Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-58.7.165.71-20140531173114/@comment-72.94.58.201-20140603233017

Ruby is always a badass. Ruby is a good leader and a good fighter. She has tons of natural talent and even more skill, and she doesn't hold back. She is an instinctive fighter who is good at making split-second decisions, and she is an outside-the-box thinker who has the confidence to try things other people might think are crazy. But she is also immature and reckless. Ruby is eager to fight and she will recklessly charge into any encounter. She also lacks maturity and can make stupid decisions that blow up in her face, and her desire to help others can sometimes be her weakness, as she is so eager to help that she ends up causing more harm than good (like in episode 16, where her concern for Penny gets her hit by Roman). In the Emerald Forest, Ruby made many dumb moves because of her immaturity. She may be strong, but she doesn't fully understand how to work on a team, since she is clearly more of a lone wolf type of figher, or at least she has been for most of her life. That's her strength, and teamwork is her weakness.

But despite her flaws, Ruby shows promise. Like I said, she shows immense skill and natural talent in battle. She also shows budding leadership skills, as she gives Jaune a confidence-boosting pep talk that got him to stand up to team CRDL, and most of all, Ruby has a desire to become a better leader. She is learning to take her position more seriously. She is gradually learning to cooperate with others and work as a team, something her teammates already know about. Ruby is flawed, yes. But she can, and will, improve, and one day will live up to her title as leader of team RWBY. And as for her plan, that's forgivable. Almost every split-second plan ever made in entertainment history should fail, and I think that Ruby's is far from the most ridiculous. Compared to most, it's pretty tame.

I still think Weiss would be a better leader, though. But Ruby's not bad.

Also, that Ned Stark comment was pretty damn funny.