Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140304165842

Someone proposed an interesting theory on the RT Forums about Ozpin actually:

"I have made more mistakes than any man, woman or child on this planet, I do not consider your appointment to team leader to be one of them..."

"I have no Ozpin for many years and the man has never once led me astray."

Those two lines are said almost side by side and seem to be spoken with confidence by Ozpin and Port respectively. What we don't know yet is exactly how Ozpin can be so sure of his decisions when he openly admitted that he had a history of screwing things up, nor how Ozpin had never onced screwed up to the knowledge of Port. We also don't know Ozpin's semblance. We do however no that Ozpin's symboll seems to be a cog, and that such gears are a markable feature his cane. We also know that such gears are integral to the inner workings of a clock...

What if Ozpin's semblance is time travel? Perhaps that is why he seems to be omniscient. Perhaps that is how he can live with the mistakes made in his past, because he's already righted those wrong. And perhaps that is why he knew that Ruby would be the perfect leader, the hero that Vale and Beacon needs. Interestingly if it does turn out that his semblance is time travel then there a few things we can look at:

1) What would this mean for Ozpin's longevity as a character, or at the very least, as a badass? Surely they couldn't allow Ozpin to remain alive, or at least maintain this rediculous power if they ever planned to do something that was highly destructive. How would they explain Ozpin not going back in time and preventing the destruction of Beacon, the death of Yang or a massacre at the Vytal Festival?

2) Exactly how much DOES Ozpin know of plans going forward. He seemed to know of Ruby's presence at Dust til Dawn. He seemed to know that Ruby would not only find herself on the same team with an anatagonistsic partner, but that they would need a push in the ride direction in order to become the team he needs them to be. And he also seems to know of several other things. Could the events of Volume 1 all actually be the result of experimentation with his abilities? Could he have planned it such that Glynda would find Ruby fighting Roman and then he would get the opportunity to enroll Ruby. Could he have known that the Initiation would end with Ruby, Blake, Weiss and Yang teaming up and Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora teaming up?Could he already know that accepting Blake and Jaune into Beacon would be a risk worth taking, even if it does mean willingly breaking the entry procedures?