Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160907022235/@comment-27106917-20160907035746

Jaune is not a main character. He may have been important in volume 1 but JNPR has never been more than secondary main characters, and for them to rise to being the main characters would feel wrong. The story isn't about them. While Jaune would have a tremendous amount of character growth, it would not be satisfying because he is not the hero. He can become a hero, but he cannot be the savior of Remnant.

While Ruby, Nora, Jaune, and Ren will be a focus of volume 4, WBY will most likely have their own focus. I doubt they will fall far enough to the wayside for JNR to surpass them in importance.

I suppose the SEWs could be connected to Artemis and her hunters, but I don't like the idea of this connection having more importance to Ruby than her own allusion. As it is the characters' allusions aren't meant to influence what happens to them beyond some small references here and there. I doubt some secondary connection would affect the plot as much as you're suggesting.

In the Directors' Commentary for ep. 1 vol. 1: "101.Kerry: Yeah one day, one day {Monty- Shoutout} Monty just kinda came up and was like 'What if the moon is broken?' And I was like 'Ok'.

102.Miles: When it's, yeah, when it's a crescent moon it's not the dark side of the moon it's just that the moon is kinda broken that way and were like 'yeah that sounds great'."

It seems like Monty just thought that it would look cool if the moon was broken.