Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-69.171.163.41-20131117195632/@comment-25555436-20141112035027

Mm...for me, it's a bit hard to say, as how much I like a character is based not just on personality and looks, but also by their actions as the show goes by.

Ruby, I like her weapon, the baby of my 2 fav weapons. As for Ruby herself, it's hard for me to say it really. I don't hate her, though I can't bring myself to love her. I hate idealistic optimistic people, and that aspect of her I don't like at all. But, I can relate to her slight lack of social skills. She seems, backstory-wise, a bit...wasted.

While every other member of RWBY has some interesting reason to be a hunter, she's just a hunter because "I want to be a hero like in a fairy tale!", which is, specially compared to her teammates' reasons, very uninteresting, even if justified. I expected something more like "My mother used to be a great hunter, or so dad says. And I want to be a great hunter just like her!". Now that is more interesting in comparison.

Also, I still can't believe that she can be so optimistic and positive like a smiling rainbow of butterflies, despite having a possibly dead mother and a woobie father. I understand that she was about 2 years old max when it happened, so she may not remember much, but still, she should be at least somewhat sad by the feel of her mother "abandoning" her, like Red Like Roses Part 2 says. It's like she doesn't even care about Summer at all. I don't like that, yet I don't know who to blame for that exactly. Monty? Miles? Kerry? Someone else?

So, back to the point at hand...no, Ruby Rose is not my favorite character, but it's not along the list of hated characters. In fact, if I had to say which was my favorite RWBY character, I would say no one. For every reason I have to love a character, there are reasons that decrease my love for it making my thoughts of the character go to a neutral 0.

Yes, this includes CRDL. They are assholes, but they are so stereotypical and clichéd, it's actually funny. Sun, I at first thought he was great, but seeing how he became a joke and completely useless in Volume 2, specially at the finale, I was disapointed and lost my love for him. With Neptune, I expected nothing, got nothing, so 0. And the reasons go on and on with the rest.