Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35455126-20190501031644/@comment-27745396-20190502195022

This ended up being a bit long, so sorry about that. My inner writer got excited. Most of these aren't that original though. Just inspirated from mixture of ideas I have heard other people to talk about and I liked.

Ruby: She was okay during V1-3. Her lack of "proper" motivations isn't problem to me, but I could see part of her motivations coming from a want to connect with Summer and believing that following her mother's steps would make Summer proud. Maybe there is also little preasure from others since I could see people to compare Ruby to Summer a lot thanks to their similar appereance.

During V4-5, Ruby would actively search information about Silver Eyed Warriors and trying to learn how to use them on her own (insert a montage of Ruby trying and failing to to activate her eyes here). It could also be a good excuse for team RNJR to travel on foot if they are following rumours or looking for books about SEWs on their way to Mistral. Qrow and Ozpin probably don't really know that much about how Silver Eyes work, making Maria still necessary. In Volume 6 I would have added a scene where Ruby and Maria meditate or are trying to activate Ruby's eyes on purpose (and failing) before the finale. Maybe also cut off one of the "you need to trust us" speeches Ruby gave.

Weiss: I would keep her mostly same. In my opinion, she should have stayed racist towards faunus longer and we should have been able to see hints of her mentality still during V6 (her development show by giving Caroline some lines Weiss had in earlier volumes and her being offeded by them). She would be okay with Blake and other faunus she is familiar or friends with, but her first reaction towards faunus would be mistrust and seeing herself better as them. She would also insult faunus or belittle them time to time. I also think Weiss should have had harder time to accept Blake's past with WF.

To Weiss development, I would have also added more scenes where she comes face to face with the negative things SDC has caused and hear how some people have suffered thanks to her father's actions. In V4 this would force Weiss into position where she has to decise if she will make the world a better place by continuing to live with her family as the heiress and future head of SDC (the happiness of many) or continue her training to become a Huntress (her own hapiness). In the end, she will still run away.

The only other change the way how Weiss was impaled in Haven (Cinder spear jumps towards her from Jaune's shield or he manages to dodge the spear without noticing Weiss was behind him) and make her the reason why Ruby's SE were activated.

Yang: I would have made Yang more "mother friend" or at least more mother-like figure to Ruby during the earlier volumes. Nothing big before volume 4 (longer fight with Adam). After the Fall I would have made her "PTSD" last longer than one episode or at least given her problems to get used to her new arm.

During V5-6, I would have made Yang less angry and try to act more like her old happy self around other, especially Ruby. Things with Blake wouldn't be fixed as fast as canon, but Yang would have hard time to trust her/let her close again ("How can I be sure you don't ran away again when things start getting bad?"). I think this would give Blake's promise to not leave Yang after Adam fight more weight.

I would also make Yang to be part of DrunkQrow-Ruby scenes in Brunswick farm or at least make her notice her uncle more than that one time he was sleeping on stairs outside the building....

Blake: Okay this is a long one...

First of all, I would change Blake's backstory a little. Ghira and Kali excisted, but they were murdered in front of Blake by human extremists who wanted to end WF (Ghira was the leader at the time) when she was young (7-11yo) so she was taken in by WF. There she soon met Adam (3-5 years older) and two of them grew close and later started to date. I would keep this since Blake did mention that Adam changed during their stay in WF and in this version she would talk more often about the man he used to be. The power vacuum and the change of the leaders after Ghira's murder caused WF to become more extreme and Blake, wanting vengeance and having a "proof" that her parents idea of peace was impossible, emprassed those new violent ideas. She, Adam (and Ilia) rose in the ranks fast and a yaer or two before the show Adam was made a leader of Vale's WF branch and Blake moved there with him.

A bit before "Black trailer", Adam send Blake to kill some WF traitor they had finally managed to track down. Blake sneaks in the traitor's home (wearing the standart WF mask and uniform) while everyone is sleeping and kills the traitor and their human partner without second though. Before she manages to leave, Blake notices a terrified human girl standing in the doorway who is obviously the traitor's and their partner's child. Horrified to find herself in the role of the monster who killed her parents, Blake runs away and starts to rethink her life, leading her to run away during Black trailer.

Because of these changes, Blake would be more guild driven (wanting to be a Huntsman to make good her past crimes and since they protect everyone, humans and faunus) and afraid of letting anyone know that she is a faunus in fear of WF finding out where she is. She would still try to stop WF like in the show, but I would imagine her to be more protective towards her friends and paranoid. Adam wouldn't be as obsessed over Blake, just furious over her betrayal, especially her friendship with a Schnee ("You know what they do to our people. What they did to me"). Blake's tries to make Adam to understand that hatred and thirst for revenge have only turned him into a monster, but fails.

Not sure what Blake should do during V4-5 if Ghira and Kali are dead. Perhaps she could try to track Adam down with Sun, meeting some faunus who still respect and follow Ghira's ideologies while doing so. Those would then be the faunus she tries to recruit to fight Adam in Haven.