Talk:Jaune Arc/@comment-189.134.164.95-20151003223238/@comment-4010415-20151004192425

There are numerous reasons people hate Jaune.

1. They feel he's a self-insert of Miles. To be fair, some RT employees have even said that Jaune is like an exaggerated, clumsier, dorkier Miles.

2. They're annoyed at how he has gotten entire episodes dedicated to him, while the rest of his team has barely gotten any focus at all (especially Ren and Nora). There's also the fact that we got a deeper look at him, who he is, and more development for him, while we've gotten barely any for Ruby, some for Weiss, some for Blake, and it took until volume 2 to get some for Yang.

3. Some people feel like he has barely gotten any consequences for his dumbfuckery. He didn't even express any realization on how he was being hypocritical while talking to Neptune. "Do you even care about the girls you're hitting on?!" Excuse me, Jaune, you're the one who chased Weiss around for an entire semester, despite her repeatedly telling you no. Do you care about the girl you were hitting on? Instead, that scene was played off as "WOW, Jaune is SUCH A GREAT GUY, letting Neptune go be with the girl he likes, isn't he a GREAT GUY?!!!" rather than Jaune expressing that he learned any kind of lesson or that he's sorry for harassing Weiss.

Hell, there are people hoping he'll apologize to her for it eventually. Personally, I'm hoping that he and Weiss won't instantly be buddy-buddy just because he took a step back and talked Neptune into being her dance partner. I expect her to be at least a little nicer to him, but she shouldn't just act like he never harassed her in the first place.

As for Pyrrha, like I said, we've barely gotten a look at her. There's no way to tell if she's likeable or not. The deepest we've gotten with her is that being put on a pedestal as a star athlete has made it hard for her to form meaningful relationships. Weiss' inner thoughts while trying to be her partner in volume 1 is kinda funny in hindsight, with that in mind. Weiss wanted to partner with her because she's "the strongest girl in class."

Judging by Pyrrha's reaction to Mercury forfeiting, it seems like being willing to forfeit or lose is a bizarre concept to her. She may act humble, but I think winning is extremely important to her. But that's just based on one little reaction.

In the volume 2 commentary, they said something about Pyrrha's mother, so hopefully we'll get to see what that's about in volume 3. Hopefully, she'll get some meaningful development separate from being Jaune's love interest.