User blog comment:DemonicsFire/RWBY Ships Hurt/Heal/@comment-24573226-20160531230218

As I was trying to say to @Mini... Since it's all fake, I look at the ships more imaginatively, as in "how would these two personalities interact?", than by the age of consent.

For instance, I was going over the totals earlier and I came across Vanilla Custard (Hi @Someone, who just mentioned them again). I thought how quirky it would be if Neo found Jaune's buffoonery too adorable to hurt him. She'd kill any strong woman who fights her in a blink of an eye, but can't bring herself to kick the puppy that's trying to hard.

~shrug~

Back to what @Mini was saying... if you feel age of consent is 16, then Ruby's the only underage character (and not for long at that). And your adult x student pairings are more generic than, say, teacher x student pairings. Black Magic would still have two consenting adults, but since one is in a position of authority over the other that's what makes it inaproppriate/illegal. Frostbite, however, wouldn't involve an abuse of authority.