Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170329125950/@comment-26397825-20170403020500

Terminus99 wrote:

I think we were promised some character development for Cardin, right? I think it would have been a good scene showing him and his teammates courageously fighting off some Grimm, and maybe even saving Velvet from one who is sneacking behind her or something. Yes. In the Director's Commentary for Volume 1, we were told about how just as Jaune is more than the whiny nerd, Cardin is more than the schoolyard bully and they were excited to show us all the different sides of people. They talked about Cardin for a bit, actually, making it seem like he's more than just a dick.

Cardin is my favourite literary device, as he's a blank slate. We know he's the leader of CRDL, we know he's racist (or at least thinks Faunus are freaks), we know he's a bully, and we know he's jealous of Pyrrha. We can surmise he's a little bit tactical (as he came up with the plan with the Rapier Wasps) and for the most part is not a team player (since he knocked Dove out himself by accident while fighting Pyrrha), but also that he may have learnt some team skills since he sent Russel and Sky ahead in the Vytal Festival rather than himself.

These are all pretty one dimensional; I want to see him be more fleshed out and realistic, with the layers they hinted at.

Honestly, if we were going to follow a team around Beacon and Val's rebuild, I would prefer CRDL. They were introduced right at the very beginning of the show; they were unique designs way back in initiation unlike CFVY who was created specifically to be badass and give Velvet (who was only kept in the show because the fans love her) a team. They have been shown alongside RWBY and JNPR in most of their classes and attending the same events, even if they didn't go out and fight crime and get tangled up in crazy shenanigans like RWBY did.

I think following a sub-par team who has their own prejudices to get over and aren't already badasses around the rebuild, defending Vale and growing up and turning into heroes and defenders of Mankind (both human and faunus) would be more interesting than following the resident badass team who are already defenders of mankind and don't really have that much growing to do.

That being said, a CFVY-CRDL teamup would be pretty cool too.