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[sherpawool]

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren’t replying to yourself anonymously in order to take potshots. You should really do your research instead of listening to some random anonymous jackass on the internet. How hard can it be to click on my tumblr to see what I’ve actually said? Unless it turns out you didn’t give me the benefit of the doubt after all, and assume I’m running some sort of false flag campaign for... fuck if I know why someone would think I’m running a false flag. But yeah, assuming you’re listening to some shallow anon without fact checking, anon is lying. Let me lay it out.

So, first off? I have barely posted at all on my tumblr page in like 4 years. I mostly use it to follow other tumblr users. So that information is at least four years out of date. That you’re using it as some sort of damning indictment of me... well it certainly says a lot about you.

With that out of the way, let me clarify because you’re more interested in blindly passing summary judgement. Under no circumstances did I imply Blake was required to stay with Yang. Why I used the word “abandonment” is because Blake left her team without a word. And yes, she is perfectly in her right to do so. But to not even leave a note? That’s a dick move. So perhaps it would be more correct to say “what a jackass.” Yang literally lost her arm trying to protect Blake. Is that not deserving of at least a note or voice message saying “I’m leaving to protect you from my ex.”

No, Blake isn’t some sort of pet or under some sort of contract. But it’s basic fucking decency for her to leave some sort of message, even saying the bare basics. Frankly, Yang has every right to be pissed. Especially since Blake said she would start trusting her team more only a month or two back.

Anyway, that’s all I’m going to say on the subject. If anon-an-asshole tries to bullshit claiming I said something I didn’t, please fact check. And remember my RWBY posts are like four years out of date, so my opinions might have changed since then.

As a last word of advice? Treating anyone who might even slightly disagree with you as the Enemy? Assuming anyone who has a different opinion than you is hostile? When you act like that, you are no different than the RWBY stans. And I have noticed a disturbing amount of that in your recent RWBY replies. Don’t be kkbob or whatever the fuck his name was.

I’m not going to reply to this chain further. But please understand I am not your enemy.

I went to check out that sherpawool in cause they had some good rwby/rwde post and they first post I'm not kidding was them blaking blake for abandoning yang like she's obligated by contract.

I hate this mentality SO much, it’s not even just about sherpa it’s the idea that Yang and Blake interacted enough for her to inform yang of her every waking moment.  Before volume 6 there were no romantic implications between them, and no going to the dance and sharing one dance doesn’t count, unless me going with my friend to cheer him up in middle school suddenly counts as romantic implications, which is weird to associate.

Her Ex just told her that he’s gonna kill everyone she loves and he doesn’t know nor have anyone stationed in patch nor does he ever try looking, and he knows where Blake’s fucking parents are, they live in a haven of WF troupes so why wouldn’t blake hightail it over there? The people who demand Blake wait by her bedside like a pet are idiotic, and the people who think she abandoned her because she has mommy issues, when they A. aren’t dating. B. Knew each other for a semester. C. People dont understand blake was terrified and ashamed, she blamed herself for yang losing an arm not the asshole who ACTUALLY took it.

Blake doesn’t owe her anything, and the idea that the white woman has onus of her minority girl friend and people keep acting like she owes her anything, or that she abandoned her when they had zero connection are absolutely insane takes.

There’s no convincing crazy.

[sherpawool]

Confession time

When I was young I used to call a mushroom in Super Mario Bros a “Bigness” As in “I got a Bigness!” instead of “I got a mushroom!”

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Well... She kind did leave Yang in volume 3, which is a big reason Yang was so traumatized. And the only reason they became a team again was because Yang just became a team again was because the 2 just so happened to be in the same place. Blake did not search for Yang at all and they only came across each other by pure happenstance. yes, I understand Blake had good reasons to leave and she doesn't owe Yang anything, but she did still leave Yang none the less

i can’t get over that crwby has made it clear as day how adam’s abuse and manipulation has affected blake, but people still dismiss it. at the end of their fight with adam the first thing blake does is beg yang to believe that she won’t leave again. like. literally AS YANG IS HOLDING HER and comforting her blake is tearfully pleading with her not to turn against her for something she hasn’t even done yet. and that’s fucked up. adam’s lies have been so powerful in shaping how blake sees herself and what kind of treatment she expects from others. we should all be glad that he’s gone and that blake now has someone as kind and forgiving as yang to help her heal from everything he did to her

