Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-30975241-20190607023955/@comment-4010415-20190607051445

I don't see why you think Raven was "supposed to be a Revolution/Rebellion fighter", when we literally knew next to nothing about her before Volumes 4 and 5. We had absolutely zero reason to believe that she was meant to be that kind of character, and if that's what you were expecting her to be, it's not really Rooster Teeth's fault.

It's clear that she was intended to be a selfish and cowardly person whose ego is too large to let her admit to her cowardice. Besides, "she's a bandit" doesn't really give the impression of "she's a rebellious revolutionary."

To be honest, while I wouldn't be surprised if she did kill the Spring Maiden solely for her powers, I also wouldn't be surprised if she didn't kill her for her powers. If she's telling the truth about it being a mercy kill, it's entirely possible that it was only mercy from her twisted perspective. Either way, she acts as though she has a guilty conscience about it. That's not to say I think she regrets it, but rather that she knows that what she did wasn't 100% right.

As a side note, fans being upset that characters we had limited information about are drastically different from the detailed ideas they had laid out in their minds kind of reminds me of when RWBY first started.

Back when we only had the Red, White, Black, and Yellow Trailers, everyone had such little information about the show and Team RWBY that we all came up with our own ideas, and there was some upset about how certain characters turned out different - namely Ruby and, especially, Weiss.

As far as I remember, some of the expectations for Team RWBY based solely on the original trailers were:


 * Ruby = A totally badass experienced monster hunter who silently and seriously slays monsters with a smirk on her face.


 * Weiss = A famous singer who is quiet, prim, sophisticated and living a solemn life of loneliness.


 * Blake = A troubled freedom fighter who had to leave behind her partner who had stopped caring about innocent lives.


 * Yang = A flirtatious bounty hunter with a party-girl attitude who is possibly hunting Blake for the bounty she racked up fighting alongside Adam. (Monty actually had to go on Twitter and tell everyone that Yang wasn't looking for Blake)