Knowing that rooster teeth always planned to kill off Pyrrha like this just makes all the time they wasted focusing on Jaune all the more irritating tbh.
Like, who is Pyrrha to Nora and Ren? What kind of relationship did she have with them? What did they talk about when they hung out, what did they have in common, or disagree on? Did she get along better with Nora then Ren, or vice versa? We don’t know. We don’t know because Pyrrha never has a single scene of just interacting with her teammates who aren’t named Jaune Arc.
Instead of wasting screentime on Jaune being bullied or Jaune ignoring Weiss’ consent, they should have fleshed out Pyrrha over the last two volumes. Shown us how she got along with everyone, not just her other two teammates, but also Ruby! Ruby is the one who is there to witness her death, whose emotional reaction to it triggers her hidden power. Pyrrha’s relationship with Ruby should have been very fleshed out to give that moment maximum impact.
What kind of relationship did Pyrrha and Ruby have? What did Ruby think of her? They were friends, i guess? They seemed to get along ok when their teams hung out? We don’t have a single scene of the two of them interacting one on one, just talking, something that really would have helped us feel for Ruby when she watched Pyrrha die.
Make Pyrrha a really developed character, Instead of basically a prop for Jaune. Even in her death, of her team, only Jaune’s sadness is shown. We don’t see Nora or Ren grieve. We don’t see how they feel about this besides being willing to journey with Ruby and Jaune to get some answers.
In the end, when Jaune is Pyrrha’s only fleshed out relationship, it feels like she was just a prop for Jaune’s hero journey. Even if they always planned to kill her they could have set it up and done it in a way that doesn’t feel like the writers are just setting up for yet another Jaune story arc (this time with manpain!) in volume 4.
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so jaune expressing emotions is manpain, but if he doesn’t it’s toxic masculinity?
Hi, I don’t wanna drag my friend into this so I’ll just respond to this post! “Manpain” doesn’t (or at least shouldn’t) refer to a male character expressing emotion on its own. It specifically has to do with an exagerrated, selfish emotional response (the male character acting as if he was the one wronged), specifically in conjunction with the narrative treating the man in question as the victim as opposed to the actual person who was harmed.
A good example of this is in The Walking Dead. During one point in the show a character is sexually assaulted, but the story focuses almost entirely on her boyfriend’s feelings of anger, helplessness, and powerlessness. The issue isn’t that he has these emotions, but that her suffering is pushed to the background to further his development as a character (he becomes colder and more ruthless as a consequence).
So basically it’s an irritated reaction to a female character being used as a tool to further a man’s development.
In short, because I’m going to head off for the night, I have very little reason to hope that this very common pitfall will be avoided.
(Source: food-n-comfort, via aresmarked)
RWBY vol 2: Jaune Arc-less edition
RWBY vol 2 original runtime: 153 mins
Jaune Arcless runtime: 137 mins**As with the first video, any scenes, shots or lines prominently featuring or being about Jaune was removed. However, it is noteworthy that vol 2′s transitions and interactions were more seamless, making it harder to cut him out entirely. He still appears in quite a few scenes with the other characters but with the cuts he’s now more of a background character.
I think Vol 2 was a good improvement on the proportion of Jaune’s screen time. Just wish it had been better used. Commentary under the read more.
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