Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35447933-20180627105853/@comment-4010415-20180627231405

I don't view Cinder having half of the Fall Maiden powers as much of a retcon. Soarel says that it completely retcons her having been a Dust mage, when... it really didn't because Volume 3 clearly still treats the story as if Cinder really had been using Dust that entire time.

To explain: Glynda fought Cinder back in Volume 1, and in Volume 2, Glynda figured out that the woman she had fought in Volume 1 was the same woman who infiltrated the CCT. In It's Brawl in the Family (Volume 3 Episode 3), Qrow states that the CCT infiltrator is the one who tried to steal Amber's powers, and Glynda is surprised by this. Her surprise insinuates that, even in the canon where the Maidens have been added, Cinder was using Dust in Volumes 1 and 2.

Basically, Glynda knows about the Maidens and should definitely know how to tell the difference between Dust use and Maiden powers. I'm sure that, if the story did retcon Cinder using Dust, then Glynda would not have been surprised that the CCT infiltrator is the one who attacked Amber. Instead of saying "What?!", she would've instead said something like "We already know. I fought her earlier this year. We had to pass off her power as Dust use, so as not to tip off one of our students to the fact that something more is going on."

But no matter what anyone says, Soarel insists that Cinder's Dust use was retconned.

He also believes that the brother gods thing in Volume 4 wasn't planned, despite the fact that Miles has said it was one of the first major things he contributed to the story back when they were planning RWBY before Volume 1. His reasoning? In a Volume 2 Q&A livestream, they were asked about religion in Remnant, and Miles said "Whether or not we'll talk about it any time soon", Kerry said "Whether or not it's similar to any religions in our world", and Miles said "So you'll have to wait to find out." Soarel apparently didn't completely hear Miles and completely misunderstood that whole conversation because he believes they didn't have religion planned around the time of Volume 2, and he points out that they tend to say "You'll have to wait to see" to spoiler questions, completely missing the fact that Miles literally said, word for word, "So you'll have to wait to find out."

There's just a whole mess when it comes to discussing anything after Volume 2 with some people because they're dead set on believing that Miles and Kerry made the show veer off course from where Monty was taking it, even though Miles and Kerry helped plan the story in the first place. Monty even outright stated that it was all three of them who planned out the show:

Barbara: A lot of people want to know how far into the future has Monty planned or even thought about RWBY.

Monty: I mean, the three of us have thought about it. (Literally putting emphasis on "three of us" in his voice)

Kerry: We’ve got a very large story planned out.

Miles: Yeah, we have a lot.