#Glinda goodwitch

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in my office just straight up jorking it. and by it i mean. hjaha well... my chair...

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OZPIN VS DUMBLEDORE:

Headmaster of a school that teaches kids how to fight against the forces of evil

The second in command of that school is a good witch who's actually pretty strict (McGonagall and Glinda)

Hosted competition in their school against other schools where kids died + a ball happened (Triwizard Tournament and Vytal Festival)

Has an army of children and sent them to fight and die in a battle at their own school

Was in love the greatest evil witch/wizard of all times who's actually the villain (Grindelwald and Salem)

Allows the fiction oppressed group in the school even though himself is not a part of (muggleborns and faunus)

Have white hair

Wear small glasses

Lived longer than a century

Is a wizard

IS A FUCKING MANIPULATIVE LAIR ("omitting important information" if you want to call it that way)

Has been manipulating the protagonist's life since they first met

The protagonist's mother died fighting for their cause

The protagonist have their mother's eyes and wear red

Have an informant with black hair and who is often compared to a winged creature (Qrow [who is a literally crow] and Snape [who's known as the dungeons bat])

The fandom often wishes that said informant was the protagonist's father

Was murdered by someone with black hair (Snape and Cinder)

Bad feelings attract the forces of evil (Dementors and the creatures of Grimm)

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OUR MINDDSSSSS <333

wizard of oz

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EAH Ocs based on Wicked or The Wizard of Oz

Bubblelina Goodwitch- Daughter of Glinda

Roomate: Westina Wicked

Royal or Rebel?: Closeted Rebel

Secret Heart's Desire: I....know I'm supposed to be the good witch, but my true heart's desire lies in staying with Westina Wicked forever after.

My "Magic" Touch: My spell-riffic bubble magic allows for easy transport of my things- and my friends- if they need a lift!

Storybook Romance Status: I'm not sure if I'm in love with Westina Wicked or if we're just friends- that quizzical debate has made persuing a romance off the tea table for a bit.

"Oh, curses!" moment: My status as a "good witch" means I tend to get the most royally unfairest infractions from my teachers whenever I stray from that path! It honestly infurates me!

Favorite Subject: Good Magic Mastery! Where-ever after my destiny leads me, I want to make sure I'm fairy good at magic, if nothing else.

Least favorite subject: Kingdom Management. I try to keep a good face about it, but ruling a kingdom that is destined to spell-a-brate my best friend's death isn't exactly my happily ever after.

Other bios under the cut

as seen here:

Olivia and Oscar Ozmond- Twin Descendants of The Wizard

Roomate: Each other

Royal or Rebel?: Royals-

-duh!

Secret Heart's Desire:

Olivia: To rule the land of Oz once more!

Oscar: And gain a magic touch while we're at it!

My "Magic" Touch:

Olivia: Oscar's the gadgeter genius like my father-

Oscar: -and Olivia can make any lie sound like the truth!

Storybook Romance Status:

Oscar: No need to have a romance-

Olivia: -when we're destined to rule either way!

"Oh, curses!" moment:

Olivia: We're mischevious liars and tricker-sters through and through-

Oscar: -and yet we're lumped in with the GOOD guys. What a fairy fail!

Favorite Subject:

Olivia: Science & Spells!

Oscar: We need to learn ourselves some magic- or at least, how to lie about having it!

Least favorite subject:

Oscar: Kingdom Management.

Olivia: We'd rather be in General Villainy.

Westina Wicked - Daughter of Elphaba

Roomate: Bubblelina Goodwitch

Royal or Rebel?: Closeted Royal

Secret Heart's Desire: I want to be feared and die with a bang, but I don't want Bubblelina to be unhappy by my choice, so I'm pretending to be all for flipping the script for her sake.

My "Magic" Touch: I have some of the best magic hexpertise that Madame Baba Yaga has ever seen in her tale, and when I'm emotionally charged with anger, it works twice as well!

Storybook Romance Status: Bubblelina evokes certain fairy feelings in me, but I have no time for that if I want to be the wickedest of them all.

"Oh, curses!" moment: Being the Wicked Witch means I don't have much friends. Also, when I get mad, it's hard to limit my power- one time, I turned everyone into frogs HEXCEPT the poor prince I was supposed to cast- all because someone called me a toad.

