Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26206856-20160104073657/@comment-26397825-20160104085708

I'm fairly certain I May Fall is not just about Yang...I got a whole team kind of feel from it rather than one specific person. The others could fit...but then there's my next problem:

I'm not sure her going rogue would be worked out so hunky dory and easily as you are suggesting. It'd be one thing to be vilified for a bit because of the thing with Mercury, only for them to forgive her when they realise she really was tricked, it's another thing entirely for her to break out of prison, even if she is innocent, and then go hang out with Roman, a well known master criminal, and then go crawling back to Beacon for forgiveness.

In that case they'd look at her in a whole new light. If she sits in prison with the hope of her friends realising the truth and letting her out, and if she keeps her nose clean and waits a bit, then they can look at her and go "Yeah, she's innocent, and she knew it. It's why she sat in prison waiting; she knew the truth and that we would find the truth. She's such a good person."

If she breaks out, not only does she have the stigma of "She's a criminal, only the guilty run, we have to hunt her down" while they believe she broke Mercury's leg, she will also have the stigma of "She broke out and joined the bad guys when things got a bit tough. How can we trust her after she so easily swapped sides?" when they do find out the truth about Mercury. Add in the fact that though the Mercury incident will be wiped from her record, anything she gets up to with Roman won't. After all, that was all her. She did it of her own free will, with no tricks or illusions to trick her.

It makes for interesting storytelling, but it also makes it difficult to keep RWBY together which is kind of what the show is about this early in the story; it's far too early to start splitting the girls up. They haven't even been together for a full school year yet. I would find it much more interesting if they stuck together now, without Yang going off and branding herself a criminal by joining up with a well known criminal, and then further down the track (say, near the end of their second year, or after they have graduated) they split to do things because of plot reasons.