Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20160522215152/@comment-28288412-20160523011521

Im going to tackle what you talk about in reverse order of paragraphs so I apologise if that is at all inconvenient. Neo's response to Raven was fear of her skill. Raven pulled off a surprise attack and unlike Yang actually managed to hit her. This combined with her older appearance likely scared off Neo as Raven was clearly a very competant and skilled fighter.

Weiss's semblance is genetic and I think it would be a bit ridiculous if the incredibly rare heridatary semblances as, as mentioned by Winter, were held by two members of team RWBY. I agree dust capabilities seem to be more nature based.

It's a possibility certainly. I just disagree with using the vortex as a basis as it has never been associated really with the maidens. A better point against which I remembered recently was that the vortex was shown in the volume 3 opening. In it, the vortex appears before teams RWBY and JNPR are literrally dropped into an abyss leading to the end of the openings depressed looking team RWBY. No mention of maidens but does despair and negativity.

Again Raven could be a maiden and I'm not against the idea itself. I just don't think the basis for this paticular theory is strong enough to support the claim.