Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-28171999-20170718131326/@comment-4010415-20170722002116

She also said that Ruby was really torn up about it, and it would've been a lot better if we had actually gotten something from Ruby about that, but the fact that Ruby has never said a single thing about her experience with Summer's disappearance or how she felt and then we see that she has accepted it makes it feel like... it barely even matters or something. Which, it doesn't matter in the present, but it matters as a part of Ruby, her past, who she is, and how it shaped her. And hell, if there's gonna be something super special or important, plot-wise, about Summer's death/disappearance and Ruby's feelings regarding it, then it does matter.

It's just annoying that Ruby doesn't really get to talk about or show much about how she feels or how things have affected her very often at all anymore, and whenever that does come up, someone ELSE talks about it for her, whether it's Yang or Jaune. Like, damn, let Ruby speak because it means more when it's coming from her not someone else.

Yeah, we know that she has developed past how Summer's disappearance affected her, but it has less impact when all we got in regards to how it affected her was Yang saying "Ruby was really torn up, but... I think she was still too young to really get what was going on."

Also, it doesn't really matter that she was too young to 100% understand what was going on, there's still the fact that, like Yang said, she was really torn up about it. For all we know, it could've been that Ruby didn't understand why everyone kept telling her that her mother wasn't gonna come back home and that, at the time, she was either struggling with the concept of death, couldn't understand how her mother could break a promise that she'd be back (RLR2: "How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?"), or both. That'd still be good to hear at least a little about from Ruby herself.

When compared to the characterization that Weiss, Blake, and Yang have kept getting since after volume 1, Ruby's characterization is severely lacking. Weiss, Blake, and Yang's personal characterization has continually gotten put up on a stage right in front of us and has been actually focused on and addressed by the show, but Ruby barely gets that kind of treatment. That's the problem.