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Actually, before volume 3 came out, I theorized that the narrator was evil, though no one really subscribed to my theory much, so I dropped it. But anyway, they have said that Salem was one of the earliest characters they created, so... definitely planned before the Maidens thing.

@Beacon's initiation being subtle training for them to recover and protect relics - Exactly! That's what I thought too! We know that Beacon does it every year because Glynda asked Ozpin "What did you use for relics this year?" But yeah, we don't know if the other academies do the same thing, and I'm not sure how they would tell us that they do, aside from maybe having Sun or another member of Team SSSN reminisce about their initiation.

They don't necessarily need to get the Maidens. It'd just be helpful because they're stealing warriors who have an unlimited amount of... attack energy, I guess, from their enemies. It's better to take your enemies' weapons away from them and use them for your own army.

@Teaching students how to wield their weapons - I can forge a sword for myself, but that doesn't mean I know how to wield it properly. Yeah, they know how their own weapons work, but I'm talking about things like swordsmanship. Knowing the proper way to hold and swing your weapon, proper stances, techniques, etc., getting used to wielding it. Like, if you make a katana, are you gonna learn the iaido fighting style or a different one? As for maintenance, you can learn how to use a gun, but you should also learn how to maintain it, clean it out and such, or else you're gonna end up with a gunked up gun eventually.

Maybe they learn how to wield whatever types of weapons they wanna use first and then design and forge their weapon. Like, Ruby could've learned how to wield a scythe and then learned how to wield a sniper rifle, then designed and forged Crescent Rose. After that, she'd learn and practice using Crescent Rose itself.

The only thing I can think of is that they wanna be able to fight when they apply for a Huntsman Academy because they wanna be able to pass the entrance exam to actually get accepted (I'm guessing Jaune turned in faked "You passed!" paperwork. Blake passed because she learned how to fight in the White Fang). Combat school gives them the training to pass the entrance exam. I've seen fans compare it to high school preparing you for college. I don't think a Huntsman Academy wants to let someone start attending if they're gonna be a shitty fighter.

I was responding to your mention of the French version of Little Red Riding Hood. It made me go "What the hell?"

1. Weiss' name can pretty much be explained with the theory that gets applied to some shows: "They're all actually speaking another language that exists in their world, and it's being translated to the closest equivalents that our languages can offer." In their world, Weiss' name is something that's pretty equivalent to a word that means "white".

2. Their governments don't force them to follow the CNR. It's just something that became tradition because of the people who opposed Atlas and Mistral's act of banning art and self-expression.

3. Pyrrha means "flame-colored" (which brings to mind fiery colors like red, orange, and yellow), and Monty said she was named for the color of her hair (red). Peter comes from the Greek word "petros" meaning "stone", which can bring to mind gray or brown. It's also speculated that Port could refer to port wine, which is typically red.

It seems that, when your Aura is unlocked, you can end up finding out your Semblance by accident. I mean, Jaune activated his completely by accident without knowing what it is in Forever Fall Part 2, and Ren did the same in his childhood. So, that said... we've also been shown that a large amount of negative emotion can cause people to accidentally activate their Semblance. This can lead to dangerous situations, such as Pyrrha accidentally slamming Jaune into a wall so hard that it cracked and Weiss accidentally attacking a party goer with her Boarbatusk Summon.

Hopefully, there's a way for them to actually train themselves to maintain control over their Semblance even in times of heightened negative emotions. But imagine everyone in a packed city having their Aura unlocked, when something horrible happens and everyone starts making things progressively worse by accidentally activating their Semblances. Yeesh.

I think I'm gonna go ahead and headcanon that Aura doesn't protect you while you're unconscious. I'm gonna be disappointed if the show proves it to be wrong.

The gravity clone that Blake made is easy to miss and was in the air. Gravity Dust's effects are marked by black with dark purple outlines. Blake's sword slashes are light purple and her Aura arcs are white with light purple outlines.

I guess gravity Dust bullets make for much better recoil jumps than other bullets do.

@Dust stuff - These are things we want to know, but Miles and Kerry have barely touched on it... The most we got is that, during a livestream, Miles told us that Fire + Water = Steam Dust, and Water + Air = Ice Dust, and then he said that they have all that stuff listed in the RWBY Bible. So why not tell us more about it?!!

