User blog comment:Waters Knight/Kara AMA Compliation - 6.6.2014/@comment-72.94.58.201-20140607071155

Interesting! It's nice to see Kara's opinions on her own character and learn more about her experience as a voice actor, working for a popular show and voicing a main character, no less. And thanks to her, I can now imagine Weiss defeating the Reds and Blues while riding a black panther. Awesome!

The one thing that caught my attention the most, however, was the comment about romance. I've been thinking a lot about it, and the same concern comes up for me: what will that mean for Weiss as a character? In a lot of anime, romance has a bad habit of reducing strong female protagonists to damsels in distress. I think that RWBY, being far from your typical anime, will avoid that kind of thing happening, especially when its four badass heroines are one of its main selling points (and then there's the fact that you can't very well make your main characters the damsels), but it's still a scary thing for me. I'm probably just paranoid, but romance is a very difficult thing to pull off well, especially with a character like Weiss, who isn't exactly the romantic type (she doesn't seem to care for anything that distracts her from her studying and training while at Beacon, and romance is nothing it not distracting). I believe that RT can pull it off, though; they've already shown a budding romance between Jaune and Pyrrha, and I think that the two have good chemistry and lots of potential (and then there's RvB, where the romance was top notch, and, even better, didn't affect the badassery of the female characters at all. Or the male characters, for that matter). But I can't help but be a little nervous and hesitant about the idea, especially when said romance involves my favorite character in the show.