Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191207154319/@comment-14909251-20191215061431

Jaune being able to rapidly regenerate his own Aura is insane. Noticed Weiss turning to look at Jaune and, while one might dismiss that as noticing the action, she also was rather quick to accept an invitation by Jaune to see a movie. Someone might dismiss that too, but it bears noting that Oscar is like five years younger than them. Two heterosexual college-age adults of the opposite sex going to a movie with a high-school sophomore age boy is pretty much a date, but one where one of them was forced to bring a younger brother along.

It is the most-datelike outing even, as Blake and Yang were hanging with a big group of friends around the same age. Only way it doesn't work out that way to some extent is if Oscar ends up sitting between them. I also would like to see them showing the other RWBY members before the shenanigans start for that reason alone of seeing the potential interaction.

All of you thinking the misunderstanding with Penny won't last long are likely very mistaken. Even if Robyn understands this to be the truth quickly, it won't change the broader situation. Watts was obviously prepping an altered video of the incident meant to make it serve as proof Penny was doing it. Robyn could easily believe the footage and think Fiona was just confused because it happened so fast and was injured. Maybe Fiona will even doubt herself when shown the video footage.

Even if there are those at the party who saw Tyrian, there is a good chance there will be others who will claim they saw Penny due to the way eyewitness testimony gets corrupted, assuming none have been paid or threatened to say it was Penny. Many present wouldn't have seen what happened as well. Obviously, RWBY, ORNJ, and Ironwood's people will know it was a lie for a myriad of reasons, but that won't mean anything to the masses. Robyn probably won't be believed even if she came forward with the truth at some point. They may just assume Ironwood got to her.

On a side note, aside from the fact it was a business tycoon against a woman, there really is not any similarity to the 2016 election.

73.Anon.52 wrote: less of a "girls can't fight" thing, and more of a "guys in the family do this" thing, It wouldn't be immediately apparent to the father that his "son" wanted to do that. I think the whole point with Jaune is that he was just a complete and total screw-up who couldn't do anything right. Would seriously undercut all of that for them to change that into him not even being trained or instructed to push something about identity politics. The idea that they tried to train him, but he just consistently couldn't cut it and they eventually gave up on him is more significant. Maybe his father was of a mindset that Jaune has to develop these abilities without instruction if he was going to be a true soldier.

However, no matter how much he trained with his father or alone, Jaune never unlocked his Aura spontaneously as many other Huntsmen and Huntresses have in the story. Ren was a small child when he not only unlocked his Aura, but his Semblance. Everyone else in Beacon seemed to have already unlocked their Semblance. Even if Jaune only trained on his own constantly, it is still crazy that his Aura never came out. I think there is no reason to supsect Jaune's issues arise from anything other than him being the Naruto-esque failure who is secretly OP. Seriously, his freaking Semblance is basically a cheat code.