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Well due to a lax of posts, I will list past posts! Starting with mine (cough), here we go.

74.104.206.83 wrote: White Snow

A self discovery episode or two wouldn't hurt. Like an episode where they are at a snow lodge (presumably on vacation?) and Weiss gets in a spat with the rest of the team and goes out alone in the snow (Ruby and Yang look on in shock, and Blake has absloutly no sympathy at all and rushes off in another room). Weiss gets lost in the snow and periodically takes shelter in caves (using Myrtenaster's power to make fire) and begins recalling moments of her life, like her early childhood (rembering vague feelings of real hapiness in her family), 6-8 years of age (when her father began teaching her how to use a sword [while he still had Myrtenaster]), her pre-teens (when she began singing, making a version of Mirror, Mirror), and immediatly after the fight with the Giant Armor (perhaps while she's still fighting Beowolves at the same time). She confronts most of her demons and eventually finds her way through the snow. During this time a subplot concerning Blake comes up, where Yang confronts Blake about what she did in the whole fight. This causes Blake to sort of reconsider her role in the team's uunity. Weiss comes back and, very out of character, apoligises and comes back to the team, better than when she left. (ps, if any of you find this familiar, I put this on Weiss' page a while ago.

Another one by Angren Ture Angren Ture wrote:

Ruby Backstory episode: "Cloaked in Roses, Part 1--Troubled Sleep" (you can see where this is going)

This one takes a lot of theories and tie-ins into account; some of them existing, and some I'm making up for the speculation. Again, this is partly influenced by an Avatar episode, this one being "The Avatar and the Fire Lord". Not much going on in real-time (at least not in part 2), so most of the episode's movement will be through flashbacks, visions, etc. As you probably guessed from the title, this is a White Cloak theory, and I'm assuming that Ruby is the adopted one.

This would be a probably happen relatively late in the season, or in the series, as it contains a permanent character development change. I'm going to steal BenRG 's idea of Teams RWBY and JAUN returning to the Xiao Long's house during a seasonal break at Beacon, but take it in a different direction. So initially, the two teams have a great time (if a bit surreal for some of the characters), but Ruby begins having a recurring dream in which she is kneeling at an altar or headstone on a snowy cliffside in a blizzard. Hovering over the altar is a ghostly white cloak, of the same design as Ruby's. Ruby always attempts to get closer and see the front side of the cloak, but every time she touches it, the cliffside collapses and Ruby wakes up in a cold sweat, breathing heavily. Just before she wakes up, Ruby always has a quick glance of a black Japanese Oni mask.

At first, Ruby tries to pass it off as nothing, but over time, the continued appearance of the dream--in progressively darker forms--is too much to ignore. Yang and the rest of the team finally take notice when Ruby wakes up screaming after a particularly grim variation. Concerned for her adoptive sister, Yang asks what's going on. Ruby hesitates, worried that Yang would think she's going crazy. In a character break, Yang says: "Sis, if this dream of yours can cause you to do something like that, it's more than worth looking into."

That night, Ruby experiences the dream again, but this time the cliffside does not collapse when she touches the White Cloak. Instead, the surroundings fade and turn into the room Ruby is sharing with Blake, Weiss, and Yang. The White Cloak (still disembodied) leaves the room, and then the house. Her curiosity overcoming her fear, Ruby quitely grabs Crescent Rose and follows. As she's following the White Cloak, Ruby make a few tentative attempts at conversation, that have no results.

Back in the room used by Team RWBY, Yang wakes up a little earlier than normal and turns to check on Ruby, only to find Ruby's bed empty. After quickly rousing Weiss, Blake, and Team JAUN, Yang frantically conducts a full search of the house, but ultimately finds no indication as to Ruby's whereabouts. Frustrated and worried, Yang announces: "Everybody gear up. We're gonna go find my little sister."

Just before the episode ends, Ruby has followed the disembodied White Cloak an for an unspecified amount of time and for an unknown distance. The White Cloak leads her to the Cliffside Altar in her dream, then vanishes at it touches the Altar. Confused, Ruby acts on an impulse and kneels in front of the Altar. The White Cloak reappears, only this time facing Ruby and occupied by a woman. The woman looks like an older Ruby, perhaps in her mid-30's. Her hair is longer, and has a single gray strand running down one side. Ruby, in astonishment, looks up and asks the woman who she is. The woman replies: "I am someone that you are now ready to see." The screen fades black, and the woman's voice continues:

"I am Summer Rose."

I'll probably end up putting part 2 on my blog section, since it'll be easier to explain in screenplay format.

and a comic relief episode by BenRG

BenRG:

How about...

Reality Television- The Board of Trustees of Beacon Academy insist that Ozpin try to drum up donors for the school by parading his best students in front of the cameras, ignoring his protests that his best students are not exactly natural performers or the sort of people he'd want in front of the cameras. So, Lisa Lavender and a film crew are on campus for a couple of weeks, following RWBY and JAUN around and trying to get the 'inside story' on the world's greatest Hunters' Academy. Hillarity ensues.

Amongst key moments:

1) A smiling Weiss informs Lisa that, according to her lawyers, it is legal to buy a TV station just to get rid of an anchor you don't like;

2) Ruby and Jaune trying a bit too hard to be interesting and helpful interview subjects;

3) Blake finding so many ways to say 'no comment' (with or without violence) that she could write a thesaurus;

4) Yang and Apricot setting a new record for the number of pranks one can fit into a single day;

5) One of the kids getting bad news from home (it can be anything) and them chasing Lise off when her film crew intrudes;

6) Lisa is a Shipper and sees romance everywhere - her alleged protagonists are not happy when she asks them about it.

Overall, the report is looking like it will be... uncomplimentary to say the least. Then, during a field exercise, a group of Grim monsters (maybe the Boar-monsters) attack the party and the kids save the day. This has the effect of opening up a lot of doors. Lisa finally finds the right questions to ask that are neither insulting, leading or inadvertanly malicious. She finally gets the interesting stories she wants - Weiss trying to be more than just 'the Heiress', Blake wanting to provide a constructive example for her people, Ruby wanting to live up to her formidable bloodline and so forth.

The entire chapter (two episodes) should be filmed as a draft cut of Lisa's report and should conclude with Lisa's final narration. She notes that the Cadet Hunters and Huntresses are under a lot of pressure but they have voluntarily chosen a dangerous profession out of a desire to protect their communities and help the helpless. Underneath the romance and glamour, these are very real and very mortal people who have chosen an extraordinary path for the most selfless reasons. Really, what more could you ask of heroes?