Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-4010415-20150329171755

Just gonna point out, there's a reason people tend to say "But he/she seemed so happy! I never suspected!" after someone commits suicide. Not saying Ruby's depressed. Just an example of how people can put up a good enough mask to fool everyone into thinking they're fine.

The only indication we had that Weiss was troubled was the fact that her trailer's song was basically "I'm lonely, I'm lonely, I'm so lonely, I think my heart's turning to stone, save me from the things I see, I can keep it from the world but can't hide from myself, holy shit I'm so lonely." All the way up until she suddenly came out with her troubled home life during her argument with Blake in The Stray. Until then, if it hadn't been for Mirror Mirror, all we probably would've known about was "Weiss is such a bitch. Maybe a tsundere. At least she's apparently trying to be less of a bitch now."

Yang showed no indication of "The woman who I thought was my mom went MIA or died or something, and it turns out my real mom left me right after I was born, and I wanna find her and find out why, but my obsessive angst days are over because I almost got myself and my baby sister killed looking for clues!" And then she just suddenly came right out with it in Burning the Candle. Until then, we really only had "Cheerful party girl, loving sister, kickass chick Yang!" Hell, all the Yellow Trailer tipped us off to was "She's looking for someone and is willing to crush a man's balls for info."