Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190413013142/@comment-37471367-20190515171239

Glitchee123z wrote: And then they all went along with the airship heist like nothing.

Oh yeah, and Weiss only questioned their mission ''one time. And even then that was probably the Apathy beginning to take over.'' Yang only once too, but that was before Brunswick. Nothing changed with Blake. Ruby meanwhile continues to be a flat character who will go along with the mission no matter what. Even a single shred of doubt in her mind would be enough.

I would argue that

a.) That’s verbal instances. How about their expressions? The visual hints of being demoralized. You don’t have to have characters spell it out in a way that translates to “I am uncertain about why we’re doing this.”

b.) You forget that we only see twenty minutes worth of what happens in their story, which in this case spans a few days. Plenty of time to question it, granted it would be off screen. Again, do they have to spell it out for everybody who’s not taking or lack any form of experience with reading people?

If you want to look at anything responsible for not giving you what you asked for aside from writers, blame the leaders of the team, namely Maria and Ruby. Why? Because there the ones that basically tell everyone to drop their Yangst (I will not apologize for that) and focus on the mission. A move I frankly applaud them for because IRL, taking time to doubt, lament or other wise worry about any monumental and usually very difficult task does nothing to help anything or anyone.

That said, I’ll entertain what you seek. Writing wise, the best time for them to do that would be after a major setback. Doesn’t have to be Atlas being destroyed, but it’s gotta be enough for doubt to happen. Them just stopping and talking about their feelings would not make sense otherwise.