Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.18.14.163-20180325224119/@comment-4010415-20180327134714

Arkantos95 wrote: 1. Is it really paranoia when everyone you work with is completely useless or is actively betraying you? 2. And since his enemy is the Grimm mainly, killing before it kills you is kinda the smart way to go. 3. As far as throwing his weight around... he justified that fairly well. He wanted to make the people of Vale feel safe and discourage their enemies. And again, this was a reasonable decision for him to make for the aforementioned being surrounded by lazy incompetents. 1. True, but Ozpin wanted to scout the southeast first since they didn't know what the White Fang's full plan was, which is also reasonable, especially since Ruby's explanation for knowing about it was "Oh, uh, the CCT infiltrator mentioned something about it, yeah." Ozpin suspected it was a white lie, but Ironwood and Glynda didn't know that, and the infiltrator just happening to mention the hideout should be reason to make absolutely sure it's not a trap. Instead, Ironwood wanted to just go ahead and attack. It seems that Ironwood would be more susceptible to traps than Ozpin would.

2. I was talking about when he faces people, not Grimm. He wanted to just rush in and attack the White Fang in their hideout.

3. And Ozpin made a good point about that in Volume 2: The Vytal Festival is a celebration of peace between kingdoms, so it's really awkward for Atlas to bring in a good chunk of their military. We now understand what Ozpin was talking about even more, with the history lesson we got from WoR. The festival came about from the Great War coming to an end. And, of course, in Volume 3, Ozpin pointed out that the Atlas military's presence also made people wonder "If this is the size of our defenses, what is it we're expecting to fight?" Such a large force must be there to fight a large threat, right? That makes people nervous, and negativity attracts Grimm. In our world, Ironwood's idea would be 100% fine, but in Remnant, they must also account for the Grimm.