Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24934890-20181008004211/@comment-4010415-20181015142225

VerBeeker wrote:

1. Jaune pining after Weiss added so much to the story?

2. Neptune “Goes after anything female with a pulse” what ever the fuck his last name is making an ass of himself around every girl who catches his eye, that added something to the show? 1. And just think, that was added in after an improv session just because they thought it would be funny. Honestly, it stopped being funny when they kept it up in Volume 2 because of how obnoxious he was being.

Rule of thumb: Unless you're writing a comedy that takes place in a wacky universe where anything can happen, "It would be funny" is not a good reason to do something in your story.

Especially in RWBY, to be honest. Almost every time they've decided to have a character do something or act a certain way just because "it would be funny", it has gone badly. "Jaune's not our comedy character anymore, oh no! Let's have Sun be 'funny' instead! *Turns Sun into a screeching buffoon*"

2. And his thing with Weiss went nowhere. In Volume 3, he was right back to flirting with other girls while Weiss tried to cheer him on, and then we haven't seen him since.

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Also, to the people who aren't being represented - or are being misrepresented - representation does matter.

Now, the people who are screaming and yelling and throwing tantrums, trying to get their favorite shows to have representation, are going about it wrong. Everyone else asks that shows and movies and such every once in a while make a character who just happens to be LGBT or a certain race but not make that a defining trait of theirs.

As someone who's asexual, it would be nice to see some asexual characters in media. However, the condition is that I would rather the asexual character not be treated as nothing but "This asexual character must be ill and needs to be fixed because it is not normal to be asexual." I get enough of that in real life, I'd rather the show or movie I'm watching not also tell me that I'm sick.