Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-14909251-20151119223034

Phantomlink959 wrote: So cliche but true to character is worse than completely OOC as long as it's not predictable?

No relationship is truly out of character. Some may require more effort by writers to set up a situation where the relationship makes sense in character, but that is what you have to do to avoid cliché storylines.

DiegoAnime3000 wrote: Yang and Neptune = The Beauty and the Nerd = Pyrrha and Jaune Weiss and Sun = Clichest forgiven romance ever

To be fair, one can easily label all possible pairings of this story as cliche because the characters are entirely based on archetypes. It's how the story handles the romance that marks the difference. While the forbidden romance can be a cliché, it does not mean every iteration of it is a cliché. Blake and Sun is completely cliché. Same as Weiss and Neptune. They are the exact relationships you expect to happen because you have seen them so many times when writers are not really trying to be imaginative with the romantic relationships. RWBY is, after all, not a romance series so it is predictable that they would put less effort into that aspect of the series.

Personally, I don't see how Yang and Neptune would be "Beauty and the Nerd" as neither are particularly nerdy and both are physically attractive.