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The game they were playing, while having Yu Ghi Oh aspects, is much more like Risk. Risk as you all know is the Game of Thrones of boardgames (war, blood, swearing, backstabbing, revenge, insanity, tyranny, but no sex (usually), and it also has aspects of Total War and Civilization, where the different nations have traits and/or units and powers.

While a few people can make the interaction between Weiss and Ruby (where they were both crying) as shiptease for White Rose, I think in closer inspection shows how far they've come. They went from Weiss hating her, to them both being best friends/second pair of sisters, and it is nice to see.

Neptune I think will just be there to be an obstacle for Jaune to over come at the cost of Pyrrha due to him concentrating on beating Mr. K-Pop at his own game. He may just stand in for Viktor Krum asking out Hermione (Weiss?) to the dance, making Jaune unable to ask anyone but Ruby (who may be taken for another of Sun's team, they seem to have that charm for Team RWBY).

Ironwood seems to know Glynda. Perhaps they were ex-lovers or Ironwood is more like Vlad Masters from Danny Phantom, in that he loved Glynda, but left unnoticed and forced to try to steal her away (and also suffered an accident that turned him into a ghost, it can happen in RWBY right?). Either way, her leaving is perfectly normal for Ironwood and Ozpin.

Speaking of which: Ozpin and Ironwood seem to be like Firelord Sozin and Avatar Roku in A:TLA or Prof. X and Magneto in X-Men. They are good friends going against one another in ideologies (only it is not as developed yet), and they are even on Nickname Basis.