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@Chishio: -Concept art......I wouldn't use that much for evidence if I were you. Concept art is just a concept, that more often than not does not end up being used 100% as planned. Most of the time, concept art is just a base to guide from.

For example, compare Ruby's concept art from the trailers to her appearance in the trailers and show. She is 15 years old, yet the concept art makes her look older than that, just like you say right there about this. And personally, I'd rather trust what I see in the show, than what a conceptual art shows.

-The memory thing can be excused in different ways, real-life and in-universe.

In-Universe: 1) Ruby's the ocasional kind of child genius that matures a bit faster than usual.

2) Hunter + Hunter = Stronger child, physically and mentally, thanks to Aura, either directly or indirectly (as in, "the child is stronger than normal because her parents were as well").

Out-of-Universe: 3) Most writers are adults, not all writers have children to base on, and not all know children well enough to write them accurately at a mental level. So children often seem more mature than they should be for their age in fiction, including having a good memory even before most children start developing long-term memory reliably.

@Ember: Agreeing with Phantom here, for once at least. The plan has been changed, many times, and likely will keep being changed, be it willingly or because of outside factors. So the case with Blake's weapon may have been just that: It was part of the plan, but in the end they pushed it back. Either because of lack of time, or possibly for the same reason Velvet's box got shown in Vol.3 instead of 2: It was not finished yet.