Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141003002601/@comment-30764484-20141005075007

" *pause* Let's kill it." is by far one of my favourite Ruby lines xD

The character motivations (as with these topics before) seem like setups for the next few Volumes.

Volume 1 and 2 have been primarily about Blake and her White Fang arc, that's the background that everything has happened on. While it's certainly not going to be the end of human/faunus issues or maybe even the WF itself, the base will be dealt with and they'll be captured/eliminated. Quite probably Adam as the/a boss fight, especially when he's the only non-returning character so far. Volume 1/2 will have been Blake's arc so we can move on to the others.

Next we would almost certainly deal with Weiss's Atlas/SDC arc, with Penny added in there too, then after that Yang and finding her mother.

Summer Rose is definitely dead, partly because otherwise their mothers would be copy-paste stories. However, Summer definitely died for a good, and very important reason, probably something earth-shattering or crazy like dying to keep the Alpha Grimm contained, or to stop the moon from further crumbling and causing everyone's death because reasons, or maybe she was on some important quest to do something like that, and now it's up to Ruby.

Whatever is up with Summer's story, it will be dealt with after the other three girls' own issues.

Also, that goodbye with JNPR felt very final and ominous, like it's going to be a long time before they see each other again. I'm thinking they might be forced on different paths because of the big battle, and upcoming Volumes will cover their separate adventures. Whatever happens though, we're almost certainly done with Vale after this Volume.