User blog:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Antagonist Roman Torchwick

Hello and welcome to analysis by an author. Today's topic: Roman Torchwick

He fought Ruby, Blake and Sun to a standstill. He always has a comeback ready, he looks like a cross between Alex from clockwork orange and Lampwick from Pinnochio. But who is Roman Torchwick? Let's find out.

As an antagonist Roman is fueled by at least one of the holy trinity of bad guy's motivation, greed, revenge or power. Greed does not seem to be his main motivation as we can see when he steals dust, he never touches the money. Revenge is a possibility but he doesn't seem angry enough, unless he is hiding it we can remove revenge as his motivation. That leaves power. In the two encounters we see of Roman we can view a substantial increase in his power. The first he has a demi-dozen grunts with him who doesn't seem to know how to fight and flees in a hover plane driven by Cinder. The next encounter, he's in charge of several dozen white fangs goons who can fight and at least 5 hover planes without Cinder in sight. He knows his limitations and when to get out of dodge if necessary.

What's in store for Roman? I expect him to interrupt the tournament for once. We'll learn why he's been stealing so much dust and expect a confrontation between him and Cinder against Glynda and Ozpin. And that is only for season 1 folks. Expect him to be betrayed by the end of season 2 or 3.