Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-10390252-20140528142751

86.164.198.21 wrote: I really hope they give Cardin some character development rather than just been a stock 'Bully' archtype.

• Maybe explain his prejudice against the Faunus being a result of misguided patriotism: His reaction to Blake's jab against the General in Jaundice could be that he saw him as an idol.

•I'd also like to see how he interacts with his team, seeing how they abandoned him to an Ursa in Forever Fall.

•Coupled with him improving his fighting technique in parallel to Jaune, demonstrating their need to improve and paiting him as a foil to Jaune. It'll make him a more enjoyable character. My gut feeling is that Cardin's ancestors fought in the Faunus War of Liberation and there may be a lot of resentment in his family at Humanity's defeat. Resentment has turned into bitterness and direct persecution of any Faunus he meets.

FWIW, I suspect that Cardin will turn out to be a very, very stock 'central casting' example of a Hunter. He an excellent fighter, committed to keeping the peace and has very, very little imagination and ability to think 'out of the box'. Confronted with possible governmental corruption and a grey-on-grey struggle between corrupt human authorities, an equally corrupted White Fang, he'll follow orders from 'duely constituted authority' without thinking about whether those orders are legitmate. If Cinder's group officially don't exist, he'll continue to deny that RWBY and JNPR's warnings have any validity (because his superiors say so) until the dark tide breaks over the lights of civilisation in the same way a tsunami would over a candle.

Ironically, he might even turn out heroic in a dull, unimaginative way. I could see him dying taking a bullet for Velvet or Blake just because they're Huntresses and doing something like that comes in the job description. However, he'll never be one of the mavericks to say: "Screw the rules, I'm going to do what's right!" Mostly because, in his limited world view, there is no scenario when following the rules isn't right.