Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28560344-20160526180542/@comment-28792888-20160617195715

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Nope. Look, that was just a cliché gag for them to pull. It is basically making a pun out of his death. He's all "the thing I do best is survive" and then is immediately and unceremoniously killed. That was basically the RWBY equivalent of Boba Fett getting accidentally launched into the Sarlacc pit by a blind and blundering Han Solo. It actually being someone's plan to kill him would make it less disgraceful. Yeah, it was ironic in that way, but I see it as meaningful in a sort of different way. He thinks that he's going to be a good Survivor because he's cynical and has given up hope, which, being cynical and having given up hope, he sees as a good thing. So the fact that these negative emotions attracted the Grimm that ended up killing him is just showing that he really was completely wrong, which is fitting since what he was saying was a complete antithesis to Ruby's main worldview.

Just my two cents. To each his own.