Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-26018514-20180415075236

HeartshiningXX wrote: On the topic of Ruby's character development I'm going to quote someone who really hits the nail on the head.

"The problem with Ruby and how Miles and Kerry are writing her to be is that I feel they're are delaying her development for some sort of shock value in later volumes that they have planned....they're trying to store some big thing with her to crash down her world or something akin to the Raven reveal"

...the problem with what they are doing is that as a result they've developed almost every other character better ... the story isn't revolving properly around her like it should which is what I assumed they had planned for her character since the beginning.

...The thing is, for the story to revolve around her they need her character development done right in which it ties the story to her instead of having the plot move forward without her... thus it looks like nothing affects her since after bad things happen to her she always goes back to being happy like it didn't affect her at all...

...the groundwork is there and the subtle changes that people often point out definitely is the character development, but its not done quite right...

...since Ruby is the main character and we see how her personality is plus how it's obvious that the plot was meant to revolve around her given her potential, she is basically meant to be portrayed as the "Paragon". All the problems we see with Ruby in regards her character and the character development for her being portrayed... as a Paragon ineffectively...

Ruby has the ... potential and personality needed to be a paragon - but it’s not explored properly.

The biggest major points of a paragon is how they affect the story as a whole, how they draw other characters to them, and how they affect others...

...Ruby was good in volume 1-3, but, in volume 4-5 where we were supposed to see some major changes and character development we are instead seeing her “pushed to the side” for other characters...

...Volume 4 is where they were setting up the groundwork for Ruby’s development. She and her team had just gotten out of a traumatic situation and ... The only problem is we only get only a few subtle scenes of her seeming upset about the issue of their situation and the death of ONLY Pyrrha and then we see all her problems solved in one talk with Jaune and then a letter to Yang... which is a let down...

There’s also the fact that some scenes where Jaune was involved they dumbed down the rest of the character to make him seem smart. The took away the characteristic of Ruby... gave it to Jaune saying that he was the strategist when Ruby is too... “pushing Ruby to the side”. I don’t think Miles and Kerry knew what they were doing to Ruby by doing that...

...So since in volume 4 they were putting up the groundwork for her we expected/were supposed to see it come to fruitition/payoff in volume 5...

The problem is that it doesn’t flow right - there isn’t any payoff...

Essentially just breaking down your post as much as possible as it is often hard to read text walls, it's pretty good stuff there is just a lot of it(and it's ALL bolded).