Favorite Subject: Spells, Hexes and General Witchery. Cliche, I know, but when I'm hocus focused, I end up being the most spelltacular student in class!

Least favorite subject: Hexonomics. I'm bad at math. Plain and simple.

Skyler Gale- Daughter of Dorothy

Roommate: Tina Tinman

Royal or Rebel?: Royal

Secret Heart's Desire: I just want to be home. I was teleported here from the "real world" thanks to my mothers magic heirloom shoes, and now I have to learn all this new lingo and about my new "destiny". Truthfully, I'm still a bit thronesick, but I'm still quite enjoying this unex- unHEXepcted home.

My "Magic" Touch: My silver slippers! It's what got me here in the first place, but for some reason, I can't tap my shoes and go home 'until my heart feels like home', whatever that means.

Storybook Romance Status: Truth be told, I do like Tina Tinman and Leon Braveheart, they have helped me feel like home during my first few days here as an hexchange student.

"Oh, curses!" moment: Being from Kansas, sometimes it's hard to understand cultural norms of this place. Like how "ex" is replaced by "hex" in most cases, or how we learn stuff related to our fairy tales- I got quite a few weird looks for saying I'd like to try General Villiany.

Favorite Subject: Grimmnastics. This is the class most like home- and with my shoes, I'm an ace at the hexercises!

Least favorite subject: Hero Training- the most I do is throw a bucket of water on whoever the wicked witch in my tale is, so it's a chore to sit through.

[bestworstcase]

i am revising my estimation on what rwby beyond will entail perhaps out of wishful thinking but: since they let the cat out of the bag on salem razed vale with the animatic that means salem razing vale is conceivably something that beyond might touch on. maybe not if her motives for doing so constitute a major spoiler (which is possible but seems unlikely), but that is a big “holy fuck” moment to drop in the Forbidden Eleventh Hour Episode Animatic and. hm. hmmm

i would really like to get a glimpse of the context. salem left atlas with herself and cinder; she can spawn hundreds of grimm per second but came to atlas with a giant whale and millions of grimm, which seems to have taken her several weeks if not a few months to put together. if the civilian retreat traveled very quickly southward to vacuo it’s conceivable that they arrive within hours of the destruction, which does leave salem time to have whipped up another storm.

but retreating so hastily would have necessarily meant leaving a lot of people to die (or be captured—depends what “there’s nothing left” means, really) and the longer it took the civilian retreat to get to vale, the less likely it is that salem stormed vale with a massive fleet of grimm a la atlas.

the other possibilities i can think of are:

salem and cinder flattened an entire city, which has horrifying implications as to how much salem has been holding back up to this point;

she cracked the wyvern out of gay baby jail and let it do the heavy lifting;

“there’s nothing left” means that salem encored her trick of ripping open the continental crust to make a grimm river, but under vale this time, cratering the entire city into a lake of grimm (which also has horrifying implications as to how much she’s been holding back before);

salem didn’t attack vale so much as she was seen approaching beacon tower and mass hysteria ensued, leading to the city being swamped by the local grimm again.

ponders.

or vale was a casualty of an extremely destructive attempt to brute force break through the extra protections ozpin arranged for the beacon vault. what that might look like practically is an open question, but… i mean, i’ve been thinking for a while on the possibility of ozpin weaving traps into those protections.

there is also the more interesting question of why. beacon fell -> grimm pulled out of vale within days -> surgical strike on haven -> held her forces back from attacking mantle -> no grimm in atlesian subway tunnels -> (ironwood forced the fall of atlas while salem was taking a dirt nap) -> razing vale to the ground apparently. what changed?

“people saw salem and panicked” seems like both a copout and also the explanation that tracks with what we’ve seen from her before and what we know of the situation. “something happened that made salem decide it was necessary to delete vale” is the more narratively punchy option and the one i hope they’re going for. in pursuit of a new world, no cost is too great, and all.

sighs. when glinda lays siege to the emerald city, the witch mombi magically disguises herself in the form of a rose, and general jinjur aligns herself with mombi in a bid to remain in power. salem has put a lot of trust in summer to hold beacon for her, never doubting her loyalty after a year or more without progress. if that trust were betrayed…

(<- NERVOUS.)

