Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140803191129/@comment-14909251-20140930095555

VedranTheII wrote: I’m not saying that couldn’t work, but as far as I can tell Monty seems to be going out of his way to not let the characters inspirations heavily affect their fate within his story, so I’m wary to make predictions based on their counterparts, particularly with Sun in the picture who, as opposed to Gaston, parallels Adam instead of contrasting the Beast, by having the morals that Adam doesn’t in spite of being a faunus as well. We can hardly say it isn't going to affect them when the story is ongoing. I have seen a number of things that make me think it is influencing their story in various respects, just not in the most obvious ways. Cardin bullying Jaune sort of plays on the inspiration for their characters. Pyrrha being "the invincible girl" plays on her inspiration. Whether JNPR really turns into team "we're all going to die in battle" is another matter. Their endings don't have to be identical, but just bear some resemblance to the point where you can say, "I see what you did there."

I suspect/hope, at the very least, the writers are trying to broaden Weiss’s list of friends that aren’t teammates, given that she has the smallest pool out of everyone of team RWBY. And by friends I mean actual friends that she would go out of her way to have a chat with, not people she tolerate because they share mutual friends, like say Sun. Whether they would take it further or not is up to them.

In fairness, her problem with Sun may no longer stem from her initial misgivings, but are more a reaction to his persistent behavior. She may even be a bit uneasy around him specifically because of his "I do it all the time" remark and I would not blame her for that.