Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-34633327-20180125034140/@comment-28831435-20180127042439

KingFubuki92 wrote: Matsananimal wrote: Here's my theories of what might happen in Volume 6:

1: Penny returns.

2: Cinder will be confirmed dead.

3: Emerald will become the new fall maiden in Cinder's stead.

4: Yang, and possibly also Weiss, will start becoming suspicious of Ozpin, possibly sowing the seeds of divide in team RWBY.

5: Ironwood becomes an Antagonist serving as a major Anti-Villain as a result of his deteriorating sanity.

6: If Ironwood dies in Volume 6, Jacque might become the new leader of Atlas and the situation w/ Atlas will become much worse.

7: Atlas will be on the path to a civil war with Mantle.

8: Adam becomes a part of Salem's inner circle and will murder Blake's family and possibly also Sun.

9: The tone of Volume 6 will feel closer to an Anime version of Game of Thrones compared to the other Volumes as a result of the deteriorating state of the World. Knowing the inevitable World War that awaits us in the future of RWBY I find this theory credible.

10: Some of the characters from the Beacon Arc, most notably from the Vytal Festival tournament in Vol. 3, will return. 1. Kind of a given considering the scene of the scientist when she died. If they ignore that, they are breaking the rule of Chekhov's gun.

2. Yes.

3. No. There is no way in hell Emerald was the last person Cinder was thinking of at that time. I'd much rather prefer a new character being the new Fall.

4. If anything, Ruby would be alone in the divide since Blake is new to all this, and could just as easily hold suspicions, especially if Yang lets her in to it.

5. His sanity isn't deteriorating, he's just being an idiot. He's doing the opposite of what Raven did. Raven ran off and tried to keep to herself, damn everyone else. Ironwood is trying to protect everyone but is instead hiding them behind a locked door.

6. Why would he die? The heroes wouldn't kill him, and I doubt he'd die to the villains so soon after his reappearence.

7. Mantle has very little compared to Atlas, and there is nothing to suggest a Civil War, but even if there was, Atlas would destroy them, because, ya know, Military. Besides, Ironwood doesn't lead Atlas, he has 2 seats on the Council, but the Council leads Atlas. Jacques has no seats on the Council, so he would never lead Atlas.

8. GET OUT. You actually want the Belladonna family and Sun to die? GTFO. Besides, Adam wants Blake to suffer, and I doubt he can even hurt Ghira. Kali maybe, but not the manliness that is Ghira. He'd sooner just start hunting Blake, considering how fucked up in the head he's been getting.

9. Again, no. That's the kind of atmosphere they've been trying to avoid. It's the whole reason the heroes won in Volume 5, to avoid Darkness Induced Audience Apathy, which Game of Thrones is bathed in.

10. There's no reason for any of them to return except for maybe FNKI. They were the only Atlas Team outside of Ciel and Penny, and the others are all back at their home kingdoms. We didn't even see SSN or ABRN despite the fight being in Mistral, so we may not even see FNKI. About #3, Raven is already a maiden and Vernal is already dead, Emerald is a woman who is young enough to acquire Fall Maiden powers and holds a very close relationship with Cinder and is devoted to her cause, so how could It be "No way in hell" that she isn't a viable candidate to acquire her powers?

About #4, The possibility of all of RWBY becoming suspicious and all of them but Ruby also have a good chance, I guess this one is all up in the air.

About #5, Didn't you even remember that unnervingly paranoid outburst towards Jacque in Vol. 4 E. 11, you don't think his sanity isn't slipping there?

About #6, Atlas is filled with backstabbing crooks and Ironwood is likely on Salem's hit list since he's a part of Ozpin's inner circle, also Jacque is starting to see Ironwood as a threat and a madman Dictator in the making, It isn't guaranteed he'll die but we cannot dismiss this as a possibility.

About #7, With Cinder's message towards the world along with the citizens of Atlas and Mantle, seeds of distrust and division have been planted into the kingdom. The people of Mantle along with the possibility of Atlas dissidents may pursue Guerilla Warfare against the Atlas establishment, and the possibility that Salem may minipulate the divide against Atlas to destabilize the kingdom cannot be discarded as a possibility.

About #8, It has nothing to do with me wanting them dead, It's just an inevitability. Adam is a Vengence obsessed psychopath that is hellbent on wanting to destroy everything and everyone Blake loves. Now that he knows Blake's family and new boyfriend he'll be hellbent on killing all of them to get revenge on Blake.

About #9, I'm not saying that It will go all out Anime Game of Thrones or become consistently so all the time, but at certain times like the second half of RWBY vol. 3 when the shit REALLY starts hitting the fan, It will channel that Game of Thrones feel in some of It's darker seasons in the future.

About #10, This counter theory is undeniably plausible, but I guess It is all up in the air here, I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens in the next Volume.