Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-10556445-20160621035924/@comment-25936766-20160621143527

I whole-heartedly Agree with that linked reddit post.

Many of Ruby's issues, are shared with other characters, which makes them both stand out less, and hurt somewhat the whole message of Individuality, of Uniqueness. For comparison, even among the characters Ruby shares issues with, they all have their own issues that they don't share with her, making them more unique, stand out more, and become more interesting. Jaune, for example, has his initial uselessness, inexperience, and the faked papers, along with the "tries to become a good leader" issue that he shares with Ruby.

A related problem is how in their case, their issues were developed, while in Ruby's case, they are hardly even mentioned for the most part. Ruby lost her mother and apparently she doesn't care or even mentioned it once. Yang lost her mother at a similar age and yet that aspect of her is used and developed, and actually shown.

There were also a good number of other potential issues they could have used to develop her. Being 2+ years younger than everyone, for example. But they are never used, or used and then forgotten.

Overall, Ruby was, and for the most part still is, a boring ball of "meh", compared to everyone else. Not special enough, not outstanding enough, not interesting enough. In hindsight, this makes the SEW revelation feel like a desperate, last-minute attempt at making Ruby interesting and special compared to the others, by giving her unique, rare, not-mentioned-before powers that even the freaking Grimm fear with no build-up or foreshadowing except 1 single line that implied anything but said powers.

But as a result, she just became a Mary Sue, and possibly will remain one for seasons. In fact, this is the very same kind of mistake that creates Mary Sues: They are created by drastic attempts made by writers at making characters interesting.