#(ember cilica being Yang's weapons)

[pocketyang]

for SPOOKY SEASON Yang is on a kitkat!!

[tempestswing]

Genuine question: how frequently do you argue about RWBY with people? This isn't an attack or insult, I'm just seeing a lot of stuff in your responses that seems like it responds to certain ideas or arguments which weren't present in my post, but were adjacent to them, like an argument you've had with someone else. (I do the same thing with Star Wars debates sometimes haha!)

I never said Adam needed a justification or a sob story. I specifically said I didn't give two shits about him. But in your response, you say some stuff about him not being a main character and then incels and stuff and none of that feels like a response to my point. I additionally never said Yang and Blake were unjustified in killing him, but you emphasize how it was self defense and he had stalked them - again, I never said they weren't justified in killing him, my point was that I think the fact their first time killing someone directly in the show was glossed over like that was a bit of a waste.

In your response to my third point, you take my criticism of Jaune's weapons and talk about how he's not the main character in a shounen show. Please highlight where in my initial response I said I wanted anything of the sort. In fact, whilst I was a huge fan of Volume 9, my one criticism was that I felt it gave more weight and emphasis to Jaune than Weiss.

I'm aware of Yang's arm. It's pretty hard to miss. And yes, I know she has those explosives from ember cilica, but she's had those since the first Volume. My point was that Yang suffers a large trauma and character development as a direct result of her fighting style but makes no changes to HOW she fights as a result, outside of maybe one or two specific scenes, despite her V4 arc essentially ramming the audience with the idea. For balance, I will say that this has reminded me of one subtle detail on weapons that I actually really like - the visible repair to Blake's weapon! It is only a visual component and serves no practical purpose, which is a slight shame, but I think that's a good subtle display of growth and story. Better than just buying a new coat.

In your response to my second point about the Grimm, I feel like that's an actual response to me instead of someone else, so I'll talk more about it. The original post I was responding to asked about good ideas RWBY underutilized, which is what all of my examples were supposed to be. Again, my criticism is not that the lack of these things makes it bad, it's that the show flirts with these ideas but in my opinion, does not use them enough. In my opinion, the Grimm are the biggest let down of RWBY. I'm not saying that it doesn't make sense IN UNIVERSE. But I'm not criticising the Grimm (or any characters!) from an in-universe perspective, I'm sharing my opinion on the decisions of the writers. I think making the world of Remnant be one where most of the population exists in Four main settlements because outside the city walls there are these horrific monsters - that's a really cool idea! I love that! And I wanted to see it be explored more in the show. I think the implications of Mountain Glenn are interesting! I find all the designs of unique and interesting Grimm inspire really cool questions. The environmental storytelling is great.

But the Grimm didn't need an all powerful human controlling them. Nor do I think it was necessary to have all the human enemies be literally working with the Grimm. I think it was a waste of a good idea, an unceasing tide of dark monsters that Huntsmen are holding back, that idea didn't need the neat solution of "gather these relics to deal with the REAL big bad" to be interesting. And I don't dislike the story of the relics and the maidens and the gods and Salem and all of that! I still think it's neat! I just think it makes the Grimm less interesting when they had a lot of potential, which is what the original post was asking for examples of.

If I had more time I would talk more but I'm already late for something. Hope you have a wonderful day! I'm going end this somewhat negative post by listing my favourite characters in the show to hopefully add some positivity: Nora, Emerald, Winter, Weiss, and Penny! (Although I must admit, Ruby's got the best weapon! Crescent Rose is beautiful!)

"rwby had a lot of good ideas going for it but completely squandered them" list some examples. go on

fucking do it

be fucking specific. actually list something goddamn fucking specific

this is the "the show keeps threatening to be good" crap again, you've got nothing beyond a vague assertion that "it's totally bad guys, trust me. i said it was bad and a lot of people liked my tweet even though i'm only regurgitating things i've heard and i know nothing about the show or its production but obviously i'm right" it's just meaningless vague horseshit because you know nothing about the show and have exactly fucking dick to support your claims

[secret-engima]

*peeks around the corner* uhh, hello. can i ask for some angsty headcanons? my head is full of math rn and i just wanna relax

*cartwheels in* ANGSTY HEADCANONS

I know I’m late but here we go!

