Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-32347396-20171002044114/@comment-8458738-20180429032310

2A02:1810:4D0F:A000:446C:7E12:4FD:859F wrote: Ironwood, Jacques and Whitley will be antagonists in volume 6 to some extent. Ironwood might want to protect the relics his way or simply say 'Atlas is my turf and I don't care about the rest.' Not necesarrily openly hostile, but unwilling to do it Ozpin's way.

Jacques might start causing trouble for Weiss. Weiss is probably legally an adult by now, so his house arrest won't work anymore. I personally feel Jacques would cause trouble for Weiss not necesarrily by actively trying to get her, but simply by sabotaging James (to get back at him for the Dust embargo) and jeopordize their mission somehow that way as an (un)intended consequence.

Whitley might start his own scheming to some extent, perhaps he gets recruited by Salem during the volume due to certain events that occur. He might agree to help Salem if Salem can somehow assist him in aiding the SDC somehow, I could see him doing that in order to score brownie points with his father. I hope they make an antagonist of him, a complex, three dimensional, smart and cunning one (I hope this for every character be they protagonist, antagonist, deutagonist,...). He needs to rely on his intelligence regardless, considering he apparently has no combat skills or Semblance/Aura skills to fall back on, which makes him an incredibly interesting character for me. I wonder how old Whitley would be by that point in time? Does anybody have a guess how old he is by the end of Volume 5?

Considering Watts is from Atlas I think it is fair to assume he's going to be the brain behind whatever plan the villains have in store for Atlas.

I hope to see more from Neo and this is a personal opinion, but I would love it if Whitley and Neo team up somehow. Perhaps Neo became a Schnee Dust employee for their security division or she got hired as a mercenary for some of Jacques his schemes. She rocked that Atlesian army costume, so I would really love to see her in some sort of uniform and the SDC have similar uniforms I assume. Whitley and her also might be of similar age, it is hard to tell. Some people say because Neo has boobs she's just a short 20 year old, but she might also be sixteen or fourteen or something. Puberty can hit early, which might also explain her small body (the sooner puberty starts, the smaller a person tends to be generally, females are especially prone to this because normally they start puberty earlier than males).

Considering Atlas is in lock down team RWBY and co will probably have to illegally cross the border, which means crossing through cold, snowy Grimm infested land and bypass boder security of the most advanced nation on Remnant. Considering Atlesian society we might delve deeper into the Faunus discrimination theme. Perhaps a human supremacist organization is on the rise?

We will probably see more of Winter who may have to chose who to support; Ironwood or Weiss. Hopefully we get some more information (and an actual name) for Weiss her mother. Imagine if Willow (let's call her Willow for now) is the Winter maiden. That would be agood way of making both Jacques and Whitley antagonists. Jacques might not want his wife to have anyhtign to do wth that whole business, whereas Whitley is in a position to 'sell out' his mother to Salem in exchange for her assistance (I doubt he cares much about Willow since he probably never knew her as something else than an apathetic drunk).

-TheShadowOfZama That could work, but I really don't see Whitley being a asset to Salem. Winter maiden being the Schnee family members feels way too obvious.