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The one thing that is for sure, Shane's story has some holes in it. The most glaring one to me is that supposedly, Monty wanted Jaune to accidentaly cause Pyrrha's death at the hands of Cinder, and then the RT team changed that after Monty died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdUMisVDijM

At 30:51 in that video, Kerry and Miles discuss the fact that in Vol. 1, the reason Cardin stashes Jaune in a locker and launches him is to establish that someone could survive being launched in one of those lockers specifically so that Pyrrha could do that at the end of Vol. 3. They had Pyrrha and Jaune's final scene together planned out before Vol. 1 was half over. I have no idea where Shane got the idea that Jaune was supposed to be there to watch/cause Pyrrha's death, but if that was ever the plan, it hadn't been that way for most of the life of the show. Shane claims that he had the best idea of what Monty wanted for RWBY, but if he was sticking to ideas that had been discarded years ago, I have to wonder about the accuracy of his understanding of Monty's vision for the show.