Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130809014605/@comment-4830106-20130809161830

WC-83 wrote: Angren Túrë wrote: BenRG wrote: Weiss will be hoping to be with Pyrrha, Nora and Ren and, when Jaune's face appears last on that team's display, she'll be crushed. When Team RWBY are announced with Ruby as leader, she bursts into tears and runs off. That will lead us into Episode 6 and the Weiss character back-story/opening up to her team-mates story when the other three girls catch up with her. My guess is that Ruby will be the first person Weiss really opens up to, same with Blake. Come to think of it, I can see Ruby as a confidant for pretty much any character. Perhaps that's why she'll end up being the leader, because the rest of her team trust her the most. cue double anime face shattering glass

also yeah, Ruby seems like the mascot, the one who glues them together. She isn't the brains (Blake) or the Arms (Yang) or the spine (Weiss), but she is their heart, a body can't survive without a heart (cause where would the blood go? it'd be a big mess)

She's just the all-rounder, like the Chief. She isn't as fast or agile as Blake (Kelly), as skilled with Dust as Weiss (Linda) or as physically strong as Yang (Sam) but she's a little bit of everything. She may also have the hallmark trait of protagonists: Luck.