Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140803191129/@comment-25358959-20140831012733

If I HAD to put money on it right now, I'd say Scarlet is a guy. That shot from this past episode kinda makes me think of James from Team Rocket in Pokemon, who is male but can be very feminine (or at least was in the earler seasons) to the point I remember an episode where he entered a swimsuit contest... as a girl. That said, it wouldn't suprise me is Scarlet was a girl either.

As for orientation, RT is progressive enough that I wouldn't be suprised if/when they introduced a gay, bi, etc. character at some point. They could always use Scarlet as a way to test how the fanbase would react since he likely won't be in the series on a regular basis anyway (along with all the characters coming from other places) once the tournament is over. If they did, they likely wouldn't come right out and say it right now but rather leave subtile hints here and to see if it's something they could introduce at some point. I'm sure if they wanted to introduce a LGBT character, they're going to do it right. They're not going to do something because its the popular thing for some shows to intorduce controversal topics in order to get attention. Whatever they do, they're going to be respectful to the LGBT community and the RT/RWBY community if they ever did introduce the topic in the show.