User blog comment:Zolnir/RWBY Episode 3 Short Speculations/@comment-5217560-20130804192442/@comment-5217560-20130805170747

Exactly! Or even on a lessor scale, like Death from Soul eater(extremely playful, yet when it was time to get serious he got serious), or some other reference that my mind is failing to bring up at the moment. What I'm saying is, it's probably one of those "Not the time, nor the place" moments.