Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-27195233-20151116121224

@MetallicArcher.

damn it! that was easilly one of my favourite scenes in RWBY so far and now for me it's going to be underpinned by sadness because of your rather insightfull point. Not that that's a bad thing.

@BenRG,

I thought in ep. 1 of this season when Ruby is at the grave she said Taiyang was going to start going on missions again? implying that he hasn't been an active huntsman for a while. Idk where it's mentioned but in the last 2 seasons when Taiyang has come up I got the impression the only thing he was doing was teaching at Signal?

It's clear from the start of the series that Ruby struggles with social interaction and as highlighted craves affection from Qrow, Yang and Weiss ( "My BFF" "No" "yesssss") ie, all the people she's allready fairly close with.

I'm not sure if that's on Taiyang, he did have a breakdown but the type of person who apparently does weird/funny things all the time like mailing a dog doesn't seem to fit the role of distant parent. Also Summer's death does seem to emotionally plague Ruby a lot more than Yang  which may explain the differecne in character between them.