Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24183436-20131118140639/@comment-10390252-20140429084035

Andrew S-997 wrote: Well, I'd love to see CRDL's reasons for being jackasses. They have to have some, right?

The way that I see it, most of CRDL is just following Cardin blindly and, if offered an alternitive (Jaune), they would choose to make new friends. In particular, I can certianly see a Sky + Dove / Cardin + Russel split sometime in the future. It's an old Military truism that the team leader defines the team. I think that we're seeing this here. As Andrew says, the rest of CRDL are just following Cardin's lead. He's an immature jerk with more muscles than sense and the others are following his example. Humans are like that.

FWIW, you can also see this in team RWBY, where Weiss is slowly slipping into Ruby's example of whimsical and random behaviour (something that Yang and Blake seemed to be doing from day one). We haven't spent enough time with JNPR so far to see if Jaune's goofy heroism is affecting the others.