Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-5430952-20160815051128

66.185.200.162 wrote: First off all nobody said anything about Ruby being chosen for anything. She is part of a lineage of silver eyed warriors who are supposedly the natural enemies of the Grimm. And what's with the small impish creatures singing "Bad Luck to be You?" Is it supposed to be some kind of reference, I'm genuinely curious. The song is from an old PS2 RPG called "The Bard's Tale," a tongue-in-cheek game that lampooned several RPG cliches; good and evil, the chosen hero, saving the princess and all the land, the all-too-convenient lever in front of the gate, the Obligatory Lava Level, to name a few. You play the part of The Bard, a less than scrupulous swashbuckler who's tired of cliche side quests and lives for but two things: coin and cleavage. Shortly after the game starts he gets roped into a quest to "rescue the Princess who can save the land of all evil," wholly unaware of said Princess' true nature as well as intent, by a strange man who proclaimed him the "Chosen One." Along the way he encounters several other Chosen Ones, most of them dead. The ones that live are usually so incompetent it makes one wonder what they were thinking in accepting the quest in the first place. When the Bard finds the remains of a deceased Chosen One, three impish creatures called Punil Trow appear and sing "It's Bad Luck to be You," found at this link here.

Now, the reason I call Ruby the Chosen One is because I detect a similar theme in RWBY. Summer Rose had silver eyes and thus legendary skills as a Huntress, hence why she could be deemed a Chosen One. Pyrrha was a world-renowned Huntress in training, and selected to be the Guardian of Beacon as well as the new Fall Maiden, hence why she could be deemed a Chosen One. Penny was a prototype cybernetic warrior who told Ruby that it was her destiny to "save the world," sounds like a Chosen One doesn't it? Thankfully these three were far more powerful and competent than the candidates in The Bard's Tale, yet they all wound up dead in the end, Pyyrha and Penny killed before they could realize their destinies. And according to songs like "Divide" and "Sacrifice," Ozpin has sent a lot of "Chosen Ones" to their graves, and Ruby seems to be next in line. I can just imagine how she'll react when she finds this out. PotatoTomatoYay wrote: Why do you guys think that Cinder had to use the Grimm spider to take the maiden's power? Also, CInder mentioned "It's about taking the power they have" while Salem stated something about taking away Semblances of power. Could this be related to Jaune, or do you think it's just a coincidence? I think Gastropod sufficiently answered your first question. As for the second, I don't think Salem meant she'd steal everyone's Semblance, how could she possibly do that, especially from a remote location? To me she was just saying that by dividing the people, their combined power is essentially negated, and thus they're easier to conquer and destroy. That's how I see it anyway.