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[[WMG: Ruby got infused with the small amount of Fall Maiden power Pyrrha absorbed.}}

* And of course, Volume 2 will probably have blood. The trailer to Volume 2 looked like the heroes were battling humans anyway, so them bleeding would show that this is not the [[SweetDreamsFuel nice and happy,]] [[CrapsackWorld if dark land]] of RWBY Volume 1 as you remembered. This would also be a reference to Monty Oum's other series, DeadFantasy, which used blood in the same way as I described it above.

[[WMG: Weiss will try to leave Atlas.]]
With the 6-8 TimeSkip occurring, it could show that Weiss has an urging to reunite with her friends and find out who the main threat is. So, it could show that during the TimeSkip, she recruits some students from Atlas to help her escape. However, just as she is about to escape, she is stopped by her father, who forces her into a duel to determine whether she leaves or not. After a lengthy swordfight, he could end up summoning a creature using glyphs, resulting in Weiss blocking one of its attacks with the Knight’s hand. With this, Weiss’s father could berate her for her actions, presenting her attempts to leave futile, which will cause Weiss to summon the entire Knight [[ThePowerOfFriendship thanks to her thinking about her own team]]. Because of this, [[CurbStompBattle she will completely annihilate her father]], winning the fight. He could probably end up apologizing to her about abusing her when she was a child, as well as him realizing that she is now her own woman. With this, Weiss will head out to find her friends. But, her aura could be completely drained due to her summoning the entire Knight, and she would probably fall unconscious, where team RNJR will find her later.

With the 6-8 TimeSkip occurring, it could show that Weiss has an urging to reunite with her friends and find out who the main threat is. So, it could show that during the TimeSkip, she recruits some students from Atlas to help her escape. However, just as she is about to escape, she is stopped by her father, who forces her into a duel to determine whether she leaves or not. After a lengthy swordfight, he could end up summoning a creature using glyphs, resulting in Weiss blocking one of its attacks with the Knight’s hand. With this, Weiss’s father could berate her for her actions, presenting her attempts to leave futile, which will cause Weiss to summon the entire Knight [[ThePowerOfFriendship thanks to her thinking about her own team]]. Because of this, [[CurbStompBattle she will completely annihilater her father]], winning the fight. He could probably end up apologizing to her about abusing her when she was a child, as well as him realizing that she is now her own woman. With this, Weiss will head out to find her friends. But, her aura could be completely drained due to her summoning the entire Knight, and she would probably fall unconscious, where team RNJR will find her later.

* 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.

* Volume 4, thusly, will represent Winter: Events will be generally dark and cold, and things will not be easy for our heroes. Possibly a good chunk of the story will take place in Atlas, the northernmost Kingdom and the Winter Maiden may be an important plot point.

There is a lot we don't know about Cinder, Salem and their little revolution, and i mean like a ''lot'' of lot. It's not unreasonable to assume they're not as monstrous as they seem to be so far, and Ozpin and his little conspiracy might not be as white as they seem to be. There are hints to it already like Glynda saying "desperate times call for desperate measures", and Cinder while willing to go to ANY lengths to achieve her goals(whatever the goals are) doesn't seem to be wanting to kill when she doesn't have to. When infiltrating the towen in "Dance Dance Infiltration" she dealt with guards seemingly non-lethally and blink and you'll miss it but the White Fangs were still moving when she kicked their asses, even when she fought Pyrrha she didn't seem to be aiming for kill untill Pyrrha asked about destiny(after all she only shot her heel after Pyrrha's aura broke). Those are small details, not enough to call any side of the story "grey", but details that are still present. Then there are songs like "Time to Say Goodbye" involving lines like "were we born to fight and die sacrificed for one huge lie? Are we heroes keeping peace or are we weapons pointed at the enemy so someone else can claim a victory", "Divide" which coul be VictimBlaming or could be foreshadowing that Ozpin isn't exacly saint, and extremely ambigous "Sacrifice".

* It might actually tie in with him being TheWizardOfOz {{expy}}. I mean, think about it; he seems like this great, amazing Hunter who's probably ShroudedInMyth or something. He might have been something of an ActionSurvivor or even a RookieRedRanger at one time, and only a close few people really know about it. It would be like TheManBehindTheCurtain, right?

** Alternatively, Pyrrha's arc in Volume 2 may involve we dealing with how hard it is to be an [[ChildSoldier Achilles]] expy.

* Is that read as 'Ranger'?

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[[WMG: Shit's about to hit the fan.]]
They delayed episode 15 by a week, and it's going to air on Halloween night. Do the math.
* If the intent behind this is that the conflict occur on the Halloween episode, then it's jossed. Nothing big happened. Unless you count [[TheReveal Blake's blurtage]].
* The big hit came in the season's finale. We learn more about Blake, Penny, Roman, and Cinder. Mostly Blake.
* And then the cliff hanger... guess we will have to wait till summer of 2014 at the earliest.
* And they're back and Cinder has moved their operation into Beacon. At this point, I now agree it's safe to say things are about to blow up.

[[WMG: The academy will hold a ball at some point.]]
There's no real justification for this guess, I just think more CostumePorn would be really cool. Bonus points if said ball [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery is interrupted by a demon attack]] and all the students have to fight in formal dress.
* with the international competition held at the school..cough harry potter cough...this is almost a guarantee
* It happened. And it had Jaune in drag.

