Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-66.116.33.1-20141103215403/@comment-3146930-20141103230956

I think a lot of this can be explained away with a combination of Ruby's age and social awkwardness. Ruby is two years younger than any of the students at Beacon and around that age, two years is a big difference. As far as the boys Yang was checking out, Yang is a big flirt while Ruby is much more reserved around people she doesn't know. She also has her mind on her friends back at Signal, so her not having the same reaction to them as Yang is understandable.

Ruby also has her own problems making friends, she hasn't really made friends by herself directly with the exception of Jaune. Yang is her sister so they grew up together, but Blake and Ruby became friends as a result of Yang's intervention. Weiss and Ruby however seemed to grow on each other, but only started interacting when forced to team up in the forest. She is also only friends with JNPR because Jaune is part of the team.

As far as the dance goes, it isn't that odd she didn't have a date. Yang is played up as the social partier, but appears alone with the exception of her dance with Blake. She also never mentions asking a guy out or being asked. You could say it is because she was planning the dance, but so was Weiss and she asked Neptune. Jaune as well was also planning on asking her. Pyrrha and Jaune also went to the dance alone; you can also see a few students sitting by themselves during various scenes, so Ruby going by herself isn't that unusual. She also only looks at Weiss (or at least the camera moves to Weiss) when Yang mentions Weiss did a lot for the dance too. This could only be to show Neptune approaching Weiss after his talk with Jaune.

Everything else could just be the crew messing with us. The board game was heavily played with dramatic speeches and actions by the characters. Yes Ruby jumps into Weiss' arms, but Weiss hugs her back while they both cry; somewhat negating this as strong evidence. Also lots of characters don't seem to think of Jaune in a romantic way; Yang recoils when he shows up in a bunny onesie, Weiss refused him multiple times, Blake has never even talked to him, Nora may or may not have a thing for Ren, leaving Pyrrha the only one that actually likes him.

I'm not saying it isn't possible Ruby is the LGTB character mentioned by the cast, only that there isn't a lot of strong evidence supporting it that can't be explained away as being Ruby's social awkwardness mixed with her young age.