Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-209421-20140829135725

An aside here: As a guitarist and a guy working on a Jaune cosplay, if I take pictures of me posing like Jaune in this episode, would you lot share 'em around? I kinda don't have Twitter... Just something for me to aspire to, aside for finishing the costume by PAX Aus.

Anywho, I have to say that I found the entire episode as being good for foreshadowing, and also for showing off Pyrrha's strengths. After all, we heard in volume one that Pyrrha was a tournament champion, and yet the only action we saw her in was running and fighting off a monster that took a team to bring down, and then secretly assisting Jaune. The fact that she downplays her semblance is another very interesting factor that was foreshadowed last volume, when she didn't want Jaune to know how she assisted him. Granted, that was a confidence thing in the last volume, while here it's in order to keep some of her greatest strength in reserve. The comment that Cinder could take her makes a lot of sense - Cinder's never shown a requirement on a weapon, her entire fighting style is built around Dust, which is non-ferrous.

Pyrrha is just as incompetent with the opposite gender as Jaune is, sweetly enough, but in a different respect. Jaune cannot read women to save his life. Pyrrha can read men, but is either afraid to initiate a relationship, or has old-school beliefs that imply that the man should ask the woman out. In a sense, she's just as isolated as Jaune is. He's isolated due to his lack of skill and clumsy ways. She's isolated due to her skill, and the fact that people seem either afraid or intimidated by her. In essence, a perfect match of breaking each other's loneliness.

Also, via Skype, a good friend of mine almost started to whine that the writers are ignoring the chemistry between Ruby and Jaune. Well, I'm sorry, but HOW many of you accurately predicted that there would be nothing done on that path? I did - as I keep saying, Ruby has no interest in romance. Her interests seem to be her social circle and weaponry. Not getting with guys. As a fanfiction author, it makes her fun to write for - innocent, so she misses the references and naive enough to totally miss any romantic passes at her. At the same time, it also makes shippers flip out, because one of their main protagonists has lots of friends, but absolutely no romantic knowledge whatsoever! Therefore, all hinted Ruby ships are, IMO, hard to sail. She's got too much versatility.