Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1827503-20171205211552/@comment-26018514-20171205215946

Bwburke94 wrote: The last thing we want is to be caught completely off guard.

You say we're leagues past speculation, and it's true that everything points to Vernal being the Spring Maiden, but if Spring turns out to be someone else entirely, we'll be stuck with egg on our collective faces. OK, playing devil's advocate, what would be the point of her character and RT misdirecting us this far with it if she were not the spring maiden?

the only purpose I could possibly see would be to troll Salem by having her win only to find her prize is worthless garbage that no-one on the side of the heroes or the villains care about.

Vernal's importance to the narrative is defined by her relation to Yang, or her being the Spring maiden, if we have gotten this far without a hint at the former or actual character development of her own, it almost has to be the latter.