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As a certified Jaune Arc fanboy I’m going to have to say NO...let me explain.

 Jaunes…reveal in episode 12 is one of the highpoints of volume 1 for me, BUT I don’t think it would have been pulled off as well if JNPR was the main cast, because I would have seen too much of Jaune and the reveal would not have hit me like a ton of bricks.

 As a side character, we don’t get to see them as often as the main cast and Monty used that to his advantage to set up episode 12 by giving us the hints we needed in order for the reveal to make sense BUT not enough for us to see it coming.

 Compare and contrast with Blakes reveal where we…or at least I wasn’t surprised to find out she was a member of the white fang. Basically flipping around JNPR with RWBY would have ended up making Jaunes reveal predictable while Blakes reveal the “OMG that makes so much sense” one and this thread would have been called “Would team RWBY be better main characters?” instead.

 So no I don’t think JNPR could have done the job better.