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Dude

It's not stalking if your post ends up in the RWDE feed.

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CRWBY did an AMA where they stated the cutoff to be 30.

rwby.fandom.com/wiki/Maidens#cite_note-4

Boy I sure love learning valuable lore via thirty thousand mediums that aren't the show they should be in

In all seriousness, thanks, anon. You're very kind

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evil canonseeker be like I believe all genders are equal I respect people of all religions I am not a radical feminist nor a lowkey terf nor majorly xenophobic and I also know how to log off of reddit for longer than an hour

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i remember someone saying there's "nothing weird about the lgbt representation in rwby" in a reply to me a while ago, so i thought maybe we should go over our amazing queer characters in rwby!

so, first we have coco, who is an excuse for the writers to be horny about other female characters

then ilia "i'm gonna kill your parents and send you back to your criminally insane ex boyfriend because i love you" amitola and the pilot boy who was supposed to say "oh no my boyfriend" immediately before dying but miles backed out of it (though he would love to let you know he's a good boy and was going to put a gay character in the show in this way)

we also have jaune's sister and her wife, and may marigold from the happy huntresses, who are fine but are also not really characters

and finally, we have our bees, who were actual queerbaiting for the longest time and only sailed because the writers had literally no other choice

so, yeah! no weirdness whatsoever!

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RWBY THING OF THE DAY

when the bad guy squad summons jinn in v8e13 and she's sad but at the same time she is also required to make a sexy pose

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thinking about how i would hypothetically rewrite rwby (i probably never actually will because i can't fucking commit, tbh)

and i think the overall key would be like

"make it narrower, but deeper"

like to use an analogy. RWBY to me is like. rain on a salt flat. looks cool, expansive, but shallow as hell.

which i do understand. this is a hypocritical complaint, tbh. i *do* often abandon my own ideas, and make things overcomplicated.

(i even had to edit the above down, it was 3x longer for no good reason.)

but instead, i'd make rwby more like a deep pond rather than the big wet salt flat.

"wtf does that Mean tho"

well here's a basic rundown.

-axe the racism. i am black, and find it a fundamentally poor allegory, even *with* more polish. tbh on a more shallow front i'd also just like doing animal jokes without it being racist.

-retool it to classism that affects all races (also helps my issue with Cinder's backstory feeling like a Faunus backstory)

-(yes, yes, intersectionality, the two issues are fundamentally intertwined, i know, i know, but you get the gist of it)

-this could make the thing with adam and blake *more* interesting in some ways, as because Blake has a well-off family and just sympathizes with the cause, Adam grows to resent that, feeling she'll never *really* understand or *really* be willing to go as far as the movement needs, in his eyes.

-salem's a mortal, middle-aged woman who became obsessed with illegal grimm research and experimented on herself. Not some Ancient Great Evil.

- similarly, Ozpin is Just The Headmaster. No Epic Cosmic Destiny or reincarnations.

-there is no fucking ever after

-there are no fucking relics

-there are no confirmed gods but there Are religions

"ohh you're sooo high and mighty, removing stuff rather than having the bravery to add or build on anything"

okay, fucko strawman i invented, i see you.

-there *is* magic. (but Atlas isn't held up by magic, it really is just Gravity Dust now)

-simply put, "magic" is now defined as "being able to draw upon the world's Aura rather than yours, and without reliance on Dust"

-btw, Dust is just a sort of "crystalized" version of world Aura, so now the three concepts are neatly tied together (yes, this makes it TECHNICALLY a renewable resource, but it replenishes slow as fuck)

-by extension, Grimm (And Salem and Cinder) are magic in a parasitic sort of sense. (they passively suck the Aura outta things and can slowly sicken and kill just by *existing* somewhere for too long/ too great a number. But as a direct result of how this wouldn't be sustainable for them long-term, they *usually* have a natural instinct to spread out and wander, which lets the land recover and makes them a little more manageable to fight).

