Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-31967968-20180725173923/@comment-26018514-20180729202511

Monty liked to surprise people and changed stuff all the time, I'm not saying they didn't have a general idea set or know everything about a main character, but that with Characters like Raven that are tertiary they may not have clarified what happens when the character leaves the narrative, and he may have done so partly to surprise his fellow writers later.

We know from evidence in the series that he was always trying to insert her into the plot in places M&K would never have tried to include her, and according to Shane there likely were more he had planned but left M&K in the dark on.

In other words RWBY were likely fully mapped out, JNR were written so much by M&K that Monty was unlikely to keep any secrets about them, Ozpin and Salem are so integral to the plot he almost certainly shared everything just to keep their history straight, but I don't think Roles like Raven's, Qrow's, and other characters whose deaths were not called for on-screen had their entire character arc as defined amongst their writing collective as the main characters.