Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-10390252-20160619073512

My prediction for Volume 4 remains unchanged, it's going to be a transitional story with two parallel threads:

1) Ruby and Team RNJR on the road;

2) Yang struggling to regain her confidence.

The first arc will be pretty much something like the 'on the road' episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The four characters trying to build their skills and confront their many fears and problems, especially in the light of the fall of Vale. I suspect that Nora and Ren will be very much in the role as 'trainers', with Nora training Ruby on how to use her Semblance (and possibly exploring her powers as the Silver Eyed Warrior) and Ren teaching her hand-to-hand as well as possibly focus.

As for Jaune...? Well, his role will be subtle but, from his first appearance in Volume 1, I've thought that his destiny was to be Ruby's Paladin. I also expect that Ruby will work out what his Semblance is at some point.

The second arc is going to be a lot darker, partly because of Yang's mood and partly because the current bad situation in Vale. I expect Raven to play a major role in snapping Yang out of her hopelessness (possibly in a very cruel way). However, I also think that she'll drag her daughter down a dark road, her redemption from which will be a significant plot thread later on; I suspect that Blake will have an important role in this.

With reference to Weiss and Blake, I'm not so sure. I think that we'll only have the occasional scene or maybe one focus episode each. These will be setting up their own individual arcs - Weiss confronting the rot in the heart of Atlas (possibly with the help of Winter) and Blake hunting down Adam and, along the way, confronting her own past sins and ambigious feelings for him.