It was interesting, to me at least, seeing Weiss’ reaction and how she doesn’t immediately revert back to the last time they all saw each other. And also, give fans of the two of them some more screen time. So we thought, hey, let’s give them some time together not that we didn’t feel they didn’t bond enough, but show the audience some more of that. One of the reasons we’ve decided to take Weiss’ early Volume 5 plot in that direction is that we thought about how her and Yang had the least interaction of all the characters together. And you have to operate under this assumption that the characters are talking off-screen, but it’s also very important for the audience to see it. It’s one of those things where, like any show, you only have so much screen time. Speaking of Weiss and Yang, it was great to see them interact more than we’ve seen them in previous seasons. “This thing needs to happen by this episode” and “how do we do it that’s not ‘Yang drove there on her motorcycle and that’s it?’” It’s been fun little challenges and fun ways to try new and different things. This whole thing has been a balancing act. Weiss showed her growth as a character and a fighter in RWBY Volume 5 Photo: Rooster Teeth It was also very important to us that we balanced the sense of “no, she could have gotten herself out of that situation on her own.” She’s also learned a lot from the first three Volumes where she’s learned to depend on people when she is around them and you see that when she sees Yang, she immediately jumps in to fight with her. We had an inkling of that idea earlier, but it was one of the last ideas we had. Weiss probably had the biggest change in writing development from early Volume 5 to late Volume 5 in getting captured. So we found interesting ways to get everyone together and get there in their own way and time. We didn’t want everything to be “here’s how everyone gets to Haven,” that didn't sound interesting to us. Thinking about it in Volume 4 about how it was going to go, we left that pretty open so we can mess around with it and find this cool thing with Weiss and Yang where Weiss gets mixed up with Yang’s mom. But we left how Ruby, Yang and Weiss get back together pretty wide open. We knew they would all get back together this year, we knew that Blake would be the last one because she was going to come in and help save the day. I do believe it happened naturally, we went through different iterations. It was definitely the goal going into it. In Volume 4 the team was separated and now they are together, was it a natural transition to bring them together? It was definitely a big marker for us this year.