Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160206155158/@comment-10390252-20160207183634

I'm wondering if, in Volume 4, Yang will do a Korra. She'll so totally have had her self-confidence crushed that she'll run away to attempt to 'discover herself'. Along the way... she's going to run into Raven who has a lot to teach her daughter, now she's ready to hear it.

Similarly, I'm thinking that the other members of RWBY will all go on their own soul quests of a kind, which may stretch out over a few volumes. Weiss will go to learn under Winter, Ruby will travel with Qrow (and possibly Glynda) and Blake... well, she is going to run away, thinking that only by cutting herself off from everyone will she be able to protect them from Adam. Then, she might meet up with Yang under the most unlikely circumstances. It turns out that Raven is the only swordfighter on Remnant that Adam Taurus fears.

So, some time around Volume 6, we are set up for the return of Yang and Blake, who have both become very, very dark grey thanks to Raven's borderline-Darksider philosophy, ready to relearn optimism and the light from Ruby. Ruby will be a lot more impressive a fighter and will have learned a lot more about being a field Huntress from Qrow. Weiss, too, will have had her remaining illusions crushed by her and Winter finding out some things about their father that they would have preferred not to know (including, possibly, his involvement with Cinder's activities). Then it will be time for Team RWBY to overcome the shadows of this great disaster and learn to be a team again.