Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-26018514-20171004015053

Nikoli the rebel wrote: 1) Interesting choice to include Raven and not Winter. Will Raven have a bigger role than Winter?

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2) And again... Raven and not Watts?...

idk... It looks like Raven is going to become a major character. It probably has to do with the spring maiden.

3) No Jaune. 1. Winter probably will be just a link for Weiss to find the local members of RWBY... this is why I've been saying that assuming she'll die soon is dumb, because Winter really needs more focus before she dies and there simply should not be much focus on her this season.

Raven on the other hand is still a major focus for Yang, and is more or less based in Mistral, so if they don't somewhat resolve(IE, actually meeting formally), it would be rather difficult to do later... especially since getting Qrow, Raven, and RWBY together later would likely feel contrived.

Also Raven is almost certainly > Winter... Qrow is better than Winter and is also an alcoholic and patently unlucky, the way Qrow and Taiyang talk about her Raven is the stronger sibling... she probably had some sort of rivalry with Summer, who as an SEW is probably the top of STRQ's power ranking.

2. Watts/Leo's conflict will probably be central to the FINAL(before RWBY leaves for wherever else they go next) Mistral based storyline... it's too early for that.

Don't forget Raven's also searching for the relic, so it could be that storyline too.

3. JNR probably will split off from Ruby at some point then, I doubt it'll be forever but maybe they'll fade out then star in an "Appa's lost days" type episode in V6.