Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20131225134740/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140126092802

I'd like to agree but the near constant emphasis placed on Ruby over Yang or Blake, even during the arcs that had little to do with her, kind of makes it feel to me that Ruby is considered the ultimate main protagonist in the series. I mean come on:

- Ruby Rose had the premier entirely about her, and it was named after her too. Not that that has anything to do with anything.

- Ruby then became the main focus of the initiation arc despite the creators being more than capable of focussing on... anyone else. Well okay, the Emerald Forest episodes were a little more evenly sread but even still Weiss/Ruby got my character development and screen-time than Yang/Blake.

- Ruby (along with Weiss) then got their own chapter to themselves concerning Weiss's worry of whether or not Ruby was a competent leader.

- In the Jaune Arc Arc, not only did Yang, Weiss and Blake fade completely into the background whilst Ruby didn't, Ruby also got a nice bit of character development during her speech to Jaune.

- The Stray and Black and White once again forwent the development of Yang (understandable, she will get her own arc somewhere down the line... though I suspect it may also involve Ruby...) meanwhile it was focussed heavily on Sun, Blake and Weiss.And yet still a hefty amount of scenes were dedicated towards Ruby/Penny character development. Even more so really than what went into Sun/Blake.

To me it seems like Monty and co. see Ruby as the titular character and the one which they need to focus the most on. Sure you could chalk it up to Blake being difficult to write for Or Yang getting development later down the line, but that doesn't explain why Ruby got character development in almost every single episode to date whereas Yang got less lines of dialogue than Jaune and Blake, Weiss and Yang each went four episodes without doing much of anything whilst they developed Jaune and Pyrrha's characters.