Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10403005-20130604071723/@comment-12705716-20130720173859

AndyTheZer00 wrote: Of the 4 girls, Ruby has killed the most living beings. Weiss only killed one; and this pained her greatly. Blake fought robots and refused to endanger human train crew; and while Yang certainly pounded quiete a few people; nobody apparently died. If we're to infer youth and childish innocence from her voice in the Yellow trailer; that raises an interesting duality.

Granted, Beowolves may not be sentient. One wonders how Ruby fights if she is confronted by sentient beings; as her weapon is quite lethal and there don't seem to be any "stun" settings. You've got a point with the living beings thing. But I don't think technically Weiss killed anyone. If you rewatch the trailer you'll see that the armor she was fighting was most likely empty. Kinda like Alphonse Elric. A soul in a suit of armor. The armor, no longer having a control unit, was destroyed and smashed on impact. So I'm not sure if that counts as a living being.

But I think Ruby killed the Beowolves because they were the "monsters" of the legends. You know from the story in the beginning. And even when she fought the humans, I noticed  that she was bascially "fighting" them, not using the bullets or slythe as she did with the Beowolves. I don't think the baddies from the first episode were killed, seeing as though the force she used, was less than that of what Yang used. I swear the whole Red Riding Hood thing is killing me. The Beowolves are the ones who killed her mother-grandmother, aka White Ruby...from the theme song!

But you've another point with Blake, who looked down right terrified when Adam said "what about them." I feel like she's got a serious problem with using excessive force. I think, and I've always thought this, but I think Blake is a beast deep within her that she's terrified to let out.