Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-27350660-20160110200604

Ironwood seems straight-up enough, and getting disqualified from the tournament is the least of Yang's worries. I was expecting that.

Ruby and Weiss believe Yang because she's their sister/friend. Blake believes her words. I like them all, but Blake just got loads more points. I will reward her with more lines in my fics.

Qrow is being really helpful here, re-focussing Yang on stuff other than the tournament. So Yang is now officially OK.

Aaaand then we get to Ruby, who basically has all the puzzle pieces handed to her, by Velvet, then by Emerald, then by none other than Mercury himself. Shame she's going to take that knowledge TO THE GRAAAAVE!

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Naah. Not even Mercury can catch her at full sprint, can he? If I'm allowed to meta-game here, there's a scene in the opening with a smiling Yang, Ruby, and Qrow, that we haven't seen yet. Say that he does catch her. Why would he keep her alive? Why would he kill her?

And then we come to poor Pyrrha. I definitely thought the Arkos ship was setting sail, but then the captain found he'd forgotten his tobacco and it turned round again.

I think Emerald's job is to make this Pyrrha/Penny match as ugly as it can get. Honestly, I was expecting Pyrrha to be all Fall Maiden'd up so they could kill her and have the Fall Power go to where it rightfully belonged. But the plan now seems to be to put out a red carpet for the Grimm, and then let Amber die of her wounds, to the same effect.

I think Pyrrha is going to win the match, perhaps with some persuasion from Emerald, but will reveal Penny to be a robot by scattering her body parts all over the place, creating enough outrage to make the entire tournament as such irrelevant. Which would be a proper Pyrrhic victory if you ask me.

Unless, of course, someone arrives in the nick of time(TM), and saves the day(TM).