Hey everyone, want to hear my crackhead theories? Because I’ve mentioned this one before tons of times but now with more evidence I’m making a mid-volume 7 full update.

Visual Similarities

The blond-hair-blue-eyes thing is mostly an observation that kind of ties together everything if this theory is true, but is essentially for me the least important aspect. families tend to match eachother in aesthetic, though, so there’s a point to be made about that at least.

Everyone’s said it before, but Salem’s symbol is essentially the Arc symbol flipped with a diamond slapped on top. In a similar vein, we know Salem’s father was overprotective and kept Salem locked away, and although we don’t have too much to go on about how Jaune was raised we can assume not knowing jack shit about aura was a symptom of having been sheltered as a child.

In Jaune’s original concept art, they had a version of him that had red eyes that was scrapped. Funnily enough, the other concept had his eyes yellow. Jaune got extremely close to his final design not having blue eyes.





Jaune’s aura/semblance has striking similarity to the visual cueswhen Salem becomes immortal

Jaune’s Aura & Abilities

Jaune’s aura has been mentioned pretty much the most out of all the kids. He’s referenced several times to have a very high or possibly unnatural amount of aura, and in recent episodes, has used his semblance to regenerate it quicker than most can. Now, we’ve never seen a semblance that can heal others, and it makes sense that the amount of aura Jaune has was influenced by something, most likely being related to Salem and the remnants (ha) of her immortality

Also, if we’re loose about the interpretation of how Jaune is bringing back his own aura in Volume 7, feasibly he could learn to do it at such a rapid rate that would make him incredibly hard to kill unless you caught him completely off guard.

Jaune and Possible Grimm/Magic Influences

Someone picked up that back in Volume 5, Jaune reacts to the silver eyes. On further analysis of times when the SEWs use their powers, no one is really affected by the brightness of the power, as Emerald can knock out Ruby almost instantly after she’s used it and before Ruby’s even fully retracted the power. This is especially a thing in Haven, where only two people have an instant reaction to the Silver Eyes: Cinder, most obviously, but also Jaune. In fact, he shields his eyes (since he’s more facing Ruby) and stops charging Cinder before Cinder even seems affected by the Silver Eyes. We see him noticeably wince before facing an agonised Cinder On a rewatch of Ruby’s repeated use of silver eyes during Brunswick, there’s definitely a pattern that suggests Blake, Weiss and Yang don’t react to the brightness of the SE and aren’t affected. Blake, when Ruby goes SEW, has a delayed reaction in getting up; it looks like she’s reacting the Apathy weakening, not the SEs. So why would Jaune be the only one to seem physically affected? If we take the other two in account and remember that Grimm sense negative emotions and seem to be drawn in when bad things are happening, could that be the reason Jaune is so adamant that Ruby didn’t dial him on purpose back in Volume 2 and his “bad gut feeling” was him reacting to the Grimm outbreak before the sirens even went off?

Personality Similarities

Jaune’s story grieving Pyrrha and Salem’s story grieving Ozma parallel each other immensely. They have an awful reaction to their deaths, become aggressive and bitter against those they perceive as the culprits, and their SOs were the first/only ones to ever believe or try for them.

They also share similar personality traits; incredibly stubborn, not above lying or manipulating to achieve goals (Salem lying to the GoD, Jaune’s transcripts), and are very emotional people.

In a way that Ozpin and Salem are foils for each other, it would make sense that Jaune and Ruby would also be foils. Since it’s heavily implied that silver eyed warriors are descendents of Ozpin’s many incarnations, Jaune being a descendent of Salem’s would work in juxtaposing the two further. It also heavily fits the themes of improving on the older generation if Jaune, despite finding out who he’s related to, stays on the side of good and refuses to repeat Salem’s mistakes.

This will be added to as we get more information or somebody contributes (this will go with obvious credit). we’re going crackhead boys.