Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-26018514-20170913183400

Nikoli the rebel wrote: @73 (On which villians will die first)

-Cinder needs Emerald to talk for her right now. So Mercury is more disposable than Emerald. I can't imagine Mercury translating for Cinder. It just doesn't fit his "too cool for this shit" persona. I could be wrong.

-Good point on Neo. She doesn't need to be necessarily 100% good to help the MC's. But I don't think the Fandom will take kindly to killing Neo. If your ear is closer to the pulse of the fandom then correct me.

-Excellent point on Adam needing to be alive for the WF to be bad. That puts off his death for a while.

-It does look like the plot is headed straight for Watts and Sienna. But their stories have barely begun while Adam is just getting into the middle of his. Idk. All three look like they are next. My main point with Neo, Emerald, and Mercury is that they probably won't be in a position to be killed, as we know Neo won't reappear for a few volumes, and the others are benched with Cinder... so unless RWBY somehow manages to assault Salem's castle(which would require them at least surviving combat with Cinder, Salem, Tyrian, and probably Hazel) at least 2 of which should be strong enough to kill team RWBY entirely at this point or anyone they went there with while the others should be able to fight any trained huntsmen of Qrow's level by themselves at the least.... so they should live through at least this volume.

It then comes down to what Arc comes next... the fall/intrigue of Mistral or the WF, the latter is Blake's personal arc so we know at least she, Sun, and her parents will pursue it... But this team of 4 should be able to  take down/convince Sienna... so something needs to happen to prevent Blake's parents from interfering, leading to Sun turning to SSSN and Blake turning to RWBY after she learns they are there...