



We even see hints at the same ideas behind Ruby and Yang, the obvious being Ruby's intro showing her standing at the grave of someone with the same last name, as well as her introverted personality initiallly and it is very likely that Yang is similar, just hiding it behind the bubbly party-girl exterior, though we know even less about their backgrounds than about Weiss or Blake's.





This is all just theoretical however, and really aside from being the intended theme of the art, completely irrelevant.





At any rate, I like this, and find the artwork to be a clever use of color and ideas. Very well done, indeed.

This is rather important I think, I find that all the characters in Team RWBY have some degree of insecurity in their pasts that they hide through stoicism, very much played straight in the cases of Weiss and Blake. They're actually quite similar in terms of character, despite their stories being inverses of each other. They're both built around this idea of professionalism, with one being cold, but headstrong, and the other being a silent doer. They both have a very strong facade that they put up, or rather, it is a choice between a facade, or simply nothing being said at all.