Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-11188061-20140209121516

I personally think that Nora and Ren's background go something like this:

0.1) Ren was likely a lot more stiffer and silent than he was now. His family probably disciplined him even harsher than Weiss' own.

0.2) I don't understand why, but I can't imagine Nora having a living family. Her too free personality suggested that she was either an orphan, or wasn't raised from the common society's family at least.

1) When Nora and Ren first met each other, Ren must've disliked Nora at first sight. His reaction towards her would likely be polite ignorance whenever possible. Nora's was either the same, or that it was as if she had found an interesting piece of rock and wanted to see how far she could throw it.

2) Some incidents happened, and they unexpectedly found themselves having some semblance of friendship with each other. Ren's ignorance turned into tolerance, and Nora showed just a little more restraint than usual.

3) More incidents happened, and their fragile friendship broke apart. Ren was very likely the one who snapped and pushed her away, although it'll be just as interesting if Nora was the one who did the breaking. Of course a third party was the cause of everything.

4) What follows is of course the eventual climax, boss battle, and make up between the duo with each other. Ren became more sociable and smiled more often (you'll notice that he does that quite rarely ) Them coming to Beacon together was a result.

The above is about as generic as I can place it; put up a Disney movie label and you wouldn't even notice the difference. Unfortunately RWBY's plot thus far has proven to be very bland and generic (Jaune episode), so I really wouldn't place much hope for it to be interesting. Nice to know obviously (like how Blake's back story was worded in less than thirty seconds), but really, meh.