Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-24106129-20140814000521

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: Zolnir wrote: Granted, those are straightforward face value description of the characters, so he's technically not wrong either. Weiss can be whiny, especially when she makes her first appearance. Ruby is socially awkward when she first arrived at Beacon. Blake does distrust authority, and Yang is feisty when facing an enemy. Weiss is not really whiny at all. Her complaints are generally justified and proportionate. She is irritiable at time, but Weiss being "raised in comfort" likely has nothing to do with that and is more likely the result of her difficult family environment, extreme pressures to achieve, and the whole "terrorists trying to kill me and my family" thing.

As to Ruby, she was pretty normal socially under the circumstances. Having been thrust into Beacon at such short notice two years ahead of everyone else definitely gave her reason to be wary of making new friends. It certainly had nothing to do with a lack of friends as she had friends at Signal.

Blake certainly does distrust authority, but the notion that it is because she "was a terrorist" is absurd. Obviously, her reasons for distrusting authority go a hell of a lot deeper than that and pre-date the White Fang's turn towards violence.

Yang has gotten about as much backstory as Ruby honestly, which is to say that neither have had a lot of backstory. Ruby has had more character development as the primary protagonist, but Yang has hardly been without it. The people of this forum are intelligent individuals and that slander you pointed at me earlier is something I am willing to forgive. Refrain from pointing such unsightly conduct at me in the future, joke or not.

Weiss whines plenty, whether it's reasonable or not does not matter. Whining is the act of being irritable in a complaint which she has done at almost every possible occaision or as Zolnir has pointed out in her introductory scene. Raised in comfort in the essentials of survival sense, I am going to hold back on whether or not her parents raised her properly as a child because that is an entirely different subject on a whole.

Blake was a terrorist. She assisted in the destruction of Atlas property including the populated train and robots as well as being a former active member of the now terrorist group White Fang. It's an occupation not a definition of who you are.

Ruby has solid family members, a past as a talented student in Signal under Qrow and has shown that her desired occupation as a huntress was a long running dream. Yang is looking for someone, while sharing a family tree with a lot more holes than Ruby.