Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-37673888-20190108184438/@comment-38621229-20190316111920

I certainly assumed that you were addressing me. I am a recent RWBY fan, having just watched the whole series over the past month or so, and I hoped that this forum would be a place to engage, respectfully, with other fans and have discussions. Anyway, enough about that. Further to my earlier point: the story of Achilles is interesting in this respect because he does appear, in legend, after his death. Famously, Odysseus encounters Achilles in the Underworld in the Odyssey. Since the "hero's journey" classically involves a journey to the Underworld, it is possible to imagine something comparable happening in RWBY, though I've no lidea how that would work or which hero (given that RWBY has many) that would involve. Moreover, in RWBY, the land of the God of Darkness may well be seen as the equivalent of the Underworld. I have no doubt that team RWBY and their allies will eventually encounter Salem in her own domain, so that could cover that aspect of the hero's journey, without going into the actual "underworld". Another story that revolves around Achilles is that his remains are on the island of Leucos and that visitors to the island sometimes encounter him in dreams. That may harken back to Ruby's dream in Volume 4. As I said in my post, I don't think those dreams have ever been explained. It is easy to forget that Vol. 4 was not that long ago, in RWBY time, and the story elements that appeared there may still be coming to fruition. Personally, I would be fine with Pyrrha's story effectively ending with the scene from Vol 6 episode 9 - there, if Pyrrha was influencing events, she gave Jaune and her friends the help they needed at a critical moment. It's a good way to bring her story to a close. But Ruby's dreams still bother me and we do know, from Jinn's story, that there is an afterlife in the RWBY universe.