Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-166.182.85.155-20171001235816/@comment-4010415-20171002031717

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

In terms of the Headmaster of Shade being the Scarecrow, you could do something different. Like he's in over his head, trying to keep up with the changing world and provide stability for his kingdom in the aftermath of the Great War but it's just too big an effort for one guy. Yeah, and on Skype, I described an idea I had that kinda relates to that:

I think it would be interesting if Vacuo has actually been carrying out projects where they try to make their kingdom more sustainable and make the environment better. As such, they had an agreement with Nicholas Schnee that the Schnee Dust Company would only mine outside of the Kingdom of Vacuo, since mining could impede the projects' efforts. However, Jacques broke that agreement by starting mines within Vacuo's borders. They may not have noticed at first because the mining projects could have started out on the edges of the kingdom's territory and in areas miles away from any villages, but nonetheless, he broke the agreement. This has made it even harder for Shade's headmaster to improve the kingdom.

(If this turned out to be canon, I'd like it even more if Team RWBY eventually goes to Vacuo, leading to Weiss having character development where she starts deeply regretting her actions at the charity ball in Volume 4. She had been planning to make good on Nicholas' promise when she inherited the company, but now Whitley is going to inherit the company instead and is likely to follow in their father's footsteps. She comes to realize that her actions at the charity ball didn't help anyone or change anything for the better. Instead, she potentially made things worse for a lot of people. Bonus if Blake also shows development by telling Weiss that there's no use sitting around wishing she had done things differently, and that they need to look ahead and find a way to fix things, like Sun's lyrics in Like Morning Follows Night.)