Talk:Weiss Schnee/@comment-68.198.247.185-20140217201530/@comment-4010415-20140217232104

Well, Volume 1 is about as long as 5.5 episodes of an anime. Anime don't usually start developing all the characters that soon. Plus, there's the fact that Volume 1 was mainly exposition most of the way through, just setting us up to know about the setting and how that world works.

As for which characters they decided to develop first, they chose the ones that the plot demanded of them.

Ruby and Weiss needed to get over their issues with each other, so their conflict with each other wouldn't get distracting later down the line from the other things the story is trying to do.

Ruby needed to be given a lesson in what it means to be leader of a team, while Weiss needed a lesson in "You're kind of being a brat. Now, stop whining about how much better than Ruby you think you are and focus on making the best of what you have!" Ruby passed her lesson on to Jaune, who needed it because...

Jaune needed to be prepared for the upcoming tournament. Sure, they could have prepared him right before and/or during the tournament and had his little "I cheated my way into Beacon" reveal there, but it seems that they have things planned for the tournament that would make Jaune's development arc just add onto that.

Blake and Weiss had their conflict because it opened the way to really going in depth about the White Fang - who they are, who they were, why they're doing what they're doing, what their effect is on the humans they target, etc. They wanted to explain more about the White Fang before giving us an introduction to them and revealing that Roman is working with them.

So, in the end, Ruby and Pyrrha had only a little bit to do with helping the plot along, and Yang, Ren, and Nora had nothing to do with it and thus haven't gotten a spotlight yet.