Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-28099668-20171116205811/@comment-28099668-20171117171811

Ruby needs the training because of something TV Tropes calls "Crippling Overspecialization", which consists in a fighting character that focuses so much on certain aspects of their training that other important aspects are lacking. Ruby focuses her training on her skills with Crecent Rose and her semblance and, in turn, she finds herself lacking in hand to hand. Now, that wouldn't be too much of a problem if she didn't get disarmed, but she has found herself 3 times already and it'll likely happen more as time goes by. So she needs to learn how to fight without her weapon. And, even though I'm not an expert in fighting phylosofies in any way, I know for a fact that a fighter must learn to fight with hand to hand before learning to fight with any weapon. Miles and Kerry clearly know that, which is why they set Ruby's crippling overspecialisation with Crecent Rose and her semblance in the first place. It makes sence, both from a real world stand point and from a story-telling perspective, that she is trying to learn hand to hand. This character flaw was set up early on, so it only makes sence that we get a payoff eventually.