User blog comment:Zephyrcoil/RWBY Vol 2: A few extras/@comment-5426254-20141129141734/@comment-11188061-20141129143232

Eh, I actually find Roman's past pretty predictable. Well okay maybe that's the wrong word, but I doubt it's hard to imagine the specific few scenarios that could turn him into who he is, now.

There's the: 1) I was an asshole from the beginning (Cardin elder!), but only grew balls after a series of incident; it could be: 2) I was a good guy at the beginning with some darkness inside me, but I was hero until I took an arrow to the knee; or the most obvious, 3) Someone close to me took that arrow to the knee instead NOOOOOOOOOO

Given what we've seen from RT so far, I must admit that I can't think them straying from the 3 paths stated above.