Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28776596-20160913152557/@comment-25936766-20170223002248

Arkantos95 wrote: ... why the actual fuck would Jaune join up with the people who murdered his best friend/mentor/love interest? Ark, first of all, eat a snickers.

Second of all, he could join Salem and co. It doesn't mean he would like, forgive, ignore or forget what Cinder specifically did.

Now, how would they do so? Persuasion if not brainwashing, but I doubt it would be "through an offer he could not refuse". Personally, it would rather be by convincing him to wreck the status quo in the kingdoms.

And considering he's shown signs of not really trusting Qrow (and by extension the Ozluminati), he would be inclined to agree on that. Considering that they basically pushed Pyrrha into going through an experimental, potentially lethal procedure to fight a war no one knew about before (which indirectly led to Pyrrha killing Penny and going off to commit Death by Maiden), I wouldn't blame him.

If Ozpin and co. were perfectly willing to do something like that, compared to Salem's Ultimate Team Mom (as long as you don't fuck up hard) trait, he would be more inclined to side with the latter.