Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20141218201832/@comment-209421-20141219145128

LiveandSound wrote: I wonder what would happen if Ruby ever played Shin Megami Tensei.....probably the same as me and lose her faith in mankind.

And...why attempted rape?

My way of forcing Ruby to come to confrontation with her differences with Yang. She goes to a group of criminals with Weiss and Blake, intending to put pressure on them to find out whether or not Yang knows where they are. (basically, the girl goes full on PANIC MODE - ESCAPE BEFORE FRIENDS ACCUSE THIS OF BEING INTENTIONAL kind of stuff, in order to make the story more than just a crime drama). Of course, none of the three are as brutal in dealing with these men as Yang was, and there's a bounty on her head placed by the City of Vale, which has bypassed Ozpin's authority and collaborated with Atlas once again to find the girl and bring her to face trial. So, the criminal suggests an old warehouse. Ruby goes, expecting this to be easy, only for the room to be totally full of thugs. Weiss signals backup, and so Pyrrha, Nora and Teams SSSN and CVFY come to to the rescue. End result - Weiss is blue from freezing herself in an ice crystal, Blake's clothes are in tatters, and Ruby's faith in humanity is damaged, although not totally destroyed.

Again, this is what I've gleaned from about... uh, seven scraps of paper I've scrawled upon at work, plus a few mental notes from my daily commute-plotting exercises. It is NOT a confirmed event in the story, just a potential one, although my proofreader refuses to read over this one for me, claiming "It'll be too dark." The same guy talked me out of my original story path, where Ruby kills all four members of Team CRDL in revenge for them killing Jaune and running to Torchwick. I'm happier with the story I've been working on than I would have been with the original story path, but I'd like to go back to the darker side and my older ideas. I might cut the scene, though, and figure out a new way for the girls to figure out that Yang's methods don't work for them. Not sure yet.