User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Mount Glenn: Well.../@comment-25641997-20141010051023

First of all, Weiss gets her own paragraph because I love her so damn much! Anyway, it's interesting to note that her pride in her family stems in their reputation from before her father took control of the company. She clearly wants the Schnees to be a respected force for good, as they assumedly were before, and she'll come into conflict with her old man (and possibly Winter) to achieve that end. She recognizes that her father has made questionable decisions regarding the way the SDC is run, and true to her independant nature, she disagrees with his actions. She also shows more insight and direction than Blake and Yang, being the first to realize what being a Huntress really means and having a clear goal of what she wants to do with her life. For someone who is one of the more tragic characters in the show, she gets her shit together very nicely. However, there is something that's bothering me: does Weiss acknowledge the SDC's attitude towards faunus as part of its moral greyness? I'm fine with her discarding her discriminatory beliefs, but if it all happened in off-screen character development, I'd be pissed. That, to me, was a very interesting trait of hers, both in the fact that her beliefs were shaped by her family's experience and that they weren't spurred by blind hatred. I hope it will be addressed in the show. Okay, Weiss rant over.

As for the character development, the WBY scene was my favorite part of the episode, personally. The three engaged in a mature discussion, spurred by some very smart question-asking on Oobleck's part, and we learned more about them from it. Aided by great voice acting and dialogue, the scene made me feel for all three of them. The thing I like most, however, is that they didn't suddenly resolve their issues; they just accept that those issues come second to their job and pushed their insecurities aside for now. Weiss still has issues with her childhood and we still haven't seen the more tragic, lonely side of her from the White trailer; Blake still has no idea what she wants to do with her life and is still sore about her and Adam going separate ways, and Yang seems totally lost; while she realizes the flaw in her motivation, she, like Blake, hasn't though too far ahead. I personally think that the characters are developing nicely and at a good pace. It's a huge step up from volume 1, as much as I loved it, and I'm really looking forward for WBY to get even more development in the future. It seems that now, the three are accepting that their issues are present; now all that's left is to actually deal with them.

And can I just say that Ruby has shown considerable growth by choosing to call her team for backup instead of charging right in? Way to go, Ruby!