Rondo Richter Belmont
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I actually quite liked Neptune, and the fear of water thing was a stupid thing shoved into Volume 3 to make a joke out of him. In Volume 2 we learn that despite him being a ladies man that's more of a facade to hide his insecurities. His talk with Jaune during the dance was actually one of the best written scenes in the show. It even avoided the pitfall of having a character misunderstand a situation and make a huge scene and look like a prick because he actually ended up talking to Neptune about why he turned Weiss down. And after talking about it Jaune finally gives up on his crush on Weiss and tells Neptune to talk to her, which was great cause I found Jaune's crush on Weiss to be kind of annoying. It was setting up what could have been a nice relationship. We only got a bit of Neptune in Volume 2 but there was plenty of opportunity to develop him and his relationship with Weiss further that got thrown out immediately, which just made Neptune pointless. He was clearly set up as Weiss's love interest and then he just vanished after Volume 3. Him appearing in Volume 6 was literally just to make sure people knew Ilia was a lesbian cause apparently they didn't already make that clear.
And when I mentioned BlackSun as endgame I meant that was what the intention from the start, not what is actually going to happen. Miles is too much of a spineless idiot to follow through on it cause he's more concerned with upsetting a part of the fandom and possibly Barbara by not making their stupid out of character ship canon. It's clear with how much time was spent on Blake and Sun's relationship with many clear signs that they liked each other it's ridiculous to claim that they were supposed to be with anyone else.
I disagree about Jaune and Pyrrha completely. There's WAY too much time spent building them up, comparable to even Sun and Blake, and the scenes with Jaune and Ruby scream "just friends". Outside of maybe the first scene with Jaune and Ruby there's not a lick of romantic implications at all. Jaune and Pyrrha were being set up very obviously. Pyrrha dying just meant that they wasted everyone's time spending three seasons building a romance that went nowhere. Even now without Pyrrha Jaune and Ruby come off as brother and sister.
Honestly, If they wanted to do the Weiss X Neptune shit then more should be put into his character.
Besides the fear of water and being nothing more than a gay joke (‘Dem Straight Doods Hitting on a Lesbian? COMEDIC GENIUS!’) which thanks to your post I actually came up with some decent ideas off the top of my head in like ten minutes after reading it lol.
If we see him and it’s not for shitty comedy, they should:
-Establish his words of being an intellectual, show off his smarts by either having skills with tinkering weapons (His and Sun’s) or perhaps him giving out a bit of exposition for Vacuo in terms of their History if he returns in the next Volume alongside Sun.
-If they want him to be more interesting, make him a Foil to Weiss as Sun is to Blake. Though we don’t need to hear everyone’s goddamn backstory in this fucking show, at least give a little to Neptune the same way they did with Jaune’s sisters;say that Neptune came from humble beginnings with his family owning a small shop in Mistral (Whether it be a Restaurant, Clothing, Textile, or Whatever) and he’s the only child of two civilians while his parents do embarrass him / are protective of him, they ultimately love their son and support his choice as a Huntsman.
-Don’t pull an Oscar and do off-screen Character Development.