I love that you quoted Rorschach that man is a DISASTER of a human being, but I love him and for all its problems Watchmen will always hold a special place in my heart.

But no really. That’s what I was saying after episode four?? Let the kids be furious. Let them freak out about Salem. But let them also express some sympathy for a friend of theirs who has been through unimaginable horror. It honestly feels OOC to me that they’d be this consistently cold. Even if they weren’t in a position to be at all sympathetic in the immediate aftermath, I was expecting something while huddled up at the farm… and then during the conversation with Maria… or when everyone was greeting one another when arriving at Argus (literally no one asked after Ozpin)…wondering if we’d get a different perspective with JNR… maybe someone will mention something once they realize how badly they’d treated Oscar…

Nope. We’ve had so many places where someone, anyone, could have thrown out a single line in the vein of, “I can’t believe Ozpin has been through all that” to establish a baseline of compassion to build on, and every time the story has glossed over him. Then when he finally is mentioned? It’s Ruby saying that she doesn’t think she can trust him. Then Ruby saying she never needed him at all.

I can buy that complete lack of human empathy from one angry character (like Yang). I can’t buy it from a group of eight who have otherwise consistently been characterized as kind and forgiving. I mean hell, in the last volume both Yang and Ruby reached out to Raven. The story has literally said that a manipulative, lying murderer who abandoned you and joined forces with Cinder to attack you deserves more compassion than your Big Good, kindly headmaster who kept a secret in the name of protecting Remnant and sparing you. Okay. Sure.