Edit: Holy Shit a feature 3 days late? Don't know how that happened but I'm not complaining!

Sun Wukong is probably the most devisive characters in all the RWBY Canon.

He was introduced in the last arc of Volume 1 but hasn't really done anything of significance until Volume 4 despite being a heavily featured side character.

As I said before opinions on Sun vary like a godamn metronome

Some love him. Most don't like him all too much from what I can tell. I also didn't like Sun for a long time but I've actually come to like him recently but I couldn't really figure out why that is AND why I disliked him in the first place.

This is what lead me to make this blog.

This will basically be my attempt to analyse why Sun isn't very popular and how it could or be fixed later.

Now I want to mention one more thing before I start because I know it's probably a cause for at least some people not liking this character.

I am not going to be talking in depth about a certain ship war because it's irrelevant and petty when it comes to actually discussing Sun Wukong's character and honestly I couldn't care less about which character fucking Blake of all people end up with. If that offends you, I'm sorry but that's how I feel about the matter.

Now then let's dive into Sun Wukong shall we?

NUMBER ONE: THE WORST INTRO EVER. OF ALL TIME.

Sun has the worst introduction to the story of any character in the series and one of the worst I've ever seen in fiction ever.

Sun literally pops up at the end of Volume 1 with NO rhyme or reason as to why. He also just gets involved with Blake FOR NO REASON.

It's not unreasonable to say that Sun just inserts himself into a story arc about as gracefully as Qrow carries himself at the start of Volume 3. The arc is about the conflicting viewpoints of Blake and Weiss, the trouble they've had to go through and explaining the backstory of these 2. His inclusion hurts even more because this arc like everyone Volume 1 arc past the formation of teams is personal.

Sun has nothing to add here and comes off as sticking his nose where it REALLY doesn't belong.

He could've been introduced in Volume 2 like Neptune and it would've made basically no difference.

He should've been introduced in a way that integrates him into the story naturally not forcing him onto the tail of Volume 1 for no reason.

NUMBER TWO: LACK OF BACKSTORY

Sun has no backstory to his name. Well I say 'No' but that's technically not true. He's from the Kingdom of Vacuo and was raised there but is a student at Haven which is in Mistral. Oh he's also a Faunus obviously, but apart from that we know nothing about his past.

The writers probably do have a backstory for Sun and they haven't given it yet but considering Volume 4 he isn't just a prominent side charcater anymore and I think we do deserve a properly explained backstory because from what we do know, Sun's backstory could be really interesting at least in my opinion.

Why IS he Haven anyway if he was raised in Vacuo? There's something you can do with that but we just don't know what it is.

RWBY has this problem in general in that it leaves the history of a lot of its characters mysterious, at least for the moment and this really kills my interest.

Even little tidbits would be amazing because RWBY is great at doing that.

We don't fully know Qrow's backstory even but the fact he was raised by bandits and that he got his name from his semblance of Misfortune which inherently gives us a MASSIVE view into his character tells the audience pretty much everything they need to know about him.

And Mercury's supposed paternal abuse is subtle but it makes him more than most villains in the show except maybe Torchwick in that we have some sort of explanation as to why he's so fucked up.

But speaking of his lack of backstory, this leads into the next point

NUMBER THREE: LACK OF CHARACTER DEPTH DESPITE GOOD PERSONALITY TRAITS

Sun is the leader of his team for a reason. He clearly has good judgement and leadership skills as shown during the Battle of Beacon and in the fight against Ilia.

He's also the one with his head in the game in Volume 4. While Blake's moping and trying to figure her shit out Sun is one looking out for her and is actually trying to do something. Like when he makes the connection something shady is going on with the White Fang in Menagerie when he sees someone wearing a White Fang mask.

Meanwhile Blake just dismisses him because it's "Not important" but it shows to me that Sun has his shit together and priorities straight.

He's also just generally a nice guy. He's always willing to help his friends with no gain to himself, is pretty cheerful and willing to make jokes even in serious moments and if he stuck with Blake through all the shit she gave him in Volume 4 just to help her through her issues he's got some serious dedication and drive to help the people he cares for.

I also just find his attitude and lines personally funny

Like this scene

However this means little to nothing because Sun has no real depth as a character and this ties in to his lack of a backstory right now.

Because we know little about Sun's past we don't know WHY he does the things he does and what drives him to do those things.

Sun right now has only really served 2 purposes in the story as a whole: To help develop Blake

and to serve as comic relief with his hetero life partner Neptune.

But if we got to actually learn about him and the actions he's taken up to this point he would be, most likely, far more interesting.

For example, Sun's following of Blake in Volume 4 and his fixation with her in Volume 1 has sort of led people to think he's some sort of stalker, which I can't blame honestly.

Now I'm not a writer and I could easily be talking out if my ass here, but say he lost someone before in his past and he blamed himself for not doing more to help, his actions towards Blake suddenly become way more sympathetic and the fact he'd even leave his team to do so means its quite an extreme sense of guilt.

Again, not a writer, but I really think that would help Sun's character.

CONCLUSION

I know 2/3 of things I talked about in this blog will most likely be rectified later but it helps establish why I think Sun isn't well liked and how he'll be fixed later.

At the end of the day, while Sun Wukong was introduced side character we're now 3 Volumes later and he is yet to actually come into his own despite becoming far more important to the overall story.

I really hope we don't have another Renora situation where we're just waiting to find out the backstory of important charcater for who knows how long until the show runners decide we're worthy and I certainly hope the backstory isn't as lacklustre as that one.

But Volume 5 is only just over a month away so if we're lucky we'll get some backstory for Sun? Eh? EHHHHH?

*Sigh* Yeah, probably not, but still a man can pray.

I hope this post has made you more open to Sun as a character and maybe even made you interested to learn about him.

So yeah that's the end. Ummmmm.......

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