Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-29137170-20160722115013

Gastropod wrote:

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: I also want to see how it would affect Weiss and change her to find herself warming and falling for a guy she previously thought was a worthless dope It wasn't just the use of the phrase "wish fufillment" that bothered me. What bugs me about this narrative is the asymmetry of it. Look at this story from both perspectives.


 * For Jaune, it's a wish fulfillment fantasy. He was right all along and gets literally exactly what he always wanted at the beginning.
 * For Weiss, it's a story about her realizing how totally wrong she was for rejecting him and ends up with the exact opposite of what she wanted at the beginning.

Put another way: Who would you rather be in this scenario?

And before anyone tries to spin Weiss' side as "personal growth"... There is nothing wrong with rejecting someone you're not attracted to, and certainly nothing wrong with doing so repeatedly. That is not growth. is exactly what I am saying, would feel forced, as if jaune learned nothing during Volume 2, ruin any character development of both characters that reached a relationship based on respect on respect and friendship that would be much more interesting original and significant only for a romance with many negative connotations that would seem to jaune obsessed bordering weiss rather than someone to come to understand their wishes and respect them and move on with life and earning their respect weiss, making it possible to have a healthy and mature relationship as friends and / or colleagues, as clarified above. I'm honestly happy that someone has understood my point