#And fits the whole pyhrra thing

[notacluedo]

When my classics teacher said that Achilles could’ve been blond OR ginger and the entire class was horrified

based on The birth of Venus by Adolph Hirémy-Hirschl

[thinkingaboutrwby]

Typing this on my phone as morning thoughts so forgive any typos:

As someone who loves both Oscar as a character I do think it’s an interesting writing/thought exercise. I just hate that people are using it as an excuse to bash on Oscar.

Let me preface this. I think having Ozpin merge with a younger and new character in Oscar worked out well since it gave Oz less control in managing the team since he was now in a host who is literally younger, weaker, and more innocent than them as well as a stranger. You could just tell that for the whole of V5 that Oz’s reins were slipping on keeping a mentor facade because it was especially easy to interrogate him as a new face (despite everyone’s trust of Oscar). There’s also some interesting narrative foils between Oscar and Pyhrra that make things fun: Oscar became the youngest member of JNPR now in need of training (while Pyhrra was a nearly adult prodigy); forcefully merged with an ancient soul (while she agreed to do that with the Fall Maiden but it didn’t work out); and they are some of the sweeter/more idealistic and self-sacraficing characters in the cast (I would say Pyhrra and Ruby were most similar between JNPR and RWBY before her death and Oscar and Ruby are now the most similar also not to say Jaune isn’t self-sacraficing he just approaches being a hero with more bravado than those three do). Having the new Oz as Oscar fill in Pyhrra’s spot on JNPR rather than just merge with Jaune also feels pretty narratively powerful no? I also think part of Oz’s arc has been learning to handover leadership reins which would have been difficult to write with Jaune’s steady growth as a leader. Oz is certainly still a strong force in the show in his own right, but handing things over to Oscar and learning to fully trust newer generations as leaders does seem to be a theme for him (also RWBY Beyond seems to imply is merge with Oscar is inevitably pushing him back to the front). Lastly, while I’m very convinced Miles Luna would have done an amazing job voice acting the merge, Aaron Dismuke absolutely slays at it and I’m glad we get to hear him.

However - The interesting advantage of having Ozpin merge with Jaune instead is the fact that they probably could have reached the point of being able to interrogate him faster given that Jaune already had more of a reason to question things and delve into Oz’s memories for justifications of Pyhrra’s death. There’s a lot of great angst and dramatic potential there. Another advantage would be to explain the mechanics of magic and aura more efficiently. We’ve been stuck wondering what’s Oscar’s semblance for a while now and I wonder if narrative they aren’t revealing it because it’s hard to fit into so many character arcs. Discovering Jaune’s healing semblance and then later on Oz’s magic could have been very cool. I think a merge between Jaune and Oz would have been a different flavor of tragic than between Oscar and Oz as well. Given we get Jaune at a low place and disillusioned by his hero’s journey in V4 post-Pyhrra’s death while Oscar is more innocently starting his and leaving his home there would have likely been darker places to go. Very fun concepts for a fic.

But yeah just wanted to lend my creative sense to this idea. No haters please.

Goddamn is it wild how you do a bit of speculation on how maybe Jaune and Oscar's characters could've been combined in an interesting way that would've both reduced male cast bloat and reinforced Jaune's theme of "wanting to be the hero but not being able to" by giving him a path towards it (merging with Oz) that would've, quite clearly, cost him himself by irrevocably changing who he is as a person, which at least to me is a pretty clear way of saying "this is not for you", and suddenly you're a "Jaune stan" trying to make him a bigger deal than the female leads?

Like, just... no? That wasn't my idea at all? I've been beating the "Jaune is not a main character" drum since I got into RWBY. I literally have all the RWBY/Jaune ship tags blocked because I despise fanon inflation of his character that much.

LoL, I'm just genuinely insulted to be lumped into Jaune fandom.

[ganglylimbs]

Analyzing the Gay

Ok, seeing rumors that there’s going to be another lgbtq+ character induced in the next volume of RW/BY, so I decided to go through who it most likely is and what I personally hope for (spoiler, reality and what I hope for don’t come anywhere near each other). 

Assuming it’s not going to be a new character induced into the show, judging by how they introduced Ilia, and how they’ve talked about how they want to handle LGBTQ+ characters, my guess is that they’re going to introduce them via relationship/relationship talking

And (I hate saying this because I dislike being rude to the writers) but we can probably forget about the LGBTQ+ character being the TQ+ part (honestly, I’m crossing my fingers for the B part but even then it’s 50/50). 

The top contender is the Bees becoming canon, especially because Barbara was the one to announce it. The only reason I can think why it’s not them is that (didn’t see the tweets/news myself so I don’t know if Barbara said character or characters) it would be introducing two lgbtq+ characters and the announcement was for only one new character (?) I know, it’s a nitpicky point, but if we’re just analyzing, then let’s analyze. 

