User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 13: The burdens of leadership and red jellies/@comment-10390252-20131011144718

Regarding Glynda not calling out Cardin for insisting that Jaune accompany CRDL, I remind you of my extant theory that Beacon has a hands-off policy regarding student-on-student anti-social behaviour. Basically, if Jaune can't man up enough to stick up for himself, then he has no place at Beacon and the quicker Cardin runs him out of the school, the better.

Vicious? Perhaps, but I think we need to remind that, until relatively recently, Vytal was a world at war and the areas outside of the City States may still be no-go areas for the unwary or poorly-defended. This would lead to a Spartan-like disdain for the weak infecting their culture and perceptions.

The clearing where Glynda gives the teams their briefing is the same one where Adam found Blake in the Black Trailer. Blake is too cool to show it but I bet that, inside, she was freaking out.

I think that CRDL will ultimately be the Hopeless Dupes of Evil. Cardin will help Roman achieve his neferious ends in order to get revenge on the long list of people who've disrespected him. Unfortunatley, Roman doesn't leave "loose ends" to maybe squeal to the cops and Hunters.

Alternately, Cardin may tell himself that he'll get to be a hero by helping Roman but betraying him at the last moment and getting the credit for saving the day. Unfortunately, CRDL are out of their depths and it's left to everyone else to briefly wonder, as the tsunami of darkness breaks over civilisation, whatever happened to Cardin's team.