Talk:Maria Calavera/@comment-33953376-20190202132007/@comment-35434444-20190203142138

Exactly how attractive a character actually is is of course subjective, but there isn't really such a thing as an unattractive character in anime-ish fiction like RWBY. Or rather, attractiveness falls into four categories: explicitly attractive, arractive by default, subversivly attractive, and explicitly unttractive.

The explicitly arractive person would be like someone who is staight up refered to as beautiful and everyone acts like this is the case even though they probably don't look much better than everyone else because the overall standard for attractiveness is in the exosphere.

Jaune would be an example of a subversivly attractive character. Everyone acts like he's massive dork, like with Yang's reaction to him in his jammies, but this can itself be endearing as it was to Pyrrha.

And the explicitly unattractive characters are the opposite of the explicitly attractive, but also like that category, the way the story responds to thier appearance doesn't always bear any relation to how good they actually look.

Either way, there's no average or mediocrity. Everyone is either a supermodel (young Maria) or Yoda (old Maria.)