User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Lesson 18: Ruby, why you so bad with faces?/@comment-25234389-20140801022412/@comment-108.16.0.12-20140801031717

I never thought she was cliche. In the first episodes, she was pretty cliche, true, but as the show progressed, we got to see that Weiss is actually a lot more than the sum of her parts. We got to see that she's not just some rich, entitled brat; that she's smarter than most and has more common sense than the other main characters. She just as a icy disposition. We also learned about her struggles and flaws, and got to see a kinder side of her that didn't really blossom until the end of the volume. Now, her kinder side is exposed for the world to see, as she's had time to get to know her team and care about them. She's willing to speak her mind and call out Blake for her distant attitude as of late, which was in all honesty my favorite part of the episode (the chair jump was completely random and out of nowhere, though). Seriously, Ruby and Yang weren't saying a thing! Props to Weiss for being so proactive and aggressive! But, I'm happy to say, she's still her usual rude self despite all that, as evidenced by her exchange with Jaune (poor guy). People don't give her enough credit; she's only a bitch to people who piss her off, like Ruby did in volume 1.

But I really do see what you're saying. As a character, Weiss is only getting better, and the board game scene makes me wonder if Weiss really is going to try and take over the world at some point. That was intense!