Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27397283-20160214182542/@comment-4148456-20160217023521

87.132.85.167 wrote: 68.197.16.124 wrote: I agree with the potential of the silver eyed warriors being a name for the sucessors of the OG maidens. This or the potential for Ruby to be both a maiden (I'm still not sure which I think she is given the possibility that she is one) and a silver eyed warrior.

One of the main reasons I think she may be a maiden or both is Cinder's final reaction that we got to see. That "WHAT?!" didn't seem like it was shock or surprise only, it was knowledge Cinder knew/knows something that made her react that way. It was disbelief, I think it was "How, right when I've finally succeded, does another maiden show up? And it's someone I've written off this whole time!" This is someone who is obviously very familiar with the maidens and what they do/can do.

In a show where every little detail has purpose and reason, I just don't see the very obvious similarity between the way Cinder's eyes gave off those wisps of flames and Ruby's eyes in that moment, being something unconnected. I just don't think it would make sense in the context of how these people (RWBY Crew) write and how they work.

I also don't necessarily agree that Qrow was telling the full story, but I also don't think he was makng something up for Ruby. Ruby, and everyone else, have been through a lot, the last thing anyone Ruby needed was to have this whole crazy legacy thrown at her. Qrow gave her the easy answer, one that he hoped could pacify her for the time being. An answer, that while true, isn't the full story. There's more going on than just that, and I think in time we may find out that Ruby is a silver eyed warrior and a maiden.

Granted, I'm happy either way. I think we need to allow the RWBY crew to do what they do before freaking out too much. If she is a maiden, I know they'll do something awesome with it and I sincerely believe not many people will be dissapointed in the end if she is. Yes, it may be a little cliche for the main character to end up being almost "a choosen one" but the RWBY crew is good, and they're smart. They will do it in a way that makes us all happy. I know it.

For now I think we all need to calm down and allow everyone to have their ideas and opinions without jumping down each other's throat as has happened in this thread. You know what really points against the Ruby being a Maiden theory.

From what we have seen the maiden powers give the bearers a seasonal power and amplify the existing semblance of the user. Remember how Cinder in the flashback needed her arrows to cast her fire pillars around Amber, after gaining only part of it that was no longer necessary. All in all she seems knowledgable about the extent of the maiden powers and she already got time to use it and adept to it.

So unless we are not told that one of the powers is inherently supperior to the others it is questionable that the awakening of a maiden would be so much more powerfull than the power of one that has already adapted to it. Not cutting short of stopping the dragon t the same time.

Also the way Qrow talked it sounded more as if the Silver eyed ones predated even the maidens. Hell remember the first episode, it felt as if Ozpin did not even know Ruby existed, but he sure knew what silver eyes meant. But if Qrow works together with Ozpin why would he keep Ruby a secret from Ozpin, the entire relation of those three is really questionable.

Also Cinders face was more of a shock of disbelief one. She just optained one of the greatest powers of remnant and suddenly gets overshadowed and forced back, by a power that might from her knowledge no even be in the world anymore. Maybe The forces behind Cinders group started to move especially because they thought that their time came with the disappearance of the silver eyed ones after Summer's disappearance and they knew not of Ruby, so Cinder never put two and two together.

Cinder is extremely observant. She saw Ruby more than once, so I'm certain she noticed her eyes. Perhaps she never heard the tale; perhaps she had been told the story but dismissed it as a fable (though why would she, considering that she knows the Maidens to be real?); or perhaps Ruby is something else entirely.