Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27265101-20170131070502/@comment-3387274-20170131182619

Pyrha dying was logical, but earlier than expected, to me. I had the theory about Penny replacing her in JNPR, due to being close to the main characters, having a name begining with P, and (at time of speculation) lacking any obvious teammates of her own.

Roman, I was expecting to die at the end of volume three, at least once the Battle of Beacon started and we got clues about where this was going. My reasoning was that he was only supposed to be minor to begin with, but was written into Cinder's arc becaus everyone, cast, crew and audience all, liked him. With Cinder's arc reaching it's conclusion, he was suddenly expendable in a very high mortality area of the plot.

So I figured Ruby was going to fight him, and then he'd fall off the airship to his death in a dramatic fashion, thus shattering any illusions Ruby might have had about what happens to defeated bad guys. It didn't exactly unfold like that, obviously.

As for shipping... Ren and Nora are basically a thing already. The only other thing that seems even remotely plausible at this point to me is Blake with either Sun or Yang.