Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140320104041

I have no doubt that RWBY could take a dark turn at some point in the series, potentially destroying the academy or having an all-out Grimm vs. Huntress fight in the middle of Vale BUT I highly doubt they will do it any time soon, from what Monty has posted it SOUNDS like he's in this for the long haul so we can easily expect 80-90% of it to be the same kind of light-hearted action that most anime dip into with their still being plenty of time to dip into more angst storylines later down the line. The darkest I believe it will get now will be:

- Weiss's relationship with her father combined with White Fang attempts to bring down the SDC.

- Ruby's missing/dead mother which Yang may or may not know more about than she is letting on. (I could see this ending with a nice light-hearted episode in which Team RWBY visit the Cliffside Altar and pay their respects to Yang and/or Ruby's mother)

- Yang's on-the-side bounty hunting (since that is the second most commonly accepted alternative to Yang searching for Summer from what I've seen) catching up to her or potentially getting out of hand.

- Penny going rogue and hurting the "deadlock" winners of the Vytal Tournament leading to either Weiss, Ruby or Blake destroying her in the finals (I could see Nora, Yang and Pyrrha being eliminated this way).

- Blake's past, that has been touched on, turning out to be even darker than what she actually told Ruby, Weiss and Yang.

There won't be any major wars or character deaths just yet, though if they go the route of Ozpin having the power of time travel then they MAY kill off Ozpin to prevent the ideology of "Something bad happened, I'll just go back in time and fix this", or at the very least something would happen to him to either give him amnesia or severely weaken such a semblance. Duels we'll see aplenty in the Vytal Festival and I could see the evaluations following either or both of these structures:

- Individual teams will go up against other teams of Beacon in order to organise them into tiers. Here we could see JNPR vs. RWBY or RWBY vs. Velvet's team.

- The final exam involves a large amount of students attempting to defeat one or more of the teachers in a friendly duel in which the environment is decided and set up by the teacher(s). Basically we may see CDNL, RWBY, JNPR vs. Glynda and/or Ozpin.