Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181215021300/@comment-4010415-20181218035409

Jyzuru wrote:

2 - it was real easy for her to use them when in a state of not caring about anything due to Apathy, they're gonna make it seem like its hard to trigger but when she could find the motivation to want to protect people when being put into a state of not caring about anything, they'll find a way to make her use them in a stressful situation Actually, they kinda foreshadowed Ruby being able to fight the Apathy's effects earlier in the episode.

It wasn't the jumpscare of seeing glowing eyes in the well that snapped Ruby out of the Apathy Effect. She had actually snapped out of it before that. Her pupils are the indication of this.

She walks over to the well, with her pupils becoming huge like everyone else's, to the point where her irises are mere slivers. She holds the Relic over it, but she hesitates. She just stands there, hand shaking, staring at the Relic. Then, she closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, and when she opens her eyes, her pupils are back to their usual size.

She snapped out of it on her own before she even saw the eyes in the well. In fact, she was starting to pull the Relic back when she saw it.

So this foreshadowed her being able to fight the Apathy Effect better than her teammates. Even when Weiss was struggling to get to the stairs and Blake was just lying on the floor, Ruby was still fighting. She forced out the words "Blake, get up", showing that she wasn't too apathetic to care about Blake's safety. She crawled toward Blake and reached for her, still fighting to save her. When she couldn't summon the strength to get closer and stop the Apathy from reaching to hurt Blake, Ruby felt that sense of "I want to protect her, but I can't do anything!" that she got when she saw Pyrrha die.