Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-10390252-20161004110010

So, the blurb along with the video on the Rooster Teeth site confirms (at least to my mind) that RWBY will remain on seperate paths during Volume 4. What could those paths be?


 * Ruby is trying to work through her various traumas on her own by main force (and taking out her pain on hordes of obliging Grimm); The rest of Team RNJR may be trying to help her hold on to her humanity and true nature rather than let it be swallowed up by the warrior.


 * This arc may also include touching on how Jaune is coping and his own role in helping to keep Ruby grounded. If the way Pyrrha bound her soul to Jaune's in The Emerald Forest, Part 2 will have long-term consequences (and mean that she isn't as dead as she should be) this aspect of the RNJR arc will address that, at least in passing.


 * Weiss is literally and figuratively imprisoned. She is, as she once sung 'the lonliest of them all' and she needs to find a way to regain her drive and her will to make a difference to the world on her own terms;


 * Blake has run as far as she can run and reached the end of the path (as symbolised by her standing on the end of that wharf). Now she is finally looking behind her and trying to find the way out of the dead end her own fears have led her to;

*Yang is having to confront her disability and her loss of all her friends (and most of her kin); I have no doubt that she condsiders herself her failure. She needs to relearn her belief in herself and remember what it is to want to be there for the others.

I wouldn't be surprised if Yang and Blake will run into each other towards the end of the volume and Yang ultimately chooses to accompany Blake (in the new fighting gear previewed in the promo picture recently released). However, apart from that, I think that all of the character arcs may be seperate.