-by further extension, Cinder's Grimm arm is neatly explained as a further exploitation of Grimm's pre-existing parasitic, power sapping nature

-Silver eyes are magic, as what they draw upon is the collective hope, willpower, and general positive energy of humanity

-Ozpin and Salem were like. multidisciplinary scientists/historians who both sought to study and revive magic for human usage, as it's not only more flexible, but neither of them missed the implications of a power source that can cut out Dust as a middleman entirely, either.

-Salem of course IMMEDIATELY saw the connection of Grimm being, BY FAR, the most abundant avenue for magic around.

-Ozpin was all like "Saleypoos. Saleykins. My sweet. Grimm are like the world's parasites. This *has* to be a bad idea."

- "Ohrrrr Ozzed Pin my Sweet, Don't You Gnow? all we have to do is modify the Grimm tissue to make it more cooperative and less harmful! You know, Watts thinks that he's really onto something with using cybernetic implants to control and alter their behavior... and I've been talking to this wonderful Dr. Merlot fellow, and if we include his theories, I really think we have a shot at this!"

-"Weeeelll... ok... if you say so. I know I can always trust you :)))"

-OZPIN COULD, IN FACT, NOT TRUST HER (Or Dr. Merlot, or Watts, for that matter)

-This raises the fucked up possibility that, in fact, Salem is *such* a recent phenomenon that the reason the Branwens can become birds is because this is a power granted by sketchy Grimm research, and *this* is why everyone else is so affronted, because it takes it from "oh cool he gave them powers" to "WHAT DO YOU *MEAN* YOU DID SECRET GRIMM EXPERIMENTS ON ORPHANS, EVEN IF THEY DID CONSENT. HOW ARE YOU EVEN HEADMASTER. WHAT."

- Yang being the one who is particularly affronted and concerned because now she's paranoid that she was born secretly maybe like 5% Grimm without knowing it.

Weiss: come on Yang... don't be ridiculous...

Ruby: yeah, i mean, sure your eyes turn red when you use your Semblance, but I'm sure that's just-

Yang: oh my GOD my eyes DO turn red!

Blake, loudly whispering through clenched teeth: Ruby! Not helping!

Nora, oblivous: welllll your Semblance does kinda, in a way, absorb energy from others, which *might* sound a *liiiiittle* like a Grimm, BUT-

Blake: NORA.

Weiss: *facepalm*

Yang: *existential crisis*

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You hate Hero Hei because he complained about RWBY forever ago

I hate Hero Hei because he's an anti-woke sloptuber

We are not the same

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another rwby thing that i actually want to see is if they are ever gonna deal with the whole "ozpin makes children fight" thing or if it's going to continue to be just something the bad guys say so we know they don't like him

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THIS.

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FUN FACT

over the years, we had 3 different reasons as to why ozpin (or ozma, the writers can't decide) is immortal

in world of remnant, we are told that it's because of his super good aura

in v5, he mentions that the gods cursed him for not stopping salem

and finally, in v6e3 we see that the gods made him immortal so that he could stop our favorite so-called evil queen, and not because he failed to do that

we also have 3 different ways the whole soul merging works, but that's for another day

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these motherfuckers

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rewatching the ace ops fight and like. honestly. it really doesn't make me think "wow team rwby became so powerful"

it just makes it seem like every ace op was kind of hard carried by clover's luck and general ability to keep their morale up and their ducks in a row, and they all ended up becoming complacent and kind of lame and dysfunctional combat-wise the second he's out of the picture.

which i do hate to say because i DO think they're interesting but like. Man.

beating someone who is supposedly a combat expert by making her run into a wall doesn't really make you look smart so much as it makes her look like a moronic rookie who just got her Semblance last week. (on top of how it makes her Semblance look lame too because it's "speed", and yet it gives an opponent without enhanced speed or reflexes all the time in the world to make a barrier in front of her that she also lacked the inertia to break, further indicating that she's hardly going *that* fast by superpower standards)

like ooh im so scared of you, supposedly one of the most powerful people in the country, being able to run what must be like, 50-ish miles per hour TOPS if this is the case.

