Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-24.95.92.0-20131203011821/@comment-24.176.54.111-20140408154339

173.58.251.107 wrote: Ruby appeared in fifteen episodes, but was only really prominent in the first two. Everything else deals with Jaune and Blake's personal issues. I mean, after all, Ruby is only around long enough to get accepted into Beacon, kick off the series, decapitate a Nevermore, has the talk (of leadership) with Ozpin and pointing out that Phyrra can control poles and then helping Penny integrate into the series, she doesn't really have a prominent role this time.

As opposed to side character Jaune, who gets a fourth of the volume dedicated to his pride issues, and Blake, who gets two of the longest episodes in the volume dedicated to her own issues, while the rest of it focuses on Jaune getting his aura unlocked by Phyrra and explaining the backstory, Monty/Ren killing a gigantic oversized spaghetti noodle, and Nora eating up half an episode with what is basically Nora/Ren shipping denial. Add that to Ozpin's really long speech about wasted potential and his similarly long speech, and the fact that half the volume are fight scenes which, while really awesome and a testament to Monty's work, don't really have much in the way of character development outside of showing that everyone can do damage in an admirable and effective fashion.

All in all, the show RWBY is more about Blake and Jaune, at the moment. Maybe the next volume will improve on the character development thing. I disagree. Episodes 1-3, while short when added together, were all about mainly Ruby. The initiation episodes were about the whole cast. If Ruby had been the one to get her aura unlocked or do the unlocking, or if she fought the King Taijitsu, then it would probably come off less as giving her not enough screentime and more as Monty just shoving as much action into her time as possible. Also, if he gave most of those characters less screentime, then they wouldn't be as well developed--Ruby, however, already had 3 episodes dedicated to her and large portions of the initiation episodes, too. Bage and the Burden parts 1 and 2 were also mainly about Ruby. I will concede that most of the stuff past that was not about Ruby mainly, but I personally don't really see it as underhyping a main character. I think of it as more of an ensamble cast--Ruby is the main character, but so are Weiss, Blake and Yang, just barely below her on the character scale. It has also been stated that JNPR has evolved from side characters into main characters, as well. So, although I agree that Ruby definitely didn't get the most screentime in the series so far, I feel like more screentime for her wasn't really needed. (Just an opinion)