*Ruby seeing WBY+Jaune approaching* "Oh hey guys. Let me readjust my position on the floor so I can look tragically sexy for the perverted beta looking men on the writing team while I 0ff myself in front of you"
when the show infamously bad for handling suicide still manages to avoid the sexualization of suicide allegations in everything else wrong with those scenes, it might be that rwby just has a problem. or is just written by men with dicks for brains.
i have a lot of issues with hannah's suicide scene but what i will say is what we get when we focus on her character & not the shock factor, is haunting. hannah is broken, she has nothing left to keep her going & you see it in her eyes & even when she's committed the act, that haunting feeling sticks with you. you're watching a life being lost & you're desperate to save her.
also absolutely do not google this, they have graphic screencaps of the suicide method featuring blood in the first few images.
but then when we get to ruby's suicide, she's posed absolutely ridiculously & all we can think is why aren't her friends rushing to save her? there is a good amount of time between ruby making eye contact & then slowly sipping the drink: if you compare that to hannah's suicide, the frustration builds because hannah is alone. she is alone physically & she's alone emotionally, there is no one to save her in this moment. ruby had 4 people to save her or at least try.
this isn't heartbreaking or haunting, it's goofy. ruby looks stupid here & even more so when there's the sexualization angle of it because god forbid she exist as an emotionally broken teenager without the grown men behind the show ripping her outfit over her breasts & then having her pose basically in a sensual lounge.
booo, boo tomato, boo!
