Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-26018514-20160722165854

WC-83 wrote:

Let me rephrase, they won't be antagonistic initially, they'd hate each other, and probably spend a bit of their meeting fighting each other. If Jaune beats Emerald's mind tricks, she might have enough of a respect to be receptive. When Cinder ditches her, she might feel guilt-ridden from causing so much damage for nothing, and the next time she meets up with Jaune she'll probably feel sorry for what happened to Pyrrha, but Jaune isn't ready to forgive her.

I understood where you were coming from, but "Guilt" or "hatred" are not good starting points for a relationship... Guilt could make a one-night stand or something possibly, but that hardly seems like something RWBY would have.

Hatred "could" be a spring board... but Emerald did not kill anyone. Jaune would probably only hate Cinder for Pyrrha's death, not Emerald. He might hate her for what she made Pyrrha do... but that seems unlikely for him to find out, and Emerald wouldn't know or tell him.

Emerald respecting his combat skills seems unlikely to get him very far in the long run with her, and trust would be a huge issue. Emerald would be likely unable to understand his motivations