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Nah, Jaune is like Torchwick: A character who was meant to be entirely for background and got ascended into a major character. Any huge twists about Jaune that affects Team RWBY's plot were definitely not originally planned because he was just a shadow character back when the original plot was created.

For Jaune to become something like Salem's bastard child or the real Y of RWBY, huge amounts of plot must be rewritten.