User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative Author - What's next? part 1/@comment-26989559-20160304181920/@comment-24218038-20160306041744

The reason I don't think so is because they did not really set the idea up in volume 3.

I think the 'going away with JN R' was done specifically to divide Yang and Ruby so that all four members of RWBY are separated from each other.