Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-32354841-20180312143812/@comment-25936766-20180318210346

Except you're ignoring this thing called SHOW, DON'T TELL. Which is a big part of the problem here. If a character literally needs to state their feelings for the audience to know how they feel, there's a problem. And that's the case with Ruby.

She saw Penny and Pyrrha die, the latter in her face. Yet all she got from that was a tiny pair of bad dreams. Not nightmares- that's what Yang got - but bad dreams, just an empty void with Pyrrha's voice in the background, to which Ruby responds with a faceful of frusfration.

And that's pretty much the most damns Ruby ever shows about Pyrrha, for she almost-never even mentions her later on, nor do the dreams happen anymore after V4E2.

Then she drops that tiny bomb in Vol.5, that she "didn't know them very long". Because apparently being friends with someone for months then watching them die in your face, among other things, doesn't mean shit to you since "you didn't know them very long."

Her personality didn't change to a noticeable extent, nor did Pyrrha's or Penny's deaths leave any sort of impact on Ruby that we can see without needing Ruby to spell it out for us.

Comparisons:

>Weiss, starting in V1 as a cold bitch, then becoming much friendlier in V2, up to being pretty much the most "dramatic in movement" member of Team RWBY, which carried on to V3. Then she became melancholic in V4, at least until the party where, despite my issues with the scene, it should be noted that she had the guts to yell at the guests for her apathy and later insult Jacques to his very face, instead of remaining submissive like she supposedly was pre-V1.

>Blake was notably paranoid back on the boat to Menagerie, her interaction with Sun there being completely different from her previous scenes with him. And she remained irritable the entire Volume 4 until Sun broke through to her in the finale.

>Yang was quiet, was slow, and showed depression, and then she was triggered by a cup breaking, and then she had a nightmare about Adam. Even after her "recovery", her hand still twitched from time to time in V5, showing us WITHOUT ANY WORDS NEEDED that Yang did not fully recover yet.

Ruby, meanwhile, acts the same as always after V3. '''We never get any real signs that her experiences had any effect on her until the writers make her say them out loud. '''

You say it yourself, this is an audio-visual medium. The VISUALS matter too. Body-expressions, behavior, attitude changes, all that was obvious with Weiss, Blake, Yang, and Jaune, among others. But not Ruby. Thus, it feels as if she doesn't give a damn about things unless the writers decide she does.

Which would've been cool if this was the Ruby we saw in the Red Trailer: Cold, aloof, seemingly-emotionless, maybe low-key sociopathic. Alas, she isn't.