Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-410526-20160814081125

I don't think Ruby is the type to allow the burden to wear her down like that. She's more of the sort who would draw strength and motivation to make things right in response to loss.

Listen to her speech from "PvP" after Penny dies. She just saw one of her friends killed right in front of her, but after she got over the initial shock, she immediately moved to supporting Pyrrha and protecting the people she could. Even after she fails to save Pyrrha, she again sets out with RNJR to actively do something to stop the bad guys.

Obviously she'll be going through a lot of emotions, but that outward appearance of strength she presented in the last couple episodes of Volume 3 is not at all a front or facade, that's how she really is. In fact, that's how she copes, by endeavoring to make things better, bring those responsible to justice and ensure that those she's lost didn't die in vain.

She'll probably still try to act cheerful and happy, and that will probably just be a fake pretense, but underneath that pretense won't be self-doubt and turmoil (like Yang) but a determination and resolve to make things better.