Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-24106129-20140814012513

Boomerang Diaz, then I disagree I believe that an effort to establish a character without anything to establish it off of is pointless. I'm fine with not seeing eye to eye, in fact I enjoy seeing different opinions.

I only used one example that explains one of their personality traits because I detest long posts and one is enought to justify(but not give depth) to an action, which is enough. Personally long posts look unsightly, it's draining to edit them(or worse lose them), the longer a post goes on the more chances of it failing and I believe that only the essentials were needed. I also do not want to flood the page with what will probably be a 15 line long paragraph for the justification of why Weiss behaves arrogantly.

"They're supposed to be mimics of humanity who don't always have explanation for why they are who they are" and "But I doubt and wholly laugh at the assumption that all character traits stem from one particular moment in a character's life or that seizing up and presenting said moment is what's needed to give said character's characterized traits true merit". These statements are contradictory, you claim that characters are mimics of humanity sometimes lacking detailed pasts but at the same time state that a character's complex history is what defines their actions. Naturally you can't go into detail about everything they do, but enough to give reason to their strong desires in life or their strange behavior should be necessary for a decent work(some rare exceptions exist, but RWBY is not angling for that approach).

Diaz I never said that one individual moment will detail a person's character. I know you are very passionate but this is the second time you put words in my mouth and it's getting annoying, I would appreciate it if you stopped.

Same way I feel with characterization without purpose, it might as well not be there at all if they are going to do so poorly. Well RWBY didn't do atrocious but not enough for par.