Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151206164217/@comment-27356782-20151208121843

BenRG wrote: FWIW, a Yang vs Mercury one-on-one is interesting idea.

However, I suspect that the next round won't be a series of one-on-ones; I'd like for it to be a Hunger Games-style melee with a dozen competitors and every Huntsman and Huntress for themselves until only one is still standing. It might be interesting to see little short-lived alliances of convenience pop up and then vanish.

Probable Competitors: Mercury, Yang, Pyrrha and Sun plus a half-dozen or so random extras including Penny.

 Prediction: 

Team MENC gets disqualified when Penny's sensors see through Neo's illusions and prove that MENC have a ringer on the field. Cinder shrugs, says "It was fun whilst it lasted" and presses the Big Red Button.

Everything goes to hell for a three- or four-episode battle royale. Ruby somehow saves the day and is acclaimed the Guardian by the populace as a whole. Ironwood is discredited, all the more so when it is revealed that Emmy and Neo have broken out Roman.

The rest of Volume 3 is more-or-less a post-mortem/clean-up that may or may not include Adam and Blake having a covert face-off at night. The real direction of this part of the volume will be the realisation that the situation has just got real. It will become increasingly clear that the girls may have to split up to pursue their particular areas of special interest ('My mess, my clean up). We'll have this followed up in volume 4.

In volume 4:


 * Yang, Sun and Blake will accompany Raven to pursue and 'neutralise' Adam;


 * Winter and Weiss go to Atlas (possibly with Neptune and Penny as comedy sidekicks) to follow the trail of how Cinder got hold of so much Atlesian technology, both deadly afraid that their father will be unmasked as a traitor;


 * Ruby will be put in a program of intensive training with Ozpin, Glynda and possibly a few other specialists from other schools. This will be Ruby's 'Dagobah' sequence where she learns exactly what her destiny requires of her and it will have the affect of changing her somewhat;


 * Qrow will grab Team JNPR and they will go off on a two-part grudge mission to find out who Cinder's sponsors really are and help 'Autumn', whoever she turns out to be.

It's very clear that the final round is numerous 1v1.

The rest of your post is OK but just one possibility among 10 000 ^^