Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-26206856-20151224154456

Don't worry, I'm not going to take offense. If you have some sort of proof to lend credibility to and back up your theory, that's all that really matters.

Here's what I see. The villains can manipulate the matchups so risking a Neo/Yang conflict isn't going to happen unless they want it to. CME are always seen together, and Neo is just kind of there on the side. She's not even really Cinder's henchman; she's Torchwick's accomplice, so we haven't seen any sort of true connection between the two other than the possibility of Cinder going 'hey, we just locked your boss up but we need you to help us fight in the 4 on 4 and round out our team.' Neo by nature is a very loose cannon that poses an issue of slipping up in some way. She almost killed Yang, and the kind of murderous intent she had in curbstomping the 4v4 guy would pose a risk if she went any further. By nature, she has a murderous intent.

As far as keeping viewers out of the loop, that is true, but good writing should have SOME sort of foreshadowing to hint at it. Maybe they think the sound is good enough, but we should have seen more interaction (whether directly relating to the plan or not) between Cinder's gang and Neo.

True, we are far from over, but if she's on about the same level as Mercury who is above the students to begin with, and he uses his power, why wouldn't she feel the need? Jaune is a special circumstance. He is the ONLY one going to a hunter's academy that doesn't know what a semblance is and how to use it because he SNUCK in. We have no evidence to support anyone else trying to be a hunter/huntress doesn't know what a semblance is or doesn't have access to at least part of theirs.

The mind glare is for intimidation which threw Yang off her game before she even started. The blocks, the redirects, the kick to the ground, the throw up to the ceiling... it's all pretty hard to imagine Yang did that to herself, and even harder for Neo to be watching and somehow position herself correctly to align those physical hits. With Monty so obsessed with sound, I would imagine the hits would have no sound, or a 'miss' effect to them, or the sound would have been distorted in a way to make us think it was in Yang's mind, much like Mercury's last line before she shot him.

If Neo is hiding in the stadium, good for her. The problem I have here is her semblance would have such a large range that it becomes very over powered especially if it effects multiple people instead of focused on one. Why would she even bother confronting anyone or showing her face if she can create an illusion from halfway across the stadium? Cinder leaves because she likes to show that she already knows the outcome and is so full of herself that she has all the confidence in the world to know nothing will screw up her plans.

As far as best ways, it's been 3 seasons. We've had all the intros and the story starts now. I think we can start to arrange the characters to see how they fit from now on.