Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-226878-20151216221704

The question is how one makes a leader-specific color for Emerald from the names we have.

SpiritedDreaming wrote: 1) I'm fairly certain the Headmaster would have to sign some sort of paperwork while organising for their students to go on a trip to another Kingdom for a couple of weeks, which would include knowing just which teams are being sent over there.

2) In order for the teams to qualify, they would have to have teachers comments on why they were chosen over others, and all that sort of logistic stuff.

3) Then they'd be able to look through the school records, find that Mercury, Neo and Emerald aren't even students, or if they are that they haven't submitted a single assignment in class which would automatically disqualify them from being eligible for the tournament if it's based on grades, which I think it would be.

4) An alumni would be at least 21, more than four years older than RWBY, which is more than a couple. 1) If they were not selected by the headmaster, maybe they replaced a team while they were in transit. They are killers after all.

2) I don't remember such qualifications being asked of RWBY or JNPR... and why the fuck is CRDL in the tournament?

3a) You have no proof that these people, if current students, are poor students, just because they busy themselves with not-so-nice activities. Light Yagami certainly doesn't lose any steam at school as he's murdering hundreds of people every night. 3b) Cardin blackmailed Jaune into doing his and his teams schoolwork and proved previously to be a less-than-par student, yet his team somehow made the grade to enter the tournament.

4a) If Cinder was jumped into school early like Ruby, she could have graduated at 19 and that could have been just recently. 4b) If Cinder is a current student, she could be anywhere from 17 to 21, unless, as I mentioned, she was granted early enrollment. 4c) 21 is not more than four years older than RWBY. Apart from young Miss Rose, 21 is exactly four years older than the girls. 4d) Possibly, the meanings of "a couple" and/or "a few" have become so skewed in RT's world, it no longer means the same thing. Maybe they simply meant she's no older than 25.