Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-136.224.215.68-20141031031236

Originally I believed Raven was going to be Yang's mother, but if the character model we saw in episode 12 will be her final rendering, and not just a stand-in until they make it better, I can't help but get the feeling that Raven may be Yang's older half sister. By that I mean they share a mother and that Raven shares no blood connection with Ruby, I can personally see Yang's mother being 'loose enough' at this point for her to have other children out there that she (both Yang and Yang's mother) wouldn't even know about, though that just might be my biased opinion of what we know so far. Raven may give Yang a 'join the darkside speech' if she is full faunus and Yang is the rumored half-faunus. She may even show signs of jealousy at Ruby as an obstacle between her and Yang and may want her out of the picture so to speak (that part is just wild speculation on my part).

Regardles of Blood Relations her Weapon is clearly Awesome, and it reminds me of Hawkeye's gear in the Avengers, buttons on his Fingers would tell the arrow pact what kind of 'War Head" to put on the arrow shaft, and Ravens sheath coats her blade with different kinds of dust, If the Blade isn't forged out of a dust infused metal compound entirely.

I personlly thought it was a good episode, but I think the reason why the majority of you are dissapointed is that the awesome fighting happened up front then was followed by what nearly everyone hates about politicians, and what seems to be Cinders plan proceeding thus making this feel like a hollow victory.

As for Cinder's plan, Team RWBY making the WF have to execute it early as well as three members likely defussing most of the bombs before their fights with the henchmen (MythBusters proved dousing Bombs with liquid nitrogen stops them from detonating so it could  be really easy for Weiss, unless they would reacit to ice dust making them do it the longer way still...). Which means that the grim that showed up where only a fraction of what should have. Even then from what World of Remnant has taught us about the Grim, this incident could have just been the initial 'Blood in the water' and the Grim are the sharks. Vale's borders might be increasingly beseiged in the near future making Vale request more foreign mechanized aid.

Also I think Zolnir did a good job earlier, pointing out how likely General IronWood is going to be placing alot of Androids and Paladin's around that could later be hacked to fight for Cinder's cause. Heck the fact that we'd see Cinder calling it "All in All" a success shortly after IronWood becomes the new Head of security (I think it's the same day as when the grim attacked and Ironwood was promoted) which makes me think she actually was listening in on Ozpin's discussion with the council. All transmiision to and from Beacon and whstever intel they have may now be compromised.

One thing I have to say about Ozpin is that both his Beacon Wellcome speech and him nodding off in his speech with the council where things that people could (and councilors are) going to see as his age effecting his reason, One thing my College Professor for my Project management class told us, Is in the real world you have to know is "how to cover your ass " and Ozpin isn't doing enugh of that right now, though you could argue that his position is one that is held responsible regardless of his competency and he'd just be a scape goat regardless because he was the man in charge.

-Defcon Deceiver