[[WMG: RWBY will hold or participate in a concert.]]
There's already indications that this may happen. Weiss is already shown singing (and her own song, no less), and [[https://twitter.com/montyoum/status/341271994286866433/photo/1 this picture]] shows that each team member has their own instrument models. Songs will play out in the style of the Yellow trailer: Ruby sings "Red Like Roses," Weiss follows up with "Mirror, Mirror," Blake sings "From Shadows," and Yang does "I Burn," followed up with a full band effort for "This Will Be the Day."
* All with just Casey Lee Williams's voice alone? That oughta sound weird. That said, I'd rather hear duets of "Red Like Roses Part II" and "From Shadows". And I wonder who's gonna be the rapper for "I Burn"? And... oh, yeah, Yang singing "Gold" for Ruby would be awesome too. As well as "I May Fall" before "This Will Be the Day".

[[WMG: Dust and dust-based weaponry are only lethal against the Grimm]]
The girls' weapons demonstrate varying degrees of lethality, and I theorize it's because Dust isn't as harmful to humans as it is to Grimm. This may have to do with the prologue stating that "Man was born from Dust". Here's my breakdown:
* In the Red Trailer, Crescent Rose is capable of dicing up Beowulves into sashimi and delivering rifle shots that decapitate in one shot, demonstrating the "high velocity" part of HVSS. In Episode 1, Ruby incapacitates Roman's mooks by striking them with the blunt backside of Crescent Rose. She fires at Cinder with Crescent Rose in rifle mode, but her shots are blocked with Dust magic.
* In the White Trailer, Myrtenaster deals no visible damage to the Knight when striking with just its blade. It is only until Weiss starts channeling Dust into the blade that Myrtenaster is able to repel and ultimately slay the Knight.
* In the Black Trailer, both Blake and Adam are blasted by the Spider Mech, but suffer no real damage. Assuming that all advanced technology is powered by Dust, the Spider Mech's beam weapon is also Dust-based, and is apparently not lethal to neither Blake nor Adam.
* In the Yellow Trailer, Yang is VERY clearly blasting Junior's mooks with Ember Celica's shotgun blasts. Even Junior still appears to be alive after being on the receiving end of Yang's MegatonPunch.
* Then there is, of course, Ruby's exploding Dust sneeze, which doesn't appear to damage Ruby nor Weiss, save for a coat of soot.
* This is true to a limited extent - creatures of Grimm are described as soulless, and the protagonists are able to use the manifestation of their souls - "Aura" - as a defensive and offensive augmentation. This explains their MadeOfIron state.
* The opening sequence says "Man, born from dust," but it also later says "in time, Man's passion, resourcefulness, and ingenuity led them to the tools that would help even the odds. This power was appropriately named 'Dust.'" The dust that Man was born from is not the same Dust that gives one Elemental Powers.

[[WMG: It's Aura that cannot kill people.]]
* It is life itself. If you were, for example, to use Aura to augment an attack that sends someone flying through the roof to land minutes later, the Aura used in the attack will bolster the person's body for both the attack and the landing. They might be knocked out though. (A non-Aura user using a dust-"burning" method instead of Aura channeling may not have that problem.)
** It is possible to knock someone out using Aura and then stop using it and stomp on said person's neck. But to do this, you have to be able to completely retract connection to other living things completely, and it takes a very cold killer to do it. (Mercury, Neo)
*** [[spoiler: Yang "broke Mercury's leg" because it was an artificial prosthesis, thus not protected as "alive]], nevertheless, this is why it was so horrifying to "see" from the audience, harm through Aura is basically TheDarkSide.

[[WMG: There will be a flashback episode centered around Ozpin's days at Beacon.]]
And he will be revealed to have been almost exactly like Ruby in terms of personality.
* It might actually tie in with him being TheWizardOfOz {{expy}}. I mean, think about it; he seems like this great, amazing Hunter who's probably ShroudedInMyth or something. He might have been something of an ActionSurvivor or even a RookieRedRanger at one time, and only a close few people really know about it. It would be like TheManBehindTheCurtain, right?

[[WMG: [[FloatingContinent Beacon]] will fall out of the sky.]]
Because [[RuleOfCool Monty Oum.]]
* Except... Beacon isn't the airship, it's the castle-like structure overlooking the cliff at the end of episode 1 with an [[TheWizardOfOz emerald]] [[MeaningfulName beacon]].
** Which doesn't prevent it from falling out of the sky; if it's overlooking the cliff that means [[NoKillLikeOverkill it could be forced over it.]]
*** Or the cliff could be undermined, by, say, the White Fang with some Dust-infused explosives, or a really REALLY big Grimm...

[[WMG: Signal will be destroyed and be a BreakTheCutie moment for Ruby Rose.]]
The full "This Will Be the Day" lyrics and the opening narration both mention how brilliant lights can be snuffed out... and what are the names of different academies? Things like "Beacon" and "Signal" - probable light sources. Hearing that Signal fell to the Grim (or otherwise) and consequently learning (or assuming) that her uncle Qrow was killed will either cause Ruby Rose to either become a BrokenBird or suffer a HeroicBSOD.

