Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.94.50.112-20131215233249/@comment-17711744-20131220185626

Maki Kuronami wrote: I find this ironic. We believed Blake to be the calm and collected type. Turns out she can be emotional and reckless. Which I think is one of the great flaws in her characters. Obviously, all characters need to have their weaknesses, or they just don't work as characters. Ruby is naive and immature, Weiss is bigotted and self-entitled, Yang is extremely cocky (at least, that's the feeling I get after watching her strut into a bar by herself and wreck the place after not finding the information she was looking for), and Blake has moments in which we get to see just how out of hand her normally sheilded emotions can get. In addition, she seems to be a very distrusting person, and has been shown to cut her losses a little quickly (ie, abandoning both Adam and Team RWBY at various points, when she had an obvious attatchment to both parties). And this is just the shortened list of their character flaws, to not even mention the plethora of other flaws we've see in the show's many other characters.

My point being: Despite the constant danger and epic fight scenes they constantly find themselves in the middle of, the main cast are all still teenagers. They obviously have a world of growth, on a number of levels, still left to undergo. Yet, this is what humanizes them (or Faunusizes them, not to discriminate) and what makes them what could arguably be one of the most relatable and lovable casts of characters I've ever seen in a series.