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Raven:

Runs a bandit tribe, has killed and extorted at least one village on-screen, probably more off-screen, murdered one of her trusted comrades In cold-blood because she couldn't cut it and tried to pass it off as some sort of mercy ( if she's not lying and didn't do it for power), uses her second in command as a meat shield and disguise, abandoned her daughter and husband at a whim, explicitly became a Hunter to murder, refers to Summer with only disgust, is hypocritically angry at Yang Qin Yang uses her own "question everything" words against her proving that she wasn't trying to actually give Yang advice at all, just manipulate her. Kidnaps Weiss in order to ransom her away, lets her daughter's arm gets cut off by Adam (remember that in v2 she apparently has a sixth sense that allowed her to save Yang from Neo)...

And you think this person is morally complex. Don't think I haven't noticed that you only posted this after I challenged you and said Raven wasn't even remotely a good person or morally complex. You say Raven is a complete mystery compared to Tai, but it is actually the other way around. We know far less about Tai than we do about Raven.

Raven stans are even worse than Jaune or Qrow stans. The worst you can say about the former is that he cheated his way into Beacon and only cares about his own loss and harassed Weiss. Qrow is perpetually drunk, refuses to take responsibility for anything, gets angry easily and is a complete a-hole. And yet as terrible as they both are, they are still leagues better than Raven, a murderous, hypocritical, traitorous manipulative liar.

I think the biggest problem I have with Raven’s character is the fact that I can project onto her with whatever complex backstory I want onto her, and make her as morally complex as I want.

Contrast with Taiyang, whose backstory is at the moment, so uninteresting and questionable that it’s hard to project any headcanon on his past that could make him more flattering.

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Jesus H Christ do your collective hateboners know no bounds? I'm not gonna stand here and say he's a great dad or anything, but comparing him to Marcus fucking Black? Wow. Then again, what can I expect from a fucking Raven apologist. I don't even like the guy and I think he doesn't understand his daughter, but not once will I consider him even remotely abusive. But wait, aren't you also the guy who doublethinks that we should be feeling all sympathetic over Yang and Blake's trauma but is utterly dismissive of Taiyang's own trauma? You are also a person who refuses to even consider that maybe Yang is exaggerating things when she exposits all over Weiss because of aforementioned trauma?

Tl;dr you have become what you hate. Take a good, long look in the mirror because I am seeing some disturbing similarities to kob and other incels, just in the opposite direction. Seeing connections that simply aren't there and horrifically exaggerating character descriptions and flaws to fit your narrative. It's honestly pretty disturbing. Like for Christ's sake you are actually going after Sun Wukong for... thinking Blake was still gung-ho about fighting the White Fang like she was in volumes 1 and 2 because he didn't know about Adam and Blake's baggage.

And again, I don't think Tai is a great dad. I think Qrow is pretty garbage. I also think Oz is the most incompetent motherfucker on the planet. They are still all better than Raven and the other villains. At least they haven't murdered anyone and are trying to do things right, even if they suck at it. Raven used her own underling as bait and murdered at least one villege and betrayed the former Spring Maiden who trusted her implicitly. Tai, Qrow, and Oz for all their failings are nowhere near that awful.

Check yourself. And please do try to not call me an incel or whatever because I don't think every male character is literally satan.

RWBY: 6x09 and 4x09 - Fathers and Semblances

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Um... that’s a nice post and all, but you still didn’t address my point. Yeah Blake recovered better than Yang while she was at home, but what about her running off in the first place? Ghira knew what the White Fang was becoming when he stepped down, and he still let Blake run off to join a terrorist organization? Even if she ran off in the middle of the night to join them, Ghira should have immediately packed his bags and set off to find her. So again, shitty dad.

