Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-4010415-20150123115603

Yeah, 73 is right. Team RWBY's development is related to the main plot, while Team JNPR's development is related to side stories and a lot of the worldbuilding.

The SDC and White Fang are related to the main plot, hence Weiss and Blake's involvement and development. Raven, whoever she is, has some kind of connection to Yang and may end up being an important component of the main story. Ruby is apparently the "simple soul" of the story, and so far, the writers are trying to hold onto her child-like, almost naive innocence and purity.

I'm hoping that when she does "slowly grow out of" being "weak without her scythe," it'll be brought on by character development, like something bad happens to her and she realizes or is told that she needs to learn how to deal without her scythe. Maybe she barely manages to escape the situation with those skateboarding skills they "foreshadowed."