Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-9962367-20130726233702/@comment-10403005-20130727193943

I don't think people quite get what's going on with Ruby.

"Meeting new weapons is like meeting new people...but better."

"Why do I need to make friends when I have you?"

Ruby is pretty anti-social. Not quite pathological, but there's something going on there. She's _friendly_, but she doesn't really connect well. Yang deals with this with a combination of support (as seen in the first episode) and "Sink or Swim" as seen in episode 2. She deliberately vanished when Ruby said she didn't need friends when she could use Yang as a crutch in order to force Ruby to socialize.

Jaune, fortunately, is good-natured enough and has his own self-doubts; thus can understand her stunted attempts at conversation.