Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14407885-20131101002935/@comment-63.249.41.72-20140530051449

Andrew S-997 wrote:

Jaune x Pyrrha is almost confirmed at this point (I said almost, don't kill me). I don't feel the need to explain, you did it perfectly, and besides, everyone here knows anyway. Are we really that sure that Arkos will be a thing? I'm not saying that it's not likely to happen (as begrudgingly as I say it, it's the most likely pairing to become canon as of now), I'm just saying that there's still plenty of ways that this pairing can go south.

a) Ok, you guys may call me out on this, but I'm not entinerly convinced that Pyrrha has a crush on Jaune. I can easily tell that Pyrrha has some kind of intrest in him (that should be unanimous), but I just don't buy into the 'massive crush' thing. She could be facinated by his family history and sees massive potential in him that she wants to bring out (or something along those lines). I think that her having a crush is the most likely, but until there's absolutly solid, undeniable, concrete evidence that Pyrrha is into Jaune, I don't buy it.

b) Even if Pyrrha does like Jaune, what proof do we have that Jaune likes her back? Sure, he willingly chose taking a beating and nearly getting ratted out by CRDL over directly harming Pyrrha, but that doesn't necessarily equal romantic feelings. Does he deeply care for Pyrrha? Absolutly. But we don't really have anything that suggests that Jaune is interested in Pyrrha beyond close friendship/partnership.

c) Even if both Jaune and Pyrrha share said feelings about each other, there's no way to tell if they'll actually take the step into an all out relationship. Maybe one of them dosen't want to make a seriously commitmed relationship (we don't know either of their stances on serious relationships).

d) Even if both characters are willing to step into a relationship together, it can easily fail. This is the outcome that I think is more likely (and slightly prefer), because the relationship can go bad in many diffrent ways. It could turn out that they just aren't compadible, it could negatively effect team dynamics, etc. This could actually benefit the plot by showing the process of both Jaune and Pyrrha moving on from their 'history' and putting it aside to work together successfully as partners.

e) Keep in mind that we're still only in Volume 1, so ALOT of things could happen that could lower the probability of Arkos beoming canon (or increase it).

Again, I'm not saying that Arkos won't happen. I'm just saying that we should keep our minds open to the possibility of this ship crashing so that we don't all get totally bitch-slapped on the chance that one of these posibilities come true.