TALKING ABOUT RWBY CHARACTER TRAILERS AND WHAT (I THINK!!!!) IT TELLS U ABOUT THEM VS HOW PEOPLE INTERPRET THE CHARACTERS
The dumb blonde trope for yang is REALLLYYY funny especially because I don’t think it’s all that true at ALLL
Not just for the normal reasons of “she’s way more complex” or “she’s obviously actually really smart and competent”
I mean that in the yellow trailer the stereotype she would fall into is clearly MEAN Blonde
And that’s not like an antithesis to to dumb blond there’s often a lot of overlap but it does require cleverness at least socially which is what is shown in the trailer
And I think that’s because most of the characters are shown to be kind of opposite to what your originally shown of them
Ruby is shown as this cool bad ass alt silent type and then in the show she’s bubbly and loud and rambles but is socially awkward
Weiss is sorrowful and somber and trapped but fights for a freedom from a awful seeming family and then in the show we see her proudly standing by and defending her family and being loud and obnoxious and arrogant and rude
Blake were shown being in this abusive relationship with a serial killer where she’s uncertain and under threat and runs away but in the first episode she’s imposing and calm and collected and distant but not uncertain perfectly fine standing her ground (an eh analysis of her section in this but I’m rushing I have to do stuff sorry Blake ❤️)
This is because the trailers show an internal look into something deeper about the characters that ur not gonna see much of because of the situations there in throughout the actual show
Blake and Weiss are shown in situations they’ve left and don’t plan on going back to and wouldn’t really talk about but inform how differently they act in the show
However I think it’s super fun that Weiss and Blake shows them in the situation of being around the people they’ve grown up with and Ruby and yang shows what they’re like when they’re not with the people they’ve grown up with
Because Blake and Weiss left their homes yang and ruby are still living with their sister when the show starts which DEFINITELY changes how they act
Yang is obviously a very kind person of course it shows us this time and time again HOWEVER she’s also a bit mean!!! It’s through being blunt!!! And not fake!!! She’s just really real!! She calls Blake a lost cause IN FROMT OF HER, shes repeatedly judgmental of jaune, she flat out ignores Neptune as a concept, Blake with no comments CORRECTS yang when she’s talking to penny
She’s blunt as SHIT ruby is also like this as her younger sister however she’s just clearly less skilled socially
I’m not saying she’s a bully or anything crazy like that I’m saying she’s honest and blunt and clever and that she’s CANONICALLY a tall hot popular blonde lesbian nepo baby with a bad relationship with her mom she’s gonna be a littleeeee mean often very reasonably like she didn’t even know Neptune! that’s Blake’s friends friend and now he’s YANGS problem? Jaune did cheat his way into the school, Blake was very dismissive of her and her lil sister
Ruby is her little sister who she ADORES of course she’s gonna act different around her!!! And she does!!! Every time they’re separated!!!! Even the trailer says this exactly!!!! Her attitude changes the second Ruby’s involved!!! Her whole thing in the trailer is she’s looking for her mom!!! She’s a family oriented person!!! She also had a GREAT time beating the shit out of those people in the club and the song in the background was like “man I sure love my friends/ family sense I’m playing their songs in my theme also I’m gonna beat the shit out of you guys cause Im better then you are”
I also think Ruby should and does act differently when yang isn’t around that’s her older sister she’s GONNA act different around her guys
But it’s kind of interesting that yang and ruby’s first introductions I feel are ignored the most when it comes to what their actually telling you about them and I think it’s cause it’s just a little bit more abstract and a little less striking then the !!THESE GUYS WERE ABUSED!!! LIKE RIGHT BEFORE THE STORY!!!! From Blake and Weiss which is honestly fair
I am GLAD that it’s not the main takeaway from yang is the mean blonde trope because people would demonize the SHIT out of her if she was I like how even if she’s portrayed as dumb in things she’s nice and supportive and big sisterish which IS the persona she portrays because she’s on a team with her little sister but I think that people regardless of they think she’s meaner or not should show being different in SOME way when she’s distinctively away from her family members as all people are same with Ruby
I also know that people are gonna interpret this as me saying yangs a bad person that’s not what I’m saying but WHATEVER
Also I think it’s cool that in Ruby and yangs trailer their both looking for their moms