Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3146930-20140908191213/@comment-24993958-20140908211840

Sort of comes out of….nowhere? Seriously? Ok…first let me just say that that his actions towards Ruby has little to no flirting undertone whatsoever, as explained by Jaune himself who admits he only talked to her because it looked like a nice chance to make a friend. Anywho… You’re going to dismiss the fact he approached Weiss out of nowhere as not flirty OR teasing in nature, but him randomly crossing eyes with Yang is?...that's not exactly fair mate...also…
 * First couple episodes Jaune seems more interested in any girl. Ruby and him seem to hit it off pretty well, but after he leaves he frets about finding another quirky girl to talk to. He says something to Weiss after she insults him, but I wouldn't consider Weiss to be quirky. Later in the sleeping hall, he seems to somewhat check out Yang and Ruby when Yang was checking out guys.

You might want to watch that segment again, since  during his chat with Weiss and Pyrrha he quite clearly ignores Pyrrha in favor of Weiss, and even when Pyrrha get’s his attention with compliments he still gravitates and hits on Weiss and ONLY on her, unless you count his surprise that Pyrrhas face was on his cereal box as "hitting on". Also also…
 * Then when getting ready to be launched into a forest, he seems to hit on Weiss and Pyrrha.

Cardin was quite clearly working him to the bone under threat of expulsion, causing him to only show up late and barely interact with HIS OWN team, as they have pointed out in episode 13…I don’t think dating was high on his priority list given the circumstances. Also times 3…
 * Then we have the four episode bully arc with Jaune. During this time he never really shows any real interest in Weiss or any girl for that matter. I find this odd and his crush is once again never brought up until Volume 2.

So did I miss something here? There is the relatively minor scene when Weiss throws a tantrum after killing the boar where Jaune randomly quips about Weiss attitude in episode 10…which doesn’t seem like much until you realize the animators didn’t put the rest of team JNPR in that scene…meaning the crew wanted to draw attention to the fact Jaune was showing concern with her reaction, it’s a more meta example but it’s about the only thing you missed. Also also times 2…

…what more do you want? You name droped about 4 episodes that show Jaune may be at least slightly interested in Weiss…yet somehow it came out of nowhere? Even if I assume every interaction with a female character Jaune has had was him flirting…Weiss would still be on the top 3 of people he flirted with the most.…now if I put shipping goggles on any scene Jaune spends without interacting with Weiss and anty shipping goggles for any scene where the 2 interact while alternating between the 2 in episode 3  the yes I can sort of see a point…a highly subjective point, but a point nonetheless.

They didn’t expand on it, I’ll give you that much, but as it has been shown, they both kind of had stuff to deal with in the second half of volume 1; now that Volume 2 is up and JNPR didn’t get their arc for this volume yet, Jaune’s free to act on his crush, as he had in Volume 1 up until he had that Cardin problem. Last also…

The actual time of date when his crush started is impossible to predict because he commented that he actually HEARD HER SING whyle questioning whether Ren has as well…until the circumstances actually surrounding that particular bit of information get’s clarified we can’t even say if his crush for her came before or after he arrived at beacon because for all we know he might have been a member of the audience during the White trailer.