But I’ll bite and address your whataboutism anyway. Blake’s recovery can’t really be attributed to Ghira. Both Kali and Sun played a significant part in it, specifically Sun telling her in no uncertain terms “Yeah we were in danger protecting you, but it’s OUR choice; respect that” and constantly being sunny and upbeat around her helped. People like to rag on him for ‘stalking’ her (even though we literally have no idea how long he was hiding; it could have been only a few days) and for not ‘respecting her space’ (even though it’s clear that Blake needed a good kick in the pants and not wallow like she always does) but he probably played a bigger role in her recovery than her parents. Yes, often traumatized people need their space. But everyone is different, and Blake needed Sun to drag her out of her corner.

Back to Tai watering plants, you judge him for staying behind and not joining Yang; why not Ghira and Kali for doing the same? As we see in the assault on the Belladonna household, both Ghira and Kali, Ghira especially, are highly competent fighters. Ghira shrugged off a stab to the SPINE, which would instantly cripple literally anyone else. Yea, you could argue that they have to help rebuild the White Fang, but it has been established that Taiyang is a teacher at Signal, so isn’t training the next generation of hunters equally important?

Finally, have you maybe considered that Yang is maybe not completely unbiased when she talks to Weiss about how she had to be an adult? Way back during volume ONE, Weiss says she had a shitty home life and her dad was abusive, but Yang is all like “you had recitals and family and stuff, YoU dOnT uNdErStAnD mY sTrUgGlEs!” Even though Yang knows that just because a family is physically there doesn’t mean they are emotionally. Yeesh when you think about it like that, maybe Tai was more accurate than you think when he called her ‘wallowing.’

It’s a bit damning that I keep seeing you reblog posts about respecting other people with depression and understanding that everyone’s trauma is different and whatnot, and you accuse Tai of wanting Yang to just ‘get over it’ but isn’t that exactly what you want Taiyang to do? Just ‘get over’ his trauma?

Real talk tho, Y do U throw so much shade at Taiyang but don't say a word about Ghira? Tai might have been emotionally distant for some time because he broke down after losing 2 wives/lovers in as many years, but Ghira let his daughter run off to join the now radical White Fang under Sienna & Adam & didn't even try to keep tabs on her. If she ran off without permission then he & Kali should have went out to find her. Call out Tai for watering plants, why not Ghira 4 chilling @ his fancy house?

Because Blake walked away from Ghira much more recovered and healthy than she was before. Yang clearly walked away either the same as she came in, or worse. Ghira was open and understanding to Blake and her plights. Tai was really… only there for Yang on the condition that she “get over her trauma.” Tai put his own trauma ahead of his own kids, and while Ghira didn’t have any trauma to deal with, he was still open and ready to take Blake back in when she came back. I’m harsher on Tai because he was built up to be “depressed dad putting aside his own depression to take care of his kids,” and when we see him, he… isn’t. Ghira was never hinted at at all, so there was no build-up for him.

Really, it’s because Ghira never trivialized Blake’s trauma like Tai did.

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Umm... I’m guessing you don’t understand that the “In this essay I will-” meme is meant to mock ridiculous ideas. So by using the meme in this way, you are indirectly stating that you find bumbleby ridiculous. Given the rest of your tumblr, I doubt that was the intention.

Goddamned hilarious that a bumbleby shipper (and possibly a wasp at that) would shoot themself in the foot so effectively though.

People who say bumbleby didn’t have any romantic undertones till V6 are either blinded by heteronormativity or bad at thinking from a scriptwriters standpoint. In this essay I will-

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Not really? We don’t even learn that he’s team leader until v3, I think. Maybe not a good teammate, but not a bad team leader. And honestly, his team might as well not even exist. Half of them only show up for like half an episode then are never mentioned again (they didn’t even show up in this volume) and you would lose literally nothing by removing Neptune from the show. I was seriously expecting RWBY to have a soft retcon where he never mentions his team again. Because let’s face it, they are completely meaningless to the plot and they were only brought back as an excuse to take him off the show. Probably so the asshole writers can shipbait more Bees.

One thing I do like was iila’s new outfit.

And sun noticing he’s a shit leader was…nice.

Look I’m trying to be nice here but we all knew he was a bad leader from the start right?

