Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28776596-20170117185125/@comment-69.138.248.186-20170118101158

Ozpin did point out to Ironwood that you need to send scouts and remember how he said "you brought your army to MY kingdom"? I think the king theory is really sound.

No offense but I've seen many posts about this and so I skimmed most of your/this person on tumblr's explanation on why people dislike Jaune. Which I don't really see the relevance of as far as this theory goes since I know why people are frustrated. But I'll briefly address it anyway. From what I've seen people always call out every little flaw of his character and are more forgiving of other characters. In the story Jaune does own up to his mistakes with Pyrrha, what he did with the transcripts and struggles more as a leader than Ruby did in vol.1. I'm tired of talking about the Weiss situation but I will say that I think his talk with Neptune hinted that he wasn't just talking about Neptune trying to be cool and questioning how he saw girls. Jaune thought he had to prove himself like he always has to then realized he wanted Weiss to be happy.

I never got the complaints about his skills because if he learned too fast everyone will accuse him of being a Gary Stu. This is a guy that probably had zero training before Beacon. He can kill Grimm and was able to stand up to a more skilled Huntsman in training in the tournament long enough for the team to secure the win. Jaune has improved but there's still a gap between him and his friends. I don't see how that's a fair comparison since we haven't seen Jaune really fight in this volume. We saw him without a weapon acting as a decoy/strategist then briefly against Tynion who's over all their heads. He is getting close to an aura slash but he'd get there faster if he had a teacher since aura has been hard for him to tap.

I think we're getting too off topic so let me end that part. Honestly I feel like RT has always been saying Jaune is special. Ruby is special but the only hint of her powers was the silver eyes comment. We hear nothing about the SEW powers, the importance of Summer having them, etc. until after Ruby uses them.

"Develop" for lack of better term since I was in a rush but it's still more detail than the SEW powers got before they were revealed at the end of volume 3. Jaune tells Ruby his sword is a hand-me-down and about his great great grandfather fighting in the war. Later on he talks about the pressure of the Family legacy with Pyrrha. Right after unlocking his aura Pyrrha makes a point in saying he has a lot of aura. We know he hasn't received previous training despite wanting it, he seems to have a good relationship with his family but oddly his parents didn't try to stop him from going to Beacon despite knowing he wasn't skilled enough. They told him he could come home but didn't ground him, ask how he got in or freak out that he might die?

RT are also making sure we know he has seven sisters by mentioning it twice so far. Which feels pretty important especially since Jaune reveals he has no brother to Ren before we get this infomation. I don't know about everyone else but I feel like RT is telling us that there's either a reason for the Arcs having one son or they tried until they got one. I'm not sure why this would be but so far we have one, maybe two, gender specific beings. The Maidens (female) and presumably (male) Ozpin when he body leaps. Is there a reason the Arcs needed a boy ?

Now for seemingly no reason Tyrian is interested in Jaune and not the SEW his goddess ordered him to get. Jaune who previously did nothing but give him a dirty look. Granted Tyrian is...Tyrian but it was put in for a reason. Jaune might not be royalty but RT is definitely building something up with him. If Jaune was related to him I think the important part of that would be the fact was connected to the wizard/Ozpin which is probably where the king got a lot of his power. Ruby has her powers because of her mom and it makes me wonder if bloodlines are harder or impossible for Salem's minions to steal unlike the Maidens powers.