Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-410526-20160726070458

73.Anon.52 wrote: The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: I really don't like the idea of effectively creating a character just so Jaune can have someone. The thing about Ruby and Jaune is that it is probably one of the most cliché couplings you could imagine. Way too many franchises have the main girl and the main guy get together and they are often the first girl and boy, of the same rough age, to meet each other. They don't need to be created explicitly with that in mind... other characters will continue to be necessary to show growth regardless... I find the alternative(your logic taken to its extreme) almost more offensive... everyone should just be with everyone else created simultaneously. Not only does that stagnate the plot, it makes the world less believable I really don't think they should create a new character purely as a love interest for Jaune (or any character). Characters who only exist to be love interests for other characters are almost always boring because they only serve that one purpose in the story and have no independent character development, especially when they're introduced later in the storyline.

As a result, it usually feels as if a real and complete person (the established character) falls in love with a cardboard caricature (the newly-introduced shallow love interest). The alternative is introducing the love interest and then dedicating tons of screen-time to giving them character development, but I can't think of a better way to completely waste precious screen-time and piss people off than that.

There's also the fact that introducing new characters and slotting them into the main group tends to upset the dynamic. We've known RWBY and JN(P)R for 3 volumes now, we're familiar with how they interact and their relationships with one another. Imagine if out of nowhere, Neon Katt (for example) suddenly became part of the main cast, and appeared in every episode thereafter, got equal screen-time with Jaune and Ruby... I mean, it'd be weird, to say the least.