Board Thread:RWBY Wiki Centre/@comment-6528906-20130216160820/@comment-14909251-20131209015928

Angren Túrë wrote: I agree, Weiss has a lot of mental armor (perhaps trust issues as well), but I think she is a genuinely caring person on the inside. I have a feeling that Weiss' childhood is a really integral part of her character, so when something arises that launches a Weiss-centric backstory arc, we'll get to see the real Weiss.

I have laid out my thinking on this a couple of times. When you look at the last two episodes, you get this very odd situation. Ruby and Yang obviously know nothing of the Faunus or the White Fang, so they have no trouble accepting Blake (they were also closer to her personally so this also made it easier). In contrast, Weiss had gone on about the White Fang wanting to wipe out humanity, being pure evil, killing or apparently killing people she knew and likely cared about, and generally making her childhood a rather scary and dangerous one. In spite of all that and in spite of the fact Blake had been pretending to be human to hide her association with the aforementioned group, Weiss was ready to accept Blake before even getting confirmation that Blake was no longer in the White Fang. Think about that, it would be like someone born in an Israeli town subject to repeated attacks by Hamas, finding out she had been living with someone from Hamas, and accepting this person as a friend after thinking about it for less than a day without even getting assurances that the individual was no longer in Hamas.

Weiss seems to be very soft-hearted to me. She is not very good at holding grudges nor fond of starting fights. The only time we have really seen Weiss lose her cool was in The Badge and the Burden and she was obviously trying very hard not to blow up at Ruby.

WC-83 wrote: Yeah, but now we need to see her less repentant and more caring and sink into the Dere as opposed to the Tsune. I do not think she really qualifies as a "tsundere" since that type of character is usually rude as a default. She got mad at Ruby for being clumsy and then made an awkward attempt at mending fences. When they meet up in the Emerald Forest it becomes more a problem of Ruby's attitude and behavior. The same when they formally become a team. Had Ruby not been sort of relishing the glory of leaderdom and acted more like someone who took the responsibility seriously, there would not have been an argument about who should have been the leader.

As to her having a "d'awww" moment, I think we got a bit of that with her reaction to the Vytal Festival. Those two times when it is brought up are the only moments where you see her being absolutely giddy. I suggested elsewhere that whenever Penny is revealed as an android Weiss will geek out over it in a rather hilarious fashion similar to that.