Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-9962367-20130726233702/@comment-20277926-20130929112533

Let me explain my problem with the age diffrence. I'm going to assume that most of the people here are in their 20s or older. I'm not saying that a two years diffrence is huge. but it is much greater for these two characters than it may be for us. The thing is people develop faster when their younger hence why even a two year diffrence may be a relatively speaking huge earlier in people's lifes. Of course one person being 27 and another being 25 is not a big deal but the relative diffrence between a person who is 15 and antoher who is 17? Very noticable. In real world terms Ruby would be a middle school student while Jaune would be a high school student. Now I don't know about you but I don't recall ever seeing much interaction between middle and high school students who weren't sibblings or didn't share a diffrent type of connection.

On top of that Ruby is a loner. We know she has trouble even making conversation as evidenced by her strugling to tell Jaune he doesn't look ok. I don't think I have to explain to everyone why starting and maintaining a romantic relationship is much much more diffcult than maintaining a friendship even for people who are outgoing and work well with others.

Also going back to Ruby's age I have to question whether a girl of Ruby's age would even be looking for a romantic relationship. IMO children of this age don't usually show intrest in even spending time with the other gender.