[[WMG: There will, at some point, be a huge Dust explosion.]]
I mean, epic. Continent destroying. If a single sneeze can make a vial of it explode, imagine what our heroes' guns could do in, say, a factory. Besides, explosions and high action go together like bread and butter.
* Well, Roman IS stockpiling the stuff...someone rolls a grenade into that warehouse of his and the blast is going to leave one HELL of a crater.
* Well, it didn't really "make a vial of it explode"; it just caused [[AshFace petty combustion]] and knocked the rest of the vial away to be retrieved by Blake. Granted, still a potential scenario with the right components, but let's not *GlassesPull* blow things out of proportion. *cue Music/TheWho*
** It should be noted that Weiss was shaking off...er...Dust dust?... with the way she was shaking the vial to punctuate her point...which made a nice [[ThePoorMansAtomicBomb fuel-air explosive]] mixture for the sneeze to trigger.
*** You mean SOOT?

[[WMG: One or several of the NamedWeapons will be broken, and Ruby will have a ForgingScene to fix them.]]
Bonus points if she upgrades to UltimateBlacksmith in the process.

[[WMG: The 2nd verse of "This Will Be the Day" is [[{{Foreshadowing}} prophetic.]]]] [note]also building on the "Signal will be destroyed" and "The trailers took place after Episode 1" [=WMG=]s above[/note]
Something bad will happen (most likely being the "Signal being destroyed" theory above), bad enough for the girls to go their separate ways, leading to the events from the trailers, but in a different order (explained by Ruby trying to [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether put the band back together]]). But [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore nothing will ever be the same again]], mostly due to lingering tensions and the fact that this world will face an Apocalypse, or the aforementioned DoomedHometown theory.

[[WMG: Either Beacon will be taken over by a hostile, mind-controlling force, or the other students will believe the girls have been.]]
Or the girls actually ''will'' be - this is based on the scene in the intro where the RWBY team is surrounding some sort of pulsating, hovering energy-ball thing - or maybe it's a portal - and they're facing ''outwards'', in defensive positions. Either the HappyFunBall is not a threat, or they ''believe'' it isn't, and they're protecting it against something or someone who ''is'' a threat. When combined with the 'brilliant lights (Beacon?) will cease to burn' bit in the theme song, the implications are a bit...interesting, to say the least, especially if Ozpin is the [[{{foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] "[[MultiplePersonalities man with two souls]]".
* Said HappyFunBall explodes seconds later. Judging from the facial expressions Ruby makes before it does, team RWBY had no idea it was there until it blew up. And then they attacked it, which means they thought it was hostile.
** Actually (now that I've watched the rest of the "credits" again), Ruby abruptly ''turns and slashes at it'', causing it to explode; the team then runs at a ''quite larger'' SBPT (Swirley Black Portal Thing) that may or may not be a result of the explosion. Given that a moment before they're pretty obviously surrounding it and facing out in defensive positions, surrounded by Grim (pause the video and the red eyes everywhere are obvious),they knew it was there, the question is was it mind-controlling them and Ruby shook it off, or was it a "if we can't keep it, they won't get it" moment.
** That wasn't a slashing motion. Ruby noticed the ball, saw it was about to explode, and she used Crescent Rose to shield herself from it. I don't think they knew it was there until it blew up. Also, it might be worth noting that one it explodes, every pair of Grimm eyes that used to surround them suddenly vanishes.
*** The thing is, if they previously hadn't known it was there, why were they in a ''perfect defensive circle'' around it?
*** Because they were being [[BackToBackBadasses back to back badasses]], and someone threw a black hole grenade in the middle of them.
* Song now appears to be foreshadowing the [[spoiler:soul/aura transfer technology seen in "Fall."]]

[[WMG: Blake and Weiss will find themselves at the center of the Schnee vs. WF conflict.]]
Sometime after they make up and reconcile their differences, a future episode will feature the above mentioned conflict. Both girls will be called traitors by their respective sides "for working with the enemy" as the girls try to explain how the conflict isn't so black and white and that a resolution can be reached. Their proof? Both girls have managed to work together on team RWBY, and therefore the Schnee Dust Company and the White Fang can also learn to cooperate by following the girls' example. While the episode may not end with everything magically patched, the girls' actions will cause the conflict to move towards a positive conclusion.
* This fits with the theme colouring, too, [[IncrediblyLamePun Black and White.]]

[[WMG: Ozpin and the other Beacon staff spy on students with Crows]]
They've only ever been shown watching students who are outside and a small, flying AnimalEyeSpy would be able to get the wide range of angles (and be innocuous enough that nobody noticed them. "Birdy, no!" could have been foreshadowing.
* Alternatively, these spycrows are Grimm-sent as a theory goes they are not the mindless beasts we're led to believe they are. This troper has had doubts about these little birds being "actual Grimm" but a subset used for infiltration and reconnaissance sounds plausible.

[[WMG: Yang and Nora will team up at one point.]]
They're both energetic, outgoing, and more powerful than they look, and their fighting styles rely on overwhelming force, moreso for Nora than Yang. It would be pretty awesome to see them team up against some behemoth Grimm, or a HateSink who beats the shit out of both Ruby and Ren and gloats about it. Alternatively, they could just get up to wild hijinks outside of battle.

