Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30231630-20170619022646/@comment-4010415-20170619175734

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote: Eh, Weiss has still had more development than Ruby, it feels like. I know. It's just that, apparently, for some people, Blake and Yang have had even less development than Ruby. Yet no one has voted for Weiss, even though she's gotten less development than Blake.

Ohhh. Yeah.

84.195.99.91 wrote: I honestly think Ruby not being the most complex person is the point, she is after all the Simple Soul that is supposed to save the world. Important to mention is that she's younger, it might not seem like it matters but two years is a lot to a teenager. I can tell you I was a drastically different person at 17 than I was at 15.

The issue is that Ruby is a boring character to watch. Yeah, she's the Simple Soul, but that doesn't mean she has to be a boring character who's little more than a canvas that's empty except for a dot in the middle.

Right now, I find her scenes less interesting than the ones focusing on the other three members of Team RWBY unless there's actual plot stuff going on, and then the plot is what is interesting in that scene, not Ruby. So often, Ruby is either just a piece of the background or a puppet that the writers use to act upon the environment and move the plot. So... uhh, I guess what Arkantos said is a good summary: a plot device masquerading as a character.

Also, 15-year-olds tend to have more substance to them than Ruby currently has. Sure, they may be the shallow end of the swimming pool, but Ruby is a puddle.