Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160117163823/@comment-26018514-20160131103330

VedranTheII wrote: He’s referring to off screen interaction. You can’t just dismiss the fact they live next to each other and constantly socializing due to the setting offered because the show didn’t want to focus on that.

Regardless, if you want solid proof that Ruby and Jaune are good friends, you really need only look at volume 2 and remind yourself who was the first person Ruby called when she needed backup before Breach. Even on-screen wise Jaune is technically in the lead, early episodes of V1, a few times spread out between all 3 volumes with each helping the other as a leader...

The problem is when you add in off-screen interactions we have almost definitive confirmation that on-screen interactions are Penny's only interactions... unless she has the free reign to be pen pals or modern equivalents... and even then we are talking a time-frame of what?, maybe 3-4 months(likely closer to 1-2) during which Ruby at least should be busy and Penny should be going through last minute checks... hardly the best of besties.