[[WMG: Penny will be outed as a robot in the tournament when she takes damage.]]
Tournament rules use how much energy the combatants auras' have left to determine when one of them has lost. Penny, as a robot, has no aura and this will be exposed when one of the competitors manages to land a hit on her. The blow may or may not hurt her, but the fact that her life bar won't go down will make it clear that she's not human.
* Actually, Penny can generate aura. She says so in the episode after she stops the truck from squishing Ruby: "I'm the world's first synthetic person capable of generating an aura." Therefore, she should still be able to take damage just as any human could, but she may or may not be able to tank more of it.
* Like the above commenter says, Penny can generate an aura. But yes, she was outed as a robot in the tournament due to taking damage...
* Confirmed: Volume 3 episode 9 PvP has Penny's Status as a robot reveled [[spoiler:after she is torn in half Pyrrha's semblance]]

[[WMG: Penny will be accused of cheating.]]
Alternative to the above, Penny will be accused of rigging the aura-measuring devices.

[[WMG: Season 2 will [[DeconstructedTrope give Ruby a taste of what the dark side of being a huntress is like.]] ]]
And it is NOT gonna be pretty.

[[WMG: The food fight scene will get a CallBack in a serious fight.]]
Ozpin's speech to Glynda after the food fight seems to suggest that the series will become bit more serious in the future. And where the food fight might be funny due of how ridiculous it was, imagine the fight with actual weapons and a serious reasoning for the battle to happen.
* One possibility is that Ruby fights Pyrrha. As she starts losing, Ruby notices that her swings seem to keep veering just a bit off because she needs both arms to use her scythe, and would feel a pull on both arms and not one like everyone else. Then she remembers Pyrrha's actions with Jaune's shield and the food fight and realizes what's going on, ditching her scythe and just speed-blizting Pyrrha into a wall like in the food fight. Depending on when this happens, this could ruin Pyrrha's reputation as people debate over her actual level of skill: is she the prodigy they think, or is she just good at using a simple trick to supplement average abilities?

[[WMG: Volume 2 will be a deconstruction of the first volume.]]
Similar to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', the first Volume will be deconstructed to make it more serious and darker than it's predecessor. It will probably try to explore the characters personalities too [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Eva style.]] In terms of personalities, I predict that...
* Ruby's [[GenkiGirl craziness]] and [[PerkyGoth personality]] is a result of her trying to cope with her mother's death, which Red Like Roses II reveals.
* Weiss' attitude is a result of not being well liked by her [[TheUnfavorite parents]] or [[IJustWantToHaveFriends friends]], and thus she takes out her anger on others.
* Blake's past as a Faunus will be explored more, and something bad might've happened to her if she was part of a race that many people [[FantasticRacism hate.]]
* Yang is actually Ruby's step sister (why else would she have a different last name) and will be asked that question by others in-universe. In terms of personality, [[BloodKnight she craves battles]], and will probably beat up someone [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown rather graphically.]]
** Monty confirmed Yang is Ruby's half-sister.
* Jaune's already a deconstruction of the ButtMonkey, but maybe [[{{Reconstruction}} he'll get better in his combat skills as the series progresses.]]
* Nora has a serious case of ADHD. Why else is she so energetic?
* Pyrrha's status as TheAce will be deconstructed by showing how [[TrainingFromHell hard it is]] to be that good of a fighter/athlete.
** Alternatively, Pyrrha's arc in Volume 2 may involve we dealing with how hard it is to be an [[ChildSoldier Achilles]] expy.
* Lie Ren's stoicism will be put to the test when [[NotSoStoic something horrible happens]] to him and his team, especially Nora.
* And of course, Volume 2 will probably have blood. The trailer to Volume 2 looked like the heroes were battling humans anyway, so them bleeding would show that this is not the [[SweetDreamsFuel nice and happy,]] [[CrapsackWorld if dark land]] of RWBY Volume 1 as you remembered. This would also be a reference to Monty Oum's other series, DeadFantasy, which used blood in the same way as I described it above.
** Of course, it may not happen, but it would be interesting.
*** Of course it won't, they've already battled humans. And aside from the step sister thing, [[{{Jossed}} you're all wrong]] [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation and a bag of chips]]

[[WMG: Ruby has already realized who Cinder is.]]
When Ruby bumped into Cinder at the end of chapter two between the hesitation and the look on her face Ruby has probably already recognized Cinder as her as the woman whom Glynda dueled with from the first episode. At the absolute least there's an awareness that something is amiss.
* Cinder unveils her dastardly plans and [[FridgeHorror Ruby realizes she could have prevented it.]]

[[WMG: The reason for the apparent CultureChopSuey present in Remnant is...]]
It's likely that before the war with the Grimm, the world of Remnant had many nations and cultures, but with humanity (and the Faunus) pushed to the brink of extinction, culture was given a back seat to basic survival. By the time peace was established and the four kingdoms had been built, they had become a hodgepodge of previous cultures.

[[WMG: Faunus have more identifying traits than just their animal part]]
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.
* Obleck has also mentioned that they have exceptional night vision.

[[WMG: Jaune will pull an second hour superpower and be the hero of Volume 2]]
Cinder's dialogue at the end of Extracurricular carries some kind of implication like she has a plot to rob the more capable students like Pyrrha of their powers. In the same episode it's mentioned that Jaune still hasn't found his semblance. It's possible that he'll discover his semblance at the last possible moment and that it will be something powerful enough to turn the entire battle on its head and protect his friends.
* Well not in Volume 2 sadly (though he DID go all out on an Ursa), but maybe 3?

