Ruby Day Headcanon: The Red Trailer and Volume 4 character trailer are depictions of Ruby's coping mechanism when dealing with too much emotional turmoil. She sneaks out, finds the heaviest concentration of local Grimm, and goes human blender on them until she's feeling better.
EXACTLYYYYYYYYY
For years and years I've used that trailer as a central point for my personal interpretation of Ruby's character and my god have I had to fight for it.
Ruby is someone who's used to dealing with her inner turmoil and emotional problems by herself. And not in a way where she thinks that like, Tai or Yang or Qrow wouldn't sympathize or try to help, but that they all have their own problems that they deal with much more outwardly. None of them are particularly reserved about their own coping mechanisms, and I think in the middle of it all Ruby just shrunk in on herself. All her frustration and anger would do is heap on another problem for her sister to shoulder, or another reason for Tai to shut himself away, so better to clamp those down and deal with them when you know no one else is watching.
And what you get in the end is volume 9.
