Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180322215425/@comment-2607:FCC8:D488:4300:91EA:5001:7D89:DB7C-20180407011859

PisceanWaterbender wrote: I definitely agree with this. ^ And since the pair rarely talks much, V6 is the perfect time to do that before the plot gets heavy again.

Ruby & Weiss along with Ruby & Yang were both explored pretty early on (V1, learning to work together and for Ruby to come out of her shell), with the latter also being explored in the Yang Character Short. There was even a small scene exploring Ruby & Blake's contrasts with the whole "wanted to be a fairy-tale hero, but the world isn't like that" convo, but it never went beyond that.

You neglected to mention the Weiss & Blake confrontation in the last two episodes of V1, which was also a driving force in both their characters and ended up getting resolved but not after nearly tearing the team apart early on...which is still probably one of the better character moments in the show to date.

Blake & Yang's talk were explored in Volume 2, and aside from the recent Yang & Weiss talk in Volume 5 that rehashed that earlier conversation, stands as probably the best 1 on 1 character scene in the show.

That's also not to neglect a few Ruby & Jaune scenes, Jaune & Pyrrha scenes, WBY discussing about Ruby along with Ruby & Oobleck's conversation in Volume 2, Weiss & Winter along with Qrow & RY in Volume 3, Yang & Tai, Blake & Sun, Oscar & Ozpin, and Ren & Nora in V4, and then (more or less) Ruby & Oscar's conversation in Volume 5 to a degree. There are others, but I've listed a ton already so I'll stop.

Ruby could stand to take a note from Weiss' story arc, which has been largely character-driven (with even most of her fights having a symbolic undertone) and thus stands out as probably the best overall arc in the show to date, and while I'm fine with a character stepping back from the action, they need to have something meaningful to do in the meantime, which was one of Volume 5's biggest problems.

Actually, y'know what I'd find interesting? If (and pray it does happen) when Ruby finally snaps, I'd find it interesting if Blake was the one that actually got her to come back from the brink of unending despair since she's been the subject of the most discussion between the RWBY characters as of late. That'd also parallel with their first true conversation, where Blake told Ruby the world isn't like a fairy tale and doesn't necessarily give out happy endings, and so this might be a complex issue for Blake to take on. Since she tried to prove it, and Ruby actually finally registers it, it breaks Ruby entirely, and there'd possibly be at least partial guilt on Blake's part that the actual truth was so harsh on her and that she didn't ease Ruby into it, OR expose her enough early on so she wouldn't be subject to a huge breakdown. I have this bad feeling she would run off on her own after her breakdown, which would not end well at all.