Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161112032800/@comment-25266931-20161113184640

I'm not really trying to convince anyone or use debate team tactics to do it. I type how I talk. No more no less. If people don't read it, I'm gonna lose sleep over it. I still know what I wrote and I'm proud of it. No changes. Skim it if you have to.

Let's switch to focus to Nikos, Penny, Blake if yall see Ruby as not the "I just wanna fit in like everyone else" or the "reluctant hero who runs from their destiny" trope.

Nikos felt alienated due to her power and skill that put most people around her to shame. She on some level wanted to be average so she could be more approachable. I get that. People tell me my scowling angry face make them not want to talk to me. Maybe if I had softer features and more of a habit of smiling I'd be more likeable. But that would change hurts of my life. I look and act a certain way due to hardships I faced. If I was even a tenth as cool as Nikos I would change a thing. Never dumb yourself down or otherwise down-grade yourself just to be liked. Fuck that noise.That said, if playing dumb tricks people into revealing their true colors around you then by all mean (lol)....But back to the point.

Blake would rather pretend to be human to avoid the Faunus stigma. To me this really hurts. WF or not, if I did this it'd be like trying to pass off as something other than African American just to avoid getting hastled in the south due to working with the Black Panthers. I understand why she did it but always better to embrace who and what you are. Culture and features come with that. Be aware of the good and the bad that comes with that and take them one day at a time. Especially if you don't hate yourself or your people.

Penny is a lot less like Blake and Nikos. She didn't so much reject being an android as she was forced to hide it due to the world likely rejecting her. Humans like to reject things. Especially new and strong things. "Fear what they don't understand, hate what they can't conquer, guess it's just inferior man, become a monster" (NAS, rapper). Likely Penny was made due to her creator being lonely and missing his daughter or some other kin folk. But she wanted to join the others in their reindeer games and Ironwood's soldier have to remind her often that that's a no-go right now. We don't have the full story on her, but I can say she seems to handle the problem way better than Nikos and Blake. Maybe she being ignorant of the world and being born/made recently makes it easier for to embrace the hardship and not let the ugliness of it depress or alter her. Then again, since they were gonna kill her off, maybe that's why they didn't bother having her go thru a lot of long Blue Screen of Death moments. Who knows.

Overall, I can see the writers want RWBY to be about people growing up super slowly and learning the same lessons teens have to learn before becoming adults. Not my style, but meh, such is life. It's not wrong, it tells the story well.