User blog comment:HazelQuill7445/RWBY Volume 4 Dead Pool/@comment-9464517-20161007203852/@comment-5430952-20161010062535

If he does die, I'm betting it won't be until much later, like Volume 7 or so. And I'm betting he sacrifices hismelf to save Ruby, whom he realized that he'd gotten her in over her head, lest she perish like Summer did. Something like this anyway.