User blog comment:ObiWanCokeNosey/You know what really grinds my gears?/@comment-9464517-20150420174834/@comment-26259025-20150420183115

"Nothing" is a strong way of putting it.

The problem is, she's surrounded by characters that feel...more complete than her. Like she doesn't have much direction. I'm sure as the series goes on, we'll see a more developed Ruby come to light- but, it doesn't forgive the fact she came into the show with practically no development. It's almost as if the writing team had something planned for her, but were too scared to foreshadow it at all. And now, if we do see Ruby have this big, complex personality, it's just going to feel a little forced.

It's not that I don't like Ruby. She's a fun enough character. But, I honestly feel like Blake, or Weiss or even Yang would have made a better MC. Ruby at times comes across as comic relief, and though you can have a funny, quirky, awkward MC, you should never feel as if they're comic relief, and not much else.

Think about Weiss. Think about Blake. Think about Yang. Think about their life prior to coming to Beacon. A picture, incomplete as it may be, starts to form. But, when I think about Ruby's life prior to coming to Beacon, I just...don't see anything.