#also because of the team split and volume 8’s tone cue Ruby realizing that Yang Jaune and Ren actually aren’t there and disagreed with her

[chlothequeen]

There’s a Ruby and Blake interaction that I really want to see, but I’m not quite sure how to articulate it. Basically...

Ruby said something way back in volume 1 that I think is still part of her mindset.

“You’re a leader now, Jaune. You’re not allowed to be a failure. ...Because it’s not just about you anymore. You’ve got a team now, Jaune. We both do! And if we fail, we’ll just be bringing them down with us. We have to put our teammates first and ourselves second.”

That’s part of why Ruby doesn’t talk about everything that’s happened to her since volume 3. She always supports her team and buries her own problems so that they don’t bring her team down.

In a way, this parallels Blake’s arc. In volume 4, Blake has a conversation with Sun where she tells him this:

“Do you think I like being alone? Every day... every day I think about them! Ruby, Weiss, Yang... they were my friends! I loved them like I never thought I could love anybody. And I hope they hate me for leaving. ...I made my choices and I’ll deal with the consequences because they belong to me.”

In both of these situations, Ruby and Blake thought of their issues as a burden. Ruby thought she wasn’t allowed to be a failure, and Blake thought that she had failed her team. A big difference was that Blake had Sun to talk her out of thinking that way.

“You can make your own choices, sure. But you don’t get to make ours. When your friends fight for you, it’s because we want to. So stop pushing us out!”

While I wouldn’t necessarily say that Ruby is actively pushing her team out, she has definitely been compartmentalizing, and hasn’t really talked about her trauma with anyone.

As of the volume 8 part 2 teaser, Ruby is more obviously having trouble dealing with everything that’s going on, finally saying that it’s “too much.” Basically, I really hope that Blake picks up on that, and helps Ruby learn what she did. That she doesn’t have to deal with her problems alone, and that her team will be there for her.

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby8 #rwby8 spoilers #ruby rose #blake belladonna #long post #because I’m bad at wording things #tldr Blake ran away and learned that her friends were there to help with her problems #and Ruby is repressing trauma and needs to learn that her friends are there for her #also because of the team split and volume 8’s tone cue Ruby realizing that Yang Jaune and Ren actually aren’t there and disagreed with her #so that might be a whole thing if this sorta interaction were to happen