Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.94.50.112-20131215233249/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140202115208

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: Exactly. Roman is clearly their better and that is due to his experience. I would not be surprised if Roman was actually holding back. He probably could have even taken on Penny without too much trouble. Roman seems the type who cares more about getting away when his plans fail then taking down the people who messed them up.

Roman strikes me as a man of neccessity. He has no reason to attempt to kill Penny. Why would he risk fighting such an unknown foe when the plan had already went to shit? Whether or not he defeated Penny would have no impact on the fact that he had already lost the dust shipment and what with the fighting currently happening he'd need to defeat Velvet, and then likely defeat Ruby, Blake AND Sun together, and then there's no guarantee that another set of hunters/huntresses (in training) would show up or that the police hadn't been informed of the explosion heard in the warehouse. I believe the reason he left was because it was the logical and smart thing to do. Which is also likely why he works with Cinder, though I imagine the logic behind that decision is influenced by something other than the precautionary principle.