Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-26018514-20160809175003

BenRG wrote: Random Speculative Thought: Has anyone thought about who will fill the JNPR fourth slot after RWBY reforms?...

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Imagine the horror classic 'The Hand' but with a cheerful and perpetually-helpful girl instead of a murderous madman inhabiting the limb in question

1. I doubt Sun would join JNPR, the only one he even has compatibility with is Jaune, who he'd probably be impossible to control for... he'd likely get Nora killed or tire Ren out before the fight even begins.

2. SSSN was stated to be more plot important(written out first) before JNPR, no way they start dying left and right before we really know them.

3. Neptune isn't the type for the sacrifice play. Seriously, he's unlikely to go to Atlas period(fear of water, lives in Mistral, etc) and he was never shown to be actually invested in Weiss, merely that he understood how cruel his actions were to her, and that he enjoys flirting/looking cool, while she still treats him as a crush.

4. Penny's a robot, not a nano-bot colony, her arm wouldn't have her brainwaves, nor would it have had communications equipment to remotely operate or transmit her thoughts

5. Penny really is the only candidate for JNPR we presently have, she fits what JNR needs for team balance in every way. She is OP similar to Pyrrha, but has on offensive Bias(while Pyrrha had a defensive bias) and highly questionable team working skills. What these distinctions mean is that she is perfectly flawed enough that we can fear for JNR's lives in combat in a believable way, while Jaune is put to task controlling her and Ren and Nora aren't held back.

Further, she is the ONLY character to fit their theme, if not Penny, JNR would need a new character, not an established one.

6. That really hampers Yang's development and only changes those two characters(not for the better, though perhaps not worse), Making one MC of four reliable on a robo-girl arm rather than her own strength or determination.