Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25822263-20170515055143/@comment-26397825-20170515060534

We already have LGBT characters in the show, we just don't know who they are because their sexuality is not important to the plot or the character as a whole. Miles and Kerry are not focusing on LGBT because 1) they don't want it to be a big deal because it's not a big deal and 2) they want to get better at writing romance before they even attempt to write an LGBT romance in the show. I doubt we're going to see it in V5.

As for Blake and Yang...I don't see it. Blake has never shown any romantic interest in Yang (and has been instead steadily showing interest in Sun from the very beginning) and while Yang may have flirted with Blake a touch, it felt more like the friendly flirting very close female friends do in real life - which is not at all indicative of whether or not they are actually interested in becoming a couple. Yang has also shown interest in boys before, so she's at the very least Bi. And again, Blake has never reciprocated any of the flirting Yang has directed her way.

As for the rest of it:

I can see people bumping into each other over the course of the volume, and RWBY geting back together maybe mid-volume, but I think Yang is going to reconnect with Ruby first since that's what she's heading to Mistral to do (and in fact is almost at Mistral already, as shown by this signpost which has Mistral as a destination on it).

Blake however still needs to get from Menagerie to Mistral, so I can see that taking a bit of time. I forsee Blake being the last to reach Mistral and therefore being the last to reconnect with the rest of RWBY. There will most likely be drama, but I don't see Sun and Blake getting split up any time soon either. If there's going to be fighting, they'll do it together.

That in turn may create more drama for Blake and the rest of RWBY as they may take it the wrong way that she's willing to let Sun tag along and fight alongside her, but she wouldn't allow any of her team - her friends and the people who lived with her for an entire year - to know where she was going or help her. The majority of anger will likely come from Yang, who is Blake's partner and therefore the person she should turn to most. It would also be a callback to Black and White, when Weiss told her to come to her team instead of relying on someone else in the aftermath of the fight on the docks.

I can also see Yang facing discrimination and negativity from the people of Mistral who's last sight of her was Yang shooting Mercury in the knee. That sort of reputation damage will be very hard to fix.