Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31417650-20170716142425/@comment-33052016-20170907214945

(I'm gonna answer to the original topic here, don't mind me)

I mean, people shipping characters that are best friends (and RWBY makes this specially easy with the "partners" system) isn't anything new. On-canon they both really don't have any kind of explicit romantic chemistry, and their relationship as really close friends seems way more appealing to me than White Rose as a couple, but most people perceive the characters in a different light and young romance to many teens is like honey to bees (ha! bees), they make it -make it up if necessary in this case- and they consume it. There's many people who ship White Rose but there's also people who ship Ruby with Blake, or with Pyrrha, or with Jaune, or even with Velvet (and yes, RubyxYang is a thing too), so yeah, everyone's gonna do their thing.