Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24183436-20131118140639/@comment-11188061-20140327065308

@Soulwithilfe

1) Actually, the far more precise term to describe Penny is a cyborg; the chances that she's fully robot (self-conscious synthetic life, to be specific) is actually quite low, and the same goes with her being a full human. I doubt that the fans would be satisfied anyway if she turns out not to be robotic at all.

2) Likely, but not absolute. Reason is that Volume 2 is projected to be slightly shorter than Volume 1 (or was it Season? Ah, screw it), so if the ship wasn't going to play a major role like say, shooting down a Nevermore or take down planes, it just isn't worth it to make it show up (for nothing).

3) Hell yes, I think my Dead Fantasy drugs has been put on hold long enough.

4) Incredibly likely. This Volume will very likely star Weiss under the great spotlight, given the foreshadowings thus far. Almost everyone (okay just me, but I've long since established myself to be awesome so my opinion > all of you) is anticipating the Jaune VS Weiss Schnee matchup.

5) Because all eight characters are supposed to be equally important. While the title (and awesomeness/uniqueness of Team RWBY) is misleading, there is no mistake that each and every character is going to get some strong narration in one way or another. It was said that some light would be shed on Yang's backstory (the missing girl), but I don't think it's going to be anything major yet.