Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329153359

That would be a pretty sweet semblance power.

It's definitely the most "Art house" of the trailers. Given the music, the mysterious locations, the unkown reason for the fight, and the lack of speech throughout.

Robots do exist in RWBY, you are correct. Maybe it was a prototype gone wrong, and Weiss had to dispose of it. That said, when it shattered, it had no internal mechanisms. It was hollow. So what on Earth animated it? Why was it hostile? Why was it in White Castle? Why did Weiss choose to fight it, rather than run?

Questions with lots of answers, but no correct ones. It's entirely possible they just wrote it into the trailer because "Living suits of armour are bloody cool." However, I like to think things are done a little more...poetically than that over at RT. But all the trailers seem to have a certain degree of foreshadowing about them. Like the issues and thematics presented in them still trouble to the characters, hence Weiss' scar. In fact, Yang's trailer was really the only one with no heavy overtones.

I don't think we'll ever get a definitve answer, but, who knows? Volume 3 is going to be full of surprises. Roll on August.