User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author, Volume 3: Pyrrha Nykos/@comment-25436196-20141127021444

It's interesting how a coma seems to be the first option whenever we think of a character being severely injured without getting killed, isn't it? Everytime I try to imagine a dramatic scene in RWBY with a character being hospitalized, the first version is always a coma, the second is being stabbed in the chest or stomach, and the third one is usually losing an eye.

Anyway, this sounds pretty likely to happen, and I'm very interested in this particular post, because I had a very simillar theory for Vol. 2. As soon as I saw Mercury and Emerald killing Tukson, and then infiltrating Beacon, I imagined one of their objectives would be to kill Blake. In my head, it would happen during a tournament match between Blake and Mercury, and Yang would be the one to jump into the arena and stop the fight after realising something was wrong. Just switch the characters, and it's practically the same scene! It's always nice when you see someone with a simillar line of thought as you