Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.59.184-20140809221526/@comment-27120258-20151026013037

I have a feeling that General Ironwood is one of those people who has the ideology of being the hero and preserving justice under "normal" measures such as proving that base humans are capable of solving any obstacles Remnant faces as a whole. This may be because perhaps in his past he has a prejudice against Hunters and Huntresses that isn't particularly obvious such as during World War II there was an underlying resentment between the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht that isn't always necessarily clear.

His responses, facial expressions, and direct actions leave him as more of a neutral character. He doesn't take direct action when given the chance such as even though he has strong military strength in the city when the White Fang have that fiasco in the Warehouse district and the entailing destruction through the highway. Ironwood also does not immediately mobilize his forces to stop the Grimm when they break into the city and instead seems to wait until his forces prove to be an exact tipping point.

Based off the actions we have seen, it seems that his hidden agenda is to gain even more popular support for the Atlas Military to combat an unseen threat. Now what he perceives that threat to be is anyones guess and could be that he turns into a Harvey Dent like character in which good intentions are twisted from their ideals through a harrowing moral experience.

One of my major concerns with him is that much of his military is unknown, the academy he leads is unknown and so is his actual political stance. We have no way of knowing if he is the most powerful man in Atlas or simply part of a larger hierarchy that has yet to be revealed. There is also the problem in that the Schnee Dust Company, one of the most technologically advanced so far supplies the Atlas military directly. That means he could be a puppet for the S.D.C. which according to Weiss has had somewhat shaddy dealings in the past which is why there is visible resentment between herself and other members of her family.