Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170217011737/@comment-25266931-20170218124900

What if they beat Salem once, but she doesn't die. She and Cinder escape to regroup. Humanity raids her lair, find all the records of information and tech lost over the millennia of humanity's attempts to prosper and takes it back to their nations and beings to flourish. Kinda like what's FINALLY starting to happen in Attack of the Titans. Except in RWBY they do a time skip. Say they beat Salem's force for good sans Salem and Cinder. Skip ahead about 5 years, and life without Salem trolling the nations into war and prejudice they start working together and advancing. They get along now that they rallied behind a common enemy (like the end of Code Geass). Tech improves, Faunus have equal rights, Blake becomes their MLK Jr., settlements start sticking around. And then for the last season Salem and Cinder try one last push to ruin all that. And it's only then we finally see why she hates humanity and wants it to rip itself apart. When she's desperate and enraged that they won and they're getting along. Maybe that's they only way to break her cool and get her to confess that evil scheme once and for all.