Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-32347396-20170905022227/@comment-4010415-20170908002914

After some discussion elsewhere, it kinda came down to the briefest explanation being that the big problem with how Ruby has been shown as of late is that we rarely get to see what's beneath the surface anymore, we barely get to see that emotional level of her, how her emotions connect to whatever is going on or whatever she's doing beyond a shallow amount, and her deeper motivations.

Weiss, Blake, and Yang's storylines in Volume 4 allowed us to see beneath the surface, see how their emotions connected to whatever was going on or whatever they were doing beyond a shallow amount, and what their deeper motivations were.

Yang didn't show it as intensely as Weiss and Blake did (and that's perfectly fine), but she did still show it, through her depressed attitude early on, her visible frustration after she had a flashback when she broke a glass, the nightmare she had, her confiding in the adults about what feels normal now and how she was scared, and the discussion she had with Tai during their break from their training session.

Ruby's emotional stuff definitely does not have to be negative emotions, all emo and angry and stuff. Positive emotions count too. The letter she wrote at the end of Volume 4 was a step in the right direction. That was the kind of thing we needed to hear from Ruby. Instead of being emo about what happened, she turned it around to use it as fuel for her determination to keep fighting. That was something beneath the surface. That was showing how she felt about what was going on. That was showing her deeper motivations!