the other obvious possibilities is brutal overreaction to a perceived threat to cinder (“if anyone even looks at cinder wrong i will break this wyvern out of its shell” WAS A JOKE I WAS JOKING–). or she’s removing vale from the equation specifically to broaden the search radius for the crown, and/or now suspects that the vault is in vale. that glynda “emblem is a crown” goodwitch is being kept offscreen still is interesting in that regard, obviously.

i don’t think it’s a matter of salem feeling emboldened by possession of two relics, if only because she wasn’t emboldened by having the lamp in atlas, and also her character arc in v8 was firmly oriented around cinder and the beacon relic, in that order. that was the basis for my thinking that she would make a beeline for vale next, which is exactly what she did. my assumption was that she planned to dig in and wait for a counteroffensive to become necessary to hold the vacuo coalition together, which i did not guess would include razing vale—because i thought she might take a gamble on pitching her side to vale, to remove a pillar of support from the vacuo coalition; razing vale is a different tactical approach to the same end.

so it’s possible that salem simply made the calculation that razing vale was the most effective way to achieve her longer term strategic goal (eliminate vale as an ally to the vacuo coalition and prohibit a siege while she digs in at beacon). it comes at the cost of hardening the vacuan coalition by demonstrating that she’s capable of flattening two kingdoms in a span of weeks and giving mistral more reason to be nervous, but it also tells the world in no uncertain terms exactly where she is, which removes an obstacle to the counteroffensive she is probably counting on to deliver the sword to her.

narratively i think it’s a really exciting choice. the pressure it puts on the salem-summer-cinder dynamic stands to be very interesting and i would like to see it.

[idksomethingclever99]

Alright, dumb question time. Now, the Kozmo arhcetype of the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game is a mashup of stuff from the Wizard of Oz and stuff from Star Wars. For example, Kozmo Farmgirl is supposed to be Dorothy mixed with Luke Skywalker, Kozmo Goodwitch is Glinda mixed with Obi-Wan Kenobi & Yoda, Kozmo Tincan is the Tinman mixed with R2-D2, etcetera. However, Kozmo Dark Lady (who is a mix of Darth Vader and the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba)) is called Kozumo Elphaiber in Japan. This means that not only is this a mash-up of The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars, but also Wicked, since the Wicked Witch of the West didn't even have a name until the original Wicked book was published! With all of that being said; Where is our mix of the Wizard of Oz and Emperor Palpatine?

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Underrated empress power? bubbling herself in a hex shield

look at her glinda the goodwitching it, love her

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Muses

Muses that are Male/Femboy/Shota:

Danny Phantom: Danny Fenton/Phantom

Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong

Dragon Prince: Callum, Ezra

Fate/Stay: Astolfo

Final Fantasy: Cloud Strife

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss: Moxie, Angel Dust

MHA: Izuku Midoriya (Deku)

OC: Midan Aurum

Pokemon: Calem, Machamp

Ratchet and Klank: Ratchet

RWBY: Oscar, Ozpin, Jaune

Spyro: Spyro

Transformers Prime: Jackson Darby

Undertale/Deltarune: Asriel Dreemur

Muses that are Female/Futa/Loli:

Adventure Time: Marceline, Princess Bubblegum

American Dragon Jake Long: Rose, Susan Long, Haley Long

Arcane: Powder/Jinx, Vi

Avatar the Last Airbender: Katara, Azula

Ben 10: Gwen Tennyson

Bofuri: Maple, Sally

Danny Phantom: Dani Phantom, Sam Manson, Jaz Fenton

DC: Starfire, Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Harley Quinn

Dragon Prince: Rayla, Claudia, Ellis, Ava

Fate/Stay: Artoria Pendragon

Final Fantasy: Tifa Lockheart, Aerith

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss: Loona, Millie, Beelzebub, Mrs. Mayberry, Octavia, Charlie Morningstar, Emily

Mario: Princess Peach, Bowsette

Marvel: Gwen Stacy, Susan Storm (Invisible Woman)

Mass Effect: Tali Zora Vas'Normandy, Miranda Lawson, Liara T'soni, EDI

MHA: Froppy, Ururaka, Momo, Toru, Miruko

Naruto/Boruto: Hinata, Tsunade, Sakura

OC: Tink, Dew, Loti, Samael Silverquill

Pokemon: Misty, May, Dawn, Juliana, Nurse Joy, Officer Jenny

Ratchet and Clank: Rivet, Kit

RWBY: Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Nora, Salem, Glinda Goodwitch, Pyrha

