xstonehill:

I just want to point this one shot from the sneak peek out for a moment.

Not only are we seeing Ruby semi-isolating herself from the team, watching over them from a distance. She’s also in a room alone with a clock. Everybody is divided, wallowing in negative feelings (which we know attract the Grimm) and she isn’t equipped to handle it. Yet she’s the one who has it the most together (other than Maria) and she’s remained the only real leader after Oz pulled back.

Not just that but she’s also carrying around what he himself defined as “his burden to bear”: the Relic of Knowledge.

Inadvertently she’s been placed in the exact same position that Ozpin has been in all these years; a leader, trapped by time, carrying the gift burden of the Gods, watching over humanity as they act self-destructively in the greater scheme of things.