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<Snipped quote by Plank Sinatra>The entire point was to leave us with questions. This isn't supposed to be resolved. It may not look like a cohesive story but from a human stand point all of it makes sense. A lot of the questions you have we're not supposed to know. This is a continuing story not something to be wrapped up each volume and start anew in the next one. It's supposed to be a very big and very long journey not a bunch of small story arcs.
Raven said she wouldn't come for Yang again.
The last time we saw Ironwood he was looking injured and intent on finding his Grimm infested ship, we can likely assume he's missing and even if he's not let's say you're Ironwood. You have a giant army that from all outward appearances attacks the school of someone you've had major disagreements with for a good long while is anyone going to believe that your entire army was hijacked by four random people no one has ever heard of? No, it's going to sound like an excuse or a cover up and a pretty lame one at that, made worse by the fact that he can't talk at all about the Maiden's Power.
Think of it from Blake's point of view. To her this is entirely her fault. Maybe not true in the strictest sense but in her mind the fact that Adam and the White Fang were involved with the plan was a direct result of her leaving Adam. To her maybe if she'd stayed with the White Fang she might have been about to extradite them from Cinder's schemes or keep Adam on a less murderous path. Can you image sticking around your friends and loved ones knowing in your heart that all the suffering they're going through is your fault and believing that every time they look at you they think as badly of you as you do of yourself. Blake would believe that leaving them would be the best way to keep them safe from her and from Adam as his threat to "Destroy everything she loves" still stands.
The exact point of building up the Maiden's Power as world breaking was to introduced the Silver Eyed Warriors. It was an emphasis on the kind of power that RWBY truly possesses if she can freeze an Alpha Grimm and banish one of the four Maidens. The fact was that while Penny's death may have been a devastating shock for Ruby at the time of Penny's death things weren't that bad. Penny was dead sure and Grimm were descending on the school but their was still hope of winning. At the time when Ruby saw Pyrrha die that hope was gone and what's more their was a single target that Ruby could focus on as the cause of all of the death and destruction that had happened: Cinder. It wasn't just about Pyrrha's death but about Yang's lost arm, Blake and everyone else's injuries, the destruction of the school, the Grimm terrorizing the place. All that grief caught in one place, the lynchpin for Ruby's breaking point was seeing the strongest Huntress of their year and a good friend mercilessly gunned down.
Cinder's plan was obviously a major success. Think about it, she turned Atlas' army on Vale, brought the White Fang to Beacon, and set Grimm on the place. From an outside standpoint it would appear that Atlas was working with the White Fang to destroy Beacon and Vale. The result of that on the people's of the kingdom would be massive distrust for one another and extreme disunity. Now if any one Kingdom is attacked by Cinder or someone else the other Kingdom's will be hesitant to come to their aid fearing a trap. Essentially it disunified the four kindoms and planted the seeds from them to turn on each other. That was what the ending monologue was explaining.
Some of the question you are have valid (if a bit naive) which is the point. This isn't meant to be wrapped up in a nice neat bow. It's meant to make you come back for more. If everything got resolved nice and clean with some obvious path for the heroes to follow next it wouldn't be much of a story and it wouldn't be much like real life where nothing is ever clean.
The only real question we should be asking ourselves is, who the fuck is this:
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He basically is. This must be taken in the context of the fact that he's Blake's ex-boyfriend and someone she trusted very very much. The creepy part is the fact that their relationship devolved to the point where he wants to see her suffer. Imagine someone you trust a lot. A friend from high school that you've known for years, now imagine that they're saying this stuff. The creepy part isn't in what he's saying, what he's saying is fairly generic bad guy talk. The creepy part comes in his connection to Blake.
I guess I see what you mean.
