Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20181210223145/@comment-14909251-20181219215136

73.Anon.52 wrote: You're barely reading this aren't you...

IF they had fully realized characters, requiring no animation budget, then yes you'd be right... But they likely didn't/don't.

I am very closely reading your comments. This may come as a shock to you, but intelligent people are quite capable of reading your comments, fully comprehending them, and still having legitimate disagreements with your opinions. RT created an entire team for Velvet, who was supposed to be a one-off, and they created Neo for Roman, who was also supposed to be a one-off.

Given that Yang's friends were specifically referenced right at the beginning and thus had more logical reason to be characters they would have considered creating, it is bizarre there would be no introduction of a single one. No need to create the whole bunch really. Just having one or two of them would have been sufficient. Writing-wise it just seems sloppy to bring up early on that a major character has close friends in the same area yet somehow never runs into them or meets up with them over the course of four seasons, even in situations where one would expect such encounters.

Depressed Yang could have used friends, but to present them lowers her emotional dependency on RWB. They didn't have to be successful. Rather, her shutting out friends she has nearby would only drive home her fragile emotional state.