Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-24147441-20151214184539

Well for starters, I hope that Pyhrra will become the Fall Maiden. And I honestly feel like she would, because its in her nature. But Cinder has her on lock apparently. I see two possibilites.

1.) Pyrrha will become the Fall Maiden, but might be killed by Cinder so she can take her power. (No plz) 2.) Pyrrha will not become the Fall Maiden, and the role will go to someone else, who could possibly be Blake. Or not. Either the Seasonal Maidens will all be girls from each of the other 4 academies, or they will be all the girls of Team RWBY. But who can say for sure?

Also, all that drama at the end of the episode...I am 1000% sure that this is Neo's doing. Not Em's or Merc's. I think that what happened in the fight with Yatsu and Coco was foreshadowing, Because just like with Yang and Merc, Coco saw one thing, but the screen showed another. I think that Neo used her semblance from a distance and projected illusions onto both of these girls minds, as it would probably be much easier for her to manipulate one mind as opposed to hundreds of thousands. But I do think that Neo's semblance is a lot more powerful than some will give her credit for, and that it manifests itself in different ways. In tangible forms (like the mirror Yang shattered in "Painting the Town", or in abstract ways, like making people think they're seeing stuff that's not there.

As a side note, I'd be interested to know just where Cinder found this girl with this set of skills, and what kind of history they have. Neo is defenitely not the kind of person you can have in your team and not trust, what with how strong her mindgame is...

As for Yang she's going to have a heck of a lot of explaining to do, and probably no one is going to believe her (except her teammates). But I guess time will tell and I am excited to see how this is all gonna play out~

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As for Yang being targeted, the only reason I could see for her specifically to be aimed at by Cinder is if she has some kind of connection to a Maiden's power or because of Raven/Crow. Cinder's faction and the Branwen's obviously have some history so maybe by targeting Yang, they are trying to get to one of them? But who can say for sure?!