Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26986589-20161029210635/@comment-26986589-20161204145531

Odysseus3301 wrote: ACKCHYUALLY, most people (I think) can relate to them on a minor level. RWBY, for example. Ruby, being seen as overly optimistic but being self consious to criticism from Weiss (early first season) Weiss, her childhood was shaped by the way her father treated her, by not spending enough time with her as her father, coming home frustrated due to the White Fang, and losing friends to the White Fang. That taught her to be cold, and keep her emotions on the inside, her only small, outlet, being singing. Blake is troubled by her past, and feels the need to hide the fact that she's a faunus, seeing how others who are openly a faunus are being bullied. I don't know about Yang. I personally cannot relate to her at all, as compared to the other characters.

The thing about relatability is, I think, a tad overrated. Take characters like Spike Spiegel, Jack Reacher, Rambo or Conan. Who could relate to a bounty hunter, or a barbarian or a PTSD veteran of Vietnam. Yet, these characters are well loved and memorable even to this day, and the reason is not that they are relatable, but they are a fantasy. They have the power to do things I can't do, fight the enemies that I can't fight and live the life I can't live. Which is why audiences have loved them over the decade.

RWBY could be one of those, an epic fantasy of beauty, guns and heroic adventure with a backdrop of injustices and evil to defeat and where justice and virtue prevails over all. So why am I getting highschool drama instead?

I think that sums it up better.