Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3006074-20180119014410/@comment-26018514-20180606190035

BlizzardDragon wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: ...even the main plot aside from Blake, she shouldn't stay with the main party for that long. Again, I raise these points in regards to the main plot.

In-Universe:

1. She would wish to help out Blake and may desire to stay by her side.

2. She has a personal connection to Mantle and Atlas and as such may go there to face her demons.

3. The Heroes need all the help they can get and considering their party consists of 8 trainee huntsmen, one farmboi that hasn't fully adapted to the old man inside him, and a perpetually drunk huntsman that can easily butt heads with Ironwood and has little faith in his own decision making skills when not blindly following Oz, they could use another fighter if only to give them another fighter.

Out-Of-Universe:

1. They laid the groundwork for a plotline involving Atlas and Ilia after detailing her backstory.

2. They've been building her up for a volume and a half and are unlikely to push her aside (In contrast to Neptune who they only built on for the equivalent of one arc and then pushed to the background) and again:

In universe: 1. Blake has shit to do... including stuff she cannot accomplish with RWY, Ilia can be helpful and make amends dealing with that, not with the main parties secret war and Ilia has NOTHING to do with JNR, as well as lacks a role to fill on their team in combat.

2. And her demons there would make it harder for the heroes to enter the country, which is currently closed... this idiocy would be like the TV crew from Argo running into Osama bin Laden and deciding to take him home to the states because he had a car in Ohio they wanted him to drive them in... it just makes no sense.

3. But the heroes also need other operatives to be notified and networks maintained, not to surround the relic with a blinking sign of overwhelming force and a military parade... and Ilia has yet to truly prove she is trustworthy having double-crossed Blake not once but twice, hardly one to know Ozpins dirty little secrets.

Out of Universe: 1. She doesn't need to be there for the Payoff, this is a WF branch that doesn't need engaging by the Ozluminati at this time 2. You mean like Vernal, who they killed off in the same season?