Talk:Episodes/@comment-24202917-20160228073114

Ok, theory:

There will be five volumes in this first overall arc. Not sure if they will do more story arcs or not, but a total of five for this one. Each volume's story is revealed in the opening. Why?

The openings for Volume 1 and Volume 2 did not coincide with the events of those Volumes too much at all. "They see you as just a child."

Who are they? It could suggest Weiss' original view of Ruby, or it could be the view of Salem and her forces, having killed an older and much more experienced Summer Rose years prior. "Victory is in a simple soul."

Ruby was only just hinted as the simple soul by Salem in her outgoing narration at the end of Chapter 12 of Volume 3.

This sure seems like the point they just can't take anymore, with their friends dead, or dismembered, and their academy lost. And the departure of  Ruby, and the remains of JNPR, could be the line that they'll cross with no return. They have to leave their solitude, peace and youthful innocence behind in order to fight this fight.

But that's just a theory. A web series theory. ;)