>>57972023
You know how domestic cats can be adorable while at the same time bringing you bloody beheaded animals as gifts? Or how one way they like playing is play wrestling, where you can tickle its stomach and it responds by chewing and scratching the shit out of your hand but not that hard? Its affection and aggression are not a contradiction, it can do both at the same time, in both cases it's still the same pet animal who loves (You).

I think that's the idea of Sapphire after RS, starting with Ruby she finally learned to truly trust other people, so now she's less afraid of being her natural self. Which can be quite vulnerable and cute on top of her enjoying some feminine things like romance, while also not shitting on things she's not that interested in (she never became a fashionista for example). She just grew up and became less one dimensional/cartoonishly extreme. That doesn't mean she stopped being an animal, her behavior also depends on the context.
Which is also independent of meta elements, like her getting less screentime or being a background character instead of a protagonist in later story arcs.

Westoids consider all that as Sapphire being "ruined" though because she's not one dimensional.

>>57972072
This topic is my Roman Empire so I'm typing out another schizo essay response. Sorry I hit a writing block on the Sapphire ass essay, I'll get back to it later