Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26417457-20190715232011/@comment-35199716-20190722103238

While whether Raven is a villan or not is (intentionally on the writers part) up for debate, She still serves an antagonistic role in the series (She *does* want to kill Qrow after all), so you could count her in that regard.

I could also see Hazel switching sides. I wasn't sure about it though since that seems to be the route Emerald's going and it would be a little weird to have two (three if you want to count illia) villans have a redemption arc. Regardless, I'd still be down for that.

I do also like Emerald and Mercury's relationship but I could see Mercury getting pissed off at Emerald for defecting. There's no way in hell Mercury's getting a redemption arc, he clearly enjoys being an evil fuck and I doubt he'd be happy with Emerald switching sides. While I'm not sure whether Emerald would kill Mercury, I could definetly see a fight scene between those two happening. Even then, I still doubt Emerald's redemption is happening for a long while yet, I don't think it'll even happen in the third arc (that's what I'm calling Volumes 7-10 anyway) of the show. AS it stands atm, I really like them as characters and their relationship and hope they explore it a bit more. They are both up there as some of my favourite villans in the series and its kinda shame they have taken a backseat to everyone else in Salem's faction because, to be honest, I don't care for the other villans in Salem's faction. Maybe it's just because they haven't had much time for development yet, but I think they pale in comparison to even the likes of Cinder. Hazel seems to be getting there a bit, but aside from him, none of them really do it for me.