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It's kind of difficult to tell as we've seen so little of them so far.

Ruby's a bit of a Janus of a character really. She can be this incredibly excitable and very, very young girl, full of life, optimism and a completely unrealistic view of the world. Yet, when a fight starts, she's pure honed steel - all practiced moves and co-ordination. I also suspect that she's got some hidden pains in her that, when revealed, may change Blake and Weiss's view of her forever.

Weiss is your typical heiress/corporate princess; all her life she's had things (almost everything and anything really) more-or-less delivered to her on a plate. That said, she's very poorly socialised and isn't used to dealing with people. Her lack of real human contact means she doesn't know really how to interact on a social level. This comes across as being arrogant or even a snob. I strongly suspect that a lot of season 1 will be focussed on her opening up to her team-mates.

Blake is seriously damaged goods. There is a lot of anger there from the injustices that her people have and possibly she personally had suffered and are still suffering. That anger will probably make it difficult for her to work in a team. She knows how but the other three will be so different in the founding experiences of their lives that she will find it difficult to relate to them. Contrast this with compassion and a very strong moral compass about the value of innocent life. I imagine she'll be the team's conscience on more than one occasion.

Yang, I suspect, is going to be one of the more complex of the characters. She comes across as bubbly and a bit ditzy, like her foster kid sister. However, there is a deadly focus in there that she saves for 'mission mode'. She seems to have the beginnings of an investigator's methodical mind-set. She also clearly is a bit of a berserker who loves to fight. I expect at least one instance where she gets so wrapped up in a fight that one of the others have to drag her away before she's overwhelmed.