Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-32753176-20180319001937/@comment-25936766-20180328155257

Short answer: This.

Long answer:

1) Bad dreams about Pyrrha. Which were just a black screen with Pyrrha's voice in the background. Ruby wakes up, gets irritated, and inmediately after they're walking to Haven, with Ruby carrying a smile on her face and acting as cheerful as she's always been.

Note that these were not nightmares, a nightmare isn't just a black screen with a voice, a nightmare is what Yang got. What Ruby got was just bad dreams, and she reacted appropiately.

2) Her "discussion with Jaune" in the Village....which would've been a great moment, if it wasn't for Jaune stealing it because Miles apparently wanted to show us that Jaune knows Ruby better than Ruby does, or something. And apparently he was absolutely right too.

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3) Her talk about Pyrrha and Penny with Oscar, which literally starts because of Oscar yelling at her at how she remains her cheerful, optimistic self despite everything that's happened, including watching her friends die in front of her.

And her explanation for why she is so utterly and completely unaffected by their deaths, is basically "didn't know them very long, so whatever". I understand not mourning them all the time, but she never does, period. Hell, until then she hadn't even mentioned Penny's name.

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4) The flashback was too little, too late. And, again, she's back to her old cheerful self afterwards (once she wakes up), so it's pointless. It has so little importance and impact that it feels thrown in as a desperate attempt to show "HEY GUYS, RUBY IS INDEED AFFECTED BY HER DEATH, 4REAL! :D".

You can't just throw a tiny flashback and call it "development". Especially when the character in question spent almost 2 entire Volumes utterly unnaffected by those events.

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I'm not saying she should mourn them forever all the time. I'm saying she should change, grow as a person due to her experiences, THE BASIS OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. But alas, she hasn't, to the point that one must nitpick to find any differences between V1 Ruby and V5 Ruby.

Everytime people say "she's still affected by their deaths, she's broken inside, she's bottling it up!", it's just stupid and baseless wishful thinking, a fanon idea with no strong evidence to support it, made just to find an explanation for her utter lack of development.