Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160117163823/@comment-26018514-20160131101406

WC-83 wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: He was more of a best friend than Penny tbh... she's met Penny what... 3-6 times? she lives across the hall from Jaune and as team leader is responsible for arbitrating with him any issues the teams may have.

She is P.E.N.N.Y's best friend... the reverse is not necessarily true. What are you talking about? That's more times than Jaune, and the vast majority were more personal than Jaune's. And it was Penny was the one who wanted to be friends in the first place (Ruby was werided out in fact). But they eventually became best friends.

hardly, again... Penny and Ruby's interactions can be counted on less than one hand, while she actually lives with RWBY and Jaune(and by extention JNPR), bonding with the latter on their first week of school(initiation as well as the walk in which both were lost) and various chats about what it means to be a team leader.

Penny is therefore only confirmed as a friend by supporting evidence, granted she shared her deepest secret which Ruby fully embraced, but that was only after it was made almost impossibly obvious, and Ruby has shown no indication she wouldn't accept anyone who attempted as much, indeed her character indicates she would accept anyone as a friend.