Im actually gonna cry of laughter.
Okay so Jaune says to Ruby this: Oh let’s not forget the REASON we’re in the Ever After in the first place is because of YOUR plan that didn’t work!
So he’s accusing Ruby of their being stuck in the Ever After because HER plan didn’t work, right. HER plan.
So I went back to Volume 8 and I rewatched the part where the plan to use the Staff was made, in V8 episode 12. Because using the staff is specifically why they’re in the Ever After. And… well:
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Nora: Guys, she has to go to the Vault.
Ruby: That’s actually a risk we haven’t considered.
Jaune: We’ve been so worried about keeping the Vault closed that we never considered using what’s inside.
Oscar: The Staff of Creation.
Ruby: Maybe we could use it to save Penny and get everyone in Atlas and Mantle back to safety.
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Okay, so Ruby, Oscar, AND Jaune are ALL framed as together coming to the revelation that they can use the Staff here. They’re essentially all talking about the same thing to build to Oscar spelling it out explicitly, and then Ruby just elaborates by saying “Hey! Maybe we can use it to solve both of our problems!”
Point being, they all have equal say and are all framed as coming to this conclusion. Keep that in mind.
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Weiss: So we’ve got people trapped in Atlas and Mantle that we can’t evacuate unless we use the Staff which is located inside the Vault. If we open the Vault, Penny terminates. If Ironwood gets wind of any of this, he blows up Mantle.
Oscar: There’s something else to consider. Once the Staff creates anything else, the city drops. Atlas has enough natural Gravity Dust to keep it from plummeting immediately, but, well, nobody’s going to want to be around when it touches down.
Jaune stops using his Semblance.
Jaune: Okay, then let’s use the Staff to teleport everyone to safety. Maybe even to another Kingdom.
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So, this is in the mansion, when they’re hashing out how to use the Staff. We’ve shifted from Ruby, Oscar, and Jaune being the most proactive with planning to Weiss/Whitley, Oscar, Jaune, and Ruby.
Oscar is mainly relaying info about the Staff so they can account for it, and Weiss is just revising their current situation. Neither are doing much actual problem-solving aside from Weiss’s vague suggestion at the end of the scene that she has a way to deal with Ironwood and his bomb.
Ruby has lines about planning not in this specific scene, but as a voiceover about them entering the vault to get the staff to stop Penny’s termination. In the actual vault, she’s the one who spearheads appealing to Ambrosius to help Penny. She’s constantly associated with the half of the plan involving Penny, as in, she doesn’t even have lines pertaining to the evacuation aside from her initial suggestion.
Now, JAUNE is the one who is elaborating on using the staff to take care of the civilians, specifically saying they should use it to move them to another kingdom, and WEISS/WHITLEY are the ones who supply the schematics for the paths and spearhead asking Ambrosius about this part of the plan. Furthermore, JNR are the ones associated with and taking care of the evacuation, with Jaune spearheading it. The evacuation portion of the plan is specifically what landed them in the Ever After, especially considering the Staff has a significant degree of flexibility in how it can be used despite the limitations.
All this to say that this was not Ruby’s plan alone. She doesn’t even get lines about it aside from her initial vague idea to use the staff to solve both their problems. This plan is also Jaune’s. It’s also technically Weiss’s. They are the ones that contributed the most to putting that part of the plan together, specifying how exactly they’re going to use the Staff for the evacuation, and leading it. They are all framed as equal contributors to the plan.
So where the FUCK does Jaune get off only blaming Ruby for this? Like he’s some subordinate just following Ruby’s plan when he’s not only a team leader himself, but he ALSO was shown to have equal say and even a majority association with the part of the plan that landed them in the Ever After. Ruby certainly didn’t force him into it.
He can apparently (vaguely) angst over his responsibility in Penny’s death but as soon as he can slough off the blame he’s alllll for yelling at Ruby and ignoring his own part lmfao.
Now I 100% agree with your opinion, but I'm just gonna slide in that Jaune was in total grief but he never actually let himself process it.
When the girls arrived, he was finally able to go through the 5 stages properly.
We've seen Denial; him ignoring his own feelings and situation in the form of helping others as a distraction.
Anger: Him taking out his feelings on Ruby. (that includes the blame game he had going.)
Bargaining: You could consider his entire career as the Rusted Knight was his way of Bargaining.
Depression: Too many instances to count.
And of course it finally comes round to Acceptance in the last few episodes.
