Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-69.171.163.180-20131112030856/@comment-9090085-20140122005422

Eugar wrote: She's not calm. She's quite irritable if Episode 8 means anything.

Now THAT is unfair; just because she loses her cool once in a social situation that automatically makes her "irritable"? All it really shows is that she doesn't have unlimited patience.

When analyzing a character, you don't look at just a few stand out moments; you look at all their interactions, see how they react to different situations, different people, and so forth.

For instance, while Yang does tease her little sister from time to time(just like you might expect a big sis to), in many of their interactions(particularly when it's just herself and Ruby), she acts more like a mother then a sister(being concerned about Ruby making friends is the most obvious indicator). Of course, she is also the kind of person "who would teach someone to swim by pushing them in the water."

I should also point out that, with Red Like Roses part 2, her motherly behavior could be taken as her filling in the role of Ruby's mother after their real mother died.

Yang's character might not have "grown" since we first met her, but we already have hints as to her true depths; which, as time goes on, we will likely have spelled out for us. But that will take time in a cast this large.

(I also suspect you're misusing "one-dimensional" (or at least confusing it with "flat characterization"). After all, I would assume a "one-dimensional" character to react the same way to just about anything: Caim is a one-dimensional character(at least at first); if someone pisses him off, he muderizes them. And then murders anyone with the person he just murdered.

OK, bad example. But I think you get my point.)