User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/Kneejerk reaction to "Raven Branwen"/@comment-3257939-20150825052021/@comment-4010415-20150825062343

Kinda makes me think... There's actually a term for when the audience knows something the characters don't: dramatic irony.

RWBY keeps using dramatic irony. They show us things that make something obvious to us, but none of the other characters get a good enough look to figure out what we have.

Take Blake being a Faunus for example.


 * We saw the Black Trailer, but the only other character who actually saw the events in that trailer was Adam. Well... maybe Qrow might have, as well, considering the crow. Point is that Ruby, Weiss, and Yang had no clue about Blake being on that train.


 * The story was laid out in a way where the Black Trailer, the news report about the White Fang, and Blake's mention of the SDC having controversial labor forces lined up for us, but these are things that occurred in their world in a way where they wouldn't have made any such connection. We don't even know if Weiss saw that news report, and the stuff about the White Fang is kind of old news to them, whereas this was the first we had heard about them.


 * When Blake's ears twitched, I think Yang was looking at her face. I'm not sure she noticed it. And Yang wasn't there when Blake talked about the SDC.

We saw everything, lined up in a way where the dots were easily connected. The characters didn't. Dramatic irony.

As for Penny... Ehhhh... They probably thought she was some weird awkward girl or something, and it might have been too dark for Ruby to clearly see the swords come out of Penny's back.