SAO: Suguha "Leafa", Yui, Asuna

Spyro: Elora

Star Wars: Ahsoka Tano

Transformers Prime: Arcee, Airachnid, June Darby

Undertale/Deltarune: Toriel Dreemur

Overwatch: Tracer, Widowmaker

Muses that can be any gender (Femboy, Male, Futa, Female, Shota/Loli):

Undertale/Deltarune: Frisk, Chara, Kris

Disney: All (Exceptions on a case by case basis, no real people)

Mass Effect: Commander Shepard

Ben 10: Ben Tennyson

That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime: Rimuru Tempest

Naruto/Boruto: Naruto Uzumaki, Boruto Uzumaki

OC: Jacwyn Silverquill

Pokemon: Ralts line

DC: Beast Boy

SAO: Kirigaia "Kirito"

Horizon Zero Dawn: Aloy, Beta

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Misagony Starter 1D: Time and time again Akuma Crimson got in Trouble, so Glinda Goodwitch decided to punish the Faunus, wanting to make him stop fooling around with the other Girls... it goes as well as you expect it

(not an actual starter. I love you, desires, but we've got enough RPs going on at once already)

It wasn't very effective punishment. It didn't really work at getting Akuma to stop getting in trouble, perving on and fondling other girls. It didn't even really make him stop or do it less.

But Glynda getting smothered by his fat cock sure felt amazing for her.

"And.. hmm... don't do it again or... i'll... call you to my office again..."

[fellasleepinbaltimore]

i basically wait everyday for someone to do something i don't want then i basically play glinda the goodwitch until 7pm

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✿ ― 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 : hey hey! here to ask what characters you could see sarah snook working for?

The Queen of Hearts, The Blue Fairy, Fairy Godmother, Glinda Goodwitch, The Evil Stepmother, The Evil Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy.

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This would make send maybe, Glinda Goodwitchs Family as the third. She has the same symbol as Ozma

THE ARC FAMILY IS OZMA AND SALEM'S FAMILY

I just want to point this out.

This two make this kids

And just look at Arc family

Or just look at jaune's and Saphron.

They look much like Salem.

And at the and we have these, Arc family and SALEM'S family symbol.

[bestworstcase]

Heya, so your meta on RWBY alluding to "The Marvelous Land of Oz" has been rotating in my head like a baked potato for the past few days and I'm all about it. One question that I've come away with though is where exactly does Theodore fit into all this? Everyone assumes he's Dorothy but obviously that wouldn't quite work given the parameters. I was wondering if you could maybe share your thoughts on Theodore and his role in the story to come. Thank you and have a pleasant day :)

there's this thing rwby does with the classic lit allusions—they did this with alice in wonderland too—where the true reference is to the original text and that is layered under an allusion to the better-known pop culture. i think the pop culture layer serves a few key purposes:

it flags the correct allusion for viewers who may not be familiar enough with the original text to recognize the allusion otherwise,

it creates opportunities for narrative sleight-of-hand, both setting up red herrings and rewarding viewers who are familiar with the original texts (<- this was part of what made V9 SO much fun for me as a Wonderland Person), and

it enriches the wider narrative themes about the power of storytelling to shape perception and the idea that truth is hard to find and things are not always what they seem by actually doing that with the key allusions.

for example: in V9, jaune presents as the white rabbit... but his white "rabbit" steed is actually a jackrabbit—i.e., a hare—and after falling backwards in time he became stuck in a metaphorical "time loop," going in circles doing the same things every day without reprieve or any real chance for escape. he lost a quarrel with time and in a sense he is being "punished" for a crime he hasn't yet committed but remembers having committed in the future—that's the hatter / hatta, not the white rabbit. (the alice in wonderland allusion also has a third layer of reference to the frank wildhorn musical, and that layer does some really neat stuff that deserves its own post.)

