[I wanted to write something a lot longer, but realized that it would end up rambling and getting away from the point, so I'll try not to and bore those reading this. I also hope this reaches more users, because generally on these pages you will create a Discussion, you will be reviewed by a maximum of five people and then no one else comments because they are more interested in the Voting]:
It all starts in Episode 7 of Volume 9 ("The Perils of Paper Houses") where Ruby collapses, and that's where a big topic starts, because many commented that this makes sense because Ruby is a teenager and it was a very bad idea on her part. of Ozpin to put a teenager as leader of a team of Hunters of Grimm (although they were still studying at the Academy and Ozpin surely did not have in mind that they would destroy the place years before graduation), but my conflict comes when I realize that that what happens in that scene is a resource from Contemporary Fiction that I call colloquially (perhaps there is a better term) as "The Scales".
The idea of the Scale is more or less simple: you create a novel, comic, movie, series or video game and balance the plot between two genres. To give an example, in animated series for adults like "Inside Job" or "Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss" in 99% of the episodes there is comedy and jokes, and when they need the "hook", trandorman everything in the universe of the product to be able to create that dramatic scene. And the "great" thing is that they don't switch to Drama and stay there until the credits. They finish the scene and return to comedy.
Or going to the other corner: in the MCU movies manufactured by Disney, much of it is adventure and action until they have to add the joke or the "reference" (which is to say the name of the movie/series/episode/song/ singer/famous person) and it's literally pausing the movie for a few minutes to do that.
Here in RWBY something happens that's in the same league, which is Ruby makes a major mistake and they get the excuse, but the problem also leads to what's so incredibly specific that it seems like it couldn't possibly not happen.
And I'm going elsewhere, but continuing with the theme, if you watch the series, you realize the little leader development they give Ruby is very little. Because in the first 3 volumes the girls are in the Academy and they don't have as many opportunities to prove themselves as a team. Nor do they have visceral moments in a decision that ends up destroying them because of them. Literally, in Volume 3 everything bad happens not because of the girls, but because of the villains. First they make it look like Yang attacked Mercury in cold blood, then Adam cuts off Yang's Arm, Cinder kills Pyrrha and they cause Vale to Fall and NONE of it is the girls fault.
Later, from Volume 4 to 5, Ruby joins what is left of JNPR and is under the leadership of Jaune, and I know that already speaks a lot about Ruby's conflict as a leader, because she was a team leader and now she is under orders from someone else and there is no conflict with that. Because if later in Vol. 9 Ruby collapses from being a bad leader, one would expect her to behave more like a poor leader.
And when the team meets again in volume 6, all they do is fight Grimm. There's not much science to it. And if you watch the show, they almost think that in the RWBY team there isn't really a leader, because there isn't even sign language to give orders.
Then volume 7 starts, which is when they get to Atlas and get enrolled as official Slayers and continue to do the same thing, only now under instructions from Ironwood and the Ace-Ops. And the thing goes on and on, and you see that the team's players are Ozpin, Qrow (sometimes), even Maria and then Ironwood.
And we get to episode 7 of Vol. 9 and she feels too robotic, because it's the first time that Ruby has been put to plan, because in the ENTIRE series until now she has never been given the opportunity to be a leader.
And to add insult to injury: Ruby was born and raised by Hunters of Grimm; In the first episode, she barehandedly defeats a gang of gangster thugs and from Vol. 4 until now she has been traveling through Remnant fighting nightmarish monsters using a combination of bladed and firearms. And these writers want me to believe that all this melodrama is something legit?
And I can't believe this is just my idea, because people don't just remember almost everything in a series and leave out something as important as the protagonist's mistakes.
