Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27362084-20160107013913

So, this will probably be long winded, but here it goes! Note: these are not theories that I completely believe, but they make sense to me within the current information that we have.

-Raven is the main boss behind the villainous team of Cinder, Emerald, Mercury, Neo, and Torchwick. This would explain a decent amount of things, namely: 1) Neo's instant fleeing upon seeing Raven in "No Brakes" indicating previous interaction and reason for fear. 2) The splintering of team STRQ. 3) The identity of the person that Cinder seems to be talking to over the phone in "Beginning of the End"

-Leading off of the previous theory, Cinder's plot during the tournament is Cinder acting independently of Raven. Because of this and the fact that the plan put Yang in an unfavorable position, Raven will side against Cinder.

-One of the theories that I'm less confident in, but makes sense: Raven has found a way to manipulate Grimm, and that's where Cinder got the weird parasite glove thing to use on Amber.

-Based on the new "Coming up Next: Chapter 8" and Qrow's reaction to Yang saying that she saw her mother, I think that Qrow shares Yang's mission of finding Raven, but Qrow's reason is to find out why his sister would turn to such heinous crimes.

-Summer Rose is not dead because, as her name is SUMMER, she's a likely candidate for the Summer Maiden. Based on the method of transferring the powers of the maidens, it makes sense from a plot and writer's point of view that Summer's last thoughts would be of Ruby (possibly Yang, but more likely Ruby) and she hasn't developed any awesome powers and Ozpin hasn't approached her about the Maidens at all.

-Neo will break Torchwick out of Ironwood's ship because she seems to be more loyal to Roman than she is to Cinder and she is the most stealthy of the group. And she may pick a fight with Ironwood so that we see his weapon.

-(This is a more popular theory, but I'll list it anyway because I have altered it a bit) Pyrrha will fight Penny in the tournament and Cinder will use her input from Ironwood's Scroll to manipulate Penny into forcing Pyrrha to use her semblance to severely injure Penny, but Neo will make an illusion (not a hallucination from Emerald) that will cover the robotic-ness and make the injury appear to be grave and human. This will bring intense scrutiny on Ozpin and might screw things up for the other Beacon competitors.

-(another somewhat popular theory, but I'll include it) The Pyrrha v Penny fight and incident would also cause a lot of negative emotions, attracting more Grimm to the area, probably breaking through the defenses also probably triggering an evacuation to the collosseum and trapping the population in the colosseum. Cinders plan will then involve crashing the floating stadium. This is supported by the intro song "When it Falls"

Well, that was long-winded, but I may have still forgotten things which I'll add later. 