User blog comment:Warmachine375/Will there be character deaths in RWBY?/@comment-26018514-20150524171323/@comment-26018514-20150526071350

Diego,
 * first off: it doesn't have to be Cinder, she just has the best chance because she already trumps Pyrrha's semblance. All of those they are affiliated with know the strategy, and Mercury didn't say Cinder was the only one with an advantage.


 * second: Ruby already doesn't recognize Cinder, in the tournament is possible, so long as they have no evidence, even if they recognize the style, attempting to call her out could spark an international incident, and a kill could always be spun as a training accident... Obsidian blades are easily sharp enough to "accidently" cut a vital artery if she should run low on aura.


 * third: no-one else has a ready replacement that fits CNR, I already said RWBY's members dying would be extremely unlikely, JNPR, as they were written post main storyline, are the first tier of possible expendables. On JNPR; Jaune is automatically out of the running quite simply because he is comparatively incompetent, he is also the "everyman" for the story, which gives him significant plot armor, Nora is reckless and Ren is often defeated/rendered unconscious, which gives them plot armor. Pyrrha is set for a fall, a known target of the antagonists, and ultimately expendable in such a way as to increase tension and character development for all the other characters, she also is named "victory at cost"... which is precisely the kind of thing I am describing... none of the other MC's have the culmination of these indicators.

Jaune killers are either stupid, or justifiably angry at the way he is written like a shonen character thusfar, however unlike myself they fail to take into account his roll as teaching us "stupid" facts...(otherwise known as the really base info on remnant we should know but don't... that other characters should know and thus otherwise wouldn't share organically).

Unless they completely troll us and kill most of JNPR off Ren and Nora are unlikely to die because of their interdependence, neither character really matters without the other, though it would give the other some brief development, it would just leave them kind of a depressing character, while requiring RT to replace the other with a brand-new character.

As I have said before, I love Pyrrha's character, but of the 8 MC's she is both most likely to die and the best choice to kill at some point in the future, most likely the end of Season 3 or later.