Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20181210223145/@comment-14909251-20181221045347

73.Anon.52 wrote: 1. You are incorrect on both your examples

Seeing as you basically contradicted yourself on one of those, I will just hold out for someone providing actual proof on the other. Not seeing how your argument would really help the idea of "they couldn't work on Yang's friends" if you are suggesting they have some free-roaming ideas and concepts to call upon to fill completely unplanned roles. A highly convenient "they used the only ones they had" retort would not be compelling.

2. Again, they had to be mentioned because Yang being "popular/friendly" was important to her character, there will be plenty of such people in any story told about charismatic people, It's not like too many people know Hitler's childhood political successes/friends, despite his ability later to make an entire country kill for him and subvert their own better instincts.

How the hell did you Godwin this thread? Also, the idea that her being popular and friendly was important to her character, but actually having some concepts of at least one of her friends was not important is absurd.

3. You misunderstand, had her friends come over and been rebuffed Yang would have looked like a pretty cold bitch, especially when she later screamed at Blake that she needed her. It would have made Yang less likeable and more like Raven. As it was she genuinely appears to have needed RWB because no-one her age even tried to visit.

What is with people here thinking they can perfectly predict exactly how a thing will play out? She could look cold if they played it wrong, but it isn't that hard to make a depressed and anxious person shutting out friends look understandable. After all, her whole state for most of Volume 4 was someone shutting herself away from others and trying to learn to stop. My takeaway from her arc was definitely not that she "needed" her team as that goes against personal growth. She needed to be stronger and better as a person before she could reunite with her team.