Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24934890-20170925142224/@comment-25316824-20170930035708

@Someone I reccomend you rewatch a scene you probably do like then, the "nope speech". https://youtu.be/h0QiT-GxN6k?t=1m6s

The point is that leaders can't regret their decisions or think they failed (even if the evidence is overwhelming). Ruby thought that being a leader meant putting blinders on, "putting teamates first and ourselves second", and not dealing with your own issues because other people rely on you.

So in V4 Ruby is taking her own medicine. Her plan to find medicine for Qrow failed spectacularly and would have almost certainly doomed her uncle had it not been for bullshit airships. She is in Jaune levels of hopelessness.

It means that she never believed in the "nope speech" to begin with and when she made her first "Jaune level mistake" she immediately did everything she warned against. i.e. blaming yourself, feeling guilty

In the end, the "nope speech" is hollow and meaningless once the preacher fell on hard times.