Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-17344148-20190125004106

HotSwappableGaming wrote: Alhazad2003 wrote:

HotSwappableGaming wrote:...what? I'm not arguing anything about why Cinder did what she did or didn't do. I'm saying that writing a character to lose in a stupid way is stupid. Cinder lost straight up. Adam had a perfectly functional gun on his belt. And human nature doesn't affect Adam ;) In all seriousness there's a dramatic difference between Cinder and Adam - my example for her would be equivilant to her fighting Raven, Raven using maiden power and Cinder not. It would be stupid. And to write ANY character that way is stupid. "Ruby, the Leviathan is coming and only your eyes can win!" "My eyes? What about my eyes?" *Everyone dies* Obviosuly that's a dramatic example, but I believe the point comes across. So people shouldn't make stupid mistakes in the heat of the moment?  Yang definitely did in Volume 3 and look what happened.  And Adam was definitely not in the right frame of mind, with no one in his corner to tell him to get it together.  So I have no problem with his downfall here, he lost his cool and eventually lost his life. Correct, characters shouldn't make stupid mistakes in the moment - unless it's built up as such. And a character forgetting about their weapons despite having fought with them FOR YEARS is stupid. In volume 3, what did Yang do? If you're meaning the incident with Merc then you're comparing apples to football fields.

It is highly possible for anyone to lose control of themselves when they are high with emotions. That includes training and whatnot.

Too angry? Too sad? Too jealous? Well, they can and will make one's own training nigh useless. So any "stupid decisions" made by any character, so long as it is the product of a peaked emotion, is reasonable. Why do you think that real-life people, the soldiers, drivers, and even teachers, have training in such a way that they can keep check of their emotions?

Take Psychologists for example, we will end up biased if our emotions can easily be swept away.

This is the same for characters in RWBY. Take Cordovan as an example. She's the elite of the base in Argus. The protector. However, she was able to control her rage against them so much so, that she was able to fend RWBY and Co. with ease.

Jaune, himself, displayed such action of irrationality. Remember Volume 1? He was able to stand up against the bully- one that he knew is a better fighter than he was, but did it because they would be targeting Pyrrha. High in anger, then adrenaline rush, he stopped them. Another instance was the recent one- his display of anger towards Oscar due to him having Ozpin inside his head. His anger, his fury, was channelled, and the rest became history.