Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26904579-20160207224653/@comment-4820209-20160220060451

74.58.211.58 wrote: Since they say he was lost they might mean M.I.A. as he said himself he is a survivor.

That's along the lines of what I think. I was also watching an Afterbuzz for Volume 2, involving Gray and another person. Gray specifically mentioned that they had some ideas for a backstory involving Roman and Neo that they wanted to get into around Volume 2, or 3, and at an unspecified date, RT also spoke on Roman's semblance, with, apparently a *wink wink* added to it.

To this day, we haven't seen this backstory, nor have we seen Roman's semblance. Unless this is somehow all going to be shown via flashback (which seems weird), I highly doubt he's dead.

On top of that, he survived worse exactly a Volume before, by being near the front of a train, which crashed, demolishing a large part of a city block. This left him unscathed, but he was still apprehended. HOW would a Grimm somehow be his insta-kill, past weak writing? It just doesn't exactly make sense.

For me, he's a survivor, and I really hold no doubts that he will end up surviving somehow, and coming back to join up with Neo once more.