Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-4010415-20150911182940

Around the time she was introduced to them:


 * We all remember when she met Weiss. No conversation about parents there. Just clumsiness, bitchiness, explosions, and grudges.


 * When she met Jaune: "Hi" "Aren't you the guy who threw up?" "Motion sickness is common!!! My name is Jaune." "I'm Ruby, and this is my bigass scythe gun." "Whoa wtf all I have is a sword and shield. It's a hand-me-down." "Sounds like a family heirloom. That's cool. Not many people have an appreciation for the classics." "Yeah, the classics. *Feels so much better about himself now*" "Where are we going, btw?" "I have no idea." The only mention of a mom was Jaune saying "My mom always says that... Nevermind."


 * When she met Blake and actually got to have a conversation with her:

Ruby: I love books. Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters... They're one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress!

Blake: (laughing a little) And why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?

Ruby: Well, I'm hoping we all will. As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books... Someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves!

Blake: That's... very ambitious for a child. (her smile turns into a frown) Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale.

Ruby: Well, that's why we're here! To make it better.

And then Ruby and Yang got into a playful fist fight, and Weiss showed up to be angry again.


 * When she met Penny: She called Penny friend, Penny was like "OMG I HAVE A FRIEND NOW" and later, she ended up talking to Penny about how Blake ran away.


 * When she ran into Penny in volume 2, the only mention Ruby made of her parents was that show knows the feeling of having a father who worries a lot.


 * Nothing in Extracurricular, just Ruby, Weiss, and Yang being worried about Blake, and Blake being all "I don't have time for the dance!!!!!"


 * Ruby barely got any spotlight in Burning the Candle. It was mainly her moping that Blake won't go to the dance and being asked to pick a table cloth but being unable to see the difference in the options (Weiss must have been given fancy shmancy lessons about classiness for get-together festivities). The rest was dance stuff and then Ozpin giving his Dumbledore-esque speech to Ruby about how happy memories like the dance bring people closer together and that closeness helps them make it through darker times because that totally isn't foreshadowing at all.


 * Dance Dance Infiltration: Ruby investigated the woman (Cinder) running across rooftops in a really janky way and then fought her in the CCT.


 * The only conversation Ruby had relating to family in Field Trip was "Oooh something from home!" about the package, being excited that Zwei was there, and Yang mentioning that their father does that kinda thing a lot. The rest of everything she said was related to the plot stuff about the antagonists, what they were gonna do about it, and their mission.


 * Absolutely no talk from her about family in Search and Destroy. Instead, we got a touching talk from Oobleck about why he became a huntsman. Absolutely nothing from Ruby about why she wants to be a huntress.


 * Mountain Glenn: Weiss, Blake, and Yang talked more in-depth about why they want to be huntresses. Nothing from Ruby. All we really got about Ruby in that regard was what Yang said: "I'm not like Ruby, she's always wanted to be a Huntress. It's like she said, ever since she was a kid, she'd dreamt about being the heroes in the books. Helping people and saving the day, and never asking for anything else in return. Even when she couldn't fight, she knew that's what she wanted to do. That's why she trained so hard to get where she is today." And then Ruby followed Zwei outside and fell in a hole.


 * Nothing but fighting in No Brakes and Breach.

So, yeah, once again, I'm not finding anything remotely like what you said.