maybe is like a reddit user said and is just combat between shipmaster Ozpin and Shipmaster Salem into who is going to end with who.
Which mean yes, Salem order Cinder to kill Phyrra because it was getting in the way and now everything is acording with the keikaku
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Ozpin probably had plans for all of RWBY. A silver eyed heroine, a Schnee that could learn to give a damn about the little people, a White Fang defector that could learn to love humans, and whatever Yang is which is probably whatever Raven is. All valuable pieces on his board.
Dunno about JNPR though. He had plans for Pyrrha but they didn't quite work out. And Nora and Ren he doesn't seem to be interested in at all.
That is because you dont see the complex game here.
Bumblebee getting to close to be real? set Mercury to frame her and them unleash Adam on them(he respect Blake wish to be with a women, just not HUMAN women)
Sun is actually a secret agent into push bumblebee, but Neptune is Salem spy plant there to drive White rose out.
Penny destruction? totally to sink nut and botls and set Salem ideal ship Lancaster, all in this great game of dickery and counter-dickery, truly a game of skill and deception
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NnyVc8r2SM
I hope Ruby masters her semblence and she becomes so fast she can do that
edited 1st May '16 5:39:18 AM by MalcolmBelmontS
Or this http://youtu.be/QXZWBJ-KKaU
Alternatively give Yang a "world of cardboard" speech
edited 1st May '16 6:39:19 AM by DarthSion
Cut off one head 2 more shall take it's place! Hail Hydra But Ozpin couldn't have possibly known that... unless he's seen it before.
My guess is that since the Grimm are attracted by negative emotions, then it's plausible to have a 'The Heart' as team leader, their positivity keeps everyone else safe.
We saw what happened when Yang was separated from her friends, and she was the most outwardly giddy (Ruby started off shy and supposedly antisocial). Weiss was always cantankerous, Blake was moody). The campfire scene at Mountain Glenn pointed out the doubts each of them have about themselves, it'd be like catnip to whatever feline equivalent the Grimm have.
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Not really?
Regarding the leaders conversation, I'm perfectly aware that both of them have, to an extent grown into their roles, and that's how things typically work in fictionland, because people love an underdog story, but realistically, that sort of decision making would backfire 9 times out of 10.
Putting the least sociable, least assertive, and least ambitious member of team RWBY in charge would most likely result in a team where decisions are only ever made by committee and are rarely ever aided by. In the sort of life-or-death situations hunters are expected to put themselves in, that's an extreme liability.
Putting someone with absolutely no understanding of or experience in their field in charge would most likely result in either a situation where the team leader has only nominal authority, having been self-aware enough to defer to a more experienced subordinate in virtually all matters, or an absolute mess where the person in charge flatly refuses to acknowledge their own incompetence, even to the point where lives are lost because of it.
Hell, to some extent both of those scenarios have come to pass in the actual show; Ruby rarely ever acts like she's in charge, and her team has only occasionally acted as a single cohesive unit; most of the time someone, usually Ruby, has wandered off on her own. Jaune on the other hand seemed to defer to Pyrrha for just about everything, and even his own team (Jaune included) seemed to look to Pyrrha as the actual leader.
Basically what I'm saying is that Ozpin seems to like living dangerously when it comes to his team leader appointments. The safe choices for leaders would've been Pyrra for JNPR, and Yang for RWBY.
While Pyrrha would probably be fairly unimaginative and by-the-book sort of leader, that's oftentimes just what you need in terms of mid-level leaders; someone who takes the orders of their superiors and puts them into action with no questions asked or ulterior agendas of their own. Yang on the other hand wouldn't make for a spectacular leader, but of the four, she definitely would be the most able to get them to act as a cohesive unit.
edited 1st May '16 10:33:04 AM by CaptainCapsase
Of course Ozpin loves living dangerous. He's been playing at a secret war nobody fighting in it but him knows about for who knows how long. Everything he does has a hidden secret meaning (he obviously wanted Ruby because of her eyes. The "You're more skilled that you should be for your age and you're selfless" test was just confirmation that she wouldn't get totally destroyed and could actually handle the pressure.
Making Ruby and Jaune leader was just as much to improve them as it was the team. Ruby didn't take anything at school seriously until she saw Weiss wasn't respecting her for it, and Jaune was mostly motivated to better himself because he didn't want to be useless as a leader. Where as them just being regular team mates would have Ruby be fine with being the immature goofy kid and Jaune the comic relief letting his teammates do the heavy lifting.
And also Ruby and Jaune came up with the plans to take out the Grimm in the first test. So they did show Ozpin they could handle it if need be.
Making Weiss leader would be a terrible idea. She's never break out of her arrogance and attitude that way. Pyrrha would do an admirable job, but Pyrrha herself probably wouldn't want to be leader as she wanted people that wouldn't look up to her on her pedestal and Pyrrha was all too happy to let Jaune have the spot (and also Ozpin was considering making her a Maiden, which would complicate things if she had to lead a team). Nora is too crazy.
Ren could have worked maybe, but Ren also is just fine being lead around and Jaune would benefit from being leader more then Ren. Blake and Yang could have worked too, and as a benefit they'd be less likely to break down at their own issues like they did if they had to be responsible for the team (Blake might not have run away if she was leader and they showed they trusted her for it).
But in the end I think it was Ruby and Jaune showed they were competent, and they would benefit more from being leader than not being leader.
Being leader doesn't always mean you're the best. It can, but it can just as easily be for the leaders own sake. In Transformers G1 Optimus makes Silverbolt (who has massive confidence issues because of programming flaws that make him afraid to fly too high) Aerialbot leader simply so he'd have to spend more time worrying about his teammates and less about himself.
I'm just saying that in the real world, it's rarely a good idea to stick the underdog into the cockpit and hope they come out of their trial by fire at least somewhat intact; in a conventional school environment, sure, that's fine, since the stakes aren't that high to begin with, but when lives on are the line, you'd typically want to go with the safe choice (Yang and Pyrrha), rather than somebody whose far more likely to get their entire team killed due to indecisiveness or incompetence than grow into a leadership role.
edited 1st May '16 11:57:31 AM by CaptainCapsase
I brought this same issue with Ozpin's anime-teacher decision-making back in Volume 1 and everyone dismissed it as "Ozpin knows something we don't, don't judge it too harshly dood." :(
Yeah, but don't worry about it mang.
They weren't exactly fighting for too long.
It's only because of the bad guys that this would be a bad decision.
edited 1st May '16 11:44:24 AM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.We'll never really know because they didn't even make a full year at Beacon before the school fell and teams effectively became pointless. Maybe Ruby or Jaune would have screwed up horribly later on. Maybe not.
But now everyone will follow Ruby because they want to, not because she was assigned to be their leader.
The decision is only a problem because of the bad guys.
If it weren't for them, the school year would've been the perfect place for steady team building.
And they still would've been IN school.
edited 1st May '16 12:08:24 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Once you get past all the BLATANTLY OBVIOUS RACISM that permeates Remnant.
Those immature citizens sure are worth protecting.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.

Or maybe Ozpin's a god and he works in mysterious ways.
Only sometimes posts