So we're up to Episode 8, the teams have been set with the obvious team RWBY, and our other four relatively main characters joining together in the biggest cluster of varied competence levels and sanity seen recently as team JNPR. Nora's definitely out there but I like her, her long suffering life partner Rei gets bonus points as a character for getting tossed around about as much Jaune after being established as "that insufferably cool guy" and again, he has Nora to deflate any attempt he makes at being bad ass.
Now some direct episode comments
GO JAUNE! Holy crap, I thought he was eventually going to super saiyan on us and just hand down ungodly levels of smack down but it turns out like the Catholic warrior saint he's named for tactics and strategy might be more of his thing. He's only had reasonable personal and combat exposure to Ms. Nikkos, but he was able to put together a reasonably complex combat strategy and get it implemented in seconds. I mean... well Nora probably just thought her orders were fun and was just going along for the lulz, but the others had to have some inkling that Jaune knew what he was doing, or they wouldn't have listened.
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Time for a fan art deep dive!
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