Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-27144409-20190829012043/@comment-26397825-20190829024316

Lemme break down my point of view on the "How old was Ruby when Summer died" thing.

Yang said she was young, "too young to understand." Okay. But we have both seen and heard implication that Ruby remembers Summer, and as Chish pointed out to me elsewhere, you don't start keeping memories till you're about 3 years old. Even then, they're very faint and you start having actual decent memories of people and events when you're 4.

This means for Ruby to be able to remember Summer, as we have been shown and heard, she would be 3-4. The 3-4 year olds that I have seen are starting to gain the balance and coordination to make a pose like the one in that image, but still need naps during the day. And they're still classed as 'too young to understand' death.

This accounts for both that image, and the flashback we had of Yang pulling a wagon with a sleeping Ruby.

Yang is only 2 years older than Ruby, so going off these ages for Ruby would make Yang 5-6 when Summer died. This still fits in with the initial impression I got from that image of Ruby being 4-5 and Yang being 6-7. This also means that Yang has the strength  to actually bundle up Ruby in the wagon, as while a 4 year old is semi-coordinated, they don't really have the ability to pull a wagon with a toddler in the back over a forest path for a few hours.

Also, comparing different artstyles and saying one is 'wrong' because of limb length is entirely the wrong thing to do. Every artstyle goes for different proportions on limbs, especially when it comes to children. That's like comparing Sailor Moon and The Simpsons and saying Bart Simpson has to be 7 because his proportions are roughly the same as Sailor Mini Moon's in her first appearance, barring head size. We know this is wrong because we have definitive ages (which we don't for Ruby and Yang), but the art proportions makes it seem like they should be the same.

My point is, you can't decide Ruby is one age based on proportions alone, and should instead look at other facts as I (and others who gave me more information to work with) have done and explained.