Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-32347396-20170905022227/@comment-4010415-20170907152433

"its good shes "fallen into the background" a bit."

What do you mean "a bit"? She's one of the characters who desperately needs some spotlight where she acts like an actual person, where we actually see her dealing with things, having doubts and conflict and emotions, and having an actual personality. And by "spotlight", I mean "up on a stage like Weiss, Blake, and Yang have gotten to be".

Ruby, as a character, was at her best in Volume 1 because she had an actual personality. We saw her having anxiety about making friends, wanting to be seen as normal, learning how to be a good leader, etc and so forth. Once Volume 2 started, she began declining into feeling like she barely has a personality anymore. She just does things to move the plot and fight the bad guys, and occasionally, she gets mad or sad or laughs at something, but overall still feels pretty blank.

Weiss, Blake, Yang, and Jaune have issues they're dealing with, and Ren and Nora actually had something going on in Volume 4. They all showed personality while all that stuff was going on, and that's what made them interesting. Ruby barely acts like she has a personality anymore, especially compared to how she was in Volume 1, and it sucks.

Please, please, put Ruby in the foreground, get her up on stage, shine a spotlight on her, and show her dealing with something in a way other than "I am investigating the bad guys and now I am going to use my scythe on them, pow pow." Emotions. Internal issues. Doubt. Deeper motivations. Backstory.