Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24183436-20131118140639/@comment-209421-20140214023054

There's just something about Ruby. Her innocence, perhaps, or her social awkwardness, that suggests that she'd be kinda oblivious to a guy's interest. Or another girl's, should they decide to add in a yuri pairing with her in it. As a fanfic writer, I've worked with that. A scene focusing on Ruby and Weiss, with Ruby completely unobservant as to the fact that she's being flirted with. And YES, I know White Rose is kinda overdone, but the way I've written Weiss, it works. Plus, I've got plans, and in Ruby's romantic life, she don't fit in. Ruby's just more interested in weaponry than socializing and relationships. Hell, if she could declare her scythe as her boyfriend/girlfriend, I'm pretty sure she'd consider it. She's just got that touch of geekiness to her, the same way Pyrrha is socially awkward and Nora is completely and utterly hyperactive.

Blake and Sun makes one HELL of a lot of sense to me. Aside for their shared heritage of being faunus, Blake seems a LOT more relaxed around him than she does around her teammates. I mean, look at episodes 15 and 16. Sure, none of her team noticed she was a faunus, but she was more willing to talk about her past with Sun, whom she barely knew, than the friends that she spent an extended period of time with. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind Bumblebee, and I include homages to it every now and then. (Events that happened in the past, mostly, and an OC that ended up looking like a male Blake), but the Black Sun pairing is more the one I prefer. As it stands, from a shipping point of view, Sun fits into two different relationships well. With Blake, and with Weiss. Hard to believe as it is, I do see Sun and Weiss as an interesting relationship, although one that the team will probably never touch on. Jaune fits into relationships with Ruby and Pyrrha well, and Ren... well, Ren only fits with Nora, because she's about the only person that he's interacted with properly. Not to mention that Noren is incredibly, utterly, cute. I'm just waiting to see more male characters their age, or details fleshed out about Team Cardinal. Cardin is a thug, and hard to pair with anyone, while the others have received next to no characterization.

Not to mention Gavin's character... Hands up if you want him to have a relationship with Sun that reverses the Michael/Gavin real world friendship - Sun makes the stupid bets, and Gavin's character does them.