[[WMG: All shops in Vale (possibly all of Remnant) are references to films]]
So far we have:
* [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn From Dust Till Dawn]]
* [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings A Simple Wok]]
* [[Film/UnderTheTuscanSun Tucson's Books: Every book under the sun]]
It's possible that this theme will extend to other businesses in town.

[[WMG: Episode Eight will involve an extended fight between Cinder, Emerald and Mercury against the whole of Beacon's student body and the teachers.]]
It's likely, probable even, that Ruby was able to recognize Cinder as both the witch Glynda fought and as the student from Haven. Cinder pulls off the same bullet block trick as she did in episode one. Additionally, while the room may not be well lit, it was certainly bright enough for Ruby to see Cinder's mask. It's not too had to notice that the long black hair and gold eyes also happen to match up neatly with the girl that Ruby met in the hallways of Beacon. Furthermore, Ruby is a sniper: her eyes have probably been conditioned to be able to assess a local and person rapidly and retain the information. And Ruby got an extended look at Cinder just before the fight. Take into account the fact that Ironwood appeared seconds after Ruby, and it's very likely that Ozpin, the staff, and soon enough the students will know Cinder's real intentions.
* There's also a meta reason for this: the three act structure. If you examine each episode, you see a basic rising action and falling action format. Episode one had dark beginnings but light hearted action, episode two had no action but heavy drama with Blake's fears and the twist of Cinder and company in Beacon, three was character building with angst with Weiss and drama with Penny, four was basically a vehicle for an enormous mecha fight, five was back to episode two's drama with Blake, Pyrrha and Jaune and action with Pyrrha and CRDL, six was mostly drama (Yang's back story, Blake's own pains, and Jaune's worry about Weiss) and comedy ("Lady stilts", Ren in a towel, Yang and Weiss setting up the dance), seven was drama with Pyrrha's Jaune's Neptune's and Weiss's feelings, comedy with Jaune's dancing a cross dressing, and villainous action with Cinder. All of this built up to episode four, and now it's building up to episode eight, which looks to continue the trend of a heavy action sequence as we transition into the third act of volume two.

[[WMG: The humans (and humanoids) of Remnant are taller/more physically powerful than RealLife humans]]
Since the second World of Remnant video has made it clear that Remnant's practically a DeathWorld (which needs a dedicated force to keep urban areas safe), it would make sense. This would explain why [[http://bearshounen.tumblr.com/post/97365865939/montys-posted-the-cast-of-rwbys-height-chart so much of the cast is pushing 6']].
* There's certainly plenty of evidence to support this in the series. Roman has taken blows that would kill a normal person and gotten right back up. So has Yang (though that might have to do with her semblence/possible Super Sayain connection), and the opening section of initiation into Beacon consists of being launched into a forest. Even Jaune, lacking in Aura and semblemnce, has taken blows that would cripple a normal person.

[[WMG: Ruby and Jaune's lineage will prove to be a central plot point]]
In the stinger of the Season 2 finale, we see Raven Branwen standing at the statue of the Arc ancestor and his comrade--specifically, she's right under the woman next to Arc. It's fairly obvious at this point that she's related to Ruby and/or Yang. That got me thinking, are there some secrets between the two bloodlines tied to the fate of things we haven't seen yet?

[[WMG: Season 3 will be Academies vs. Atlas Military vs. White Fang]]
As of the end of Season 2, Roman is now in the custody of Ironwood and the Atlas Military, Cinder, Mercury and Emerald have the White Fang at their beck-and-call due to having influence on Adam, and the Huntsman Academies students are all at Beacon for the tournament and Vital festival. I'm willing to bet that Roman is either in league with Ironwood, or will spread mistrust through the Atlas Military towards the Academies while in custody, thus causing a '3 faction' dynamic that will either be the focus or a main plot point of the next season.

[[WMG: Weiss' father is a sociopath who is manipulating the White Fang into becoming a real military threat so they can be further disenfranchised and then enslaved]]
How does Roman Torchwick acquire more than a dozen of the very latest mecha made by the SDC and the Atlas Military? The mechs were supplied to the White Fang by Torchwick through Cinder Fall. I can only think that someone in either the Atlasian military or the SDC supplied them. Ironwood seems too fanatically dedicated to the lives of people under his command to risk them by giving weapons the the WF so I can only assume someone high in the SDC supplied them.

I think Weiss' father supplied them to the WF through several proxies (Torchwick and Cinder). By doing so the WF go from dangerous nuisance to full blow military threat. The military steps in and cuts the White Fang down with their superior numbers and better training and then the war is used as justification for the faunus' enslavement guaranteeing free labour for Mr Schnee's mines and stopping the faunus rights movement in its tracks.

It will be the Weiss breaking moment and making both the White Fang and Schnee Dust Company a serious threat that must be countered.

[[WMG:Weiss's father is a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo.]]
We've been told how Mr. Schnee has done terrible things since he took over the SDC and Weiss implied that her grandfather was a better person, calling the SDC "my grandfather's company". But that's just her opinion. For all we know, grandpa Schnee was a good person, but did dubious things as well. Or he nearly ruined the company before handing it over, leaving Weiss's dad in a desperate scramble to build the family company up so high as to avoid that in the future, with Faunus being collateral.

