Blake, weiss, and ruby are all on par with each other. Plus Blake and Weiss are literally on opposite sides of each other not the same side or relatively close to even think that. Ruby saving weiss makes more sense because she has the semblance to do so? Blake looking at ruby remembering her upgraded semblance and her dealing with neo in the meantime makes more sense if Weiss’ needs saving.
Narratively the team choosing to go find yang together before jumping, with Blake on one side and Weiss on the other side of ruby is actually very powerful, since yang always finds them & no one chooses to go find her willingly. Could deal with yang’s insecurities not only with her relationship with Blake but seeing ruby and Weiss choosing to jump to find her would mean a lot to yang. is a better choice then them falling one by one for no reason. It’d be nice if the team to choose to go after yang together after finding out she might not be dead. it’d be kind of shitty of Blake to ditch ruby when she’s actually in more danger then weiss? It’s not like cinder is going after her, her semblance didn’t break, & Weiss can create a few glyphs and join them.
These are pretty similar asks and I'm presuming they were sent by the same person. If not, I'm still gonna answer all in one!
I'm gonna be honest, I had only taken the depth of the fall into consideration and not the lineup as well. The episode made it look like Blake was torn about who to assist, and you're right I've now changed my mind about who she's going to help. I think it's going to be Ruby, because Blake is out for Neo's blood.
However, I honestly dont think any of them are going to willingly jump off after Yang. I believe they are going to fall - RWBY have come out on top consistantly since Beacon. While they, themselves are feeling torn and beaten, as the viewer they look like they're coming out on top time and time again. They win almost every fight, everytime and have done since v4.
With Cinder's power taking on a strong resemblance to Fria's 'fully realised maidan' power, and her taking Watts' advice to heart it would make sense for her to take the win. Neo is unbeaten by the protags - only Maria has been shown to be capable of winning a fight against her.
And on top of that, RWB believe Yang is dead. We, the viewers, know that Yang has plot-armour therefore shes alive. But RWB don't know that. And we know they think she's dead because we've seen Blake collapse in that exact same way before - when she and Yang stabbed Adam, his aura broke, and he fell to his death. Her reaction to Yang falling parallels her reaction to Adam dying, and that's not coincidental.
If she jumps, it's not because she's going searching for Yang. It's because she's trying to join her - which is what made Weiss hauling her back to safety so tragic.
I do agree that having the team looking for Yang and proving how much they care would be powerful and meaningful. Yang deserves to know how much she really means to the team. But for me, personally, I dont think them jumping into an abyss they believe to lead to certain death makes much sense. (Unless they somehow find out that it doesn't lead to certain death, but, again personally, I don't think theres enough time in a 20 minute episode for that as well as everything else CRWBY need to fit in).
As for the order they fall in, I really think Ruby will be the last to fall as she's the last to hit the abyss in the intro.
Blake and Weiss are on par with each other here - which is why I initially thought Blake would try to help Weiss - while Ruby is lower down.
With Blake's current emotional state, I wont be surprised if she also sacrifices herself for Ruby - their chat earlier in the season, as well as the way their landings are entwined here.
Which makes me wonder if Weiss falls because she's distracted by the loss of Blake as well.
It's interesting though, how far away Weiss is, the other three are pretty close together. As you pointed out though, Weiss is pretty far away from Blake and Ruby at the moment.
I love hearing/reading all the theories, because so far this season the only thing we all accurately predicted was Yang being the first to fall. Every other prediction was, either proven to be right but occured in ways we never expected, or nowhere near accurate. So no matter what I say here, I know that I honestly cannot predict what CRWBY will actually do next and it's so exciting!
Again, this is all just my opinion, and with how wild this past season has been, I'm very likely to change my mind, aha! Thank you for the ask(s)!
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