Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-25936766-20180329023401

Soldwolf wrote: You're makeing the common assumtion that "innocence: = being a "Simple Soul"................. And you're making the assumption that anything I said had anything to do with innocence or purity or any other aspect of her personality. But nope, I wasn't talking about any of that.

I was talking about how the idea that she's this "simple soul" has been invalidated by canon, from at best the moment she turned out to be one of the most special characters in the entire cast, including every single secondary and tertiary character ever shown or mentioned.

There is nothing "simple" about a girl who has an extremely rare trait, that gives her a unique and special power, that is so powerful it can petrify even ancient Grimm, Grimm so tough that it pretty much shrugged off anything else that was thrown at it.

Not to mention, it's super effective against Maidens, depending on how you interpret Salem's words about it in V4E1 (and if not then it's at least effective against Grimm-Maidens). That is the opposite of simple. Ruby is quite the special Soul.

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In fact, if anyone is an "honest, simple soul", it's Yang, within Team RWBY.

>Ruby, already explained.

>Weiss, daughter and (ex-)heiress to one of the, if not the biggest and most outstanding Dust-working company on the planet, that also works directly with the Atlesian Military, the only standing military on the planet of the most technologically-advanced Kingdom. Not to mention that her family's Semblance is literally special among Semblances.

>Blake, was "practically born into" the WF in her own words, her father is the Chieftain of Menagerie (making her more-or-less the Princess of Menagerie), and, of course, she was a terrorist for at least 5 years before V1 began.

Yang, in comparison...is just a girl. She's not royalty or high-class or similar like Blake or Weiss, she has no unique or super-rare special powers like Ruby or Weiss do, she doesn't even have some "outstanding" backstory like Weiss the Ex-SDC Princess or Blake the Teenage Faunus Ninja Catgirl Ex-Terrorist Technically-Princess.

The most "special" thing she has is that her mother happens to be a bandit queen, and said mother abandoned her for practically all her life, while her adoptive mother died when she was like 5 years old. That's it, and parental abandonment is pretty mundane compared to the rest of the team.

And that's within Team RWBY. Counting people out of Team RWBY, the "honest and simple soul" may as well be Jaune, the most "normal and mundane" character among the protagonists.