Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-10390252-20130917091901

I'd like to see a multi-parter that climaxes with something like the Battle of the Rauros Falls in Fellowship of the Ring. Rather than two enormous bosses, I'd like to see our heroes and heroines fighting their way through an endless stampede of Beowolves, Ursas and Boarbatusks in search of some MacGuffin that Ozpin has learnt is stored in the area and must be kept away from the human bad guys. There can be a couple of mini-bosses (a Giant Ursa and a Giant Beowolf) at the very end but that's all; the emphasis should be quantity over size.

The real objective of the story would be to 'unlock' some more of the characters' finishing moves. We've already seen three of these - Adam's energy redirction strike, Weiss's penetrating stab and Yang's 'Super Sieyan' hyper-punch. It would be a good opportunity for a few more characters to 'discover' their special powers (I suspect they all have their own 'special' moves of this kind).

Another purpose would be to act as a Ruby and a Jaune character driver. Ruby gets to play the general in a more explicit way than in the Initiation test. Jaune gets to see that he can fight. It might also be a neat way to shuffle along the Jaune x Pyrrha thing by having him save her life in some suitably dramatic way.

Long-term followers will know that I'm a fan of the idea that Ruby's mother is Crimson. I'd also like an episode, perhaps after the one above, where Ruby asks Ozpin why he was so interested in her eyes and he tells her about her mother. At the end...?

OZPIN: Which reminds me, there is something that I've been meaning to give you but your adoptive father wouldn't allow it; he was too afraid it'd inspire you to go chasing off after silly old Ozpin on some damn-fool idealistic crusade the way your mother did.

OZPIN gets out what look like two silver bracelets attached to four chains that extend to small silver rings.

RUBY: What are they?

OZPIN: These are your mother's Channelling Bracelets. Not as flashy or idiosyncratic as the weapons a lot of modern dust mages, like your friend Miss Schnee use. No, these are a purer tool for a more fundamental use of the power of aura and dust.

RUBY: I don't think I have the power to use them!

OZPIN: Put them on Miss Rose.

RUBY complies; almsot immediately, they start shining silver. Ruby's eyes widen and she turns her left hand, palm up. A spherical cloud of red rose petals appear, whirling around on top of her palm and concentrates into a crackling ball of electricity.

OZPIN: You have that power, Ruby; just as your mother did before you.

RUBY: Sir... Dad said that my mother had been killed but he never gave the details; he said it would upset me! What... What happened to her?

OZPIN freezes and seems to have to think for a moment.

OZPIN: Yes... Your mother... [Long pause] Another young Dust Mage named Crimson... who was a pupil of mine before she turned to evil... lured your mother's team into an ambush in the Faunus Tribal Lands. She betrayed and murdered your mother.

I think that you all know where this is going. ;-)