Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-26258854-20190127071514/@comment-4141313-20190130191650

1) The Blindingly Obvious I was referring too was that she didn't even bother to hear them out. Forget just letting them go, she didn't even entertain the idea of listening to them for a minute. She effectively said "Don't care why, you're not going, end of story." I get Ironwood told her to filter who gets in and out, but filter doesn't mean turn everyone not Atlesian away. And Ironwood did mean filter, as his exact words back in Volume 4 were:

Ironwood: By this time next week, the Kingdom of Atlas will be officially closing its borders. No one in; no one out. Without the council's permission.

And since Cordovin has no reasonable way to get constantly updated on Ironwood's deteriority mental sanity leading to Paranoia, her saying only Atlesian's get in more of an abuse of authority than actually following Ironwood's orders, especially since she was willing to send Weiss back alone with no indication she contacted the council by air mail.

Plus, she does look down on everyone, with her constant talking of her and Atlas being everyone's betters. That would be the equivalent of the United States going to help another country, establish an embasy there, but the entire time do nothing but non-stop preaching about how the US is both better and superior to the nation they're in.

2) It wasn't necessarily to make Ruby look good, since Qrow had been portrayed that way the entire volume after learning about Ozma, before Ruby even had a need to look better than him. It was more to show how Qrow is spiraling and needed to be bitch-slapped. Should he have had more of a backbone? Yes, which is why they probably should have merged the two Qrow speeches into one, single speech and argument to make it both flow smoother and seem more natural. Plus get rid of the not needing adults argument.