Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.232.230.34-20130719223612/@comment-11188061-20140125143648

Watch closely how she fights in Red Trailer and you can be sure to call her a strategist at the very least. There was clear thinking process involved in the battle with the Beowolves:

1) Semblance use for immediate surprise factor, close-ranged gunshots on the closest Beowolves before using the opening to unlock Crescent Rose.

2) Creating distance and use that chance to unleash a couple of sniper shots to thin the enemy before flexing Crescent Rose in melee, and creating more distance with some acrobatics.

3) Baiting the Beowolves to come after her - usually it's impossible to change direction or velocity in mid-air - and using Crescent Rose sudden boost her, cutting them down one by one since they're the ones who could not dodge her strikes now.

4) FInally, the moment she sees that there's too many enemies to handle the normal way, immediately uses her trump card (cross clips + Semblance) without hesitation to completely overturn the odds in one terrific steel tornado.

You say that Ruby is naive, inexperienced and reckless, but she clearly showed neither of those traits in the Red Trailer. Her performance there was what I call a 'perfect' battle, since she made no mistakes at all.

If she's naive, she might've thought she could solo them all down without the Cross Clips. If she's inexperienced, she would've easily been caught off guard by the Beowolves, since they try to swarm her from all directions. And yet throughout the entire fight, they only landed one hit out of so many, and that was blocked perfectly''. ''If she's reckless, she would not have fought the Beowolves with such calculated moves to begin with.

And what we see in Episode 1?

1) Nearly getting skewered and burned like barbecue by Weiss' rapier (someone write a White Rose fanfic on this) and go, 'Pssh, like that'll happen', when it would have if Weiss didn't cut herself off mid-flight. She could not have dodged it from that position, and the strike was from her blind spot. That was not the kind of mistake I expected from a person who fought off a swarm of Beowolves solo.

2) As said above, charging headfirst towards a Deathstalker like an idiot. That was completely pride and eagerness that blinded her, I agree, but WTF on that lack of common sense.

3) Caught off guard, you know, by Roman repeatedly. He used the same tactic twice in Episode 1, and she still fell for it (smokescreen in front of store, explosion after distraction with red crystal) again in Episode 16? How the hell is this even the same girl as the one in Red Trailer?