Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-70.164.251.83-20180327025457

RaijinRising wrote: Desireepurnellsandi wrote: I...don't know how to put this in retrospect. She seems to be doing just fine on her part. 'Course I want hear a change in her voice, like a mature young woman. Also, I want to see some Spyro (TLOS) mentality within her character.

That's something I've thought about before. I've wanted to ask the RWBY VAs, Lindsay Jones for Ruby especially, "As the series progresses, would you change your voice as a marker for them getting older?"

70.164.250.74 wrote: ToonRadio wrote: Ruby is the type of protagonist that does not change and does not have to. She is an instrument for change in others. Yes, but that would make her seem like a hollow shell rather than a real protagonist. I agree with ToonRadio for the most part. I disagree in that I believe she does have to change, or at the very least, she has to be put into some sort of conflict in which she decides if or how much she needs to change. Because that will help her be an instrument for change in others.

Ruby is the "smaller, more honest soul" Ozpin referenced in the series' premiere episode. The creative team is really sticking to that, but the way Ruby is, she's had so little development that it seems like she's sticking around more for the plot's sake than her own as a character.

I've argued before that Ruby's seeming lack of change shows that she has developed to an extent. She was the personification of innocence/naivety in Volume 1, but when Volume 3 shattered that, she became the personification of purity. She knows how horrible the world is yet is still working to help it. Need I remind you that Ruby is the MAIN. CHARACTER. Hell, the very first episode is even NAMED after her. And yet she’s just an instrument for change? Bull. She might as well be just a minor character, but no, she’s the main protagonist. Name on main character that doesn’t change throughout the story where they should’ve.