ruby is having dreams of pyrrah’s death and has an askew glance when the schnee dust company is mentioned. I would not write her off as 100% unflappable.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." TwitterWhy's she havin' those dreams...? They don't have a connection.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.survivor’s guilt would be my guess if there isn’t anything supernatural going on. Ruby is a super empathetic character who is all about her friends.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." TwitterIndeed, it was this last that led to her death, as she insisted on attacking an enemy that vastly outclassed her because she was utterly and completely determined not to let everyone else down. The fact that she died anyway is a profound subversion of Japanese Spirit, where her singular pursual of a noble goal and uncompromising stubbornness in pursuing it would have been rewarded with victory.
Hell, in season four, she's not even travelling around the world to Put the Band Back Together and reunite with her True Companions after the single most traumatic thing they went through together. Yang lost an arm and is suffering through a low-grade Heroic BSoD. Weiss is back in Atlas despite her wishes. Blake is missing and, as far as Ruby knows, dead. All of them could use her help, and "helping my friends" is the one thing Ruby has expressed a positive interest in. So what does she do? Instead of setting out to help her friends through their respective Darkest Hours, she... hooks up with her backup set of friends and goes off to do something else.
There's nothing in the story (short of the silver eyes thing, a trait that could have easily been given to any other character) that makes it about Ruby. So why the hell is she the main character?
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Emotional issues aside, neither Weiss or Yang are in physical danger. Seeing as Blake left on her own, I understand Ruby not feeling she is either.
Right now Ruby is basically continuing what they all started because none of the others are willing/able to, with the added incentive of wanting to find out more about her powers, and likely avenging Pyrrha and Penny.
edited 4th Nov '16 3:56:26 PM by LSBK
Then who should be the main character?
I sort of brought the term "anchor character" in a previous post, and in terms to describe it, the anchor character is the character who really puts us into the world. They are the character where things will return to. Even when focus shifts to other characters in the cast, that character is still there for the main story to resume. The story won't be just about a web of characters with really little connecting each other together, there is at least a center to things.
Only sometimes postsRuby also wouldn't exactly know where Blake is currently and the last time Blake ran they found by going where they heard fighting. At best following the next lead would be the only option. Yang wasn't exactly keen on going anywhere in her condition or Ruby would have asked for her help. Weiss is probably going to get involved depending on how the dust embrago goes in the future.
"Shall I use you, or make you mine... I'm not so sure what I'll do." - DorthyI haven't got any problems with Ruby playing Captain Carrot.
Mind, Cap. C isn't ever the main character, Vimes is.
There's also the fact that she is the youngest member of the main cast.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.She's childish...at 15, understandable.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Maybe not physical, but they are still her friends and they're suffering. And she's not there for any of them. Not even her sister. She's just like, "Huh, my team broke up. Sucks. Back to heroing!"
She spent five seconds trying to reach Yang and then gave up and went to Mistral. Like, the f*ck? Does she just not care about any of these people she spent the last three seasons forging relationships with? Ruby says she wants to help people and right now her sister desperately needs help but she's decided to abandon her and go have more wicked sweet battles with monsters.
Like I was saying before, helping people takes a lot of forms. By leaving Yang behind, promptly forgetting Blake and Weiss exist, and dashing off to Mistral, Ruby has firmly established that she's not helping people. She just wants to slay monsters in awesome fight scenes. The moment the people she actually cares about need her help for something that isn't monster slaying, she dumps them on the curb and finds new partners to slay monsters with.
That is atrocious behavior for a protagonist. It would make a great flaw if properly explored, mind you. But I don't think RT are actually considering the Unfortunate Implications of Ruby's choices or even why she would have made that choice. They just want her to go to Mistral so she can have adventures. Which is how her role is overtaking her character. Her character wants to help people, but her role is to fight Cinder, so she's leaving the people she loves in pain to go do that.
Avenging Pyrrha and Penny would be a motivation if she ever exhibited it. Right now, the most she has are trauma flashbacks in her dreams, whereupon she wakes up and goes, "Huh, that was weird," and doesn't spare it a second thought.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I don't think we were supposed to assume Ruby left like the next day after that. But Yang isn't any state, physically or emotionally to go do what Ruby and the others feel that they need to do.
If she had left alone that would be one thing, but Yang is at home with their father. She's in good hands at a safe location.
And you're talking about helping Weiss and Blake in ways she just can't. Weiss wasn't kidnapped, she was taken back home by her father. And there is absolutely no way for her to find Blake. There really isn't anything that she can do on either of those fronts right now, and seems weird to hold it against her that instead of trying to do the impossible, she's trying to move forward with something productive. Again, if they were in actual danger it would be one thing, but they aren't.
But this does make me wonder even more how Son gets to Blake.
edited 4th Nov '16 4:39:46 PM by LSBK
the seasons were shown changing before ruby left Yang
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Twitter@Tobias: That kind of insensitive behavior and a number of other things are one of the reasons I like(d) the interpretation of Ruby as a high functioning autistic; it provides a more interesting context for some of her behaviors than Moral Dissonance or bad writing.
Unless the writers are of a much higher caliber in terms of subtly than we're accustomed to, that's unlikely to be intentional, at least consciously.
edited 4th Nov '16 5:30:32 PM by CaptainCapsase
Good thing Yang got her arm chopped off, otherwise she'd be included in this conversation.
The sisters got the least development in the first three volumes, up until the end for Yang. Weiss and Blake needed it more since I doubt anyone would care about "Rich Brat" and "Emo Bookworm" if they stayed that way when they all separated.
Even before she lost her arm, Yang had a significant want - "I want to find my mom" - and a defining identity flaw: she's an adrenaline junkie. Although we didn't know the story behind her want yet, both of these things were apparent as early as the Yellow trailer.
edited 4th Nov '16 6:06:56 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I would say the characters who most resemble Ruby in terms of development are actually Ren and Nora. They're pretty one-note. But they're secondary characters whose main purpose is comedy, so it's less noticeable.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Well Yang might have to rethink her motives now; she wanted adventure and a life of thrill...and it costed her piece of mind and her arm.
But yea, I do kinda see where Tobias is coming from; RWBY never really felt like Ruby Rose's story but the story of the students of Beacon in general, just seen through Ruby's eyes. It became pretty apparent through the series that Ruby herself had decidedly little focus on her as a character, to the point where I felt like it was more of an Ensemble series.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.I mean, I thought it was supposed to be an Ensemble Cast, with just slightly more attention to Ruby than the other three (and Jaune, I guess).
edited 4th Nov '16 6:25:14 PM by LSBK

Nothing wrong with challenging it. The end of Vol. 3 was such a challenge and she passed it well enough.
At the end of the day, Ruby wants to be a hero, but is also likely motivated by some major comeuppance to find the ones responsible for Penny and Pyrrha's deaths as well as the Fall of Beacon and bring 'em to justice. She's not just aimlessly wandering around like a knight-errant.