Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-2600:6C44:880:DD2:B1CD:A88E:3C4:CCA2-20180425111518

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

In fact, if anyone is an "honest, simple soul", it's Yang, within Team RWBY. Not really; Yang was a drifter who never truly seemed to have a focused goal in life - she wanted to find her mother, yes, but most of her schtick was being a thrill-seeker. She arguably didn't really know what she wanted in the world - plus, as Volume 3 illustrated, she had a pretty self-conflated view of herself that shattered when she suffered a hard loss. Yang was never really honest nor simple in that regard.

Compared to that, Ruby qualifies much better for being an "honest, simple soul" - she never cared about the expectations of others like Weiss, feared being herself like Blake or looking for blind thrills like Yang; she had a single-minded wish for something based on a pure-hearted desire. She's an honest, simple soul for the precice reason that she's, relatively speaking, got uncomplicated wants, goals and desires, in contrast to Yang's not really having a set goal for what she wants, Weiss' uncertianty about whether her goals were her own, or Blake's overly-fearing how to find a path to said goal and stick to it.