Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-123.243.176.19-20130307151306/@comment-6695775-20130309154105

Geek96boolean10, that's an interesting interpretation of Yellow's silhouette - what kind of suit would you be thinking of?

I'm less inclined to pin Weiss as the Magician, just through her use of magic: There are still two characters to be revealed, and it would be unthinkable for team balance, character redundancy, and audience enjoyment, to assume that we will only have one character wielding some form of magic, and the other three characters engaging in purely physical combat.

Also, note that archetypes represent a collection of characteristics, rather than restricted to labels and literal interpretations. Following that logic, rather than "magic = Magician", I consider any skills which inspire wonder to qualify the character as a Magician of sorts:

- Black's speculatory skills involving beast-mastery and shadow manipulation can qualify as magic or magic-like.

- Even the use of incomprehensible science and technology qualifies as magic (according to Clarke's third law).

Also, apart from skills, there is personality to consider: Weiss' relative (to Ruby) lack of confidence in - and enjoyment of - battle, and the burden mentioned in Ruby's theme ("White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test"), point away from the confident, unhindered image of the Magician.

I think Monty is trying to design a lot of complex and integrated symbolism and imagery into the whole series: The trailers have already brought us the significance of colours and names (starting with the acronym of RWBY, and the names of the characters), hidden patterns (Red in a white environment, White in a black environment), and hinting symbolism (the lyrics in Red's theme), to name a few things. Thus, I feel that there is no room for superficial interpretations, and only deep dissections and interpretations do the series and this speculation house justice.