Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-33207690-20180415022115

'''They try to put her back in the spotlight in volume 5 as the paragon judging from how we now see the effort to show more Ruby but the problem is that they are still trying to delay her character development for the big reveal that they have later planned with her story instead of having her progress naturally. As a result, they don’t have her talk about her silver eyes and many we have interpret it as her holding in her feelings/ not wanting to face the trauma but if that was the case and if they didn’t want to bring up the silver eyes until a later volume they should’ve at least gave us a small scene where it shows that Ruby doesn’t want to talk about it. Instead we get no insight on her opinion about it and people just have to take it as she is dumb because they can’t force themselves to believe that she is holding it in when we weren’t given a scene to portray that in that volume.'''

'''The other issue is that by holding back on her silver eyes the have yet to connect her to the central story. She is just there and the plot is moving by itself. If she is a Paragon and the main character that is not how it’s supposed to happened - the story is suppose to revolve around her. By doing that they are essentially treating her as a side character while trying to put her in the spotlight.'''

'''Then we have the other issue in which we see them trying to highlight Ruby as special but the problem with that is that they “told it, and didn’t show it”. A paragon is suppose to inspire character development in other characters but the scenes where we are supposed to see how she affects other characters isn’t hitting the mark. This is because we don’t see the inner turmoil of Ruby’s character(you know, show her struggle period in which she questions herself or is challenged), how she overcomes her problems and how she affects others by her actions of overcoming her trauma and challenge. The scenes include Yang talking about how Ruby always knows what is right and that she will follow her decision but weren’t shown what Yang was talking about which makes her feel that way about Ruby thus we are like...ok how? Is she talking about how she went on a journey with team jnr because it was the right thing to do after a traumatic event? Well team jnr knew the right thing to do as well which is why they went with her so what makes Ruby different from them - what stands out to Yang about Ruby that differs from the others? The other scene is where Blake is talking about Ruby being a representation of purity but that is told in that scene and not shown. In that Blake scene, they try to highlight Ruby as special yet all we know is that she is a positive person and doesn’t give up. What do they mean by her being a representation of purity and how does it make her differ from others? Show don’t tell. '''

Anyway the only scenes where we see some inner depth of her character and not a show don’t tell is the Strawberry Reunion scene and arguably the Oscar and Ruby conversation where we see her being portrayed through her expressions - her tears/sadness(though out of both the strawberry sunrise scene was better).

'''They also had other missed opportunities in which they could’ve showed more character depth and her affecting others. One of them is the scene where she confronts Raven and does affect her with her speech although she gets blasted BUT when Raven comments on her mom we don’t see any reaction from Ruby at all afterwords. If anything it would have been a good opportunities to show her waver. Like while she is fighting Emerald she can’t get the subject of her mom out of her head for a second and gets distracted from it which cause her to take a blow or something. '''

'''There was also the scene where they have her try to talk to Emerald which was a good attempt as Emerald was a “friend” and now is on Cinder’s side but it would’ve been better if they bought up Penny and how it was essentially Emerald that killed her. We aren’t shown how Ruby feels about Emerald quite properly. In that scene it shows that Ruby doesn’t hold Emerald responsible but it would have been tied together/portrayed properly if she brought up Penny and how she doesn’t blame her and still considers Emerald a friend. That would’ve been a good effect on Emerald as she says that she owes Cinder everything because Cinder saved her and she feels that Cinder has her back. However, if Ruby brought up Penny and  says how she doesn’t hold Emerald responsible and still holds hope in Emerald it would’ve showed Emerald that other than Cinder, Ruby wants to help even after she betrayed her. That small talk with Emerald would have made “more sense”.'''

With all those issues being piled with they way they aren’t portraying her as a paragon properly, only giving us tidbits here and there, and trying to delay the character arc people can’t see her as a main character but as a side character whose development wasn’t properly shown or fleshed out right which in turn make her look static with a vibe of mary sue as it shows how she is trying to be portrayed as special but is botched by lack of properly showing character development and “show don’t tell” cases.

'''Now, Miles and Kerry, as a result of doing this, have to work with what they have given us/what they’ve set with Ruby so far and give us a d**n good payoff/fruition in which she starts having the plot revolve around her/have a connection to the central story, show character more depth than ever in a way that makes sense with no rookie mistakes. If it is not what we all were waiting for or at least up to par than all that delaying was be just a big waste of time…'''

So anyway, I wrote this for myself so I can get a better understanding of what they are doing with Ruby as a character cause honestly all I want is much more of Ruby for the next volumes written more properly

Lol, wow, I wrote alot..I hope I made sense...