Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20141218201832/@comment-209421-20141219131943

Zolnir wrote: Ruby doesn't mind brutalization on the Grimm though.

That's just it, though. She does it idealistically. She doesn't do it to be brutal, she does it because that's how she was trained to fight what she was brought up to believe is soulless and evil incarnate. Her view on becoming a huntress is that of a fairy tale. As much as it's been tested, she's still idealistic and still believes that what she's doing is right, and that the fairy tale ideals are correct.

That's one facet of her life. We haven't seen her fighting other people with her scythe, only robots and Grimm. What we have seen, from the food fight at least, is that she fights fair. She didn't use her semblance until Pyrrha used hers. Would she go all-out in such a brutal way against other people? No clue.

However, what I can extrapolate is that she's naive, innocent in any matter beyond fighting monsters (I.E. I drink milk! and her gawking moments) and still holds a child's belief in the polar sides - good and evil. What we can see is that she's the only member of her team that's so polarized in black and white. Blake's lived on both sides, so she knows that the world is pretty grey. Likewise, Weiss lived through the White Fang's private war against her family. She knows what her father does isn't entirely morally right, though, so she shows understanding of the gray principle. Yang clearly does, judging by her mentality and the fact that she interrogates criminals through physical violence. This is part of my justification on Ruby's innocence. If she's crossed that line from her childlike perception of good into something that far beyond what most would class grey (Cannibalism is, in most peoples eyes, a barbaric and evil act. Look at Hannibal Lector for my proof), then she's no longer the character she once was, and it's disturbing to read with a childhood and adolescent development set of classes sitting in your mind.