Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-75.47.98.242-20161010052747

This theory may sound Farfetch'd and unlikely, but this is a place for Spectulation.

I believe that Jaune is in the possession of one of the remaining three Maiden powers, possibly summer or spring.

Now there is evidence against this, such as Qrow's line "unless it's a dude or some old hag, in which case it goes to someone random." and that so many previous maidens have been singularly female.

However, there are a couple of key aspects to Jaune's backstory that might explain his possesion of the powers. First and foremost, his family line. He comes from a lineage of Huntsmen, with notable examples such as his great great Grandfather fighting in the Great war. What was an interesting note was his line in Volume 2 of "this sorta thing happens when you grow up with 7 sisters".

A line like this makes me think that the powers go through the maternal side of his family and that his mother was the previous host of the power. It might have been expected to go to one of his sisters but if he was born the youngest then the transfer to him might make more sense. If his mother died in the process of him being born, then he would have been the person in her final thoughts and the power would have transfered to him. This process would have been faciliated though the natural process of childbirth as we have seen in the attempt to transfer the Fall Powers into Pyrrah, it is a complicated system of machineary that the transfer takes place, where as in childbirth, the baby is already "synced up" with the mother so the transfer would be more possible. My basis for believing his Mother to be dead is his mentions of his father, leading me to believe that he was raised with a very paternal view point, where he got his "confidence" from learning from his dad and his chivalrous nature from being raised by his 7 sisters.

Now, the biggest argument against this theory is "Well Jaune is a guy, so he couldn't have one of the powers". However, that may explain why he is as of yet, not conciously able to use the full extent of his powers. Remember, the original host of the powers was a male so it's not inconciveable that a male could have them.

Him being the host of one of the three remaining powers is one of the reasons why Jaune has such potential as a fighter. It's already known that he has a large amount of Aura, despite not knowing what Aura is intially. This would explain why all the things to be trained by Pyrrah to him, the one thing he hasn't managed to find out is his semblence, because his maiden powers supersceed a semblence. Lastly and most knowingly, it would explain the curious silence that Ozpin gave when Glinda was saying how she thought Jaune didn't belong at Beacon, questioning his transcripts. He is one of the guardians of the maidens and overseer to the transfer of their powers so he might already know that Jaune has more power in him then he lets on. Lastly, the silliness of him in a dress at the Prom, might actually be a very subtle hint to his status as a maiden and the peculiarity of him being a male while having powers historically possessed exclusively by females.

If Jaune is one of the maidens, this will add a level of depth in the future of RWBY. We can probably guess that he's going to have some kind of reunion against Cinder and when the memory of Pyrrah brings forth his power, it will be battle on a semi equal ground as he has the same kind of thing that was intended for our sorely missed Red Haired Heroine.

Remember, this is purely spectulation, but I hope to see more of the backstory of his family in the upcoming volumes; perhaps his sisters showing up having been trained at schools different from Beacon. Let me know what y'all think in the comments below 