<- i first noticed this in V9, in part because the wonderland allusion is contained within the arc of a single volume and thus the layering is easier to spot, and in part because i'm better versed in wonderland than i am in the land of oz; but there are also—now that i know what to look for—some obvious signs that the ozian allusion is layered in the same way.

the clearest of those being glynda goodwitch. as i've mentioned before, the classic film adaptation combines glinda and the good witch of the north into a single character and thus creates the problem of why glinda didn't simply tell dorothy from the beginning that those ruby slippers could carry her home. in the book, the good witch of the north directs dorothy to travel to the emerald city to seek the wizard's help because she believes that he's a powerful wizard who will know of a way to send dorothy home. glinda—who is the witch of the south—knows that the wizard is a fraud and does not come into the story at all until dorothy seeks her out after the wizard has been revealed as a fraud and left her behind in oz.

oz is divided into four color-coded provinces: in the north, everything is purple; in the west, yellow; in the east, blue; and in the south, red. the emerald city, in the center, is made to appear entirely green because the wizard "put green spectacles on all the people" to "make the name fit better."

so, in the first episode, rwby introduces:

glynda goodwitch—whose clothing and magic are purple, and who is established in opposition to a mysterious adversary clad in red.

ozpin, the headmaster of beacon academy—note the wizard's initials are OZPINHEAD; his full name is oscar zoroaster phadrig isaac norman henkle emmanuel ambroise diggs.

glynda brings ruby to ozpin and over the course of the next few volumes it's established that she is not only ozpin's deputy but also part of his inner circle and unwavering in her faith in ozpin himself. her narrative role is that of the good witch of the north—not glinda—but her name references the pop culture composite character invented by the classic film.

'the marvelous land of oz' begins after the wizard's departure from oz. insofar as the beacon arc culminates with ozpin's death, this part of the story correlates to 'the wizard of oz'—although it is not 1-to-1 and i would argue that the role of dorothy is diffused between all of team RWBY and JNPR because the only part that matters is how the story utilizes the end of 'the wizard of oz' to subtly insinuate salem into the role of glinda.

see, the wizard intends to bring dorothy with him in his balloon when he leaves oz, but she's delayed—searching for toto—and the ropes anchoring the balloon snap before she can come aboard, leaving dorothy stranded in oz. eventually someone suggests that she ask glinda—the witch of the south—for help. glinda is said to be "the most powerful of all witches" and there is a bit of ambiguity as to whether she is a good witch or not:

"Glinda is a Good Witch, isn't she?" asked the child. "The Quadlings think she is good," said the soldier, "and she is kind to everyone. I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived." "How can I get to her castle?" asked Dorothy. "The road is straight to the South," he answered, "but it is said to be full of dangers to travelers. There are wild beasts in the woods, and a race of queer men who do not like strangers to cross their country. For this reasons none of the Quadlings ever come to the Emerald City."

(note how she's "the witch of the south"—unlike "the good witch of the north" and the wicked witches of the east and west.)

dorothy and her friends set out on the dangerous journey south to find glinda. the beacon arc ends by setting RWBY and JNR on a course to discover salem, whose existence is revealed to the audience in the last moments of V3. the kids, collectively, are in dorothy's shoes and like glinda, salem is the one person on remnant who understands what the shoes are and how to use them properly—figuratively speaking.

<- so the purpose of glynda goodwitch is to articulate an important thematic conceit: she's glinda the good witch of the north, a character who does not exist in the original book yet dominates the pop culture frame of reference for the land of oz, a character who is also embodies a narrative problem introduced by the conflation of two different characters who fulfill contradictory roles (one believes in the wizard and cannot help dorothy; the other knows he's a fraud and can help dorothy). glynda goodwitch is not just a red herring; her character allusion also comments thematically on ozpin's use of fairytale to distort and control the narrative regarding salem.

anyway.

the salient point with regard to theodore is that while rwby is retelling 'the marvelous land of oz,' it also alludes to the classic film in service of both the retelling and its own deeper themes.

i bring that up because theodore—on top of literally being named dorothy-but-backwards—is described like this:

Finally the double doors to the headmaster's office opened and Theodore strode out, his glittering red-gloved fists raised above his head like he had just one a fight. [...] A flowing gray-blue cape, the color of a stormy sky, was clasped around his shoulders with a silver chain. He had a silver belt with a round buckle, matching boots, and bright white slacks with deep side pockets, all carefully orchestrated to draw even more attention to himself.

his appearance is clearly intended to call the pop culture image of dorothy to mind. the glittering red gloves evoke the classic film's ruby slippers, and dorothy is of course transported to oz by a storm.

but mind the details.

