They have more of a chance to do that now...
Without those 2 dead characters getting in the way...
edited 21st May '17 7:19:00 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Ah, so it's not just me...
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!That be great if Ruby actually inspired people to do anything. To borrow that metaphor, Ruby's a lighthouse that's burning brightly on a clear, sunny day.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I wish her stuff like that was proactive instead of passive stuff that others inform she just happened to do for them. It goes back to her passivity issues.
Improving as an author, one video at a time.It's also probably why I don't remember her doing anything of the sort.
For being our protagonist who's going to save the day because victory is in a simple soul, Ruby just kind of exists.
RWBY is a conundrum for me. The only good things I can say about it are that the fights are, for the most part, pretty damn good and the music's great. Despite having nothing but complaints about the series beyond those two things (well, that and being genuinely funny in a few places), I still consider myself a fan of the series and keep coming back to it.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!It rarely doesn't anything annoying. At least not too annoying. I just can't help but continually think how amazing this series would have been if the writers were better.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I fourth the notion that Chibi is better than the main series.
As for shipping: Bumblebee.
Or even an OT3 of Sun/Blake/Yang.
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Oh, so normal things then.
For my part, I find the plot and characters interesting enough, even if the actual plotting and story-telling is often leaves something to be desired. Plus, I think it's getting better at that (hotly contested viewpoint, I know) so that helps.
edited 21st May '17 9:22:50 PM by LSBK
I second that they're getting better, even if they don't often strike me as good at it. I do get that feeling of having plenty of complaints yet still caring. For me, I'm invested enough in some of the characters and there's plenty of ideas I think are cool.
It's plotting just strikes me as anime fans who are copying the shallow surface of things. It's sufficient enough that I feel it's watchable plus invested enough in some, especially Weiss for me (ironic that I say my favorite character had the worst plotline in 4) yet incompetent enough in ways I've elaborated on in the past that it bugs me that it isn't living up to its full potential.
Still, for all my complaints, I'll still watch it and give it credit where credit is due.
Oh and for shipping stuff, I admittedly hate most shipping because I feel people obsess over romance and sexual stuff too much. I feel at times that just being nice to someone is enough for people to assume romantic intent, which ticks me off because 1) I wonder how much is it people projecting their desires on it to force the interpretation, 2) I love genuine romance when a story can sell me on it and so I don't like everything being equated to that level, and 3) I do like a point being made for platonic love as well, which I feel isn't enough.
That all said, I like Ren and Nora. I'm not passionate about it or anything, but I'm not indifferent towards it either.
Improving as an author, one video at a time.Yeah, RWBY is improving...but slowly and the still fall into some anime thing they dont really need(like japanese humor with Blake and Sun antic which feel like typical romantic comedy).
And with shipping....the only one I can see is bumblebee since there is hints all over the place and so far Sun seen better when he isnt Blake romantic lover, Maybe Lancaster since Ruby and Jaunce have nice interaction so far.
Also, maybe is just me but I kinda think Ironwood and Glinda have something in the past, they way they tak each other...
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"We got Ruby's motivation in one of the first episodes of Volume 1. When she was little, her family used to read her all kinds of fairy tales where everyone lived happily ever after. Because of those stories, she wants to make the world into one where anyone can have their happily ever after, to make the world a safer and better place. Oobleck didn't ask her about her motivations because not only does the audience already know them, she's not lying to anyone about them. Ruby is very much a "What you see is what you get" person and that's fine. She doesn't need to be terribly deep and complex because that would defeat the "victory is in a simple soul" thing. I just want her to do more.
Ruby is essentially a Big Good in the making. I feel like she's supposed to end up being the moral compass for Remnant like how Captain America and, to a lesser extent, Spider-Man are for Marvel. She doesn't need a reason for wanting to save people because saving people is the right thing to do.
It helps that I've encountered a character somewhat similar to Ruby before and have seen that stance attacked from all kinds of angles both within the work and without.
edited 22nd May '17 7:15:05 AM by Zelenal
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!Well, yes, I mentioned the generic "I want to help people" motivation — but every character has that, or else they wouldn't be interested in becoming huntresses in the first place. What Ruby lacks is a personal goal, something that relates to her specifically.
It doesn't need to be anything complex or convoluted, but she needs to have something, or else she comes off as a one-dimensional flat character. Especially since the handful of characteristics that initially helped her be distinct (socially awkward, geeked out over cool weaponry) have largely been dropped.
The obvious motivation would be to figure out the deal with the silver-eyed shenanigans. She has it, her mother had it, and it's clearly going to be important in the grand scheme of things, so it makes sense for her to be focused on that. But they haven't even gone that far; it didn't really come up much if at all in season four.
edited 22nd May '17 7:20:58 AM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Not really. Saving people is, at best, a secondary goal for WBY. That's why Oobleck poked them about their motivations since you need to be 100% honest with yourself as to why you want to be a Hunter given the nature of the job. With Ruby, its her primary motivation and everything else is secondary. To a degree, at any rate. I don't think she's as messed up as Emiya Shirou is and that's a good thing.
While I do agree that the Silver Eyes thing should have had more of a role in Volume 4, I think it should have been for different reasons. You seem to want it so Ruby has a personal motivation but I want it because Ruby should be linking it back to her main goal of saving people. If she can properly and reliably use her Silver Eyes, she can kill Grimm easier and thus save more people. It's almost as if she's not taking her primary objective very seriously.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!This is where I put a weird analogue about Neapolitan ice cream but it would probably derail into jokes about Neo. Or comparison about other main characters which most of you wouldn't be familiar with.
My stand is that I am fine with Vanilla Protagonists.
Only sometimes postsI don't mind that Ruby is vanilla in that light. What bothers me is her struggle with it is portrayed rather weakly (they added something, but I've felt something missing) and the effects of it just happen instead of her striving for it.
Improving as an author, one video at a time.I actually think Ruby's desire to protect the world from Grimm doesn't go far enough. I'd be interested in seeing her go Above Good and Evil regarding who to save from Grimm at the moment, even antagonists.
Rwby needs to take some initiative...
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I wouldn't go with Grimm exclusive since she knows there's problem people beyond The Grimm. Though this, for me, goes back to volume 3 and my suggested fix. Evolve Ruby so her increased ruthlessness in Volume 4, see the whole tail cutting thing, was developed into. Make her someone who has her beliefs tested and forced to do something like accidentally kill Roman, deal with having done that to another human, and grow beyond that into a Good Is Not Soft iteration and attitude towards enemies.
Don't go the hardcore Knight Templar route as that's obvious and typical "Make it darker" stuff. And it doesn't violate what they're actually going for.
Improving as an author, one video at a time.

Vaguely shipping related I guess, I was surprised that they didn't spend more time on Ruby and Jaune's friendship.
edited 21st May '17 7:20:08 PM by LSBK