Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-4110939-20140309070349

Immersible wrote: Adventuretime1 wrote: Small stupid rant.

I don't like any headcanon in which Jaune will literally 'die in a fire' just like Joan/Jeanne, but what I COULD believe is him getting (seriously) injured by flame, maybe even hospitalized. I could never imagine such a good, young character could die a horrible death (that kind of stuff is for RvB), so it'd be more understandable should Jaune be burned horribly, nothing past that, like getting permanently crippled. It would be cool to see him be removed from action and seeing the process of his healing while in some sort of nursery as the episodes come along, but big, blazing, burning (at the stake) is a no-no for me. Why draw the line for "death by fire" when it comes to RWBY? I see no reason to limit RWBY's audience when we already have dangerous weapons that are essentially appreciated by almost all age groups; I really don't want to see RWBY's potential limited.

Besides, how would we get the fire to burn Cardin's legs and kill him? =d Well, with RvB, the characters are grown, mature adults, and more than half the time, their deaths were centered around karma.

You look at RWBY, sure, Cardin will get what's coming to him, but dying just for bullying isn't the best type of karma. I'm not trying to limit RWBY's potential, just stating what kind of stuff would be too dark, I understand mob battles, with goons getting their asses handed to them while it's the real monsters getting brutalized, and this "death by fire" is not outside Rooster Teeth boundaries, but it is when you look at who's getting flamed.

In this case, it's Jaune, Jaune Arc, who is 17 years old, has done absolutely nothing wrong (that taxes on moral judgement), good, innocent, fellow who is vying to be a better fighter. I'm okay with a character like Roman, who has all the qualities and 'criteria' of a villain that can potentially get burned to death, and it would help if at one point, his Asshole Meter skyrockets to justify his death, especially in the case of Torchwick-specific fans.

So all I'm trying to say is that maybe trial by fire isn't too much for a show like RWBY, but it is when a victim like Jaune or just any other Beacon student is the one who's getting set on fire, and yes, CRDL shouldn't either, especially if they've changed their ways beforehand (though Cardin can still get his legs broken).