Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20170108170343/@comment-69.138.248.186-20170109212942

I'm most worried about Ren. Something bad always seems to happens in RWBY when you don't explain something. The heart on Nora's chest has a line in the sides like a broken heart. At first I thought it was because their going to the village that means secret love and she'd get rejected. Then I thought about the hug Ren has with Jaune. Yes shippers have a view on this but I really thought about it.

In the first episode Jaune says that as long as their together their name doesn't matter. Later on he says he's tired of losing everything. Nora seems especially pained when Ren is closed off. Jaune knows splitting up is a bad idea, that their safer together and they set him up as the strategist. You aren't supposed to do something when the strategist tells you it's a bad idea. There isn't a hug for Nora although I first took this as Jaune knowing something is wrong and trying to comfort as well as say goodbye.

Then it hit me. The hug reminded me a lot of Pyrrha's goodbye and I don't mean in a shipping way. They linger on it for awhile and we can't see their faces during it. Ruby knows Jaune is worried about them, in fact he makes a point in telling them to look after each other, he's a realist. Remember when Ruby called him about MT. Glenn and he said he had a bad feeling? He has good instincts about these things even if he's in a bad place.

Unrelated but another detail I saw online that I thought was cool was that there are yellow bricks. They stop on Ren/Nora's path and go on for the Ruby/Jaune/Qrow path. So are they going to be the ones meeting the wizard?