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My first thought upon seeing the RWBY au is:

How fucked up are things gonna be? :D

oh, ya know..... :)

In all seriousness tho we won't be straying too far from the ideas rwby canon has so. Probably not much more fucked than things are in the show. (Not a high bar I realize now but LMAOOO)

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the planned monthly update rate for ddvau is fucking insane and i wanna tell you why bc i feel like doody and maruu need more recognition for the shit they’re pulling off to bring ddvau to you guys

so first off. hi. if you do not know me. i am a webcomic fiend. i am not an artist nor have i ever drawn a comic, web or otherwise, but i have been an avid webcomic reader for a very long time. i’ve been reading and following, without exaggeration, hundreds of webcomics consistently for about a decade. at my last count i am currently actively following around 200 ongoing, still-updating, non-hiatus comics in a week across a few sites. i’ve also been following most of my favorite comic’s artists on other social media and reading about the process of webcomic making from them. these are my credentials for Knowing Things About Comics—no personal experience, but a decade of observation

that in mind. ddvau is a page format webcomic (as opposed to a scrolling format webcomic, like the sort of thing you generally see on webtoon). both comic formats have their own norms and rules, so we’re just gonna compare ddvau to other page format comics, bc comparing page and scrolling format is comparing different animals

most if not all page format webcomics update at a rate of one or two pages a week. i’d say loosely i’ve observed that hobbyists or people with busy full time jobs tend to update once weekly, while people making some income off the comic or with more time to dedicate to the comic might update twice, tho this isn’t a rule.

this means you generally see roughly 4-8 pages a month for most page format webcomics

the most recent two monthly chapters of ddvau were 18 and 16 pages. both of them were double the rate that’s standard for the medium and has been standard for the last decade i’ve been reading webcomics

genuinely i don’t know how else to get across how insane that rate is. like. if they were updating at a "one-page-per-update, x many updates a week" rate like most page format comics do, they’d be updating four days a week. they would be releasing a page on at least half of the days of month. do you have any idea how absolutely fucking crazy that is? double the pace of the average artist in their medium. i haven’t been able to get over it since i realized it

and this is double the normal workload/rate of a page format webcomic artist on top of weekly art on doody’s kofi! a bunch of extra sketches or even full color illustrations! i happen to know one of the next weekly kofi arts that is coming out will be a bunch of full color, which is, and i cannot stress this enough, a fucking insane choice and doody is crazy. and doody also draws the merch that they make! i know for a fact those two are planning to do several merch drops this year with unique new designs in every one

(and like, i didn’t even touch on the extra work maruu is also doing, like helping manage the fan discord or coordinating the merch drops and running the shop with their merch and shipping companies, as well as maruu’s work as a writer and her color work on the comic itself, simply bc i don’t understand much of anything maruu is doing there enough to talk about it in depth. what i DO know is that those two rlly are lucky to have each other, bc someone could not to all the shit they’re doing at the rate they’re doing it alone)

which… kind of points me to the whole point of making this post. doody and maruu are doing something absolutely fucking phenomenal and delivering wayyyy more shit to you guys than is standard or like. honestly more than what is reasonable i think you two are crazy. the amount of work that is going into ddvau behind the scenes is fucking unbelievable, like, “the longer i think about it the less i can wrap my head around it” level of unbelievable to me. especially with how consistently high quality ddvau is, especially these last few episodes

i guess my point is. the work these guys are doing is crazy and way above the standard pace, so much higher than anythign ive personally seen from any hobbyist webcomic makers. i'm sure that's lost on a lotta readers who aren't otherwise familiar w the medium, but i dont want it lost how crazy impressive and kind of unprecedented it is for a webcomic, esp one without any professional publishing backing. doody and maruu are something else for even attempting this tbqh.

so like. keep that in mind when you engage w the comics, esp in the next few months while doody and maruu try out this "full chapter every month" update pace, and def make sure to give em the support and grace they've earned w this sorta workload/pace they're setting just to bring you the story you love

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dude rwby au goes crazy. offhand mentions of other teams?? is jtrb jimmy/joel, tango, ren, bigb/bdubs?? who else is white fang other than pearl?? is gem her ilia?? is she her adam?! need to know xoxo

Thanks so much lol and yes actually! Spot on guess, our second main team and the other focus of this au is Jimmy, Tango, Ren, and BigB! Unlike M.C.S.P they are very functional and get along very well. Until the incidents but don't worry about that.

Gem we have alot cooked up for, she was a prodigy and has not only already graduated as the leader of her team, (Lizzie, Etho, and Joel), but is also the current Spring Maiden. At first we didn't have any plans for her and Pearl to interact since this is more of a double life au, but this ask actually gave us quite a bit to discuss, and shinyduo will for sure have some fun fights later on. (Sorry for cliffhangering you it will be brought up again in the future (and hopefully after I can cook up some more art LOL)

Also... what..? More white fang members.... surely not...

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Heloo I just found u and your art style is so deliciousssss it’s so pretty and glowy and!!!! Very enthused abt it.

On a scale of last life to wild life to double life (not doomed, everyone thinks they’re doomed, Doomed Tragically) how doomed is M.C.S.P?

