Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.18.33.128-20161020162242/@comment-4010415-20161021100507

Alhazad2003 wrote: 1. That's the point, if they're more useful dead than alive, and if nothing changes as a result of their actions, then what have they achieved? Especially with humanity turning against them.

2. Why, you ask? Where did Yang and Pyrrha attend? Beacon. Who runs Beacon? Ozpin. Therefore, Ozpin taught them to mutilate innocent students for no reason. "Well if a couple of them do it then they all do." THAT is what many people will think. THAT is why anyone from Beacon may be in danger, need I say more?

3. I think you're underestimating how close-minded people can be, especially with what they saw at the tournmanet, some are so vexed they won't care if it's all a lie, they're gonna believe what they want and Hell to those who say otherwise. Doesn't need to be a genocidal extremist, a closed mind can be just as dangerous, especially in large numbers. 1. How are they more useful dead than alive? A dead person can't be Ozpin's weapon to fight his secret war against Salem with. =P They're more useful alive than dead. The real question is: Are they still heroes when they're just Ozpin's tools? "Someone else" (Ozpin, Ironwood, the other two headmasters) is claiming the victory, not the Huntsmen themselves because they're just pawns, tools, weapons that the headmasters direct through mission boards and through teaching them what they need to know to fight in this secret war.

Look to Divide, where Salem asks Ozpin "Have you no shame signing them up for your war?" The headmasters are effectively signing these young men and women up for a war they don't know they're fighting in.

Huntsmen and Huntresses worldwide think that they are individual or teams of heroes, separate from all the others, just going around doing their job to protect the people. Behind the curtain, they're actually soldiers of a giant army, being pushed to fight against Salem's army. If some of these "soldiers" die in this secret war, it's fine because there are more being trained in the academies, more being "manufactured."

2. Okay, but won't people blame Ozpin and merely distrust Beacon students? Why would Beacon students be "in danger" because of that? If anything, they'd just be watched more closely with distrust by people who expect them to have unnecessary aggressive tactics taught to them by Ozpin. Remember the news report about Yang attacking Mercury? That blonde guy ("Kurt") commented on Ozpin's teaching, not the students themselves.

3. There's not really any reason for people to go out of their way to attack RNJR or WBY.