Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-14909251-20151217232702

Mercen-X wrote: Good points all. What if Cinder's and Neo's disguises are meant to make them convincing as EM's team? As in their teammates still look at least passably similar to how CN appear in the tournament. What if EM were the only evil members of their team and killed off the other two? Or maybe Cinder killed them for reasons. Or Cinder "saved" EM from "an attacker" that killed their team...

I don't honestly believe Neo is using an alias. Yes. In anime-world, two characters having the same name is next to impossible and so someone named Neo would have to be the bitch who almost ganked Yang... buuut in our beautiful reality on which RT's Remnant at least tries to base a granule of its logic, it would certainly be possible for multiple people to have the same name. That compiled atop the fact Ruby couldn't recognize the recognizable face in the show makes me think it's equally unlikely that anyone would recognize Neo just goong off her name. Do we even know if Neo's name is the knowledge of anyone other than Roman and presumably Cinder's crew? He only said her name in front of RWBY once and not in a way that they would easily hear it. I doubt Cinder and Neo are meant to look like Emerald and Mercury's team or that they killed them. Pretty sure Rooster Teeth implied we would see Emerald and Mercury's team show up. Most likely their team-mates were incapacitated in some way, perhaps by Emerald and Mercury in some surreptitious manner, so they couldn't go to the tournament.