Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-165.234.209.154-20141001140830/@comment-24993958-20141001164514

Yeah, no…there are so many holes in that trail of thought I’m not even sure which one to poke my finger in first…how about all of them.

First off, assuming cameras where set everywhere the test took place, Ozpin STILL would have not had enough time to make an accurate psychological assessment in order to perfectly determine who needed to grow the most from watching random people murder demonic animals…and that’s ignoring the fact that we can reasonably asses that most teams didn’t have as much trouble as the main cast with some not even meeting their partners until they reached the ceremony…heck if the crew wanted to be sneaky they could have broken up the teams by having them pick different pieces...you know that’s actually a good premise for an oc story…

Anywho next hole to poke, Weiss arguably needs to grow more than Ruby who despite being socially awkward during the test has shown leader qualities in making a plan involving the others to accomplish a goal. So by your logic she needed the role a lot less than say Weiss, yet putting Weiss as the leader would have, according to episode 11 I believe, not helped her grow and might have had the opposite effect.

And since we are on this subject, Jaune has also shown to form plans with others AS A TEAM in order to accomplish a goal, and we can assume Cardin can intimidate his team in order to get things done his way.

Basically what I’m saying that in order for your theory to work, the leaders should have been Nora (the most reckless during the test in order to learn self restraint), Blake (The one that has done the most soloing during the test…since even Yang had a small moment of teamwork with her “Hit it with everything we got” line) and someone other than Cardin, who needed to learn to be assertive enough in order to work with someone he was intimidated by.

Instead, the leaders we got are the ones that where the most…leader-ish during the test…as far as I can tell at least.