Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-4141313-20180312014604

Deadlyblossom wrote: I see. So you can't tell then. Maybe they're reference or something.

And so you're saying for Raven to hide the secret is to have Vernal as a decoy huh? I know they are a reference, but the way you were talking about them being controlled made it come across as you thinking they were the actual blades in RWBY for some reason.

They pretty much spelled out that Vernal was always a Decoy, and even confirmed in an AMA that Vernal changed her name to Vernal to help serve as a decoy.