Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.20.165.15-20151217032629

Ruby is a simple character. She's a huntress in training who just wants to help people. She got where she is due to determination and hardwork. There's nothing particularly complex about her, or her motivations. A constant theme in this show is the importance of simple things. Victory is in a simple soul, after all. This idea is reinforced  in the conversation between Ozpin and Jen Taylor's character. She mocks him and basically tells him his guardians will be worthless in the upcoming fight. He responds by telling her victory is in the smaller things.

Ruby will be the one who saves the world. That much is pretty obvious. However, I don't think she needs to be a maiden in order to do it. Her secretly turning out to be basically a chosen one would go against her character. It would be so much more impactful if Ruby, the normal huntress, manages to save the world, where the maidens failed, not through convoluted magic powers, but through sheer determination and will to do good. 