Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.1.99.24-20131208212631/@comment-3257939-20131222050036

If Pyrrha is as skilled as Weiss described her, she could be at a level that surpasses the hunters in training plus making possible that she could be working for someone and is holding back her true power. The only thing that causes most of the fandom to choose Pyrrha for the next to die list or the secret evil character is the fact that despite she said that she doesn't care who she has to be with for the next four years, the moment she meets Jaune, her primary objective was to get paired up with him. Also the master and student relationship she has with Jaune who has a lot of potential that has yet to be shown is a cliche that eventually leads to the I have nothing else to teach you... *dies* ending. There are still many things that remain a mystery about her. She said that bully is atrocious, that proves she believes in justice but the kind of characters who always seek justice are the ones who fall harder when the cruel fate tests them and brings them into situations that can mentally break them and turn them into villains.

Same thing goes for Jaune, I think that he will eventually become a complete badass who can beat down the entire Team CRDL without using any kind of weapon apart from his fists. The real plot will surge when he is put in a situation where his judgement and beliefs are tested, and he is given the option to be the hero, the anti-hero or the villain. This could happen not only to Jaune but to other characters like Ruby, and there is a lot of situations that can trigger this: The death of a friend at the hands of a villain who later fights the character to death, an old trauma that comes back to haunt the character, finding out that is a lot easier to exercise self-righteousness by killing the bad guys and the last and worst of all: being set up, accused of being the villain and chased off by his friends who actually believe that he/she is evil after all they been through. The broken friendship cliche usually works and turns heroes into psychopaths.

Since the characters are still teenagers, they won't be turning evil soon, specially Ruby who is still an innocent little sister. As for Ren and Nora... we still need more info about them before thinking of a way to become evil apart from losing each other. Ren getting killed and Nora seeking revenge and killing anyone who gets in her way, or Nora being the one who dies and becomes Ren's quest for vendetta.