Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131101010653/@comment-10390252-20131101100907

Okay, here's my thoughts:

1) Penny is a robot or, more specifically, a sentient android. I'm thinking that there is going to be a sub-plot eventually about her trying to get civil rights for herself. There will be an ironic theme about how people are making arguments in Penny's case that they completely refute when it comes to Faunus;

2) Sun the monkey-Faunus is, IMHO, is a White Fang agent, sent to Vale to support Roman's plans with a secondarly objective of finding Blake and bringing her back to the fold if he can. Meeting her at the docks was a coincidence, meeting her at Beacon was not;

3) A major running sub-plot in Volume 2 will be which way Blake will jump - will she support White Fang, the humans or will she find a third path. This won't really be resolved until the season climax;

4) Just to make things more tense, Blake will help Sun with some moderate acts of mischief like sabotage during the Festival;

I think that, in the end, Ruby will make such an effort to reach out to Blake that it will help her decide that she will stand by her friends and helps stop Sun's plan. Right at the end, as he's being dragged away by Burnie and Joel the cops, she'll say something like: "The old ways don't work anymore Sun! We have to learn to build, rather than destroy. Only then will the humans accept us as their equals; only then will we be free!"

There will be a long, dead pause as Sun looks through her as if he's never seen her before before muttering in a detached tone of voice: "A traitor...!"

I also think that there will be a reconciliation with Weiss. Blake will state that it isn't race or physical features that define someone but what's in their heart. Weiss will reply that she's trying but that it is hard to get over all those years of pain. "Well... my childhood was filled with pain too. Maybe we can help each other heal."

The main revelation of Episode 15 aside, my thoughts turn to the lovely character moments. I loved the way Weiss and Ruby backed each other up over 'combat skirts' and I also liked Detectives Burnie and Joel. I wonder if they're going to become recurring characters, dragging off the villain du jour in the aftermath of the big fight.