Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20161022144159/@comment-4010415-20161024124308

XDex wrote:I can't deny he has the same hairstyle and the metal strip, but his face is just so different, not just the eyebrows. It feels like more than the art change should account for.

My instant headcanon (before I saw the Ironwood similarities) was that he was an arranged suitor for Weiss. XD Maybe it's just because we're seeing him from such a distance?

Oh dear God, I would feel sorry for poor Weiss. Dragged back home when everything has gone to hell and her friends have been scattered, and suddenly, she's forced into an arranged relationship?! The inhumanity!

BenRG said:

We don't know when the Character Short is set; the assumption was it was before v4e01 but it might be after. Next time, we might have Ruby and the rest of RNJR picking through the ruins of the town and wondering if the one place in the area that had an airship being hit that hard is a coincidence.

Said in the Tumblr Q&A that it takes place before volume 4, and it's a village on the outskirts of Vale. Basically, the only scraps of info we got from that damn Q&A.