Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-92.18.16.167-20131013130100/@comment-10390252-20131013131226

I'd like for there to be a Team ELTE (or Elite).

They're upperclassmen, all 21 years old and about to graduate as top team. Everyone (especially the faculty) is always pointing to them as being the ideal to which the freshmen should aim to emulate. Boy-crazy Yang fall for their leader almost immediately and they make poor Jaune feel horribly inadequate. Weiss, naturally, dismisses them as a bunch of self-aggrandising show-offs who are no-where near as good as their reputation.

Whilst a part of me would like them to be paper tigers, I think it would be more interesting from a story perspective if they were as good as their publicity states. That would make their honourable deaths in battle against the Forces of Darkness that much more effective in story terms and nicely set up the reaction from the media and politicians when the 'last ditch' defence by RWBY and JNPR saves the day.