Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43891221-20190921134652/@comment-43897075-20190922032156

I agree with Kaityona Acheron. Rubys character development is in desperate need, and with the ending of Volume 6 implies more development may go to Weiss in Volume 7 instead. However, I also do think Glitchee123z and Blackchaos27 have the correct assumption in Ruby bottling everything up.

If you think about it, Ruby has gone through a lot for her age(Gonna avoid spoilers). Her mothers early death, attempting to stop terrorists, literally everything during Season 4(Pyrrah, Penny, Yang, Beacon), the whole ordeal with Ozpin and Salem, the knowledge behind her eyes, etc.

There's no way Ruby, not even out of her teenage years, can handle the stress from all this. From what I would imagine, Ruby feels as if everything weighs on her; that the future of her team, RNJR, and possibly the future of mankind, is dependant on how she preforms.

Being a Team Leader, Ruby would imagine her duty as Team Leader to always be strong and unfallable, no matter the situation. I would say it is possible, sometime during Volume 7, Ruby would have major character development. It wouldn't be a stretch to think everything she's bottled up - throughout the many volumes - may arise, and wouldn't that be a huge potential for character development?

Knowing all of this, I would say it could be very possible that Ruby not having character development is intentional, and RT is building up to something bigger. Rather a slow, gradual change throughout several volumes, I would imagine Rubys character development to be done in one big, emotional scene. An "all at once" change I suppose, but hopefully done right.

That is my thoughts on what may be occurring, as no one can predict the future.