Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20181210223145/@comment-26018514-20181219052806

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: I just explained why they didn't, as they are they are plot points they could revisit, as poorly concepted stand-ins they wouldn't have been. I don't see how they didn't have opportunity. Volume 3 was filled with tournament matches. Would it really have been hard for them to have one fight where some of her friends were involved? Had they really introduced the idea of her having friends at Beacon in the second episode of the series and never once gave thought to who any of them might be all the way through the third season, like not even one or two, then that is pretty bad. You're barely reading this aren't you...

IF they had fully realized characters, requiring no animation budget, then yes you'd be right... But they likely didn't/don't.

The writers are adapting detail to Monty's grand vision storyline, this means that the less important the character is to completing that story, or presenting RoC moments the less they have to work with without Monty. V3 was that first volume without him, and they were focused on RoC and other stuff that volume, they just didn't have time to waste on fleshing out peripheral characters enough to get to the point they could animate them.

You don't get a second chance on a first impression, and nowhere is that as true as animation. Yang having friends was important, Yang's friends were not. Depressed Yang could have used friends, but to present them lowers her emotional dependency on RWB.