Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180120015359/@comment-5430952-20180122082740

RaijinRising wrote: Question to pose: How long do you think the time between Volume 5 and 6 will be? An hour? A day? A week? A month?

Will they be in Atlas at the beginning of Episode 1 or at the end of Episode 1, or even at halfway through the volume? Etc.

There are some things that I didn't quite get closure on that I was looking for, such as "Are Ilia and/or Sun following them to Atlas?" "Is Cinder dead-dead?" I feel like those are things the first episode would answer. Like... we would see the Maiden powers fly up from the vault's chasm. Maybe not who becomes the Maiden, but at least "Yes, Cinder is an important enough character that we will get a visual confirmation."

Personally, I don't think the timeskip will be that long. I think they're gonna take an airship (like what Weiss had between V4-5) to Atlas and that will make the time cut very short in comparison to Blake's boat ride. In turn, it wouldn't take much time narratively, and they'd be in Atlas somewhere within Episode 1. Hrm, shouldn't be more than a week or so, with the team dealing with the Mistral Police along with the Mistral Council, they wouldn't be able to slip away unnoticed and find a means to Atlas otherwise.

Sun's obviously going, since Blake will be. Ilia, it'll be hard for her going back to Atlas, especially with what happened years ago. Though if there's a White Fang cell in Atlas, they might need her help. And I can see the new villain being the leader of the WF Atlas branch, the one who's been targeting the Schnees for years. Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

As for Cinder, we should know by then if she's alive or dead. Considering she was turned into a frozen effigy and fell into an abyss, her survival chances are pretty much nil.

Back on topic, it shouldn't take more than a week, though Oscar may need to reveal himself to get the Atlas military to take them seriously. But we'll find out come this fall. Until then...