Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-14138255-20160710152347

I think Blake will still be in Vale (that's where she was when the volume ended). It'd be easier for Yang to find her, but I have a feeling Raven won't be close at hand for them to find.

As for Winter being the Winter Maiden, they probably won't do that (if only because it's too easy). If she does, then there's two possibilities

A) She has always been the Winter Maiden, possibly unaware (and the brotherhood doesn't want her to find out, or else she'll be a target). If she is aware, she joined Atlas' army to serve under Ironwood and  make a difference in the world her own way.

B) She becomes the Winter Maiden later after finding the dying Winter Maiden while on a mission.

Mercury and Emerald, without Cinder, are probably going to split. Mercury's probably going to keep taking calls from a higher up, maybe even Salem and continue the mad hunt for Chaos. Meanwhile Emerald is going to have to deal with the consequences of Beacon's fall and what it had on normal people like she used to be (going back to my theory of meeting a starving refugee stealing to survive, which freaks her out into being good).

I have a feeling Weiss will be the one to find Penny's Father and Penny 2.0 (You Are (Not) Alone, ha too easy). I'd imagine after being a pretty but helpless receptionist for the better part of 8 months would bring her down and meeting the two would give her the spark of rebellion she needed to get back in the game.

Neo stalking RNJR seems good, but I imagine she's going to stay in Vale. She might be an antagonist to Yang or Blake depending on who she meets first. Or she might be in a depressive slump with Roman dead and might pull a Heel-Face turn and become good.

Cinder's incapacitation by Ruby is probably going to shake her, perhaps shattering the illusion that she had all the power she could ever want. This might make her personally want to kill Ruby, just to remove the one thing making her feel weak in the world. If she loses again, she might go into a manic depression.