Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20131121002606/@comment-3257939-20140511205048

I think tragedy is too much. We saw in their trailers but what we saw? Not really tragedy, Ruby's song only talks about losing someone precious to her, probably her mother. But if this is tragedy, then, every child who lacks a parent lives in tragedy and is good material for anime... nah, think about it again.

Weiss on the other side: She is the classic melancholic princess who only need some paternal love. Her song is talking about the same thing: Who's the loneliest of all? Doesn't seem to me that she's that lonely if she has a whole team and is actually very arrogant and treats people poorly. That's her attitude, not the one of a person who spend their whole life alone and just wishing someone would come out and be her friend. I think that song refers to her having a rough childhood because she saw people disappearing from her life and her father was not there to comfort her. As simple as that.

Blake is a faunus. That itself speaks volumes about her childhood and the things she had to deal with. She has been fighting to be equal but hurting others, exchanging one life for your own gain, intimidating, she doesn't want that, she wants to be loved and accepted for who she is, not for the things she is capable of. That is what the White Fang and Adam taught her but she decided ''their hopes are a burden to her and she will find her own liberation. ''It was a hard childhood, if there is one character who has lived a tragedy, that's her. That is also the reason why she's headstrong, sensitive and easily provoked.

The way I see it, Jaune is still a mystery. He lied his way into Beacon but I couldn't care less, what I'm more curious about is why was he never properly trained, if he has a family heirloom, which means his parents want him to be a huntsman like it's the family business, then why he says: I never went to combat school. And if he sneak his way into Beacon, then, he really wanted to be trained and become a warrior. But he wasn't, and that's what I'm more concerned about.

The rest of the characters are a mystery too. Not safe to assume anything about them.