Hell, they could've told us about the former monarchies in WoR: Kingdoms, but they just had to have volume 2's WoRs be practically useless.

Also, the manga shows that Winter was the one who snapped Weiss out of going along with Jacques and whatnot. Ugh... Why were Weiss' chapters so full of things that should've been put in the show, damn it?

I would've liked it if volume 4 could've had a bit where Weiss looks in the mirror, touches her scar, and has a flashback to when she fought the Giant Armor, with a short bit about why she fought it and the fact that it had a Geist in it and whatnot. They could've done that instead of having her rearrange her furniture. Hell, that would've even been more powerful than pushing furniture around because it would've brought up the fact that Jacques is pretty much the reason she has a scar on her face and that he made that bet with her to try to force her to stay home. Remembering that stuff would then make her resolve to pick up her rapier and start practicing summoning the very thing that gave her that scar. That would've been so much better!

Yeah, the Tumblr Q&A, uh... We only learned two tiny facts from it, which I believe were that the Character Short takes place before volume 4 and happens in a village outside Vale. The only other useful answers we really got were that RWBY will have light and dark times and that they definitely will have LGBT representation but Miles is nervous because they don't want the LGBT characters to be treated as a huge deal, but rather just something as normal as a straight cisgender character, and he wants to get better at writing romance before they get around to tackling the LGBT stuff.

The rest of it was just... meh. People asking the same questions that get asked at every Q&A, people just saying shit like "We love you guys", and someone asked for music recommendations and actually got an answer. They opened their ask box and told us about the Q&A days in advance and only answered around 30 of the, most likely, hundreds, if not thousands, of questions they got. Once again, they did not answer any of the questions that wiki users asked. So, I'm salty about it.

@SAO - Lucky. When SAO was still the latest fad anime, there were multiple people recommending it to me and I kept seeing it everywhere on so many different sites. I kept telling everyone I didn't wanna check it out because I already have a list of anime I wanna check out and didn't wanna add to it. Eventually, I broke down and finally decided to watch it.

It starts out pretty cool, where it introduces the... concept, basically. It's a VR MMO where you lay down, put on a helmet, and pretty much get digitally inserted inside the game. The main character Kirito was one of the beta testers, so he already knows how to play and is really good at it. They even have a scene where he explains and shows how to play to this one guy. But then they find that the Log Out button has disappeared from their UI, everyone gets teleported to this one area, the avatars they customized are changed to their real life appearances, and the game's creator tells them that they're trapped in the MMO and have to fight their way through dungeons to the end in order to leave. Furthermore, if they die in the game, the helmet will fry their brain and kill them. The same will happen if someone tries removing the helmet.

That was a nice concept. I would've enjoyed watching them actually go through all that. However... shortly afterward, the anime completely drops that plot and switches to just repeatedly timeskipping while Kirito becomes ridiculously OP and keeps meeting girls who develop huge crushes on him.

I ended up getting bored and dropping it. SAO is why I haven't watched Attack on Titan. I've decided that, just because an anime is super popular, that doesn't automatically mean I should check it out. I'm only going to check out anime that actually interest me, lest I find myself wasting my time on another badly-written fad anime that does nothing but bore me.

In the initiation, they were told that their mission was to grab a relic and get back to the cliff. Ruby pointed that out. I guess what they were going for is Ruby recognizing that they don't need to take unnecessary risks that aren't part of their mission or whatever.

It seems that, supposedly, Ozpin chose to send Team RWBY as scouts because he knew they were gonna find a way to go there anyway (which he mentioned), and it would've been better if they were actually sent there and supervised than if they snuck away from their supervising Huntsman and stumbled into the actual trained Huntsmen who had been selected as scouts. Still a bad idea on Ozpin's part, but yeah.

I was actually pleased with WoRs Mistral, Atlas, and Vacuo, to be honest. Before then, I thought that they hadn't really actually planned out or developed what the other kingdoms are like, so I was surprised to find out that they had actually built histories and even cultures for the other three kingdoms.