Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27312496-20170205195843/@comment-31098022-20170227175916

I thought of this theory/prediction of how we will see Neo again in volume 5 or beyond. It has a a lot of holes in it though which I will discuss at the end.

Be sure to point out anymore if you see them.

Neo will still be working for Cinder and by extension Salem. Maybe helping in finding Ruby or some other job. But the reason that she is still with them is because Roman is giving the orders and telling her to do the missions.

Yes I know Roman is officially dead but hear me out on this.

It's really an illusion made by Emerald that they use to keep Neo working for them.

No one besides Ruby knows exactly what happened to Roman and a while after Cinder and Co. don't hear from him they might assume that he is dead but maybe still want or need Neo.

So they use an illusion of Roman to control Neo.

This would be pretty interesting but it has a lot of holes.

For example if Neo touches Roman then the illusion will probably disappear or if he acts out of character she will know something is up.

This could be remedied by either having small meetings or by using the scrolls to communicate.

But seeing how close Roman and Neo were small meetings wouldn't work unless they had Roman claim he was really busy and using the scrolls will only work short distances since they took down the tower.

But maybe they don't need Neo for long so this plan could sort of work short term. Also Neo probably doesn't know about Emerald's semblance so she wouldn't know to be suspicious.

This could be even possibly lead to Neo seeking Ruby out to find out the truth.

This could be an interesting way to bring back Neo but it has flaws and I see infinitesimally small odds of this happening.

So what's your prediction of how we'll see Neo again in the future? I've seen a lot of interesting theories on what Neo could be doing after volume 3 so which do you like.

Also why don't you think that at RTX they didn't officially state that Neo was alive or dead saying it was a spoiler and instead said that we will see her again and to not trust off screen deaths. That seems very odd to me. Does that mean both Neo and Roman are dead? If so how would we be seeing her again except as maybe an illusion of Emerald's. That doesn't really add up to me. Personally I hope that Neo is alive and Roman stays dead. Don't get me wrong I like Roman but his death gives Neo a lot of room to develop now.

Also anyone's else hoping that if we see Neo again she gets a costume change and that she wears Roman's bowler hat. It would be kind of like Jaune and his sash to remember Pyrrha. Check out Exvnir for an amazing drawing of Neo in a new costume.