Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32346149-20190606062554/@comment-37471367-20190608023409

ShimokitaDK wrote: While there will surely be no lack of focus on Weiss (major reckoning with Dear Old Dad incoming...), I really hope they continue to prioritize the titular character. They made some real progress last volume, but enough to make up for multiple volumes of neglect in favor of The Adventures of Vomit Boy? Not yet...

Putting aside your hinted dislike of Jaune, yes, please focus on Ruby, but for different reasons. So many have moaned about Ruby not having development or always having a speech ready. While I would argue that character development should not be treated at its own pace and not like it’s some kind of checkbox, Volume 7 is a time for that development when she meets the rest of Weiss’s “family”.

See, Jacques is not someone she can’t just blow up, reap, silver eye or protagonist speech into submission. And Jacques doesn’t work like the villains she’s used to. Ruby would have her black and white views confronted by so many shades of gray. And perhaps we can see her get a bit more wise to shady characters. Seriously naive V2 Ruby, anyone that talks like that and has Sith eyes would be ringing warning bells in the heads of many.

We also need to include the other members of RWBY. Blake is now in possibly the worst place for Faunus and hopefully will be confronting discrimination both overt and subtle, not to mention meeting a once-but-probably-still-is sworn enemy.

Yang also encountering the polar opposite of Tai and her sister (Unintentional pun, but I’ll roll with it). And can we please see her deal with the consequences of being framed in front of Remnant? Or maybe figure out that “questioning” Oz does not mean being Yangsty (Intentional) and hating on him 24/7? Or maybe that Oz is nothing compared to Jacques in shadiness? Or that there’s a little thing called OPSEC for why there’s secrets, Ms. I-am-withholding-that-my-mom-is-a-Maiden-but-I’ll-keep-preaching-“secrets bad” (You can see that my viewing of her dropped a bit after Volume 6).

But we can’t exclude JNR either. Before you groan, I would like to point out the fact that the J in there is part of a renowned family himself, meaning he’s probably going to relate to the Schnee’s issues better than most.