Been watching and rewatching RBWY over the past couple of days (after not checking up on it for ages because I assumed there was no way they'd have weekly episodes o_O).
One thing I've been doing for fun is...so the main characters each correspond to a colour, which also seems to have something to do with their peronality. I've been speculating on which colour they'd correspond to in magic the gathering's colour philosophy.
(spoilers contained within)
Yang (yellow) is red. Red red red. With a secondary helping of red. And some more red. Not just because she lights herself on fire, but also because she's the lustful one, the quick to anger one. She's the easiest to place.
Weiss (white) is a bit harder to place, because she's selfish--typically a black trait. Considers herself the smartest girl in class--typically a blue trait. But so much about her screams establishment and hierarchy and following rules--very white traits. Obviously she's an heiress, but also she has strict rules about how far apart her feet should be, and yells at ruby for attacking out of turn. She seems the most horrified at breaking rules or being late. She's used to being the leader due to her upbringing, so she gets bent out of shape when that's not the case. But once she gets over her own ego, she declares that she will strive to be the best minion ever. Gonna have to go with white primary. Does she have enough in other areas to have a secondary colour? Hmm...leaning no for now; it definitely seems like her selfishness and attitude stuff was short term plot devices adjusting to a new hierarchy.
Ruby (red) is...well she can be impulsive, and that suggests red. She seems more at home in the wilderness than in a school setting, and that suggests green. She really, really likes weapons (artifacts) and that suggests blue. She doesn't show a strong interest in making friends, which suggests blue or black. She likes books, which leans towards blue but really depends on the books. She really really wants to make it up to Weiss, which suggests that she's not black or red. She doesn't seem off-put by the Shnee company's questionable labour laws and business partners, or if she is she doesn't hold it against Weiss, which suggests...I dunno...not green maybe? But the real sense I get out of her is that she's clever. She comes up with a ridiculous plan involving three people's weapons to kill the giant bird. She's the one in class that notices the soft underbelly having no armor and yelling to Weiss to hit it. She's the one that comes up with the idea for bunk beds. She forged a ridiculous weapon herself. Clever and inventive is blue. Does she have a secondary? Hmm...well no real evidence for white. Black is pretty much out. Green is possible, but I also feel like green is kind of the enemies they fight (forest monsters) so it would be weird for any of the hero cast to be green. Red...well maybe; some of her contraptions and schemes remind me of ridiculous goblin inventions. But I'm kind of not feeling it--the one time she brashly charged into battle there was a calculated reason behind it (she wanted to prove to Weiss that she wasn't a useless partner). She gets angry less than Yang, and probably also Weiss. She shows more passion about inventions than boys. Like...I suspect she has a bit more range of personality due to being the main character, so we see aspects of several colours in her, but blue does feel like the dominating one to me at the moment.
Blake (black): Ummmmm...well she never shows strong emotions (not red, probably not green). Reads books (suggests blue, but depends on the books). Wants everyone to fuck off and leave her with her thoughts (blue or black). The book she's reading is about a man with two souls fighting for control of his body (feels black to me). She seems a little disgusted by the empire Weiss is a part of (black or maybe green). In her trailer she's seen robbing a train (black) but shows concern for the crew when her partner talks about setting charges (leans white or green, but having morals can happen in any colour) and at the end doesn't stay loyal to her partner, cutting the train link (definitely not white or green, and it seems too calculated to be red). I feel like I need more information on her, as she's been so secretive up till now, but black or black+blue seem likely. I'm going to make a wild guess and say black, and that she's not going to be a source of clever ideas and plans with Ruby around, and that the whole books thing is more of a "fuck people" thing than a knowledge thing.
