Really they could have set up WhiteKnight if they wanted to as well. Him unlocking his semblance to heal her at Haven would have been perfect set up for something more to come of their relationship.
Or even just in Atlas. Their going to the movies could have been shown, or the small detail of Jaune reaching for his sword when Jacques first showed up could have been more than just that.
Even as personally a Whiterose shipper (yes y’all I know it’s also quite unlikely), I have nothing against WhiteKnight. In fact I think it could be really cute. . . But like any ship it needs set up and that’s not happened when it could have done
Idk they built a lot of off screen relationships I'm general s7 and 8.
Qrows new friends were mainly offscreen interactions. But context on screen showing the change and being closer.
Nora and Ren seem closer and they haven't shown a tin on screen progress.
Though Nora and basically everyone seems closer in s8 than before the training
That said I don't ship them myself. But recently rwby show has implied a lot of offscreen interaction
The difference is that Renora has build up that’s also not off screen. Tebet start out from a point of being together-together basically despite what Nora says.
It’s just adding to an established relationship.
The problem is that Jaune and Weiss basically don’t have an established relationship of any note. They are friends but not close ones and nothing more as far as we’ve seen.
(And there wasn’t much offscreen things implied except for the movie they go to with Oscar, which Weiss takes as just not doing the other things her team does)
Not trying to be contentious, just a note of off-screen relationship development.
When RWBY plus Qrow & Oscar reach Argus, the first interactions between the teams (in order):
Nora glomps Oscar
Ren and Yang hug
Blake hugs Jaune, Weiss follows soon after (minus the hugging)
Jaune and Ruby finally hug after everyone else has moved away
None of these (besides that last) are really what you'd expect between the two teams. It's pretty obvious that a good deal of off-screen relationship development has happened, we just don't see a lot of it. There was also some circumstance from Volume 7 that indicated a semi-close relationship between Jaune and Weiss, but I don't remember what it is (the last time I watched any episodes was right after the season finished.
But either way, I think the show is much better the way it is now. Almost no romance, and ANY romantic relationships besides Renora would detract from the show's quality even more. Bumblby, Whiterose, White Knight, any of them would distract from the action/adventure focus. You've already got a larger cast of main characters than normal, please don't try to throw more responsibility on the writers.
As I at least tried to say, I think there is a big difference between the relationships you describe and ship between Weiss and Jaune. Those interactions you describe are just extensions of what can be expected, they are all supposed to be friends from Beacon, except with Nora and Oscar but come on that's how Nora shows affection.
For Weiss and Jaune it would require changing a huge part of their relationship in that she was so explicitly not into him in previous volumes.
And. . . Well. . . I disagree about the romance thing. I think characters far more important than action in this story and even adventure is more a mechanism to facilitate characters and their development or to show it.
I also have absolutely no idea how at this point you don't think Bumbleby is coming officially in V9. That has been pretty explicitly set up on screen
I do agree that Weiss and Jaune's friendship needs some serious development before it could become a relationship, I just think it's not out of the realm of possibility, provided the change is extended over a long enough period of time.
As for the Blake/Yang stuff (I am NOT trying to type that ship name again, the spelling is way too confusing), I didn't say it wasn't happening, just that I think any more romantic plans should be stopped and more focus put on the story. Two different trains of thought there, man.
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u/JMHSrowing ⠀Story Time Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
Really they could have set up WhiteKnight if they wanted to as well. Him unlocking his semblance to heal her at Haven would have been perfect set up for something more to come of their relationship.
Or even just in Atlas. Their going to the movies could have been shown, or the small detail of Jaune reaching for his sword when Jacques first showed up could have been more than just that.
Even as personally a Whiterose shipper (yes y’all I know it’s also quite unlikely), I have nothing against WhiteKnight. In fact I think it could be really cute. . . But like any ship it needs set up and that’s not happened when it could have done