Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-24038268-20130927212306/@comment-82.33.101.54-20130929184930

It's things like this that make Monty Oum stand out as a fantastic writer. Every single character has a reason to be doing what they're doing, sometimes it's not always obvious, but like you have all we needed to do was dive a bit deeper. I myself have been bullied- not badly bullied, I must admit, but bullied enough to know the pain people feel. And you know what? Not a single one of my friends helped, and one of them is still my best friend now. You say Ruby doesn't understand bullying- to be honest, hardly any one of them strikes me as knowing about bullying, except maybe Blake. Most of them seem too confident, charismatic and headstrong to be bullied, thus no experience. Maybe Ren, but he has badass Nora to keep the bullies away. Monty shows us that his world includes the same problem- we aren't solving bullying, we are accepting it. So Kudos to Monty. I feel like Jaune was the only one who seemed to WANT to do something- Pyrrha may say it's atrocious, Blake may say he's not the only one, but the fact remains, they didn't help. The animators made it clear that Jaune was the only one who wanted to help. That's why in episode 12, I feel like he is going to do something- whether it be he fights back, or just stands in front of people and takes the blow himself. You are right- Ruby and the rest of them had every chance to help Velvet, but they didn't. This is one of the reasons I'm proud to have Jaune as my favourite character- he IS the bravest character. And if he will stand up in the next episode, I'll be proud. Sincerely proud.