Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140701202255/@comment-68.226.106.213-20140821044229

Just a crazy idea, but if the story does reach a point where there is a BIG Break the Cutie moment for Ruby, where a villain goes into a speech that tells Ruby why she sucks, three things really should happen/ be true: everyone of the things that the villain says to break her (blaming her for certain innocents coming to harm, since that seems to be the standard idea) is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, and speech must take place near a cliff (the villain would assume Ruby would give a Shut Up, Hannibal! remark and try to attack her, so it's best to keep Ruby somewhere that won't leave room for screw ups (assume Ruby is out of ammo for CR)). Third thing: villain assumes Ruby will try to attack them or attempt to jump to a safe spot just under the cliff, cause they assume Ruby will just refuse to say die. Ruby's action:

She cuts off the part of the cliff SHE'S standing on.

I know it's a dark idea, but I just want to see it happen. Red vs Blue did it VERY WELL with the revelation about Felix's true loyalties. The main reason I'd enjoy seeing it: it paints the villain as a master manipulator. They basically do the one thing none of the villains in the series have done before (assuming Cinder doesn't do it first): they break Ruby. It paints the character not only as evil but as the greatest manipulator in existence. If you can take the brightest light of hope and STAMP IT INTO OBLIVION WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT, then what hope does the rest of the world have?

Really, I just wanna see this if for no other reason than to see how badly it jars the heroes and even the villains. I wanna see if the teams could really function effectively after they witnessed something that crazy.