Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170126040344/@comment-25266931-20170205150656

Ironwood doesn't have to go dark. Maybe Winter can get thru to him before he gets that bad. If he completely snaps between the time Haven fall and when Winter gets "return to base" orders then that'll be too late. Honestly I could see some Apocalypse Now type ending for Ironwood. Like Winter comes back to the base int Atlas and it's either in shambles or run like a Nazi camp and when she finally finds Ironwood he tripping balls in a dark room full of nothing but guilt and paranoia. And she puts him down like a rabid dog once she sees he can't be helped. Then hiding her own tears she takes over, runs Atlas, and tries to fix things between her and Jacques. Only to find that Jacques wants to use the fact that a Schnee is running the nation to boost sales and advertizing.

In closing I just want Jaune to learn about the Theater of War in it's "art" form. So that as a leader he can be the best leader he can be. And Ironwood seems like the best person to teach that. But not if he's paranoid that his nation will fall now that Oz is dead and Beacon is in ruins. It makes it even colder that Ironwood told Weiss he'd always have a place with her, but the time she could've come to him was he was poppin' off in front of Jacques who was about to look like a victim for the first time in the whole show.