Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140905003518/@comment-209421-20140905015120

Well, this clarifies a LOT.

1. YANG. All the Yang goodness. She's a lot more insightful than anyone ever gave her credit for. Hell, she's had a really hard life, and she still comes out on the positive side of the gradient curve, if more on the emotionally unstable edges. The girl's been fighting all her life, to protect herself and her sister - the entire emphasis on Gold is true. Their father fell apart, and so Yang was pretty much left to raise her half-sister. What this has done is turn Yang from a rather two-dimensional character into a rather deep and even melancholic character. That entire scene between her and Blake was melancholic. Although, if people keep insisting that it proves Bumblebee, I will keep insisting on introducing a rather large heavy object to the back of your head. Even the wink had it's place in a non-romantic sense. I don't sense a Sherlock/Watson relationship, what I sense is Yang's playful side. She's a bit of a flirt, and she literally just turned Blake around entirely from obsessive to understanding the damage she was causing herself. So, I think a borderline flirt was worthwhile there. I do see the potential for Yang to be bisexual, but I don't see any sort of relationship between the two as being anything more than ship tease. All I know is, as much as I loved Yang before, my affections for her have grown.

2. Jaune has courage. I speak from experience, and I'm sure a lot of people would back me on this - if you are socially awkward, talking to a girl is next to impossible, let alone asking one to a dance. Hell, I didn't even have Jaune's ability to do that back in high school. The fact that he took Pyrrha's advice, and ACTUALLY PLANNED to to do so makes him a better man than I. Although I still say he should ram his head through a wall for being dense, I'm guilty of the same.

3. Pyrrha is actually willing to put someone else's happiness before her own? Like Yang, she's a character of hidden depths.

4. "Stupid girly stilts." Poor Ruby, she's got limited ability to cope with these experiences since she's so much younger than everyone else. Plus, now we understand WHY she wanted to be a Huntress so bad. Believe it or not, the experiences she had when she was younger shaped that desire to protect people. Plus, her intense connection to Yang sits on the border between guardian/child and siblings. Yang's a mother figure to her, despite the slight age difference.

5. Qrow. 'Nuf said. Interesting that the art style made him look like Adam. A recent theory brought up is that Adam may be the Human/Faunus hybrid, so there's a possibility...

6. Nora's shirt. It is awesome. So much shiptease with her and Ren, only for her to vehemently deny it every single time. My theories are either adopted/psuedo-siblings, or that there actually is something there - a promise, perhaps?

7. Something tells me Neptune is gonna suffer.

8. Where is Team JNPR at the dance? I get that the focus of that little scene was Team RWBY, Ozpin and Sun, but at the same time, where is the other group?

9. Oh, Mercury, you wound us. Something's going down.