Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-26018514-20160726154229

Gastropod wrote:

I really don't think they should create a new character purely as a love interest for Jaune (or any character). Characters who only exist to be love interests for other characters are almost always boring because they only serve that one purpose in the story and have no independent character development, especially when they're introduced later in the storyline.

As a result, it usually feels as if a real and complete person (the established character) falls in love with a cardboard caricature (the newly-introduced shallow love interest). The alternative is introducing the love interest and then dedicating tons of screen-time to giving them character development, but I can't think of a better way to completely waste precious screen-time and annoy people than that.

There's also the fact that introducing new characters and slotting them into the main group tends to upset the dynamic. We've known RWBY and JN(P)R for 3 volumes now, we're familiar with how they interact and their relationships with one another. Imagine if out of nowhere, Neon Katt (for example) suddenly became part of the main cast, and appeared in every episode thereafter, got equal screen-time with Jaune and Ruby... I mean, it'd be weird, to say the least. 1. As I said in my post, that is why you don't create them for that purpose.

2. Or you create a character to deepen/further the plot(like Sukki from Avatar) with their own objectives that can be changed if they need to join the MC's later, or you just create better characters (like Toph from the same series) who can develop into an MC role later yet be as nuanced and fully realized as the original ones.

3. We may have 3 seasons, but with exponentially increasing runtimes that really isn't much time... hell they could have a plot revolving around a new character for a single 30 minute episode unrelated to Jaune and that character would then have had about as much exposure as Jaune received in the first season... and that's assuming we even need Jaune's love interest to get as much screen time... which we don't.