User blog comment:Goddess of Despair/Thoughts on the First Episode of RWBY and Stuff/@comment-9090085-20130723033432/@comment-9090085-20130724010029

Technically, Murder is "the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought " so, no, Ruby is not a murderer; a killer, maybe(see below), but not a murderer, because she hasn't killed any people.

I never said that children couldn't be murderers, Hansel and Gretel are both children; my point was that they continued to speak and act like children even as they murdered people. Well, like children who rip the legs off insects for fun. Insects, as in things; they may be living creatures, but many still think if them as things. More to the point, would killing something automatically make you mature like an adult? No. Killing someone? technically no, but far more often then not, yes.

But I think we both forgot something: has Ruby fought the Beowolves yet? It actually isn't clear one way or the other. She may very well have not killed anything up to this point. Sure, she fought the robbers skillfully, but she was likely trained to knock out humans without killing them; and her "courage" at facing down people armed with lethal weapons can be attributed to her lacking the fear (and perhaps understanding) of Death. Which is important, because no-one is born knowing what death is like, and this simply contributes to her innocence as a "normal" child, rather then highlighting how broken Hansel & Gretel are.

Your musical choice is illuminating: It's a good song, yes it is, but it's the kind of music one would expect to hear when armies clash, the climax of a great conflict between mighty factions... which RWBY is not; it's a personal drama for the many characters. -That wasn't worded well... basically, most stories are ether conflict or character oriented: In most movies and "Western" series, the focus is on the conflict: who's winning the war and how flashy the battles are. While in most "Eastern" series, the focus is on the characters: their growth as individuals, as a group, and how much drama can be milked from their personal problems.

You sound to me like someone who watches shows for the conflict, which would mean RWBY probably isn't your thing.(which is baffling, when I think about it: Red vs. Blue is a character driven show as well.) Which is fine; I watched all of Gundam 00 because it had good fight scenes... and there was a character or two I cared about.

I don't really see the point in playing different music over the fight scenes, considering they're choreographed to the music(those are my favorite kind of fight scenes BTW), but do whatever you like.