Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181124081953/@comment-14909251-20181202220333

BlizzardDragon wrote: Well here are some interesting things I found while browsing tumblr and Reddit (Yes I'm aware Tumblr is cancer but its like watching a trainwreck, I can't look away)

[http://puu.sh/C7yRQ/63948e477a.png It would seem Neo did have her illusion bust out the Estoc. She really was aiming to just kill Cinder rather than make her suffer. More evidence towards the idea of a backstab.]

Its been pointed out that the man furthest to the right in the picture of the people of Brunswick Farms has a much more distinctive design than the others, and that the Grimm responsible for all this had to have been locked up ''somehow. So some theorize that the guy on the far right is not only important, but possibly alive. ''Even if Neo and Roman are survivors of the farm, its doubtful a child and at oldest a young adult could force a Grimm into that cellar. It would actually make more sense if Cowboy guy there was the one who locked up the Grimm because even if the youngest kids survived, then they would definitely not survive trying to find civilization. The possibility it is locked up in the cellar lends credibility to there being survivors and it is unlikely that it was just ol' McCree. We'll have a better idea of whether that might be the case if anyone mentions that there are no young children's bodies. Very likely the deaths happened shortly after that picture as the couple at the center with the young girl look essentially the same as the bodies in the bed. No sign of graying hair or anything indicating it was some time later.

Given everything, my speculation is the Grimm goes full Freddie Krueger on people and kills them in their dreams to kill them for real. This may be what is actually happening in the scenes with hands grabbing at Qrow and Ruby in the opening. Someone will ultimately be awake or wake up during all this and gradually save them all from being dream-murdered. I would prefer it not be Ruby myself, since that is just too formulaic. A real way to twist it would be to have Yang be the one with trouble sleeping on account of her PTSD. Like maybe she actually wakes up from a legit nightmare to find the Grimm hands all over everyone. I will say, given the location of the cellar and Qrow's issues, I may go with those suggesting he might be killed off. Probably the rest of the group will sleep together and Qrow may as well, but then he wakes up and sneaks over to get some alcohol and, in the process, releases the Grimm before passing out. As such, they are less likely to find him in time.

With Neo, I think it is worth mentioning that she doesn't know what happened to Roman exactly. She knows he died during the Fall of Beacon, but probably not how. Ruby is the only one who knows that he just got eated by a Grimm. Perhaps she will understand things differently after learning what happened. Difficult to want revenge against someone just because she was in the vicinity when a guy got eated. Only real blame to give would be that Ruby separated Neo from Roman so she couldn't protect him. If people are right about Neo and Roman being from that farm, it could be she develops a very different understanding of her problem, especially if RWBY realize it or they fight at the farm.