Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25045079-20140826195207/@comment-24993958-20141110221634

DiegoAnime3000 wrote: Wolf:


 * Loyalty (His friends always come first)


 * Cunning & Intelligence (He may not be the best in class but he is smart enough to sneak into Beacon and also made the plan to kill the Deathstalker)


 * Generosity (Gave advice to his love rival about the girl he likes even when he holds stronger feelings for the same girl)


 * Friendliness (Pyrrha said that he's the reason why her friendships will last a life time)


 * Compassionate (Even after everything Cardin did to him, Jaune still saved the guy)


 * Communication (He has never hesitate when talking to someone. He even ensured Ren that they will eventually go to that village showing to keep in touch with his teammates wishes)

Those were 6 out of 6. This one defines him better and yet Jaune's symbol is not a wolf. You tell me if chosing to use something as general as animals to define a character is a good idea. A wolf is also associated with a lack of trust, vindictiveness, and being recalcitrant (stubbornly refusing to obey rules or orders), none of which I would associate with Jaune, but that’s beside the point.

Using something as general as animals to define a character is a good idea…or at the very least it isn’t a bad one.

Let’s be clear here just because you are using an animal to associate with a character DOES NOT mean they have to follow every characteristic of said animal to the letter…contrast, character development and exploration are powerful tools that can be used to explore a character in any setting, and unlike stereotypes, animals tend to have more pros and cons to them and gives an author a certain degree of choice concerning which of the characteristics get a pass, which of them won’t and which of them will.

The reason I love the bunny however is that it further amplifies Jaunes black sheep status, a status he has had since his introduction to the show and has been nothing but amplified throughout this volume. He started the show with no gun while everyone else did, has no formal combat training while everyone else does, was willing to cheat to get what he wanted while everyone else has so far shown to earn it, has no sense of shame, and so on and so forth. Him having a symbol most would call CUTE while everyone else has one most would call COOL seems, to me at least, like a cool thing to do.