Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-10390252-20190128153132

Like a lot of people, I'm thinking that Summer appearing to Ruby when she's focussing on her positive feelings to summon the SEP (is this stuff basically a Partronus?) as possibly trailing her appearing in a flashback or two in volume 7.

I'd be very interested to see Blake broach the issue of Adam's brand with Weiss. It's possible that this was the company's idea of marking a 'saboteur', similar to how the East India Company used to brand pirates IRL. If it turns out that the company's security forces only did that to people who had done something really big like blow up a warehouse or kill company personnel, then it will only serve to further solidify the impression that this is a man who was walking a bad road for a long time and retroactively finding excuses for it.

Alternately, if it was just used as a way to signify 'troublemakers' (i.e. those who complained against mistreatment), then it might be an interesting character moment for Weiss to realise just how bad her family heritage really is and make her that much more determined to redeem it, if she can.

Oddly enough, Jinn's cameo has made me think. Just how sentient is she? If she's capable of making value- and context-based decisions irrespective of input, then she might be fully self-aware. She might find Ruby interesting, clever and daring enough to start pushing the edge of her 'programming' and letting clues 'slip out' during dreams or something. As Ruby isn't asking a question, Jinn isn't breaking the rules of her existence, after all!

Finally: I'm going to make a prediction that, with the destruction of Gambol Shroud, we're gong to see the girls come together to help Blake build a new weapon. Possibly we'll also see them upgrade their own weapons. Maybe Ruby will rebuild Crescent Rose so she can use a boomerang attack like Maria's twin sickles?