Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151206164217/@comment-10390252-20151210161857

VedranTheII wrote: That…I can buy. What I still don’t get is what are Ruby’s important qualifications and what can she do that is so important it would need to be kept a secret while using Pyrrha as bait?

She is the Chosen One, can naturally reach the heart of any soul-possessing creature and is literally incapable of bigotry. She is also so completely focussed on justice and the protection of the innocent that she'll go chasing into battles she's not ready to fight. Furthermore, she has this strange quality of being followed. People just naturally seem to find themselves following her lead and making up justifications for doing so.

All these are far more important qualifications than fighting skills, which can be remedied by training. These qualities of the heart cannot be taught or even easiliy learned if the person does not have this raw openness and purity that Ruby enjoys.

Simply put, the Guardian is more than a warrior and more than a general. He or she is a light in the darkness; an ideal of ethics and morality. It is on that basis that Ozpin will make his choice, not whether the person has picked up formal fighting skills through his or her years.