Something that’s bugged me for a while: People generally refer to the trap being set in Worst Case Scenario as Ironwood’s attempt to arrest Robyn.
The only problem with this is….Ironwood isn’t trying to have Robyn arrested.
We don’t see an order for Robyn’s arrest go out like we do for Team RWBY. As a matter of fact, the next time we see Robyn in person is when she shows up in an extremely public location, at a high-profile event in the heart of Atlas, unguarded, in a private meeting of the entire government.
Yes, Ironwood objects to her presence. But it’s a petulant, personal gripe–”What is SHE doing here”–and not the much more obvious objection. If Robyn Hill was a wanted criminal, and Ironwood didn’t like her being there, he would have said so. He doesn’t. More telling–NONE of the other Council members act as if Robyn being here is anything other than perhaps slightly unusual.
No mention of them offering her amnesty, no mention of a temporary ceasefire, no mention of legal protection or of Robyn taking any kind of risk by showing up.
Robyn is not, legally, a criminal. Robyn does not have a public outstanding warrant for her arrest. And this is where Ironwood’s phrasing when he gave that initial order suddenly becomes relevant. “I want Robyn Hill in custody.” That order never left his office.
Robyn, when Ironwood’s personal elite forces attempted to lure her out and detain her was never legally under arrest.
James Ironwood was not trying to arrest Robyn. He was trying to disappear her. He was trying to blackbag her off the street.
And for some reason, when everything goes to hell and Clover tries to argue that as Robyn’s not under arrest she should just sit down and cooperate while their ship takes her to Atlas Academy, she doesn’t find the lack of a legal arrest warrant in her name at all relevant.
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