Thinking about Ruby again, and after reading an analysis of Red Like Roses from user @lovingdabeessss, it got me thinking about how Ruby NEVER processes her grief.
Per the RLR1 analysis from the above user, there are only two lines about Ruby herself, and its specifically about how she is dreaming of and mourning her mother. After, the song is about other characters before going to a rhythmic upbeat song where, in the Red Trailer, we see Ruby cut down a hoard of Beowulfs.
So instead of being able to stand at her mothers grave and grieve, she has to go fight a hoard of grimm, doing the very thing that got her mother killed; fighting to make the world a better place. Unable to sit still and grieve, process her emotions, she just has to keep moving forward.
And I don't think members of her family ever really gave her the chance to grieve either. Yang minimizes Ruby's trauma over losing Summer telling Blake in V2:"I think she was too young to really get was going on, you know". All credit to Yang though, she had no business being the emotional caregiver to another child lol. And of course we have Tai breaking down, and Qrow being around, but clearly not as involved as he should have been.
That said, there is little evidence that Ruby's emotional needs weren't met, up until the end of V3. I'll set the stage; Ruby just watched TWO of her friends die. Watched her school get destroyed, watched as she failed to do her best and keep her team, friends, and family safe. Failed to save Pyrrha, because she was too slow. The girl with the speed semblance was too slow, aint that a bitch.
And then when she wakes up, the first thing she does is go to Yang, and when she sees her, the first thing she does is comfort her. Only to be told that Blake abandoned her team, abandoned Yang. Yang does not reciprocate when Ruby tells her she loves her, but again, Yang has no business being the emotional caregiver for Ruby, especially not then.
But then, instead of processing her grief, Ruby plans to go to Haven. and then we get 5 volumes of her never taking the time to go "I think I need to talk about this". Which of course leads up to V9, and the V9 extra released after it ended, where we learn that Ruby does not know how to ask for help.
This was a lot of rambling, but the point is: she needs therapy
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