[[WMG: The fact that Jaune has not yet unlocked his semblance is going to be a SpannerInTheWorks to Cinder's plan to take away the Beacon students' powers.]]
If Cinder's plan to take away the students' powers requires assessing them first, it's probably not going to be some kind of blanket effect. It's also not unreasonable for her to assume that any student good enough for Beacon will have already discovered their Semblance. Since Jaune has not yet unlocked any powers beyond letting his Aura help him heal, and yet managed to fake his way into Beacon, she's probably working off largely false information about his abilities, and there is a very good chance that whatever she does to the other students won't take for Jaune. The likely result is that while everyone else gets BroughtDownToNormal, Jaune will remain empowered or at least not be prevented from unlocking and using his semblance afterwards, which would be a huge Jaune-shaped hole in any plan that involves depowering all the trainee Huntsmen in Beacon at a key moment, especially since it's been more than hinted that Jaune's powers are going to be pretty badass once he comes into them.

[[WMG: Qrow and Winter have a history.]]
From the way they glared at each other in the Volume 3 opening, there's definitely ''something'' going on between them. Maybe they went to the same hunters academy when they were young, or maybe Winter did something that made Qrow so mad that he held a grudge against her. Whatever it is, it might effect the relationship between the members of Team RWBY, since Winter is Weiss's big sister and Qrow is Ruby and Yang's uncle.
* Maybe he's misinterpreted some information (or been deliberately misled) and mistaken Winter for the "queen" he's watching out for, rather than Cinder?
* Or, alternatively, there is just a giant honking pile of UST between the two of them that they are too willful to address like reasonable adults.

[[WMG: Theories on Ruby's friends arriving in the third year of Beacon (so quite a few volumes into the future).]]
* Ruby's friends from Signal Academy will turn up as first-years, leading to Ruby having to balance time between her team and her friends, which might lead to some conflicts. Either that or she finds that though they're still friends, the two year gap between her and them means they aren't as close as they used to be.

[[WMG: Also to do with the third year, though in this instance about the next Vytal Festival.]]
* The 41st Vytal Festival will be held in the home nation of a previous introduced important character, such as Sun Wukong's.
** Also, if we include the above bit about Ruby's friends, Team RWBY don't go over to the tournament until much closer to the festival (so late 2nd semester/going into the 3rd semester (unless Volume 3 isn't in the third semester), in order to give time for drama to play out.

[[WMG: Cinder and her group are going to destroy the Amity Colosseum to trigger another war.]]
* It's been revealed that Cinder has not only hacked the tournament match-ups, but ''Ironwood's Scroll''. It could give her access to the tournament's defenses - the fleet of armed airships, robot soldiers, ''and Penny'' - and turn it against them. The Amity Colosseum is a gigantic structure floating over Vale. Just imagine what would happen if it crashed...

[[WMG: Weiss is going to somehow tame a Grimm in the future.]]
* Partly confirmed. Weiss can, in theory, summon allies based on Grimm she's defeated.

[[WMG: Cinder was planning on Team NDGO winning.]]
Now that we know Cinder’s been controlling the match-ups and the arena for each round, it’s clear that she’s been skewing the fights in a certain team’s favor. (Weiss having Ice, Nora having Electricity.) Considering how much Cinder seems to know about the people around her, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to think she would have knowledge of Neptune’s fear of water, and she gave NDGO an edge on top of that by giving them the Desert biome. (“Alright, home-field advantage!”) With all this in mind, it seems like Cinder intended for Team NDGO to be the victor, but Team SSSN ended up winning against the odds. This may lead to them becoming [[SpannerInTheWorks Spanners in the Works.]]

[[WMG: Alternatively to the above, Cinder’s plan would have the same result whether Team SSSN or Team NDGO won.]]
True, the two biomes chosen for their fight give NDGO an advantage, but Sun has spent plenty of time in the desert as well (“Don’t get too cocky! That’s my turf too!”) and Neptune has an electric weapon, which is how Team SSSN won. Maybe Cinder didn’t care who won either way and gave each team clear advantages and disadvantages with the two chosen biomes for a more interesting fight.

[[WMG: Gernal Ironwood is TheMole and working for Cinder.]]
If you read the FreezeFrameBonus entry on his page, you know that [[spoiler:Ironwood's scroll flashed Cinder's Queen symbol just as he took it off the headmaster's computer/desk]], and when we see Cinder plotting with her cronies, [[spoiler:her scroll show's Ironwood's picture and now has access into the Vytal festival's operating systems]]. This was all Ironwood's doing, taking advantage of the position he's in to give Cinder a further edge. And not just for the above. Thanks to Roman's machinations in Volume 2, the Council has taken a large portion of power from Ozpin and gave it to Ironwood, and more alarmingly, to Cinder. It will eventually come to a head where Beacon faces its DarkestHour and Ironwood shows his true allegiance.
** Or Cinder's virus was already in the school's system, as it was put there last season during the dance, and Ironwood connecting his scroll to Ozpin's desk which is part of the school's network allowed Cinder's virus to transfer to it and give her a new access point.
** Ironwood is just a rube who needs to get a better Scroll password.

[[WMG: The character arcs:]]
Vol. 1: ''Weiss'' gets over herself, ''Blake'' reveals her past with the White Fang, ''Jaune'' deals with the fallout from his transcripts being faked.

