Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20141104001939/@comment-9090085-20141109111000

Ah, Chess motifs! I'm not sure that they relate to personality; more to "role" I think. I'll just copy-paste a thing I wrote in another thread:

So, while I'm not the best at picking up on these things, I will point out that team RWBY, who picked the White Knights, seem to have acted in a manner befitting of that piece: Four times they have appeared before their enemies unexpectedly, much like how a Knight will suddenly appear behind your lines. Similarly, Ozpin's sent in his "knights" to scope things out in Field Trip, like how one might use Knights to "soften up" the enemy before the main attack; while what Ironwood wanted to do in the same episode was to essentially throw all the pawns and everything else at the enemy right away(kind of like how I play).

Shadow at Morning wrote: Continuing the metaphor, JNPR is the cavalry (though not the knights) since they chose the rooks. RWBY gets into trouble, JNPR bails them out. Neat.

This is partially why people like myself like to think of Jen Taylor's character(the Mysterious Narrator) as the Black King; someone who provides the ideas/funds but does not physically execute the villain's plans.

... It's 3am here, so I'll save my thoughts on the relationship between the Black Queen and Blake for when I can actually think of them...