Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20171121182355/@comment-25936766-20171122042127

98.17.81.35 wrote:

1) Ozpin became the headmaster of Beacon at the youngest age of any headmaster ever. It confirms that Ozpin's reincarnation specifically targets young boys who likely don't have a life plan yet.

2) Ozpin experimented on raven + Qrow and gave them the magic to turn into a Raven or Qrow for the luls I guess.

3) Raven + Qrow trained as anti-huntsmen. Thats unique.

4) We gain specific confirmation that the team assignments are NOT random. Ozpin makes them appear random to give the ILLUSION of free will but he manipulates the teams into his own Pet projects.

5) We know for sure that Team STRQ + RWBY + maybe JNPR were Ozpin's pet projects which explains Juane becoming the team leader and Ozpin bending the rules for Team RWBY to go to Mountain Glenn.

6) its the same thing with Oscar. Yes, Oscar thinks he has the free will to chose where he wants to go but when the choice is "Live your life and be responsible for the world burning" OR "save the world" you don't have 100% free will.

Its the same thing with Pyrrha. Pyrrha had the exact same choice. This is massive character development for Ozpin.

5) Raven has been watching Yang the entire time. 1) And we already knew that when he reincarnates, he goes to the body of "a like-minded" young soul. He told us himself, in V5E2. So, what is new there?

Also, "Youngest person to be made Headmaster" =/= "Became Headmaster as a kid".

2) We don't know if he truly experimented on them or if they even refused or objected to it. Raven gave 0 details, she just said "he did this to us :C". Besides, it doesn't seem to have any side effects whatsoever, so All Gain, No Loss. And Raven doesn't seem to hate it either.

3) That's about the only new thing we learned that we didn't already figure out.

4) What? No, the fuck he doesn't. Nothing Raven said even implied a bit of that. She just said Team STRQ was great and caught Ozpin's attentions, and got special treatment for it in the most unsubtle way possible, just like RWBY did in Vol.2.

Nothing says that Ozpin has the Team assignments pre-dictated. And given the way he decides partners during Initiation, if V1 is any indication, it's entirely random who ends up with who.

He doesn't decide that WXY and Z end up on the same Team before everything begins. He lets things happen, and if a specific team is great, he gives them unsubtle special "privilegies" to turn them into his "pet projects", as you put it.

5) Ozpin bending the rules for RWBY, yes. Making Jaune the Team Leader despite being a total noob? That's a guess. RWBY was a "pet project", but nothing like that was even implied with JNPR. At best, only Pyrrha.

Jaune becoming Team Leader might well be because of the tactical skill he showed in the Initiation, and because the rest don't really have "Leader potential", at least comparatively.

6) Except that that's not Oscar at all. Oscar started by refusing to believe Ozpin even existed, but then he changed to believing in Ozpin and acknowledging what's going on. He knows about Salem and her goals, and knows she must be stopped.

The whole thing about "Ozpin is only giving him the Ilusion of free will" is completely and absolutely wrong and irrelevant with Oscar. With Pyrrha, Ozpin did give her a fake ultimatum ("Become a Maiden, or we all die"). But with Oscar, he never did, he just tried to convince Oscar to accept the situation that was enforced upon him.

7) Yes, Raven has been watching Yang. Which we already knew, given how Raven knows about Yang despite never bothering to even send a letter.

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Overall, the results:

>"Team STRQ was Team RWBY 0.5 and got special treatment from Ozpin": Inferred at the very least, and expected all the way since Qrow was revealed to be a member of the Ozluminati.

>"Raven has been watching Yang": No shit. How does she know so much about her if she didn't?

>"Raven and Qrow turn into birds, it's magic": No shit. If it isn't Qrow's Semblance, what other explanation is there?

The only new thing here is that Raven and Qrow had darker reasons to go to Beacon. Nothing else is really new, it was either already known, expected, or inferred based on known facts.