Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-67.171.134.135-20150521032555/@comment-226878-20150710030443

Shadow at Morning wrote: Yang's semblance: there is no way that RWBY was not aware of that before Ruby's awkward explanation. It was shoehorned and forced. I think you mean, "There's no way RWBY should have been unaware of that." You can't just randomly decide that RWBY should have been aware of Yang's secret superpower because it makes more sense to you.

I get it. Team RWBY has had ample time to "get to know each other." But that doesn't mean they've delved into each other's unique attributes. I bet no one has asked about Ruby's eye color or why Yang's eye color shifts. Team RWBY has spent the time we've seen them together just getting used to each other's presence, and then getting used to the idea of actually performing as a team. It doesn't mean they've actually taken the time to get to know each other as people, counterintuitive as that may seem to some. We've seen how slowly they discover each other's secrets: Weiss's issues with the Faunus, Blake being a Faunus, Yang's specialty, and her and Ruby's backstory (part of it anyway) were mostly pretty spaced apart, although admittedly Weiss and Blake had their trivia revealed back-to-back.