I honestly think they are going to have the bees become canon because 1.) Barbara was the one to say it (implying that it has something to do with Yang) and 2.) if it’s not the bees, the Tumblr side of the fandom will riot. It’s a small, but, unfortunately,  loud group that will raise hell. I guarantee that if, with this announcement, the bees don’t become canon, there is going to be cries of queerbait. No matter who is announced as queer, they will claim that they were queerbaited.  Because there is a certain side that is obsessed with RWBY being queer-but only certain characters.

Here is the problem with that. First off, as certain as I am that the bees are becoming canon, I’m even more certain that Yang is the queer character. Like, no doubt in my mind, Yang is 100% queer. There is just so much evidence (even if you want to discount the songs, which I understand) there’s still a mountain of evidence that Yang has gay feelings of something. So let’s get that out of the way. Yang is queer in some sort of way and I 100% think she has a thing for Blake.  

If I were to make Yang the queer character and touch on the Bee subject, I would have Yang confess to Blake but Blake rejects her (ideally because Blake is aromantic. Not going to happen because, again, I doubt we’re going to get anything but LGB. Also, following my own nitpicky rules, that would be two queer people). So instead, to make it flow with the show, she says she’s not ready for a relationship (if, by some miracle, this all does happen this way, please let this be the excuse. Please, I beg. Because the other reason would be that she’s in love with Sun and even as a Blacksun shipper that would be bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just. Please don’t go that route.). So Yang is heartbroken, but they move on (because friends to the end and group as family, please and thank you). And what’s this? A relationship forms between Ilia and her? They form a kickass team? Ilia helps get Yang’s fire back and Yang introduces Ilia to all these great things that she was kept from while in the White Fang. They protect each other and it’s awesome.

You may be asking, why go to such lengths to shoot down a relationship already built up in the show, just to have one of the people get into another relationship?

Because, meta, I hate ship wars. I think they are a disease on fandoms and honestly, I’m tired of going into the tag and seeing posts about how x ship is better than y ship, or how y person is “abusive” so shipping them with x makes you abusive (which, hey fandom, we should probably discuss what is or isn’t someone being abusive. Your favorite character being sad or angry at someone is not them being abused). I’m sick of seeing posts about why one ship will not be canon or why one ship is better than the other. I’m tired of it.

And unfortunately, there are only two solutions to this problem (a third would be, as a whole, fandom holding each other accountable, but that will not happen because neither side can admit they are part of the problem. It’s always the other sides fault for the toxicity of the fandom, an easy excuse for people to continue being shitty.). So either both parts of the ships end up together in a poly ship of some sort (not going to happen) or neither ship happens. Which is what I prefer. (Especially to the god awful 4th option which is a love triangle. please. Just no.)

Anyways, none of that will happen because the fandom will riot, so I’m pretty sure the bees will become canon. In the story, I’ll love it because the two have great chemistry, a mountain of reasons why they should be together, and it’s a good love story. Out of canon, the fandom will be insufferable and I’ll hate it.

If I could have my choice for how queer Yang ends up (besides what I already wrote)  either she ends up with Ilia or with Weiss, because they have a budding romance there and I’d love to see it more. Or they introduce a new character in to be her love interest. If I could really get my way, despite the writer’s inexperience with lgbtq+ people, she’d be in a polyamorous relationship with two characters. 

Next is Blake. If Blake turns out to be the new queer character (and they don’t do bees) my guess is they build up her relationship with Ilia. 

Which brings me to something else I would like them to explore. Anime (and most stores with teenagers in general) tend to be focused on The One. On one hand, I totally get it. It’s a story and you have a limited time to focus on relationships. If it’s a romance book, people tend to not want to read about the main character constantly breaking up with people. In film, time is even more limited, so the main character falls in love with B and that's it. They live happily ever after. 

Except that’s not what happens with teenagers. 

So if I had my way, it’d be both Ilia and Blake falling in love with several other people before finally falling for each other. But if books and T.V. are limited for time, then wew, RWBY is even more limited. This isn’t a big sticking point and I honestly would love to see a relationship between Blake and Ilia. Especially a story of Blake helping Ilia heal and introducing her into a more loving lifestyle. 

(Actually, if I really had my way Blake would be aro, not only because it fits her perfectly, but because how great of representation would that be? An aro who has a loving relationship with her family, has a loving relationship with her friends, is a protagonist trying to get shit done? It would be amazing).  

If Weiss is the new queer character, I would think they will either try to build up Yang and her’s relationship, introduce a new character, or try to make Ruby/Weiss happen (which, for personal reasons, I rather they try to make Yang and her happen or the new character). 

But definitely, please, for Yang/Weiss. Because really, the building blocks of Yang/Weiss are there, even before vol. 5. There is a real connection there, and I’d love for them to explore them. 

And if I could really have it my way, I’d have them make Weiss trans too. 

