Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-34633327-20171004024627

73.Anon.52 wrote: Nikoli the rebel wrote: 3. JNR probably will split off from Ruby at some point then, I doubt it'll be forever but maybe they'll fade out then star in an "Appa's lost days" type episode in V6. I doubt they'll split off. Until RWBY reunites in full, RNJR is the defacto team. If RWBY does reunite before V5's end, they'll probably stick around, just stay more in the background, or maybe work with Oscar instead. JNR are and have always been Major Supporting Cast bordering on Main Cast, half the subplots revolving around them. If they did leave, that would mean either another perspective split, or they would be put on a bus and we would see nothing from them for along while.

Plus, what would their splitting off achieve in the story? The three of them, as rude as it is to say, can't achieve much on their own. Where would they go? What would do they? The "Appa's lost days" idea is a nice one, but it would need a way to work with the narrative. The idea of Pyrrha's story being told via meeting her family kinda gets screwed over if Mistral Falls, as them meeting outside of Mistral is less likely without being a contrived coincidence. They could meet at a refugee camp is one was established, but that would still require them sticking around to be in the camp.