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Thinking about how the White Fang were executed is more yikes than HBomberGuy pointed out

>the metaphorical Black Panthers are led by a white man after he murders a dark-skinned female who only had three minutes of screen time

>most of the group is portrayed as being violent terrorists who caused the RWBY equivalent to 9/11

>Birthplace of White Fang is a cult led by two brown skinned people, one of whom blows themselves up for the greater cause of causing terrorism within their city

>They also go along with a guy's plan to basically kidnap a woman he groomed from childhood

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Same train of thought is why in the fuck does Blake start out deradicalized?

The White Fang had been committing at minimum targeted property damage, grand larceny, and assassinations since Blake was twelve. Being radicalized at that young an age, she wouldn't just be lost in the sauce, Blake would be mixing kool-aid in Jonestown!

Something pretty major must have happened in order for her beliefs - which at this point would be intrinsically tied to her identity - to be shaken badly enough that she'd eventually leave the only family she'd known for the last five years. And even after leaving, there's still the unlearning of those beliefs and all the missteps that accompany that journey

Yet she gets introduced as being uncomfortable with the direction of things as if they haven't been going on for half a decade, as if she's not on what seems like a routine mission, as if there's not a damn good reason they're doing the things they're doing

ShawLuna kinda wrote Blake like she was born yesterday and is just now learning what sin is rather than a young woman having a moral crisis

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In which a defense for Blake ends up making her worse.

So, I came across this post and holy fucking shit, this literally puts Blake in a worse light than it tried to be.

It's like that whole meme that RWBY is only antifa when the facists inconvenience them.

But it gets worse.

In the same defense, you literally brought up why Ruby shut her up. Blake's idea of comforting Ruby was to try and brush the issue under the rug for the time being, which was the exact same thing she tried to do during Ruby's breakdown.

Also, you seem to ignore the timing of when she tried to do this the second time. Ruby had just been victim blamed by Jaune and effectively had her entire agency be stolen by him fishing for sympathy over the very things that just a few minutes ago, they were roasting him for and would have wanted them to commit their Jonestown plan.

This also really encapsulates Blake as a cowardly cat. She always likes to run away from the situation or avoid confrontation until it comes to a point where she can't avoid it. And even then, she will try to avoid that when she can.

Look no further than when she ran to Menagerie. She flips and flops between not wanting to fight and wanting to fight, and it isn't until she realized the White Fang are literally stalking her house that she realized she has to take back the White Fang...

Only to just wait until they end up trying to merc her family and then she decides to make it all of Menagerie's problem by making them subservient to the most racist Kingdom in the world that ironically has a race traitor as a Headmaster.

And once that's done, she abandons all that (since that would just mean doing all the shit she did in V1 but without them being as bitchy as Weiss) just to go globetrotting. And despite the bravado she puts up against Adam about how he doesn't scare her no more, the moment she sees him again, it's right back to being scared shitless.

When I say Blake is complex, it's not a compliment.

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Ruby Redesign for my RWBY Re-imagining. Her design is probably the hardest to create for the girls for me, because her debut was nigh perfect.

Design Notes:

I combined the ideas of V1 and V2's designs, since a good usage of gray would work better with tan-ish skin (she's lighter than Yang in complexion).

There is a lot of design motif she shares with Yang; both wears a qipao jacket, similar boots, flared over skirt, and the same utility belt (with different buckle accessories).

While Yang's carp fish motif is more obvious with her sash, I wanted Ruby's to be more subtle, hence the ruffled sleeves and petticoat with the over skirt to create the idea of fish fins and tail.

Ruby also shares some design motif with Qrow, mainly his crucifix accessories and cape color, as well as the arm garters.

Feel free to leave your thoughts on my redesigns of Ruby Rose!

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im sorry but the "ironwood is white" thing just embodies my biggest gripe with the whole "what constitutes as asian" in the show because yang and taiyang have asian names but like i highly doubt someone would think they are asian at first glance

their actual model would imply white/asian at best and even then its a fictional world with cat-eared motherfuckers and ALSO, the most asian representation we get is lie ren with kuroyuri

really the only reason im not going full ballistic about it is because this show is built on fandom headcanon and i've made so many "what IS asian in remnant" posts that my point is clear