Vol. 2: ''Blake'' learns that she can't do everything herself, ''Yang'' reveals that she almost got Ruby and herself killed, ''Pyrrha'' opens up and reveals that she was put on a pedestal.

Vol. 3: ''Ruby'' learns that Qrow isn't the hero she thought, ''Weiss'' reveals her history with Winter, ''Nora'' stops being a StepfordSmiler (either becoming truly happy or expressing what she's hiding).

Vol. 4: ''Yang'' finds something worth fighting for, ''Ruby'' reveals the circumstances of Summer's death, ''Ren'' grows somehow.

[[WMG: Pyrrha is Dorothy/Plot of Volume 3:]]
By know we realize that Ozpin represents the Wizard of Oz, Ironwood = The Tin Man, Qrow = Scarecrow, Glynda = Goodwitch, Cinder = Wicked Witch. Using this theory Ozpin is looking for a guardian and picks Pyrrha. This would make Pyrrha Dorothy who would be tasked to fight Cinder. This would also make none other than Jaune Arc the Cowardly Lion. This would also make the White Fang the Flying Monkeys.
Now why pick Pyrrha? Look at her semblance. She can control polarity. This might not seem like a big thing, but stick with me. After the attack on Vale, Ironwood brought in more ROBOTIC troops to defend the city. Cinder is also connected into Atlas's network. Those robotic soldiers probably run off of that network. This means that Cinder could probably control the robotic soldiers as well as Penny. Now remember Pyrrha's semblance? She would be able to use her semblance to give herself a major advantage over metal enemies. This is why Ozpin will choose her to be the guardian. Pyrrha will also probably have to fight Penny at some point.

[[WMG: What the crowd saw at the end of the Yang/Mercury fight was 'reality', what Yang saw was the illusion]]
Instead of trying to alter camera records and the view of everyone in attendence, instead the illusion was centered on Yang. She thought she was being attacked, but instead she fired on the unmoving Mercury, giving them damning evidence.
* Wait, there are people who think it is the other way around? How would that work? Sure, you could alter the camera feeds, but how would you make the crowd see what was on screen?
* The one illusionist (Neo) we've seen can create pretty large illusions (the one in Painting the Town was large enough to cover Neo and Roman's escape to an aircraft some distance away) that seem to have a solid element to them, so Neo's illusions probably aren't limited by the scale of the audience that can see them, but just the distance the illusion has to cover - meaning all she'd have to do is create an illusion ''around'' the arena as the fight ended and dispel it once the intended effect was achieved. This would also avoid complications, as the last time Yang punched an illusion, it shattered quite spectacularly, not to mention that making an illusion that only Yang could see would be incredibly complex to set up in a way that wouldn't be picked up in some manner by the cameras, either as a weird reflection or something else.
** Yang's movements as the fight ends also don't entirely match up with what the replay shows, as we see her exiting the arena in a straight line before whipping around to defend herself, whilst in the replay she walks a curved path around Mercury before hitting him. Also if what Yang saw was the illusion, then the illusion would have to have been cast earlier in the fight for Mercury to be alongside her when she whips around, meaning the audience would've seen Yang randomly unloading moves at nothing for a good while towards the end.
* [[spoiler:Confirmed. The actual fight happened, and Emerald. who can manipulate people's perception, made Yang think that Mercury attacked her right at the very end. Also, Mercury's leg isn't really broken, Season 3 Episode 7 revealed that he has cybernetic legs.]]
** [[spoiler: Debatable; the only time we definitely know Emerald uses an illusion, in episodes 4 and 7, is when she's close by the target, which she couldn't have been for Yang, as Yang and Merc were center stage. Additionally, from how we saw her illusions work, this would put Mercury at an unnecessary risk of genuine injury, as there's no guarantee that where Yang would attempt to hit the illusion is where Mercury's leg is going to be (and as mentioned above, the footage still doesn't line up). This, in addition to the significance given to Cinder's comment about Neo at the end of the ambulance scene, implies that Neo had some involvement in what went on on-stage (there's some build up and Neo isn't even hinted to be there until the end, if all she'd done was stolen the ambulance there'd be no need for that), which would put Mercury at less risk as well - her illusions are physical structures that would surround the stage, showing the world Mercury being attacked for no reason, while Mercury could ensure that Yang ''would'' hit him where she needs to by actually attacking her. Emerald's part in this plan seemed to be on the two medics (which is why she's there almost immediately), to make them see Mercury's bleeding knee until they can get him to the ambulance.]]

[[WMG: The Identity of the Maidens is an Open Secret.]]

This one is simple we were told basically straight out who they are. They take their season as part of their name, but due to the fact that the story is considered a fairy tail, no one would believe they are who they say they are even when introduced. This would of course mean that Winter Schnee is the Winter Maiden, Cinder Fall is the one who stole the Autumn Maiden's Powers (Her full name is probably Amber Fall or something like it), Summer Rose is the previous Summer Maiden. (Probably meaning that Ruby is the current one if Red Like Roses would imply that the person that Summer thought about was Ruby.) The only one we haven't seen is Spring.

[[WMG: And the next Summer Maiden is...]]

Yang. Yes, if we go by the guess that Summer Rose was the previous Summer Maiden, then Ruby as her biological daughter makes more sense... BUT!

