Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151206164217/@comment-14909251-20151208234813

Drumboy168 wrote: The volume 3 trailer mentioned "finding the guardian" and it panned to Ruby.

Pretty heavy hinting right there. Trailers and "next time" clips are nearly always misleading on big reveals. Basically every television series at some point strongly hints in a trailer or preview that a character will die, but it rarely ever happens. Panning to Ruby in the trailer and panning to Pyrrha in the episode just makes it more likely that Pyrrha is the real choice and the trailer was a trick. Ruby is the obvious choice for people watching the series up to the point where they cut to Pyrrha, so it makes sense as a twist. Given the chess comparisons, it is possible that Ozpin is not truly betting on Pyrrha and is just pushing her as part of a longer move. Sort of the idea that she had to be the guardian first before Ruby for some reason.