Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170410034737/@comment-25936766-20170516215120

PisceanWaterbender wrote: 1-Eh, if you look at most of the main characters, it fits with a larger aspect of their personality. TvTropes has covered some of this, too.

2-Ruby was forced to grow up faster than other people because she's essentially a prodigeé, well, that and losing her mother would inevitably force that too.

2.2-Plus, being the nervous sort of person she was originally, speed would reflect that sort of demeanor.

3-Weiss' Semblance...

4-Blake, you already mentioned. She's inherently distrustful, realistic, and tends to run from her problems, and her clones are made from shadows of a dark past.

5-Yang is quite a caring person, has a sunny demeanor, and fiercely loyal, meaning her Semblance works to that regard as well.

6-Pyrrha's power of Polarity involved attraction and repulsion, as that what magnetism fundamentally is. She attracts people with her warm personality, humble demeanor, and celebrity status, but unintentionally pushes them away with the status as well.

7-Sun's clones are the opposite of Blake's, being made of light, reflecting a more welcoming and extroverted personality, and his more optimistic and light-hearted views compared to Blake's.

8-besides, we do it all the tiem for OC comps, so it wouldn't make sense not to have it be so unless it's literally said not to be a given reflection of one's personality. 1-TvTropes isn't the most theorical of places, however. And the people who edit the RWBY articles there aren't the most investigative either. For example, let me quote something in it's Meme page:

''"Weiss' Father stole Christmas. Explanation: The World of Remnant about the SDC explained that it used to be owned by Nicholas Schnee, who wore a red and ran the SDC with the people in mind, giving him parallels with St. Nick, or Santa Claus. Jacques' full name before he took Schnee translated to Jack Frost, who is occasionally depicted as trying to steal Christmas....." '' As has been mentioned myriads of times in this wiki, Jacques =/= Jack. Now, if the people who wrote that said that most people think Jacques = Jack, then cool, but it doesn't, instead it makes it sound like a fact.

TvTropes isn't exactly good evidence of this stuff.

2-And what about Yang? Who practically had to double as a quasi-mother figure for Ruby after Summer died?

2.2-So Social Awkwardness = Speed? I literally do not see it.

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3-Weiss's Semblance is irrelevant, it's hereditary regardless of personality.

4-I also mentioned that it was easily just simple self-deprecation. Hell, before V3, her "cowardice" was questionable, and some even argued the contrary. She ran away from the White Fang: I doubt she could've easily just said "I'm leaving" and done either.

And when she ran away in V1, it was after revealing to the SDC Heiress that she was an Ex-terrorist of the same organization that has been attacking her family for years. Anyone would've run away too.

And when she ran away in Vol.3, she had understandable, even if somewhat wild, reasons for it, and it was after being more or less traumatized by her yandere ex.

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5-And her Semblance involves her making an attack stronger by using energy that she gets from being beaten up. How the hell does that reflect anything you said there?

6-.......You are looking at it in the wrong direction. She's a Champ, so while she's kind, people don't approach her (supposedly). But why is she a Champ? Because of her Semblance that makes her incredibly hard to hit while making even her shield throwing have a good chance of hitting you. Against most fighters, she's almost invincible, and against the exceptions, she's still very skilled, all thanks to it.

Meaning the Semblance comes before her title, and her title comes before that "social issue" you just described. Meaning that social issue did not exist when her Semblance manifested.

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7-His clones are still 1-HP-Wonders by default, and he can't move while using them unlike Blake. What does that say about him?

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8-That's why I'm asking if there's any real evidence that Semblances reflect personality. Because if there isn't any, there's no reason to semi-force people into giving their OCs one that reflects their personality. Because it's unnecesary, and it would make no sense to have it beyond simple aesthetic choice instead of requirement.