Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-11188061-20140829030239

You being great friends with a certain girl you wanted to date for a long time, but don't dare to speak up or show any outward feelings for shyness or fear of rejection. Eventually the girl's gonna think that you're just being a really great friend with no 'such' intentions, since you never showed any of it, and from then on it's a 'friend' zone.

Jaune totally thinks Pyrrha as one of his closest friend and partner, but he never thought of actually climbing up her stage because of that 'zone'. He's at the point where he is completely oblivious of Pyrrha as a woman, and you can switch Pyrrha out with a bro and you wouldn't know the difference.

Moreover, Pyrrha has always been a mentor figure and a guide to Jaune; a person to respect. He unconsciously suppresses any 'unruly' 'disrespectful' 'impolite' actions around, and that includes his flirtings (which he totally thinks is uncool but does it anyway, and that's a trait I can admire), so Pyrrha never really landed on the romantic section of his brain at all.

Worse, Pyrrha herself doesn't speak up or anything. She as a considerations, and being a more traditional type of person she didn't want to seem rude by speaking her affections and such. The double-edged blessing of silence - she gets to keep their current friendship, but they'll never move on the next step until she does something, or fate pushes them along. In this case, fate (namely Miles, Luna and Monty) is going to push them towards a strange and alien region.