Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-81.96.198.15-20130914201239/@comment-19685873-20130914204813

First we'll have to know more about their personalities and abilities to be able to begin predicting far into the story. But since they were introduced already, they will likely at some point be responsible for some plot-advancement at some point, and that may be soon. For now we'll have to be vague about predictions with these guys :/

I'm thinking that the groups may be put on missions (assignments) or during training/sparring they may be pitted against one of the main characters. In the event of one of them winning, the losing character would feel weak (and bring about a generic friendship speech, making the character feel better, try harder, and do better or learn a new trick later on which may benefit the group during an important event) and in the event of one of them (CRDL) losing during a spar, the character (likely from team JNPR or maybe RWBY) will have a boost of self-esteem and catch the attention of the overseeing staff, with a conversation ensuing. That conversation would also advance the plot in some manner. Also, a member of team CRDL losing against another team may cause friction, and result in bullying, or a good dent in their pride (and this one could easily lead into the next prediction)

As for the missions/assignments, there could be a disagreement between partners (see last paragraph) and or teams, causing an important event to be triggered. Say one team (CRDL) disagrees with another team (RWBY or JNPR) and the argument escalates, causing someone to do something risky. The event causes someone to be injured either emotionally or physically, or maybe someone storms off from the group and stumbles across a plot device. Bam, ending credits. See you next week on thursday, everyone!

That aside :P

I'm hoping it won't come to this, but much of the fandom speculates that they may be here to serve as romantic interest/conflict for the other characters. I hope this isn't the case, because these guys seem like they would have an interesting background. I don't really want them to be there just to be someone else's smooch-buddy -.- If it comes to that, fine, but I don't want that to be their ONLY role and option in the story line.

I'm curious about what everyone else thinks, though :)