Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20131124211317/@comment-24891101-20140525184809

BenRG wrote:


 * In the climax, as RWBY is fighting Cinder and her core group, CRDL turn up and try to arrest JNPR, who have a role to play in Ruby's plan whilst RWBY are keeping the bad guys' heavy-hitters occupied. Pyrrha has to hold off Cardin and his boys single-handed whilst the rest of JNPR complete their end of the plan.

...gives CRDL a special commendation for having the courage to do their duty, even though they were all half-convinded that RWBY and JNPR were doing the right thing. I like this theory, because it preserves CRDL as antagonists, while simultaneously also being lawful, if not precisely as good, as RWBY and JNPR. It also explains their poor performance.

And who better than the Greek to fight a rearguard action? (Not that I'm a laconophile by any means, save occasionally in speech (and certainly not now!); I'd be the first to mention Leuctra, and note the contribution of Thebes and Thespiae at the Hot Gates. But it is certainly the most well-known and well-studied holding action. She's also not necessarily Lacedaemonian.)