Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27092449-20151018200124/@comment-136.224.133.242-20151103180720

Jaune and JNPR are pretty much afterthoughts to the main plot of RWBY, Monty did not originally conceptualize them within the main storyline, they were created by the co-writers and are therefor very unlikely to have any 11th hour importance From what I've heard team SSSN was created before JNPR and are likely more plot relevant, from a design standpoit it makes sense to make an all guys main character team to ballance out the all girl protaganist team. If they were originally planning to have characters die to advance the plot I think Monty would have been thinging of using team SSSN (it's being said they palnned arround 5 seasons even befroe they split volume 2 into both volumes 2 and 3) because they might not have created team JNPR yet.

On a side note while I can see why people think of Jaunne as the "everyday man" the moment Pyrrha told him that he had quite a lot of aura I began seeing and describing Jaune as either

1) A fushion of a less idiotic but still goofynaruto and link from the Legend of Zelda (Known for being a strategist and wielding a sword and sheild)

2) Or much more wimpy and less intimidating version of Ichigo Kurosaki

Either way you have a swordsman with humongous energy reserves, power, and potential, who isn't very good at harnessing and controlling that power at the begining of the story.