Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-14909251-20160804221734

73.Anon.52 wrote: Agreed, the second connection seems also irrelevant also due to the context... a Suicide, A god during the apocalypse, a champion crucified  and a warrior cut down during their prime... hardly seems like a connection, let alone one to follow to the letter.

Even if they were to follow it, Nora would die during a mass extinction, and Ren would kill himself after, while Jaune takes the fall and get killed after because he was blamed for it... which would utterly gut RWBY's impact in their own story, if they can't save their friends, or make the big sacrifice plays, what is their purpose? what is their point? Again, does Pyrrha's death exactly replicate the death of Achilles? No. There are ways to mirror the deaths of their inspirations without having it play out in the exact same way. For instance, Nora could get killed by a poisonous bite from from a Taijitu during the final battle of the series. Ren, in his grief, might then go into a suicide charge at a bunch of Grimm or other enemies. Jaune just needs to get burned to death by an enemy to be a close match and there is already a pretty strong candidate for the one who does the honors.

Not that I want any of that to happen, but I am just saying that when they have Pyrrha get killed after being shot in the heel by an arrow they are leading people to conclude that the whole team is doomed since their inspirations suffer untimely deaths as well. This is a product of them deliberately giving each team a theme and it is hard to ignore the death theme with JNPR, especially when you kill one of the characters in a manner that alludes to the inspiration's death. It wouldn't be hard for them to choose famous heroes or legendary figures who cross-dressed and didn't suffer untimely deaths at the end of their stories.

Overall, the point is this is something that affects any shipping talk regarding Jaune. We can reasonably assume Nora and Ren aren't an issue in that department since the odds of them being officially shipped with anyone other than each other are low. If Jaune is shipped with someone we have to consider what it would mean for that character in the event Jaune died same as his inspiration.