Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.232.230.34-20130719223612/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140124152851

Zolnir wrote: Holy shit, he did say that all the trailers are prior to the story. That means that I literally can't trust any of its animation, if only because Ruby was like 10x more skilled there than she was shown throughout the entire Season 1.

Like seriously. First she attacked Beowolves without watching her own back as Weiss stabbed towards her, next she attacked a Death Stalker head on while wielding her sycthe like a freaking axe (which as you can see, doesn't work) and third she literally got one-upped by Roman when she got distracted and exploded in the face.

''How does that translate to the super badass who saw and murdered everything in Red Trailer??? ''The current Ruby is literally weaker than the younger one! WTF??? Like, even if you say that the Red Trailer does not reflect her personality, that its before the storyline was coherently formed blah blah blah, you would think that they have considered this discrepancy! She is still at the end of the a fifteen year old girl. She is naive, reckless and seemingly lacks the experience to truly understand the gravity of the situation. She said it herself, she may not be able to deal with people but she knows how to deal with monsters. She could easily have bested the beowolf pack that cornered her and Weiss by herself, they were about, but then Ruby's recklessness caused Weiss to set the forest on fire and they had no choice but to flee.

Ruby is damn good at killing monsters, or at least the monsters that Signal would train her to fight, or that she would have to fight naturally. She had no real experience against the Deathstalker or the Nevermore so she applied the same tactic she had used on the henchmen and beowolves because she was inexperienced and didn't recognise the threat. Hell even Pyrrha ran away from the Deathstalker and she's been labelled as a hunter child prodigy or something like that.

The Roman/Penny incident is another example of her youth and inexperience. She is used to battle monsters. A beowolf or an ursa would have no way of getting to her when she warned Penny. And she likely had no gauge as to whether or not Roman could shoot her. She had no experience with real world conflict. She let her guard down, a rookie mistake, which is what she is. A rookie can battle a pack of lesser enemies without a leader as seen by Sun fighting the WF grunts or quite literally everyone shredding through ursai and beowolves. A rookie can also get knocked flat on her arse if she is up against a more conniving opponent... She's a reckless fighter. Not a strategist.