Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20130831043041

I know many felt Weiss and Ruby were too obvious a partnership for the plot to consider, but there is something I have been thinking about since then suggesting a rather nice bit of subtle planning for the plot. Rewatching The First Step, Pt.2 a few times, I have noticed that Weiss seems to be heading forward and to the right when Ruby finds her and then heads in a slightly different direction to avoid Ruby. When she finds Jaune she immediately heads back and then Pyrrha appears just a bit later. The interesting thing is that Pyrrha came up to Jaune from the front left, i.e. she was walking forward and to the left.

Putting it simply, Weiss was actually heading in Pyrrha's direction and they probably would have intersected before Pyrrha got to Jaune. In that scenario Ruby would have likely been the first unpartnered student to come upon Jaune. The cleverness of it is that Ruby's rush to find Yang is what prompted her to catch up to Weiss. Although Ruby wanted Yang, she would have been more satisfied with Jaune than Weiss and Weiss obviously wanted to partner up with Pyrrha. Ruby's panicked effort to force a desirable partnership is actually what forced her and Weiss to lose their more desirable partnerships just ahead of each of them. Even just pacing herself a little bit more would have allowed her and Weiss to avoid each other.

To me that is a pretty good sign of how well thought-out the story has been and gives an extra layer to what would otherwise be a cliché match-up. 