Yang has more sun motifs in my opinion--between the fire element, her golden hair, her sunny disposition... plus we've also been told that the powers of the maidens are straight up separate from semblance or dust ability. Yang has just [[spoiler:been "seen" to break the rules of engagement in a friendly tournament.]] It isn't beyond belief that some sort of punishment may be in order, such as confiscation of her dust weapons or some sort of power nullifier depending on how badly they take it, or how badly the situation spirals out of control. What if she assumes/awakens the mantle to power up?


[[WMG: The Callus old man from the four seasons story will be revealed to be ether the true villain of the series or at lest some kind of humanoid abomination.]]

surprised no one is at all curious about the character in the supposablely true story about an old man who gives four women unimaginable magic powers. Something that no other character in the series apart from them have.

Since the maidens themselves are real that likly means that:

1. this character is real as well.

2. this character was capable of empowering four people to be strong enough to basically become the embodiment of the season, and this is not likely human.

3.he likely possesses similar powers.

4.he may be still alive as he might not even be human- since human didn't have magic before him only dust.

Someone like that would completely be capable of giving Cinder what she needs to steal a maiden's power, and would seem like the only character the cinder might work for. added to that roosterteeth seem to enjoy playing down the importance of character un till they reveille it. ex Cinder is season 1, Adam and Raven season 2.

as for a motivation to have cinder steal the powers for him, and not say empowering cinder himself. well he might not have expected the maidens to pass down their powers when they died. He might have expected to get what he had given back eventually, if he really is a immortal of sorts then a few decades aren't so much to him. But however many hundreds of years since then might have worn down his patience. this might have made him more reluctant to empower Cinder in case she decided to take the power and run.
** I was thinking the same thing, but I was honestly afraid to post anything because I felt like I might be ruining a big reveal if it was true. But since someone else has put this here anyway, I think I’ll go ahead and offer my thoughts on what his motivations might be. Like Ozpin and his group, the man from the story also knows that if the Maidens were ever revealed to the public, it would cause an uproar. He initially trusted that the Maidens would keep their promise to share their gifts with the people of Remnant, but now that they have to be kept a secret aside from a few individuals, there’s no real way for them to do so. As such, the once-callous old man has decided to take the powers back and let this legend stay a legend, for the sake of mankind. However, due to the precise set of rules to inherit the power, he cannot take these powers himself. Instead, he has to depend on a woman, and for whatever reason it may be, the only woman he can depend on is Cinder.
** Alternatively, given the propensity for stories and fairy tails to change over time until they sometimes become almost completely different from their original versions, it's entirely possible that the "old man" of the story never actually gave those powers to the Maidens willingly. I find it most likely that the original Maidens actually ''stole'' their powers from him. Given that Cinder herself has shown that it's possible to forcefully steal the power from their current host, it's not such a stretch that the original Maidens did the same thing with the power's original host. Hence why Cinder's dialogue in referring to stealing Amber's power as "taking something back."

[[WMG: The FinalBattle will take place on the Moon]]
There has to be a reason why its broken, as well as specifically mentioning that Dust doesn't work in space. Maybe our heroes will be flung from Remnant to the Moon somehow, forcing them to ditch their dust-based equipment and abilities, leading to a very basic and primal final battle to contrast the rest of the [[Main/RuleofCool series]]. It'll be like the finale of most [[Franchise/MetalGear MGS]] games, which ditch the fancy guns and whatnot to have a FisticuffsBoss instead.

[[WMG: Humans & Faunus are both non-native to the planet of Remnant, and they arrived here on the moon.]]
So, we know that the Creature of Grimm are found all across Remnant and that they DON'T eat animals as food. We also know that the moon is cracked apart on one side, has a rotation, and otherwise looks just like our moon. Here's where the two collide as a theory: Humans fled Earth due to war/conflict/disaster/something that rendered the planet uninhabitable, and we fled by turning the entire moon into a spaceship. Perhaps we had advanced gravity control tech or something. We fled across space, arrived at Remnant because it had liquid water, and then we proceeded to begin the process of terraforming the planet to be more habitable by our species. The planet's native life: Grimm. The creatures of Grimm come from Remnant and the reason they attack humans is because they know, on some level, that we are the cause of their current situation. The faunus were themselves created by genetic engineering on the moon to create a species that could exist on Remnant without needing to wipe out said Grimm, which led to further conflict within the ranks of humans that ended with the moon exploding and the survivors fleeing to Remnant and losing their advanced Tech. Dust could be a byproduct of Grimm life overall.

[[WMG: Dust comes from dead humans.]]
When [[spoiler: Yang's arm is cut off and when Pyhrra is killed by Cinder, we see small particles flaking off of Yang's severed arm, and Pyhrra's whole body turns to ashes and is blown away by the wind.]] This could easily be where Dust comes from. Furthermore, humanity discovered Dust during a losing fight against the Grimm, according to the first episode of season 1. A high casualty rate means that large amounts of Dust would have been produced, thus improving the likeliness that mankind would have discovered Dust at this age.

During the RTX 2016 Q&A Ruby constantly avoids questions relating to the past, be it describing her training with Qrow or how she discovered her Semblance. It's pretty clear she wants to avoid spoilers. So naturally Volume 4 will dedicate an episode or two to Ruby's training under Qrow before the Dust shop incident, the same way that "Beginning of the End" showed us Cinder gathering her forces.