Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-30530552-20170830020946

The real problem with Ruby is that she doesn't learn from her mistakes. Every time she bullshits her way through a problem, because she doesn't knwo what she's doing, which I can understand, given she's 2 years younger, but come on.

Given the opportunity, she abandons her teammates to either fight or learn something on her own (which often requires teammates and friends to get her out of said situation), takes action in a reckless sense, thereby making herself vulnerable to losing and putting herself into unnecessary levels of danger needlessly, and most of all, just doesn't lead well in my opinion.

There are some situations where this benefits her, and there's other times where we get a Tyrian kicking Ruby across the pavement, or Ruby dangling off the side of an airship. And both of those situations she escaped because someone else saved her in the knick of time, or because she found a way to bullshit through it.

This can change, however; and I'd like to see what they'll do with her character next Volume to see if she'll actually learn from her mistakes and grow as a person, and what she will do once her feelings of guilt and sorrow come to light. The one thign that's interestign about her character as it stands is this exact thing. And like Sentry said, it might lead to another Argentum Luscus Ex Machina.

I mean, if we think about it, she couldn't save Penny, and it was her keeping the secret that helped solidify Penny's death, and she also feels guilt for not being able to get to Pyrrha any sooner than she did, and then seeing the product of both of those outcomes in person. They should have addressed her PTSD earlier, but for this Volume, we can hope that everyone's troubles and tribulations are going to be addressed more thoroughly, and when that becoems the case I will be happy. For now, I shall continue to state why I still dislike Ruby.