If it turns out that Ruby is the new queer character they would either do Ruby/Weiss or this could be the reintroduction for Penny. I would be more than ok with that, especially if Penny 2 doesn’t remember Ruby and Ruby has to work at being friends again. And then that blossoms into a relationship and I love it. 

Really, if I could have it my way, I’d hope they make Ruby ace/aro. Again, a great representation with loving friends and family. 

Other possibilities for who the queer character is, are them introducing a new character into the show. Which I’m ok with, but I feel like that would get more complaints about how there are too many people in the cast. 

They also could reveal Winter as queer since they’re going back to Atlas and Weiss would want to reunite with her. I’d love this actually, especially if it involved Winter flirting with Ilia. 

Emerald is a great contender too. Her breaking down over Cinder and revealing that she loved her in a fit of anger? That would be great. (Another con is I’m pretty sure the fandom will do her dirty like they did Ilia when it was revealed that Ilia had feelings for Blake. Despite, you know, the fandom as a whole deciding both were queer beforehand-and this goes back to that small loud group only wanting certain characters to be queer.) 

A few more (admittedly cracky theories) could be them bringing back Scarlet (with the rest of team SSSN) and having him revealed as queer. 

If they want to make the fandom implode, have Jaune revealed as the queer person. While probably not, it could work to introduce someone who can help him process Pyhrra’s death, and not really heal him, but get him set in the right direction. Again, probably not because there’s already talk about him having too much screen time (which...could probably be another rant of mine) and because he already had a relationship and I feel like people would hold that against him. 

Out of left field is going to be Sun as the queer character. This is mostly just me wanting my boy to be happy and if the bees are going to happen, I want him to be with someone too. 

Another left field one is probably Oscar, which I think it would be interesting to explore. Like him already having all these problems to deal with as well as having a crush on someone? That’d be so interesting. I also wonder if this will get so many people going “uh, uh, uh, this boy can’t have any sexual/romantic thoughts at all because he has Ozpin in his head and that makes this pedophilia.” 

A few more is Qrow or Tai being queer. Ozpin, maybe? 

Anyway, after all of this, in conclusion, what most likely will happen is the bees become canon. If they don’t, I would love for Ilia to build up a relationship with one of the girls. Or have that Yang and Weiss’ relationship continues to develop. 

[characternerdocs]

Rule. Answer + tag those you want to get to know

a little doodle of me done by me 

Name. Character Nerd or Eri

Zodiac sign. Cancer

Height. 5′8′’

Languages spoken? English

Nationality? American

Favorite fruit? Watermelon, apples, and cherries.

Favorite scent? I like the seem of burning wood, the humidity before a summer storm, and just the smell of fall. Oh and those scented pinecones that come out in the stores for Christmas.

Favorite color? Purple, but not light, light purple.

Favorite animal? Bats!! Like everyone things their creepy but surprise their just cutie pies. I love them. I also love hedgehogs, they are so adorable, I would would love a pet hedgehog

Coffee,  tea,  or  hot chocolate? Hot Chocolate!! Sometimes I mix it with coffee

Favorite fictional character(s)? Harley Quinn (Batman the Animated series) Peridot (Steven universe) Calicifer (Howl’s movie class) Victor Van Dort (Corpse Bride) Nora and Pyhrra (RWBY) Anxiety/Virgil Sanders (Sander Sides) Dementia (Villainous) The Addams (Addams Family) There’s many more but those are the ones I can think of right now

When was your blog created? 2016 I think? Like the end of 2016? But I have a blog @tim-burton-inspired which I had for maybe six years now, it’s where I reblog all the stuff that I just like. But I made this OC blog because the stuff on my dash over on my other blog didn’t really fit my characters.

Last movie seen?  Howl’s Moving Castle I think. I just finished the book so I wanted to rewatch it

Songs you’ve had on repeat?   House of Gold, Oh Ms Believer, the Judge by Twenty One Pilots, Jetpack Blues by Fallout Boy, C’Mon but Panic! at the Disco and Fun, Emperors New Clothes, Roaring 20’s, Hurricane, also by Panic! Partners in Crime by Set if Off, The whole album of Razia’s Shadow (there was a month that I listen to nothing but that album), Bruises and Bitmarks by Good with Grenades, Don’t Mess with Me and Irresistible by Temposhark, The Hearse song and What’s a Devil to do by Harley Poe, Mariner’s Revenge and Rox in the Box by the Decemberists, Pitiful Children from Be More Chill. Lake Pontchartrain By Ludo, Chop sue by System of a Down. There’s a lot. I love music far too much.

Favorite candy?    Heath bars! and most gummies, specifically gummy bears, worms, and sharks, plus any variation on Reese’s peanut butter cups. 

Favorite holiday?   Halloween!! Can dress up, being spooky for a month and get candy. Hand out candy cause now I’m too old . . . -__- Growing up sucks! But I just really like Halloween, not super into horror but Halloween, man. Halloween.

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