Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-9962367-20130726233702/@comment-14138255-20130802132954

Angren Túrë wrote: BenRG wrote: I'm anticipating Ruby/Umber conflict over Jaune, which will be funny because she won't understand why Umber is all confrontational with her. Ruby won't be initially pursuing anything with Jaune beyond friendship and yet Umber will be desperately trying to steal Jaune away; she'll end up seeming like a total jerk because she's trying to break up a romance that hasn't happened yet.

Ironically, the stress of this interference might be what cements the Ruby/Jaune ship (as well as turning Umber into a hate-figure for some fans). What I predict is that there won't be much open conflict (if any) between them, but subtle details every now and then. Taking a gender switch into account, it would be like the Aang-Katara-Zuko ship, where Aang is Katara's romantic boyfriend, but with clear implications that she wants Zuko as well.

I hope that Umber as a hate figure isn't the case, because like I said, I have high hopes for her. And I really do think that Ruby has a little bit of a thing for Jaune, but it just hasn't surfaced yet. Anyway all hands back on deck. After seeing ep. 3 (including Jaune's moments with Umber and Weiss), I get the feeling Jaune will not be very exclusive, but will have many interests, probably with (ironically for Weiss) all 3.