Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27092449-20151018200124/@comment-26018514-20151104011757

144.17.106.41 wrote: to the guy that said team SSSN and JNPR were afterthoughts. thats not true.

Monty has stated that ruby was originally going to be in a team with sun. and he has mentioned several times that character team placements were moved around. so its likely that almost all of them were at least concepts so him when he was starting to create rwby Don't be an idiot, I only said JNPR and I never said SSSN.

I was also referring to the "main storyline", JNPR has been featured thusfar for "world-building". They are the group with whom we are shown how things work, with Jaune specifically being so ineptly behind he still requires the most basic processes of how his chosen career path is possible to be explained to him, because we the audience need to know these things(this is why he still has the most effective plot armor of JNPR... this is what we mean by "the everyman"). JNPR are thus given prominence in these volumes, where we still know so little about the world itself.

RWBY had almost 10 volumes worth of ideas at the beginning of V2, most thought up before JNPR existed... that is why I highly doubt they would script Jaune dying in those later seasons, because if JNPR has a character death it should occur far earlier, for the purpose of either world-building or main storyline(RWBY) character development, because team RWBY should have far more "destined tasks" in the later seasons, tasks they are the only ones to be able to accomplish. This is also why you see so few complaints of SSSN storyline not existing yet: we expect that later, when the main storyline actually gets into full swing.