Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-209421-20150511113441

No, that's not quite what I mean, and since I wrote that post in a rush before leaving for uni, I didn't quite finish it.

Ren doesn't look comfortable every time it's mentioned by anybody other than Nora. The first time, it was part of her babbling in that introduction sequence, so I didn't think much of it. But, look at the scene where Jaune asks for his advice to do with Weiss - as soon as Jaune makes the mistake of mentioning "how you and Nora...", it actually looks like Ren winces. I'm not saying that he's any better than Jaune, but I AM saying that Pyrrha pretty much gave Jaune everything short of "I like you. PLEASE ASK ME OUT" in her emotional talk at the dance, while Nora hasn't really given Ren anything aside for her hurried explanations that they aren't together.

I'd go so far as to say that Ren hasn't realized how deep the affection is, or the type of affection she has for him - it's almost like he views her like a sister, and they do have a sibling-style relationship when you remove Nora's awkward "not together-together" view. It's obvious that she likes him in a romantic sense, but to what extent does he reciprocate when we've only seen roughly three or four emotions displayed by him? Ren's a hard character to read what he's thinking, unlike Jaune and Ruby (who typically say what they're thinking) or Blake and Sun (who act upon what they're thinking about).