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When Blake and Sun officially start dating and RT finally puts the Bee teases to death, I’m gonna laugh *so* hard at all the obnoxious BB shippers. Not the sane ones, but those who treat their headcanon like it’s actual canon and flip their lids when anyone else tries to correct them. Hey, you want to think of Yang as a lesbian, go ahead. But don’t start treating it as canon. Supposedly Remnant is a very open, liberal society, so Yang has literally no reason to try and pretend that she is straight. There’s no societal stigma against being gay in Remnant. Ergo, her interest in dudes is 100% legit.

Yang has shown exactly zero *sexual* interest in *anyone* throughout the course of the show, except for that one scene. Hell, if you dismiss that as ‘early installment weirdness’ you could actually convincingly portray her as *asexual.* Sorry ladies, but you’re as SOL as the guys. But hey, I guess lesbians “can’t stand the very thought that Yang wouldn’t want to date them” so her being asexual is off the table.

You call people who point out that Yang is at the very least bisexual as “triggered” or “butthurt” or whatever, but it sounds like you were the one triggered, my friend.

Jesus. First the Raven whitewashing, now treating *anyone* who tries to say “Bees aren’t canon” as the devil.

if your first reaction to someone who hcs yang as a lesbian is to go under the post and go “well ACTUALLY she’s bi/pan/etc” then i want you to sit there and think REAL long and hard about WHY you’re so pressed over a lesbian headcanon

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I’m gonna focus on that last bit about Raven, because I agree with you on most (but not all) of the other parts. Raven saved her daughter a grand total of *once*, and went so far as to tell Qrow to tell Yang that it was a one-time thing. There is some *fan speculation* that she moved Yang out of the way just enough that she lost her arm instead of *dying* to Adam, but that’s all it is. A fan theory not supported in canon. And leaving her daughter to lose an arm instead of saving her altogether isn’t much better even if it *were* true.

And frankly? Yes, abandoning your child is terrible. She brought Yang into the world, it’s her *responsiblility* to take care of her. Now I could understand extenuating circumstances, like she didn’t have the capability to take care of Yang. But no, she just went on to lead a bunch of bandits that destroy countless lives. Given that Taiyang was brokenhearted after her departure, I presume she left without a word. If she wanted to break up with him, that would be okay. It’s her decision. But it’s *implied* that she disappeared without a word. That’s selfish and cruel. Taiyang’s a lousy father, but he seems to mean well. Remember that scene in v3 when he’s revealed to be staying at Ruby’s bedside waiting for her to wake up, and Ruby had to sneak off in the middle of the night to go to Mistral. He’s *trying*. He sucks at it, but he’s still trying. Better than Raven who just *gave up* and left.

And it’s not *just* that she abandoned her husband and daughter. It’s that she did it to join a bunch of *bandits*, pillaging and murdering their way across Mistral. I wonder how many villages suffered the same “accident” of Grimm attacking after her clan left as the village JNRR came across. She’s also a *coward* despite her claims that strength matters; when the going gets tough, Raven gets running. Instead of trying to actually contribute to society in any meaningful way, she instead robs and murders anyone weaker than her. And when she meets someone stronger than her, she runs away, all the while hiding it under a mask of “strength.”

Yeah, she cried when Yang confronted her. But that’s not out of any sense of remorse of what she’s done. It’s because Yang systematically broke down every defense she’s hidden her cowardice behind. Yang even gave her a chance to change, telling her that the the Relic would make anyone who carries it a target, implying that Raven has a *choice* to either protect her daughter, or give the Relic away and paint a target on Yang’s back. And Raven *understood* what Yang was saying, and *still* gave Yang the Relic, proving once and for all to Yang that she was a pathetic little coward and she would rather throw her daughter to the wolves than place herself at any risk.

That’s why Raven breaks down. Because all of her ideals have been shattered. She knows now that she is not strong, she is weak and cowardly. She may care *slightly* for Yang, but not enough to actually try and protect her in any way.

Rwby and Absentee Mother’s.

Absentee Mother’s and questionable parenting seems to be a common theme in RWBY.

It is vilifying mother figures is something rarely done except in fairytale and wicked evil step mom’s.

Mothers in society are seen as the healers, the cooks, the home makers, the strength behind the man. And there is quite a double standard in society to do with absentee parents.

