Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25045079-20140826195207/@comment-24993958-20140908150146

Well…the color gray might be used to coincide with Jaunes insides rather than outsides…wait that sounds wrong…I mean they might be linking the color to his personality and character more than his appearance.

Now I’m sure a lot of us are familiar with the term “shades of gray”, a term used by some to describe shows or events that don’t follow a Right or Wrong theme, but a branching path of multiple choice themes, both with pros and cons;

Generally, one of the choices lands you more on the bad side but is more appealing while the other lands you on the good side but is unfulfilling; a case can be made for the protagonist for either choice…now in V1, Jaune’s forced at least once during his lifetime to make a choice between 2 gray options (at least to him)… remember when Cardin get’s thrown like a ragdoll by the ursa and his team ditched him? There was a noticeable pause before Jaune stepped in to help him, because he was contemplating whether he should let the Ursa solve his Cardin problem for him...

Don’t believe me? The last time you see Jaune before he goes in to save Cardin he is looking between him and his friends, not instantly drawing his sword in order to go aid Cardin. I think that scene speaks for itself. His choices where help Cardin live with the risk of him continuing to blackmail him…or let him die, blame it on the Ursa and his cowardice and never share his secret with anyone again…and then there’s the exact nature of how he got the transcripts in the first place and…And now I’m rambling…let me simplify this.

Quote: “From a color psychology perspective, gray is the color of compromise - being neither black nor white, it is the transition between two non-colors. The closer gray gets to black, the more dramatic and mysterious it becomes. The closer it gets to silver or white, the more illuminating and lively it becomes”

Jaune, more so than any other character in this series so far, is a Gray character, in the sense that the choices he has and is making land him more on the Black side or the White side… now considering the color of his semblance, his choice to save Cardin in the end and the fact “lively” tends to be a word a lot of us associate with him, I think it’s pretty clear he is currently heading on the nice side of the gray spectrum, but keep in mind prior to this show there is a high possibility his transcripts aren’t the only questionable thing he did…or will do.

So in a sense Grey does fit him more than yellow atm…and it being hidden from view is a nice and subtle case of symbolism.