Dragon Yang:

-Coming back to Remnant is hard for Yang. Not just because of how she left or the isolation from people she knew in that world but because-

-Earthland is a world filled with magic, it breathes it, revels in it, it permeates every aspect of life and even *society* in that world.

-Then she comes back to Remnant and- and magic is still there, but it is so *thin*. It is so faint compared to Earthland, trapped predominantly in unmoving, unthinking stone. It is less like going from the ocean shore to high up a mountain with thin air and more like going from a bustling city square to a lonely graveyard. The silence, the lack of magical sensory input, is almost maddening. And it also makes it feel so fragile. On Earthland even the most passive civilian has SOME form of magic presence, (as proven in the Tartarus arc where the anti-magic/mage particles make everyone in town gravely ill) and that form presumably helps protect them from some of the more dangerous things in life. Even those who cannot use spells are passively enhanced and protected from blunt trauma, from fire, from ice, from spells. Sure, compared to a mage they are still very weak, but it’s SOMETHING.

-And then there’s the people of Remnant, her family, who don’t even have that. They have Aura but- she can’t sense it clearly like she can magic. She is a DRAGON SLAYER and she has no way to gauge how durable anyone around her is, just the subconscious instinct that “more magic = more durable and less magic = less durable”. To not sense any magic in her family makes her feel like they are made of glass. That if she so much as hugs too hard, she might genuinely break them.

-This initially makes combat training very, very difficult because Yang keeps hesitating on any blow, afraid that what to her is a light sparring tap will shatter bone or rupture organs.

-She learns to control it the reaction eventually, to find new ways to gauge how much strength she can put into anything, but the world never fully stops feeling like plastic and glass, brittle and breakable if she loses control for even a moment.

-She often refuses to fight without her gauntlets as she gets more attuned to the world. Ember Cilica (no idea if I spelled that right) does damage yes, but it does a kind of damage that she can calculate, that the world views as normal. Dust rounds are predictable, survivable, she KNOWS that, and punching with them is something that also makes her hold back so she doesn’t fracture the very metal on her arms. Others see them as weapons, and they are, but to Yang, they’re limiters. A way to keep her from accidentally cracking open this world with magic that is so thin and tired and suppressed.

-Is it any wonder then, that she gravitates so hard toward Ozpin when she first arrives? That she is *enamored* with Beacon, that has at least three lifetimes worth of Oz’s magic soaked passively into the stones and walls and gardens. It is like suddenly being able to breathe again, like being able to relax and stop holding herself quite so far apart from the world. It is such a relief to find someone who has magic, who she can sense the strength of. Small as it might be compared to a dragon or dragon slayer’s, Ozpin’s magic is still a deep, sprawling thing, old and calm and anchoring. Something she can smell and feel, something she doesn’t have to be so terrified of accidentally shattering.

-It becomes ... not common, but also not unusual for Yang to sneak up to his office on nights when her nightmares are too close and he happens to be working late. She curls up in the spare chair and closes her eyes and just- listens. To the tap of keys, the scratch of pen on paper, the heartbeat of the man at the desk who has magic. Who feels real even when her nightmares squeeze her throat and the world feels like an illusion made of plastic and mirrors.

-Other than that first night where she came to him in desperation, looking for an anchor and not sure where else to find it, Ozpin doesn’t ask his wayward student questions about why she comes here for grounding. Qrow has spoken of his once-kidnapped niece, of the theories they have over what happened to her. More than that, he has lived enough lifetimes to know what it is like to latch on to certain things as a way to make the world solid again after a flashback or a nightmare. He mourns that Yang needs the same coping mechanisms as an old, cursed wizard like him, but if he can be that anchor she needs, then he will gladly make up excuses in his own head to stay longer in his office, come up with more paperwork to fiddle over while discreetly leaving a mug of hot chocolate on the corner of the desk nearest Yang in case she decides to indulge in the soothing drink.