Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3006074-20180119014410/@comment-34633327-20180121043535

Sentry 616 wrote: On the other hand, this world has a four-strong team mentality. This is the standard training protocol for every single Huntsmen in the entire world. Even Atlas, the biggest deviator from the indended design and intent for the schools, uses this setup.

Four is a very imporant number for these people, so even if they are strongly against the idea of a new person filling out their team, I don't think they'll get too much say in it, which means that after the whole "we're on the same team, but you need to earn my trust/you can't replace the hole in our hearts, etc." thing they'll turn around and be all " welcome to the team, youve earned it, etc." It's how these things are usually done, and RWBY is rather bound by tropes, or so I've been told. If that were the case, we wouldn't be hearing about so many solo huntsmen. Everyone Qrow went looking for wasn't said to be on a team, he was just looking for solo huntsmen.

Besides, that makes no sense considering they are:

A) In the middle of a war and don't have time to be focusing on making team dynamics

B) Pretty much dropped the team aspect since Volume 3. All of Salem's Coven seem to favor working solo, with Tyrian wiping the floor with RNJR and holding his own with Qrow, Hazel taking on pretty much everyone solo, and Cinder fighting one on one. Qrow preferring to fight alone due to his semblance, Winter training Weiss to be able to save herself instead of rely on others, etc.

C) Not in school anymore. Their is no point in making a team when the entire purpose of the teams was to help students progress. Ozpin said they'd be in those teams for their time at Beacon, not forever, meaning the teams are just to help train the students. They aren't in school, they aren't going back to school, they aren't going to for quite awhile. There is no need for teams anymore.

Before anymore arguments are made, let me ask you: What exactly would adding a fourth member to JNR accomplish? What would it do to make the situation better during a war. And don't say just because they always have teams of four, they dropped that after Volume 3. Cause notice, for half this volume, there was no team of four. If anything, it was a team of eight, with Ruby, Jaune, Nora, Ren, Weiss, Yang, Ozcar, and Qrow all training together, but never dividing into teams. So again, what would making JNR have a fourth member accomplish, other than follow an arbitrary rule thats already been abandoned.