User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/How the plot has used Ruby Rose/@comment-71.175.63.159-20170719201510/@comment-71.175.63.159-20170720011109

So let's count the contradictions going on in your reply. Penny telling Ruby her secret, according to you, had nothing come of it, yet a paragraph later you agree that yes, Penny died because Ruby didn't tell anyone. She's also still, to use your words, "Gonna save the world" she's just "not shouting at the top of her lungs"? Does that not indicate a change in her character to you? Perhaps that she's learned that actually trying to save the world is not only far more difficult than storybooks make it out to be but pretty freaking scary and over-whelming?

I'm not going to quibble with you over how much time Ruby and Penny spent together when there's no canon to back up either side of that argument (give the time jumps between episodes and volumes) nor what amount of time one needs to spend with somebody before you consider them a "friend". Suffice it to say that I disagree.

Also you are completely missing the point of my noting that she feels the dance will be pointless if Blake doesn't go?? Of course the dance itself isn't going to be pointless in general if Blake doesn't go. Ruby's saying the dance will be pointless TO HER and the rest of the team if they can't get their friend to chill out and relax and enjoy herself. Yang and Weiss even state they volunteered to take over for CFVY manning the party so that they could purposefully make it something they'd all enjoy together and so that Blake could go have some fun. So yeah, if Blake doesn't go, the work they put into it to make it fun FOR HER, means nothing. Everyone else will still have fun, but not them. And we see Ruby struggling with the likelihood of Blake not going in the next freaking episode. She's sitting at a table moping. How many times have we seen Ruby outright mope? She's disinterested in the dance preparations and she even directly states she still has no idea what to do about Blake that could convince her to change her mind. Again, Ruby has trouble with mediating and fixing the personal problems that occur amongst her teammates. That is a consistent character struggle for her. End of story.