Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4927508-20180104083542/@comment-27143816-20180104200637

@SYUTK

1. Let's be real here, were they really secondary? What I mean is objectively looking at the story is Jaune really a secondary character? I'd say no. While he isn't a titular character, he still is a main one, much like how Ron Weasley isn't the titular character of Harry Potter, but he is most definately a main character. Or maybe a better comparison would be to Neville Longbottom who I may remind you could have very easily have been The Chosen One (the titular character), had Voldemort attacked him and not Harry. Neville is a main character who develops alongside the others in the story and even slay Nagini in Deathly Hallows, one of Voldemort's most resiliant Horcruxes.

Back on topic, Jaune seemed to be presented as a main or at least important chracter right from the first episode. He debuts in the series before even Weiss and Blake and is aknowledged by Yang and Ruby. Then in the next episode, Jaune is the first character that Ruby, and the audience, really get to know at Beacon. Ruby does meet Blake and Weiss earlier, but we only find out little snipits about Weiss and virtually nothing about Blake.

Volume's 1-3 really seem like a prologue to a much grander story (in particular 1 and 2) so Rooster Teeth took all of their time introducing and developing the characters who will play the biggest roles in the grander plot of RWBY (Volume 4 to the end of the show, provided none of them die before the finale). One of those characters was Jaune Arc, whose role in the story was only made greater after Volume 3's finale. Now he has a deep personal grudge against the villains, has drastically changed from who he was at the begining of the series (more so than pretty much anyone else), has proven hiself to be an invaluable asset to his friends, and even has spent the better part of 2 volumes travelling with the main protagonist, Ruby.

All in all, Jaune is ddefinately a main character of the show, despite not being a titular character. Arguing Jaune is a secondary character is like saying Han Solo is a secondary charcacter in Star Wars, and that his scenes of change, development, and romance in the mocies take away from Luke and his adventures (granted Star Wars does balence out screnn time amoung its characters, both main and secondary, much better than RWBY). If you don't like Jaune, that is fine, but you can't deny his larger role in the story of RWBY and his status as a main charcter.

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2. Yes, Jaune definately played a role in Amber's death, but let's look at this from his perspective. Jaune, this loser at school, this person who is never called in for the important action (the sole excpetion being the Breach) is suddenly brought down into a secret chammber under the school by his would-be lover and the school's mysterious headmaster. He all of the sudden sees a foreign machine with a barely alive girl inside and Ozpin is getting Pyrrha to climb inside. You try to stand guard, like you're asked but ultimately you're curiosity and compassion get the better of you and you turn around to see why your friend is shreiking in pain. What else do you expect Jaune to have done? He has been shown to care for his friend above all else and had no clue the importance of what he was guarding or what threats may have lurked in the shadows.

Plus if Jaune did stand guard, he would have likely been killed or severely injured by Cinder and she would then kill Amber anyway. The end result would have probably been the same, regardless on if Jaune turned around. He's a first year student protecting a comatose person from someone weildiing godly power who is working for someone who could be a literal God (or who is so powerful they might as well be a God).

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3. I 100% agree with you here.