Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-14909251-20140730043101

Here let me lay out this a bit. At the beginning of The Stray Weiss was just gushing about the Vytal Festival and the response was "You're creeping me out" and "you take a great thing and make it boring" then they're all like "why are you taking us to the stupid docks" and "it stinks". When Weiss goes on about wanting to see the teams arriving Blake turns to Yang and Ruby and informs them of why she is really doing it. During that whole thing, Weiss only once lashes out at anyone by tersely saying "Quiet, you" when Yang goes on about her making it boring. For most of it Weiss is incredibly chipper and ignores their quips.

That actually is kind of why I think the binder bit is more problematic. It was actually a compilation of Vytal Festival activities Weiss made that was presumably quite expansive. Given how ecstatic Weiss has been about the festival since Jaunedice, we can safely presume that she put a lot of care and thought into putting it together. Yet, Ruby just grabs it and basically does with it as she pleases. Then when she brings it out she actually disses Weiss.

People are coming up with ways to excuse that, but this is not atypical of Ruby either. See opening of Badge and the Burden where she blows a whistle right into Weiss' ear, twice, despite Weiss reprimanding Ruby for it the first time. Ruby has routinely exhibited a disrespectful attitude towards others when it was most definitely not deserved. Admittedly, that is part of why we like her, but it also is why her nabbing someone's stuff without asking and messing with it is not beyond her.

By contrast, if you look over the past three episodes starting with The Stray you will notice that Weiss has not really insulted or dissed anyone else on the team in that time, while every last one of them has dissed or insulted her multiple times. Only time when you might argue it was "deserved" was during her argument with Blake, but even that only became bad enough to say that after Blake had already dissed Weiss several times. This is, mind you, many months after the feuding between her and Ruby apparently ended. So, it seems this is now an element of the team dynamic and it only fails to be a problem so long as Weiss is cool with having her property and personal space violated repeatedly, while being dissed by the other people on her team for no apparent reason.