Felt Like Ironwood Trained Watts At Some Point In Time.

Felt like Ironwood trained Watts at some point in time.

Watts uses his pistol the same way James does in melee.

Watts could time James's movements to lure him into traps.

Watts knew James would be counting his shots. Counting bullets may be something James taught Watts.

Which begs the question; Does James teach everyone in Atlas who uses pistols? Specifically revolvers?

Roman Torchwick's Semblance

I believe Roman has a semblance, an undiscovered one, but a semblance nevertheless.

That semblance involves technology. Namely, Roman has the ability to innately understand and use advanced technology without prior training or knowledge.

But because it's undiscovered, Roman's semblance is unpredictable and circumstantial.

Therefore, the more advanced the piece of technology, the faster Roman can master it. But less complex pieces of technology escape his understanding.

Firstly, Roman manages to pilot a Paladin, without any prior experience with the machine.

Roman also manages to fight very well against Sun Wukong and Ruby Rose. Both of them use very advanced and complex weapons.

He loses to Blake, however, who uses a simple sword.

This is why Roman could operate Ironwood's ship and jettison the Knights during the Fall of Beacon. Roman had an instinctive grasp of how Ironwood's tech worked, and this is due to his semblance.

But because this Semblance is untrained, it only works on very advanced technology, which is why Roman's fight record against the Huntsmen is hit and miss.

Therefore, it is possible that Roman may have a tech-based semblance that wasn't developed.

The death of Apollonia was a good thing.

This point is better established in the novel instead of the movie.

In the novel, it is made more explicit that the idea of the Mafia was a system that would cause more harm than good and that Michael, during his sojourn in Sicily, was aware of the negative impact of the Mafia lifestyle.

However, Michael meeting Apollonia kept Michael within the status quo of the Mafia system despite him knowing the dangers of that life. Apollonia's family had connections with the Mafia, and Michael's courtship of her was done within the context of the Sicilian traditions which are strongly connected to the concept of Mafia.

More importantly, Apollonia clouded Michael's reasoning and logic. His possessive desire of Apollonia replaced the logical reasoning that was Michael's strongest trait and made him comfortable in the lifestyle that he knew was harmful in the long run.

Thus, Apollonia's death broke Michael from the fantasy and galvanized him to take over the family Corleone. So he could make the family legitimate and break away from the Mafia lifestyle that would doom him in the future.

This was a good thing in the Novel as the story ended on a triumphant note. Michael succeeded in going legitimate, his family was secure, and he took revenge on all fronts for all debts incurred. All this was because Apollonia dying broke the dream of the Mafia life. The movies ended more ambiguously and made the story about Michael's fall from grace as it ended with Michael becoming Don, but not with Michael going legitimate. In that context, Apollonia became the straw that broke Michael.

Instead of the hammer that broke Michael from his chains, and freed him to take the right actions and to break away from the Mafia once and for all.

Adam's views on Derek Chauvin

I don't think you, or most Humans who have already decided to hate on Chauvin, do get it. Chauvin was innocent. He did his job, and it went wrong. Like all jobs do.

George Floyd was a criminal, he brought it on himself, now everyone wants to find a way to justify the fact that they were carried away on a wave of emotion, and rioted for NOTHING.

Kneeling on the neck won't kill a reasonable Human. I should know. I have killed enough Humans to know how resilient they are. Kinda like cockroaches. Derek Chauvin had not intended to kneel on George throughout the arrest. Derek Chauvin is innocent and EVERYONE jumped on the bandwagon of police brutality before the evidence came out.

Even then, Derek is still on the railroad to hell because the jury is rigged against him.

This was a watershed moment. I have heard Humans say; ' Oh if I were in Atlas I wouldn't side with Ironwood, no siree!" Well, the George Floyd incident shows that Humans WOULD. Humans would jump on Ironwood's Iron Carousel and ride it all the way to the ground where the island of Atlas currently rests. Drowned and buried beneath a sea of regrets and bad decisions.

That's what they did when George Floyd died.

Ironwood's Army was the right choice

In RWBY, Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. So it stands to reason that Grimm are either repelled or uninterested in positive emotions like contentment and security.

Which is why huge cities could thrive alongside Grimm. The concentrated feeling of safety and security that comes from being protected in a city like Vale overpowers the concentrated negative emotion that one would expect where large numbers of people gather.

This is why the pageantry of the Huntsmen is so important. It gives people confidence, and generates more positive emption to deter Grimm.

Therefore, Ironwood coming to Vale with his fleet is the best solution at that point in time because: Ironwood is playing to his strengths to help Ozpin.

The presence of the fleet would inspire confidence in people during the Vytal Festival.

Vale's government would be confident that Atlas is showing their support in Vale's favor. Which would further boost the feeling of security to counter any potential negative emotion due to uncertainty or mistrust.

Additionally, Ironwood made the right decision to put his forces in control after the breach because:

People are panicking.

The ability of the Huntsmen to safeguard Vale's citizens is put into doubt.

Ironwood's fleet was essential in restoring order to the city, hence the citizens would have more confidence in Ironwood's fleet.

Therefore, Ironwood made all the right moves during V3.