Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24934890-20170925142224/@comment-27265101-20171008154555

If you watch parts of Volume Three you can see moments where he wants to reciprocate but just can't bring himself to either out of fear of rejection or just his natural boneheadedness. The is a moment where they both reach for eachother's hands while wlaking to the Vytal Festival but they both pull away showing a joint desire to be together but an underlying fear of ti not working out. I'd say he wised up to it all around their little chat and snugglefest next to the cafeteria and would have acted on it...had not everything gone to hell in a handbasket not literally hours later. Near the end she was defintely a friend that could be more to him...and she loved him damn since the start of the show, and it could have been beautiful. But she's gone, and no matter how many Kirito's out there wish it she's not coming back. It would cheapen everything about their relationship and the impact her death had on her Team and other friends.

In the end Jaune lost out on something that never got off the ground and that's terrible, but that shouldn't mean he can never move on from that @Vhcan. Whether it be with Ruby or Weiss or some random down the line, he deserves happiness and Pyrrha, may she rest in the Light, wouldn't want to see him reject happiness.

@Spirited, if Lancaster becomes a thing I imagine it'll be Ruby who gains the interest first considering Jaune is one, as you said probably sticking her in the little sister zone and is two, still morning Pyrrha. Though of course that could all change in the future.