Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20131002065321

So RWBY has absolutely no rivalry going on with JNPR as of Episode 11, in fact, the two teams may swap-in for each other during a single mission... who knows. CRDL, however, seems to be shaping into a perfect rival for either team but Cardin's choice of targeting Jaune apart from anyone (with the exception of Velvet) implies a deliberate rivalry therein.

The revelation that Cardin seems to be based on a Bishop who presided over the trial of Joan of Arc (on whom Jaune is based) leads me to wonder if his whole team is not, in fact, entirely comprised of individuals set to rival the individual members of JNPR. Skylarks, for which Lark is named, are common to Asian territories; Russel(l) means 'fox' in Anglo-Saxon (enemies of the Vikings) of course, that's probably just another way of saying 'red-haired' which is what Russell means everywhere else; and to stretch further and harder than anyone ever should have to: Dove may be a reference to the name David using an earlier pronunciation that does not utilize the long 'a'.

Open your minds wide for me and dig deep. Let's see if we can find any other excuse to claim these young men are the predestined rivals of Team JNPR. 