Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-10390252-20130825144813

I'm increasingly favouring Team RWBY having a moment in the sun where they save the day in some public place and, briefly, become media celebrities due to their heroism having been beamed around the world by VNN rolling news broadcasts. For a short while, they're political flavour of the month and their faces are on the packs of Pumpkin Pete's (Ruby going on the box of the type with strawberry pieces, of course).

As a consequence of this, they very briefly are politically valuable and they end up being invited to the Winter Solstice Ball. Cue a lot of "fish out of water" with Ruby and Yang trying to adapt to formal clothes and courtly behaviour, Blake barely being able to restrain her contempt for high-caste humans and Weiss driving herself demented trying to teach her unreceptive team-mates how to behave in such occasions as well as trying to beat into their heads the importance and value of making politicians happy with you.

Naturally, the episode degenerates into a brawl when Junior, a major local member of the Merchants Guild, turns up with Melanie and Miltia on his arms. The twins try to pick on the vulnerable-seeming Ruby and Yang gets involved. They recognise her, oh yes. So do the dozen-or-so Red Eye Gang mooks they brought along as flunkies/bodyguards.