Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4786807-20170109213104/@comment-4010415-20170110004524

1. Indeed. Fun fact: Before volume 3 started, Miles and Kerry said that volume 3 would be the beginning of RWBY turning a bit darker and more mature, and in terms of turning darker, it's like if Harry Potter skipped books 2-5. So, the writers themselves even compared it to Harry Potter in that sense. Before volume 4 started, Miles said that RWBY will go through periods of light and dark, just like life. Sometimes, things are good, sometimes things get dark and serious and sad, but then things get better again.

2. Funny enough, while rabid White Rose shippers want Neptune dead and I'm sure there are Bumblebee shippers who want Sun out of the way as well, despite their annoyance/hatred (depending on who you're talking to) toward Sun, I actually saw a lot of Tumblr users state that they dislike and are uncomfortable with how much Blake is slapping Sun. It's nice that, even though a lot of them dislike or are annoyed with Sun for varying reasons (interfering with Bumblebee, stalking Blake, eavesdropping, etc), they still stand by their attitude about how people you care about should be treated.

3. Yep. Honestly, I'm glad they couldn't find a place for Let's Just Live in volume 2. It really didn't fit the mood back then, but it definitely does now. They seem to have a habit of jumping the gun on writing and releasing songs about the show. Red Like Roses Part 2 came out a volume before Yang told Blake about Summer. Die came out a volume before Cinder sparked tensions between the Kingdoms. Let's Just Live is in the perfect volume, though.

I really don't understand why some people think Sun is dying. They're overreacting. He got stabbed in the shoulder and tazed. That's abut it. His shoulder is bleeding, and he's just dazed and in pain, not dying.

If you think the Maidens plot isn't cohesive, that's probably because Monty came up with the Maidens after they finished production on volume 2, so Miles and Kerry had to make adjustments to the story to fit the Maidens into it. They could've left the Maidens out, but Monty was super excited about it, so they put them in. I'm kinda glad they did, in a way, because I can't imagine how Pyrrha was actually going to die (especially since they said Jaune was originally going to be partially responsible), and it helped ease us into the "Fairy tales are real" thing so the Silver-Eyed Warriors thing wasn't quite as out of the blue.