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==== 3. Knowledge about an event ≠ causation or loss of free will ====

Even if you grant the critics’ strongest version:

: “The Rusted Knight story already existed before Jaune fell, and it’s literally about him.”

That still does not prove:
* that Jaune was forced to make those choices, or
* that the universe is predetermined.

Why?
* Jaune never reads the story before living it.
* No one uses the story to manipulate his decisions.
* The story doesn’t reach back in time to cause anything; it’s just information.

Prophecies / foreknowledge are logically compatible with free will unless:
* the characters are aware of them and
* the universe actively prevents deviation.

RWBY never shows “attempt to change the story → reality snaps back.”
Nothing indicates the cosmos enforcing the book.

So at worst, you have retroactive narrative symmetry, not “everything is scripted.”