User blog comment:Warmachine375/Will there be character deaths in RWBY?/@comment-26018514-20150524171323/@comment-3257939-20150527010551

1. Not necessarily. Penny is in Vale for the tournament despite she doesn't have a team. Maybe only the people who qualify for the tournament are allowed in. Team SSSN could be just an example of an exceptional team that managed to make it to the tournament... Then again, Penny's case is rather special. But we also need to take in account that Mercury and Emerald have their own teams according to commentaries. Introducing a fourth member would make things even worse since we've seen their room, we've seen them together but now it turns out there is a fourth member? Yeah right.

2. I don't understand the purpose of your point here. Not to mention that it's also a counter argument for your own previous point.

3. Exactly. Which means he still has a long way to go. Pyrrha is the only reason why he's even alive at this point. Saved him multiple times, trains him, helps him to study, unlocked his aura, etc. She means a lot to Jaune's self-growth. To kill her would have a big impact in Jaune's progress. You say she's not his only path to knowledge but then again, when have we actually seen a teacher actually training a student personally? What helps Jaune a lot is to have a personal trainer, not to mention that asking a professor to train him only for that professor to find out that Jaune's training with Aura is basically 0 would make it even more suspicious. Remember that he's not in a position to trust other people about his abilities.

4. That's something I can fully agree with. If they kill someone from Team JNPR, they should at least develop them enough to actually care. How am I supposed to care if Ren dies if he only said like 5 lines in the entire series? They at least hinted that they will get development in the next Volumes but considering how Miles and Kerry are constantly changing the script (compare opening 2 to the actual show for more info), we shouldn't get our hopes up about it.