Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24934890-20170925142224/@comment-26018514-20170930041749

Animalia555 wrote:

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

Animalia555 wrote: ...

4) Maybe I am the only one who sees it but in Ruby I see a massive ball of denial that refuses to deal with the grief she is facing. A lot of Ruby's optimism this season comes across to me as forced. While Ruby has made SOME progress in that she has acknowledged the harshness of the world, she hasn't really acknowledged her grief and I can't help but feel there is a powderkeg waiting to explode. ....

4) Ruby is a completely different problem..........mainly, she experiences a lot, but it overall feels like those experiences bounce off her. They never seem to affect her in the slightest, while they do shape everyone else.

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But Ruby, meanwhile, despite 2 of her friends dying in her face, despite Beacon falling and being overrun by Grimm, and despite discovering that she's literally more Special than even freaking Maidens and has a power capable of even downright PETRIFYING ANCIENT GRIMM IN A FLASH, she feels almost-completely like her old self.

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Ruby started as a character, but by now, she's pretty much a Plot Device with Legs. You see it as Ruby staying the same. I see it as Ruby putting on a mask and PRETENDING everything..... I used to think as you do Animalia... and then I saw a panel where the writers implied that no, we really saw her true feelings, and her failure to react was them showing her eternal optimism/innocence.... I'm not optimistic at all after that.