Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-44895770-20200120055142/@comment-4010415-20200120081740

They've literally said that Monty, Miles, and Kerry planned out the story together before they even began writing the script for Volume 1. For example, they already had the story with the Brother Gods planned ahead of time.

It's not that Monty knew or thought that he was going to die, it's just that actually planning your story ahead of time before you start writing the chapters/episodes is generally a good writing practice. Believe it or not, while RWBY does suffer from a lot of writing issues, they do actually do some things right. One problem is that the plan is more of an outline that's not super detailed on the specifics of exactly how things happen, but that's because you never know what's going to come up in production of the animation, so they need room to be flexible.