Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20131124211317/@comment-10390252-20140527103350

I'd actually like for something strange to come up about Pyrrha's relationship with Jaune. Maybe Ozpin knew Jaune had a set of fake transcripts from day one and had been asked to let him into Beacon by Jaune's dad (an old student of Summer Rose and Cinder's generation) because Mr Arc knows that Jaune needs to do this to build up his normally-weak self-esteem. Pyrrha is a star athlete and already is about a year ahead of her peers (although she's far from perfect - she still has to learn to work as part of a team).

Ozpin saw a way to kill two birds with one stone. He'd pair Pyrrha with Jaune so she'd be able to help get him caught up. Being forced to work closely with Jaune would help Pyrrha be less of a lone wolf and better able to work as part of an integrated group.

Ozpin did tell Pyrrha his plan but, maybe, Pyrrha (being something of a romantic, as addicted to ancient tales of chivalry and honour as Ruby in her own way) misinterpreted his motives. Pyrrha thinks Jaune is The Chosen One and that she has been chosen to prepare and protect him, even if that costs her life. Ozpin never intended her to get this impression; he's just got this habit of making everything seem so much more dramatic than it really is. ("One mistake of so many... So many others...") That is why Pyrrha zeroed on Jaune from the start and was so supportive, even whilst he was a stranger who was blanking her in favour of trying to woo Weiss.

Pyrrha will nearly get herself killed or worse in pursuit of these entirely illusiory priorities and Jaune (as a responsible team leader) blows his top at her. She tearfully tells Jaune the whole, stupid story. Jaune tries to deprogram her as best as he can. Unfortunately, it has the opposite effect; she's long had a crush on him and his kindness and compassion only deepens her feelings.

The arc ends with Pyrrha on the roof, quietly repeating her oath to die for Jaune when, of all people, she's surprised by Ruby. Completely out of her normal bubbly character, Ruby darkly refers to the incident morialised in RLR2 and tells Pyrrha that most people would prefer that those they love would live for them, rather than die for them.