Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20130623065452

Or that's what I'd like to try. Let's go through my thoughts one by one. I'm going to call RWBY by their colors just for simplicity's sake.

Before I start, I must say that they rely quite heavily on 'Red Like Roses' lyrics because I find them most informative out of all the other songs. This is the lyric.

"Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test Black the beast descends from Shadows Yellow beauty burns gold"

First, we look at the character Red. In her trailer she was shown to be visiting a grave (whose person's name was said to be Summer Rose, since it was etched on the tombstone) and killing wolves later on. My speculation here is that Red is hiding a secret - more specifically from her sister, Yang (or Yellow) - and is operating alone with vengeance on her mind. More explanations later on, but obviously the wolves interrupted her at a very bad time and Red was feeling like slaughtering the entire horde of monsters.

Next is Yellow. Out of all 4 characters she is the most clueless out of them all. She is searching for a girl, and everyone - Red, White, Black; though Black might not know the specific details - absolutely everyone already knew what happened to the missing girl except Yellow. Red lied to Yellow that this mysterious girl went to into hiding/far away etc, when in fact she is already  dead. Yes, I'm speculating that the girl Yellow is trying to find is Summer Rose, who is buried under a snowy wasteland and a lonely grave. by that More on to who Summer Rose truly is later. Now we talk about Black. Referring to her trailer's lines, 'someone' placed their hopes onto her and she felt inadequate to live up to them, so she ran away. I speculate that she ran into Adam sometime after escaping and developed possibly a romantic interest, but as you can see at the end of the trailer she ultimately resolved herself to leave him, for whatever reason.

Now Black is interesting. You see, out of all the characters, she is the ONLY one who consciously avoided using her powers (maybe near the end where she gained incredible boost of speed, but even then it was barely noticeable) and fought her battles through skill alone. Just watch the trailer; she just beast through all the enemies through kungfu alone lol. We have seen Red, White and Yellow - especially Yellow, who was very flashy - use their powers to incredible effects, but just not Black. This means that her powers are a source of discomfort to her, and so she avoided using them unless absolutely necessary.

Also note that RWBY's powers seemed to have strong connection with those blood red cheery petals, and Black looked to be reminiscing better times when she held one in her palm.

And finally, White. She holds the most important clue out of all the characters in my opinion, and is the key to solving nearly all the mysteries.

Now, during the beginning of the White Trailer, the written lines hinted that something terrible has happened and it was cause of great sorrow to White. Even before I read the lines I've already felt from her fight against Giant Armor was as if she's punishing herself for something, and it was only until she took a direct hit that she finally resolved herself. Now, take a good look at her saber, because it is THE answer to everything (or at least I think it is). We see 4 colors: Red, White, Blue and Yellow, or should I say RWBY.

The grand theory is this: The original group of RWBY did NOT consist of Red, White, Black and Yellow, but rather Red, White, BLUE and Yellow. As you know the three primary colors are Red, Yellow and Blue, and when you combine all the colors together they form either White (if it's light) or Black (if it's pigments). Of course I know you actually need 7 colors to make up white light, but the other colors are secondary and under the 3 primaries, so by that logic it IS possible to say that Red, Blue and Yellow forms White.

<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">So Summer Rose is Blue. Japanese loves describing Summer as crazily hot and more importantly, they almost ALWAYS use a CLEAR BLUE SKY as reference or supporting fact. Also, Summer Rose's grave was at a snowy land. ICE. In the White trailer, when White's saber switched to blue she uses Ice Magic, so it is entirely possible that this speculative character Blue actually exists. In fact, whenever White's saber switches color it reflects directly the characteristic <span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">s of the other RWBY members' power. Blue was Ice Magic, Red was precision (White executed a COUNTER against the enemy, and to perform a counter against that weight you not only need power, but also accuracy + timing. It fits Red's battle characteristic <span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">s), Yellow was pure power, and white was er... gravity manipulation? Ironically it was White's powers that I can't quite understand yet, but this is enough.

<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">Now the bordering fanfiction theory. Note that literally everything here could've gone another way, for example perhaps everyone first had no powers, then after the incident gained them or something. Or maybe Yellow actually knew that Blue was dead but she refused to believe it since there was no body etc. This is why the below here is called ff theory, and if you think it's wrong feel free to dispute it to your heart's content. =3

<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">Once upon a time there was a group of four. Red, Yellow and Blue hang out great together, and White was their leader. White was the smartest, responsible one, a superstar and basically very taciturn and quiet, plus she was possibly a genius because she could use every power and her own unique White. As a result she always felt alone because she was the one who bore the greatest responsibility and perhaps burdens that the other three didn't need to know. One day a terrible incident happened, and Blue died as a result. Hence the team broke up completely.

<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">It can be speculated that White was perhaps responsible for her death - it was clear that she feels extremely guilty; the entire trailer REEKS of guilt - and Red left, either from anger towards White, or because to exact vengeance towards this Mastermind who caused everything. White however, could not leave with Red even if she wants to because of her 'responsibility'. Yellow, rash and reckless as she was, probably got knocked out the fastest during the Incident, and afterwards Red lied to her that Blue went away somewhere so she wouldn't be devastated by Blue's death. So Yellow went away to find the missing Blue, not knowing that she was already dead.

<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">Now, I'm actually quite unsure how does White's 'test' fits here. The first thing that come to my would be that it is a ceremony to gain power, but that didn't make sense because she already have it, and she was VERY proficient at using them too. So I switched my mindset, and I theorize that instead of power, this is a ceremony to gain FREEDOM (she is a superstar, looks to be very well groomed (princesslike) <span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">, and very important). White wanted to find her friends back, and to do that she needed to get away. White was always bound by rules, and during the beginning of the fight she was shown to be absentminded, hesitant, indecisive and unconsciously shied away from using the other Colors' power. The one punch woke her up, and she finally resolved to shed away her hesitation and won. The lonely girl was going on a journey regain what she had lost.

<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">Now, how does Black tie in to all this? Basically she is the 'backup' of the group of four's power. As I've said before, Black was hinted as the 'hope', and I speculate that she is the chosen person to complete the broken power of four colors. However, she doesn't want the power or responsibility <span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">, and so she ran away in hopes to search for 'liberation', which could mean finding a way to get rid of her power. It seems however, that she decided to accept her power after all, or at least confront whatever difficulties lying ahead by herself.

<span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">Aaaaaaaaaand that's it for my long ass, impossible theory. Feel free to shoot it into pieces. XD <ac_metadata title="RWBY Theory - To Cover Everything"> </ac_metadata>