* Roman and his shiny new goons head towards the shop and the events of episode 1 happen.
"This will be the ''day''", indeed....
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* One very, ''very'' minor detail sort of trips this theory up, though: The moons in each trailer and the first episode all show different phases. (Hell, the Yellow trailer shows ''two''!) Unless it rotates really, really fast, it would make it very unlikely for all these to have happened within just one night...
** Technically there's nothing which indicates that one of Vytal's moon's rotation isn't of a similar or shorter length to the planet's. In fact, far from having to go really fast, it would logically only need to spin at a similar rate to the planet to have a change of phase which lasts one night (accounting for any differences in size).
* About your seventh point's first theory: The Schnee are apparently wealthy and powerful enough that they can oppress Faunus and mostly survive the White Fang's attacks. And Weiss is their heiress: she'd get the best protection they could allow her. Is it really likely that something so big could attack her indoors, and no-one would notice or care?

[[WMG: Weiss WILL eventually warm up to Jaune... [[MagneticGirlfriend Once Jaune and Pyrrha]] [[RelationshipUpgrade become a couple]]]]
Why? Because this is the exact thing [[LovableAlphaBitch Weiss]] would do. Once she recognizes that Jaune has [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim something important]] that Pyrrha has recognized in him, [[UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo he will become a target for her affections]] due to her desire to control those with more ability than her. [[GreenEyedEpiphany This]] [[BettyAndVeronica will]] [[RelationshipSabotage probably]] [[ClingyJealousGirl end]] [[OperationJealousy badly.]]
** Alternatively, they'll become friends because Jaune will finally stop hitting on her (poorly).

-->'''Sunwukong-stoaway:''' So there you have it. This power is the backbone of the ecosystem in Remnant. It's in the air, the planet, and in living creatures. Grimm are the exception, and they have none to speak of. We can use it, we can manipulate it, and it will all go back into the planet with us. By using the power we have been given from our birth, we are using Remnant�s lifeforce to light our world against the darkness.

[[WMG: Future episodes will continue and there will be a nice tribute to Creator/MontyOum ]]
* Because if ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' can do something for Mako, why not have RWBY do something for Monty! Since Matt Hullum said that the company plans to continue RWBY and that Monty was very open with his co-workers on writing the story all the way out through volume five, the team know what was planned for later episodes. This means more episodes are coming, so there should be a tribute to Monty to honor his memories and the hard work that he put himself through to make RWBY the way it is today.
** Confirmed.

[[WMG: Ruby and Weiss will become the OfficialCouple by the end of series]]
Much like in ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' there will be a scene where Ruby just wants to get away from things for a while and Weiss will go with her. The two will be doing some intimate gesture like holding hands or Ruby putting her head on Weiss's shoulder as they leave for their time away.
** Alternatively things will be PlayedForDrama with Ruby trying to comfort Weiss in an emotional moment only to get kissed by her. This will lead to an awkward scene later where the two decide to see where things go between the two of them, with Ruby shyly taking hold of Weiss's hand and Weiss saying she would like that.

[[WMG: Team JNPR's semblances are the fundamental forces of physics]]
Pyrrha's semblance is magnetism, and now that Nora is confirmed as using electricity, I wouldn't be surprised if Ren gets gravity (didn't he run up a vertical surface once or twice when fighting that snake?) and Jaune gets, I don't know, the strong nuclear force or something? (This would admittedly make more sense if electricity and magnetism were used by the same person, so that all four fundamental forces could make an appearance.)
* Wait. As a corollary, wouldn't this mean that Jaune is going to eventually learn to NUKE stuff?!
** That would make sense, considering that Pyrrha stated he had a ''lot'' of Aura...
* Alternately, all of them are various manifestations of the electromagnetic force. Pyrrha uses magnetism, Nora uses current, Jaune seems to use some kind of repulsion (electrostatic or Van der Walls forces, maybe?), which could leave Ren with... electrostatic attraction? Light? Molecular bonds?

[[WMG: JNPR's relatives]]
* 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]].
* 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]].
* Ren has a female relative who was at one point went on a religious pilgrimage the likes of which has not been repeated before or since[[note]]([[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sanzang]], who traveled to the Western Heaven and at one point on the trip became pregnant)[[/note]]
[[WMG: Raven Branwen is an agent of Ozpin's, too.]]
Something happened in the past that required her to be considered dead. It's likely how Qrow was originally recruited - Raven mysteriously disappeared on a mission, and several months later was considered dead. Qrow crashes into Ozpin's office, demanding answers on a classified mission, and Ozpin takes advantage of the situation to bring him into the fold. Considering their respective motifs, Norse Mythology comparisons notwithstanding, it makes a certain amount of sense. Qrow is always drunk, loudmouthed, extremely opinionated - He's a Ronin in all but name, so he's PERFECT for everyone to KNOW he collaborating with Ozpin. But what does that make Raven? A samurai, silently carrying out her orders relayed from her master. The only reason we don't see or hear any updates from her are because she can't afford to be as high-profile.

[[WMG: The continents are shaped like dragons for a reason.]]
[[spoiler: As Battle of Beacon shows, there's a HUGE dragon Grimm living INSIDE Mountain Glenn. That could very well mean the continents have more, bigger, dragon Grimm underneath.]]

[[WMG: There will only be four volumes. Volume 4 will be the last one of the series, or at least for this particular story arc.]]
* Considering how central the number four is to the series (four lead characters, four-man teams, four seasons, four kingdoms, etc.), Volume 4 will be the [[GrandFinale biggest and last of the series]].
** Why would they do that when they’ve written Volume 5 already?

[[WMG: Vol. 4 introduces the cowardly lion as another ally/agent of Ozpin.]]
Following the trend of the WizardOfOz characters being the powerful old guard of the series, there is a distinct lack of candidates for the Cowardly Lion's position. While Taiyang Xiao Long would tangentially fit (blonde hair, teammate of Qrow, another old guard), he doesn't have the right motifs (his name refers to dragons, not lions), and a Cowardly Lion in remnant would probably be a Faunus anyways. As such it's highly likely that we are going to be introduced to a powerful but passive lion Faunus in vol. 4, possibly as the headmaster of either Haven or Shade.