Also is Scott and Pearl going to have a tragic moment of reconciliation after it becomes too late (Sacrifice! Sacrifice! lol)

also also, does xornoth exist? Is he Scott’s brother? The Aeor Company exists is the Exor Company a puppet rival company used to drive up prices (if that’s not how this works oops, I’ve never seen RWBY, but divorce Quartet makes me insane)

also also also do the watchers and listeners exist here???

Thank you so much! 😭🩵

And it terms of doomedness, we think if Martyn was a better person, maybe they could have figured out some way to focus their energy in making a truce between Pearl and Scott, however because this not what happened, we fear they would not have even made it to graduation. (lucky? For them beacon academy was destroyed before they could get themselves expelled.) As for reconciliation we haven't thought that far in the future plot wise yet.

🫠 (Now that you say it though I think it would be funny if Scott blew himself up at some point)

Xornoth does exist, he is Scott's brother and more interested in political/war matters than the family dust business. Also he sucks but this we knew. (Also no worries on zero prior rwby knowledge we hope this is enjoyable for everyone haha)

The watchers take the place of our main antagonists, the group that sows chaos through the world and the leader of which can create Grimm (mosters that feed on humanities negative emotions)

The listeners are apart of a secret organization that were made to protect the academies many secrets and help usher in and keep an eye on the Maidens (4 superpowerd women that each have the power of a specific season. The power will move on to someone else if they are killed.) (This is a really big thing we will get into later LOL)

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So me and @rev-pirate cooked up a RWBY au...

We have SO much for it already but essentially we looked at divorce quartet, said: is anyone gonna make them worse?" And then didn't wait for an answer

Quick synopsis- (and if you have no idea what rwby is, the main things you need to know is weapons have multiple forms, semblances are basically their superpowers, dust is a magical sunstance that can be used to enhance weapons, and they all go to this university and get put in teams of 4 to learn how to fight monsters called Grimm.)

-Martyn-

Nobody expected Martyn to be the leader, least of all him. He doesn't see what the headmaster does, and he won't until it's much too late for his team.

Weapon: electric guitar/axe

Semblance: Attacks are stronger when landed to the beat of music. The longer the combo, the higher the strength (He has trouble keeping rhythm without listening to music, which is why he always has his headphones near.) (Yeah just think hifi rush we hit him with Chai beams)

-Cleo-

The de-facto leader after Martyn decides team J.T.R.B are much funner to hang out with, Cleo is forced to attempt to keep a collapsing team from breaking apart. At least before graduation.

Weapon: staff/nunchucks/twin SMGs

Semblance: They can create decoys of themselves or other living things anywhere in sight. Now usually these would be illusions. But in combination with something called Dust in this universe they can be made solid. Which works really well in conjunction with Martyn's semblance. In that if given the opportunity they can make decoys that Martyn can hit to not break his combo between enemies. or to build a combo before going in for the strike for higher damage off the bat. Unfortunately for them. This team is doomed

-Scott-

As the heir of Aeor dust company, the leading supplier of the world's dust, graduating from a huntsman academy should have been one of the easiest tasks to accomplish. Little did he know...

Weapon: wooden longbow with dust enhanced arrows/staff

Semblance: glyphs (yeah he's basically Weiss LOL) The magic glyphs can spoil different things when infused with dust, like a speed or jump boost, and summon avatars of previously defeated Grimm out of dust.

-Pearl-

Pearl thought the worst thing that could happen was her classmates finding out she's secretly apart of the white fang. Turns out she hadn't planned to be grouped up with the heir of the white fangs biggest enemy.

Weapon: scythe/twin sickles/boomerang

Semblance: Anti-gravity. She can levitate any nonliving thing she's touched and control it. Used with gravity dust enhances this, allowing for her to control her weapons without needing to touch them. (As she grows stronger, she'll be able to control more things)

ALSO THIS POST IS SUPER LONG ALREADY SO have some weapon doodles as a treat, next team post soon

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he can't keep doing this can he

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What if I started sobbing right now :((

Tysm,,, it is truly wonderful to hear that people genuinely like my art, it's something I'm not used to hearing and it's very heartwarming😭💜

@cjskribblez i love your art so much! Your style is gorgeous, but especially how you color/render and even more especially how you use light in your pieces. They stand out so much, and i can always tell a CJ piece when I see it!

@cjskribblez !!!

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My unfinished symphony ahh shrimp

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oho.... there are 3 of them... what shall they do? what great deeds shall they accomplish...

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IT IS THE SHRIMPS BIRTHDAY?? Most fortuitous... I hope this lovely shrimp gets everything it wants and more...

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lotr boat boys.... save me lotr boat boys....

au by @terracottakore ! GO LOOK AT IT

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Everything the light touches....

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Happy 8 years to the movie that ruined my life 🎉

This is a redraw!

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Happy birthday @liloinkoink you are the swaggiest soggiest skeleton I know

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Recent drawings for @cjskribblez, @cospacejin and @vinca-roseus WAHOO

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Thinking abt him again

Any Arcane enjoyers in the house? >:)

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(look at what i have to offer) — this is the spider's nest.