Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26397825-20171101020434

I posted this in the Spoiler Thread for Episode 3, but now I'm posting it here for a more detailed and focused discussion.

The song Sacrifice is heavily foreshadowing on the whole Ozcar situation now that certain things have been revealed in Volume 3. Most notably these lines:

"Close your eyes now, time for dreams

Death is never what it seem"

and

"All your faith in ancient ways

Leaves you trapped inside a maze"

Plus other lines, such as showing 'them' Gods and Deities to keep them on their knees, etc.

Which got me thinking...what if Sacrifice is actually an Oscar song, and it's singing about an Oscar who takes Ozpin's knowledge and decides he won't be doing it the way Ozpin has done things for a thousand years. An Oscar who decides that he won't be another person to fail in the long line of Cursed people, and does things his way and refuses to let Ozpin take over.

There's also the line about "Truth witll rise, revealed by mirrored eyes", which sounds to me like Ruby would possibly be a catalyst/inspiration for Oscar to do so in this situation.

Alhazard offered this comment in the Spoiler Thread, which I am also curious about: Alhazad2003 wrote: Hmm, interesting theory. And Oscar deciding he won't be another Ozpin and do things his own way. I do believe I like it. And it could very well be the right thing to do, Ozpin's dire need for secrecy, along with his seemingly unfathomable passiveness, backfired tremendously during the Beacon Arc. If he'd taken more decisive action, not on Ironwood's scale but more than he did, then Beacon might not have fallen. He could've easily learned the CCT had been compromised and taken steps to get the Black Queen Virus out of the system before it did serious harm. And once he learned Amber's assailants were in Beacon he could've had them apprehended. But he didn't, and thus Beacon fell. I mean Ozpin talks about all the mistakes he's made, but I wonder if he's actually learned from them. If he hasn't, then he's doomed to repeat them. That might be a big plus in Oscar's favor if he vowed not to repeat Ozpin's mistakes. And I'd applaud him for it. Has Ozpin actualy learnt from his mistakes? Or is he simply doing things the same way over and over, trying to play it 'safe' and in doing so repeating the past and failing because of it? Is Oscar (and by extension Ruby since she has an important line about Truth and Lies in the song) the key to ending the cycle through sheer determination not to be the next Opzin and do things his own way?

"You can try, but I'm free

And you won't conquer me"

being a reference to Oscar himself standing up to the Ozpin in his head and deciding that this time would be different instead of bowing to the 'thousand years of memories' in his head that said they should do it one way, and one way only. 'Like-minded' does not mean identical, and even like-minded individuals can go about doing things in different ways.

To further that line of thought, how does he mean with like-minded? Does he mean someone who dreams of a world like what Ozpin wants? Someone who's thought processes are along the same veins? Someone who has a personality similar to his original personality? Depending on the exact meaning of like-minded they intend, there is still a lot of wiggle room for Oscar to do things how he wants.Someone who thinks in similar processes to Ozpin will follow along with him, for instance, but someone who wants the same end goal can take a different path to get there, and someone who is similar in personality can have entirely different goals and processes and do things utterly differentbecause of this.

So yeah. It's spitballing, pure and utter speculation, but the Ozpin Curse foreshadowing can't be denied, and I am seriously thinking Sacrifice is an Oscar song and has been all along; we just didn't have the information needed to make that connection back when it was released in Volume 2.  