Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170112165458/@comment-4010415-20170121154009

KNN005 wrote: 1. Not using or even trying to master his semblance is a cowardly cop out.

2. As smart as Ren is he still isn't using his semblance. Why? Just cuz.

3. Why is Ruby not even wondering about Silver Eye use for Grimm battle? Just cuz.

4. Why did Jaune go on a perilous journey to Haven with still no full scope of Aura use or better sword skills? Just cuz the writers say so.

5. Hell Weiss is in Atlas's and hasn't seen Flynt at all. Why? Just cuz.

6. Oh Glynda is working with people to fix Vale and Beacon. Why cant we get to see that? Just cuz. TV short mini scene all we gonna get. No talking no battle or drama. Just cuz. 1. In volume 2, Pyrrha said that Jaune needed to undergo Aura-related training to figure out his Semblance. We've seen in Remembrance that he's still been following Pyrrha's training videos, so he probably has been working on it. We don't even know how most people discover what their Semblance is. For some, it might be complete accident. Was Yang's first haircut when they found out hers? How did Ruby discover hers? I think it was in the RTX Australia panel with Ruby and Yang that they implied we'll learn how Ruby discovered hers. For others, it might take some kind of special Aura-related training or meditation.

2. We don't even know what Ren's Semblance is, so we don't know if he hasn't been using it. It's like Roman using his cane's grappling hook to get up the ladder faster in V1E1. We didn't know he had that grappling hook until volume 2, and it suddenly made sense. For all we know, Ren's Semblance could be how he knew Tyrian was approaching Oniyuri.

3. The only time she activated her Silver Eyes was when she was emotionally distraught. She has no idea how to activate it on purpose, and until Qrow showed up to save her, she had no one who might have some clue how. However, when Qrow showed up, RNJR had more pressing questions to ask, and before they were all done asking questions, Qrow told them to get some sleep and left to take a walk. Seriously, Qrow told them to get some sleep, and Ruby only had time to ask one more question: "Why can't you trust me?" Which led to his Semblance explanation, followed by him walking away and saying he didn't have anything else he wanted to tell them that night.

4. Probably figured he'd work on it on the way there and there was no time to just stay in one place and take the time to train and practice. That, and Beacon's a wreck, so maybe he thought that he'd get more formal training in Haven and make do with practicing, using Pyrrha's videos, and getting experience in the field on the way. No one in RNJR knew that someone was actually going to go after them.

Their idea of what was going to happen was most likely that they'd travel to Mistral, fight occasional Grimm on the way, get to Haven, and tell the headmaster "We know who's behind the attack on Beacon. Her name is Cinder Fall, and she was posing as one of your students! She also had help from Emerald Sustrai, Mercury Black, and (insert Neo's fake name here). We can tell you what they look like and point them out for you!" Boom - Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury (and they'd hope Neo) would be brought to justice. They had no idea there was more behind all of that than just Cinder. Ruby assumed Tyrian was saying he worked for Cinder and was confused who Qrow was talking about when he said "Salem".

Do you really, seriously think Jaune thought he would fight anything tougher than a few Grimm? He fared well with allies by his side at the fall of Beacon. Surely he believed he was ready to face Grimm along the way and thought that, with an entire Huntsman Academy banded together, they could find a way to bring Cinder to justice.

5. Why? Because Weiss hasn't left the Schnee home and ended up grounded in it. Jacques seems against the idea of Weiss following in Winter's footsteps.

6. Because the only thing going on with Glynda is "Fight some Grimm in this area, put a building back together, move on to the next area, fight Grimm, put building back together, move on to the next area..." Nothing plot important. Now, if a significant plot event happens on Beacon's campus, we may see Glynda because she'll be in the front row to a plot event. Otherwise... probably not.

KNN, Rooster Teeth only has a couple of hours overall to work with for the events of a single volume. Each volume of RWBY is basically one movie. They have to sit down and prioritize what all events and characters are actually significant enough to show, look at how much time they have left to work with after that, and then choose from the less important things while deciding whether or not those fit well with the important stuff.

We already have fans elsewhere complaining that volume 4 is sooo boriiiing because it's a buildup to volume 5, without delegating parts of volume 4 to characters who have no involvement, present nor future, in the plot at hand.