A woman leaves her kids behind, she is evil n how dare she return.

A woman stays behind to raise her kids alone, oh who gives a shit, big deal. It’s expected. Her struggle, yeah maybe she should have held onto her man. Or maybe she shouldn’t be such a slut.

A dad leaves his kids behind. It’s totally fine, he’s shiking his responsibility. He comes back, “omg, what a great guy! Let’s give him a around of applause.

A dad stays behind to raise his kids, alone. Omg! Parent of the year, all the medals and praise in the world.. Everyone trips over themselves.

So that’s the ingrained basis, in our heads before we watch the show. Our opinions are already slightly screwed.

In RWBY some parents are given a free pass for obv reasons, such as Summer. Others given a light pass for reasons I’ll try to wrap my head n others are outright vilified..

Let’s attempt to dissect this. The hero, the neutral and the villan.

Summer died, so she is the hero absentee mother. What we know, she never returned from a mission, so far it has been alluded but unconfirmed she sacrificed herself for the greater good.. Rightly so, she’s given a free pass.

Willow Schnee… So far she seems to be given neutral status… We know she’s an alcoholic, driven there by hurt, anger, grief and could very well be a broken heart. But I don’t understand why she gets a pass.. Her children were left in an abusive situation. Why didn’t she try to stand for her kids.

Ghira and Kali Belladonna…Again they are given a pass.. Both of them raised their daughter in the White Fang.. Granted, before it became a terrorist organisation, but still dragged her across Remnant to protests, eventually exposing her to terrorists until she became one of them. If Blake had made this choice as an adult, I might not be so critical but she made this chouce at 12/13 and Continued for the next five years.

Tai Yang Xiao Long. . Yang has spoken at length about having to grow up way beyond her years because her dad shut down. Almost in a direct foil to Willow. He shut down due to grief, hurt and lose. He threw himself into his work, and ‘raised’ the girls as best he could with a heavy dose of help from a prepubesent Yang. When the girls go off to Haven, Tai seems quite happy tending to his sunflowers rather than helping. Yet some parts of the fandom heap praise on him as a parent..

Mustache twiddling Jacques Schnee..The only Schnee Parent that is there. This guy out of all of them tries to actually be a parent, but he’s quite literally a little too hands on.. He collects his daughter from a war torn city, to bring her to safety. He attempts to establish boundaries n punishment when she misbehaves. However, he goes around it all wrong, hitting her, threatening her, locking her in her room…. Grounding someone is normal parental behaviour, how ever, eradicating them from the global narrative, gas lighting the world saying she is mentally unstable is some JFK’s father lobotomising his sister type of villainy.

And finally,

Raven Branwen, the villainous mother we love to hate. The thing is about her, we don’t know the real reasons why she left. All we know is that she chose her tribe over her new born daughter and that in our eyes (as I explained above) is the worst possible thing in the world a mother can do, because she goes against everything society says a mother should be.

She has saved her daughter on defo one occasion and it’s been speculated there has been another two occasions where Raven has saved her daughters life, she evidently cares.

Why else would she break down in the Vault, when she found herself lacking the courage that she needed.

Yet why has she stayed away for so long? Is it fear of Salem coming for the Spring Maidens powers, if she ever found out Raven had them? I would have been leaning towards that, of it wasn’t for Raven leaving Yang to hold the relic n draw Salem upon herself.

Raven is by no ways a good person. She’s complicated, and multifaceted. I think we have yet to see more of her motivation for leaving. What scared the shit óut of her so much that she practically trembles at the mention of Salem name, yet scoffs at the thought of Cinder n Watts.

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I strongly disagree with your statement that Raven is not manipulative. This is the girl who murdered a girl she was mentoring for power, simply because the girl wasn’t learning fast enough. She used Vernal as a meatshield. And the choice she gives Yang? It’s the exact same choice Ozpin gave the group. “I will tell you what’s going on, but only if you preemptively join me.” Ozpin’s pretty awful, but Raven is no better.

Apparently, the writers talked about how manipulative Raven was in the commentary or something.

