Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-26018514-20171004043935

KingFubuki92 wrote: I doubt they'll split off. Until RWBY reunites in full, RNJR is the defacto team. If RWBY does reunite before V5's end, they'll probably stick around, just stay more in the background, or maybe work with Oscar instead. JNR are and have always been Major Supporting Cast bordering on Main Cast, half the subplots revolving around them. If they did leave, that would mean either another perspective split, or they would be put on a bus and we would see nothing from them for along while.

Plus, what would their splitting off achieve in the story? The three of them, as rude as it is to say, can't achieve much on their own. Where would they go? What would do they? The "Appa's lost days" idea is a nice one, but it would need a way to work with the narrative. The idea of Pyrrha's story being told via meeting her family kinda gets screwed over if Mistral Falls, as them meeting outside of Mistral is less likely without being a contrived coincidence. They could meet at a refugee camp is one was established, but that would still require them sticking around to be in the camp. Well, when 4 consenting adults travel together, sometimes threy drive each other crazy... so they need time apart. On a less sarcastic note, mayber RNJ want to visit Pyrrha's mom, and all of this assumes that Ruby will be re-united with Yang(who was pretty much there at the end of V4) and/or Weiss, both of which have alternative motivations around the area... and they are there investigating... so splitting up covers more ground.