Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-14909251-20140813213029

Zolnir wrote: Granted, those are straightforward face value description of the characters, so he's technically not wrong either. Weiss can be whiny, especially when she makes her first appearance. Ruby is socially awkward when she first arrived at Beacon. Blake does distrust authority, and Yang is feisty when facing an enemy. Weiss is not really whiny at all. Her complaints are generally justified and proportionate. She is irritiable at time, but Weiss being "raised in comfort" likely has nothing to do with that and is more likely the result of her difficult family environment, extreme pressures to achieve, and the whole "terrorists trying to kill me and my family" thing.

As to Ruby, she was pretty normal socially under the circumstances. Having been thrust into Beacon at such short notice two years ahead of everyone else definitely gave her reason to be wary of making new friends. It certainly had nothing to do with a lack of friends as she had friends at Signal.

Blake certainly does distrust authority, but the notion that it is because she "was a terrorist" is absurd. Obviously, her reasons for distrusting authority go a hell of a lot deeper than that and pre-date the White Fang's turn towards violence.

Yang has gotten about as much backstory as Ruby honestly, which is to say that neither have had a lot of backstory. Ruby has had more character development as the primary protagonist, but Yang has hardly been without it.