Keep reading

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He might’ve been referring to you trying to blame Taiyang for everything. Look, he’s not a great dad. In fact you could say he’s pretty lousy. But blaming him for every single issue that Yang and Ruby have? That’s a bit much. At the end of the day, the worst you can say about him is that he’s neglectful and/or negligent. I have no idea why you keep trying to defend Raven, but at her best she abandoned her husband and daughter and has caused the death of at least one village, killed a girl under her tutelage because she couldn’t shape up fast enough, and used another girl as a decoy. And for how much you try to say she “respected” Yang, she told Yang basically nothing other than “you don’t trust Ozpin because I say so” and refused to tell her anything else unless Yang agreed to stay with her. Y’know, the exact same thing Ozpin is doing when he says “I’ll tell you everything, but only after you’ve agreed to follow me.”

I’m sorry, that got away from me. My point is you need to stop blaiming Taiyang for everything. She’s an adult, she has made her own decisions. ditching her arm is in no way a way to “fight smarter” so you can’t blame him.

Y’know, Yang jumping down the elevator without her arm being explained by her belief that she should have died when she went looking for Raven catching up to her would be a pretty interesting explanation as to why she made that reckless move in the first place, and make for some interesting character development.

But I am pretty confident that that wasn’t what the writers were intending, and that this sort of behavior will never be addressed at all.

Which sucks since it feels like Yang took some steps back in that department with that ‘abandoning the arm’ scene.

Seriously. I’m pretty sure she could have just jerked that arm away from Mercury. There’s a time and a place for using brute force to get past your opponent, and that was most certainly a time for it.

Is it alright if I blame Taiyang for that?

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Dude. Blade. It’s time to face the facts. The rabid BB shippers are the problem. They have become so annoying that they are actually turning people who previously liked BB against it. These same fuckers are the people who sent literal death threats to Arryn b/c she said the song Bmblb wasn’t canon. I unofficially follow your blog, and I KNOW it has been pointed out to you again and again that the rabid BB shippers are awful, and the decent BB shippers haven’t bothered to correct them. Please stop doing this BOTH SIDES bs. You could have not misread their post more. They actually liked BB but are so sick of the rabid side of things that they want to chop their nose to spite their face, so to speak. That’s how bad these batshit BB shippers are.

Also the passive-aggressive “I’m not going to name them, I’m just going to leave a trail of easy-to-follow breadcrumbs so they can get harassed” is super uncool of you. You aren’t fooling anyone by claiming you don’t want them to get harassed when you give such an antagonistic reply followed by baiting BB shippers into attacking this person.

Not cool, man. Not. Cool.

Now, if I were petty, I’d put this in the other Blake ship tag involving the other blond, but I won’t. Because ship hate is petty.

And I hid the name because I don’t want the OP to get harassed, but if you want to call them out, you can visit the tags that are listed. Tell them off for putting ship hate in the tags, because let’s be real: They just hate BB. There’s a difference between wanting your ship to become canon, and simply hating another ship because it’s popular. This person falls into the latter category.

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F

Snake’s lovingly sculpted butt cheeks died so 2018 could be the GAYEST year in gaming yet. Truly a hero.

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Rooster Teeth is hardly an amateur studio. The company has been around since 2003. RWBY itself first aired in 2013. That’s given them at least 5 years to produce this level of detail. I don’t recognize the anime below it, but the company producing it and the animators animating it may be much newer to the process than RWBY.

Check your facts please.

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About Taiyang

Okay, normally I’m down for some shitting on Taiyang for being a terrible father, but can we rewind for a bit to the end of volume 3? Back when Tai was actually sympathetic? We see him asleep in a chair in an unconscious Ruby’s room hoping she will wake up at any time, instantly brings her breakfast in bed and is overall very supportive.

Then Qrow rudely barges in and orders Taiyang to leave, with all Tai being able to do make some feeble protests before leaving. Honestly Tai looks like an abused victim in this scene.

Then Qrow is a fucking asshole like always, and does the plausibly-deniable “Oh, I know where the bad guys are, but you aren’t able to go there yet *nudge nudge wink wink* And Ruby just straight-up leaves Taiyang with nothing more than a note. Given Taiyang’s reaction, he knew nothing about this.

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I’m not gonna vandalize it but I can’t wait to see what happens.