theodore fastens his cloak with a silver chain. his belt is silver. his boots are silver (and that is stated obliquely, easy to miss if you skim over this description). silver silver silver. in the original book, the magic slippers are silver, not red. and his wardrobe is "carefully orchestrated" to attract attention.

the land of oz is surrounded on all sides by desert, impassible except by magical means. when dorothy uses the silver slippers to travel back to kansas, they fall off her feet en route and are lost in the desert forever. theodore is the headmaster of shade and de facto king of vacuo—which is a inhospitable wasteland surrounded on all sides by harsh desert. he wears ruby gloves... and silver boots. like glynda goodwitch, his attention-grabbing outward appearance locates itself in a contradiction between the book and the film.

which dorothy is he?

trick question. he represents the silver slippers, fallen to rest somewhere in the desert separating oz from the rest of the world. this serves two important, and interlocking, purposes:

it tells us not to look for a dorothy—because dorothy isn't here. she went home. she's in kansas. dorothy doesn't figure at all in 'the marvelous land of oz' except insofar as the scarecrow and the tin man remember her fondly. (the god of darkness is the real dorothy—because he's gone.)

it marks vacuo as the desert outside of oz—not part of oz.

the second point matters because marvelous land's climactic sequence begins with glinda chasing mombi all the way from the emerald city to the desert past the edge of oz, where mombi collapses from sheer exhaustion and glinda binds her and hauls her bodily back to the emerald city to account for her wrongdoing. this weaves the ozian narrative together with the maiden-in-tower allusions and the little prince like this:

glinda must subdue mombi in the desert before ozma can be released from her curse;

rapunzel's prince is blinded and wanders alone in a wasteland until her voice leads him back to her and her tears restore his sight;

the pilot is stranded in a desert and must learn to see with his heart instead of his eyes in order to find water.

if we examine these together, understanding salem as glinda and rapunzel, mombi as the god of light, and ozma as both the prince and the pilot, that is very strongly suggestive of what is going to happen in vacuo. should rwby continues to follow the plot structure of 'the marvelous land of oz' as closely as it has been, i predict that:

salem will take cinder and return to vale, where her villain -> hero arc will begin facilitated by character development in relation to cinder and summer rose;

they will identify what sort of "deception" ozpin used to hide the relic's location, realize that the extra layer of defense cannot be circumvented, and go to vacuo. (specifically, i suspect ozpin incorporated the branwen twins into the crown's protections);

in vacuo, salem will put all her cards on the table, tell everyone what she is trying to accomplish and why. negotiations ensue. the possibility of freeing ozma from oscar is introduced and possibly carried out. the god of light is symbolically defeated—everyone rejects the divine mandate.

everyone returns to beacon to bring the crown of choice out of its vault and initiate the final confrontation with the god of light.

with most of the curve balls coming from what the vacuo coalition faces while salem is preoccupied with the beacon relic and how everyone reacts to the olive branch of summer rose being... alive.

insofar as theodore figures into this, given the prominence of silver in his character design i wonder if he won't turn out to represent not just the silver slippers that were lost but also the silver wishing pills.

in marvelous land, tip comes into possession of a set of wish-granting silver pills that can grant any wish after being swallowed. when he and his friends escape the conquered emerald city, they accidentally overshoot glinda's home and fly all the way to the far side of the desert before crash landing in a nest of antagonistic jackdaws. tip tries to use one of the pills to get them home, but when he swallows it, it hurts him so badly that he cries out in pain and wishes that he'd never taken it in the first place—which comes true at once. the pill is uneaten. then the woggle-bug uses the same pill to repair their flying contraption* so they can escape from the jackdaws and return to oz.

(*it's called the gump and it's two couches lashed together with leaves for wings, a broom for a tail, and a stuffed elk-like head for a head, brought to life by magical powder. it defies easy description)

so there is some obvious overlap in role between the silver shoes and the silver wishing pills in that both are magical silver items the main characters use to get home—and like the slippers, the pills are lost during the journey home. (the characters conclude that tip must have left them behind in the jackdaws' nest by mistake.)

but the interesting part, as it pertains to theodore, is that when tippetarius tries to use one of the pills, it poisons him. there is nothing actually wrong with the pill itself—the woggle-bug uses it without coming to any harm. the incident is not really explained, but of course tippetarius is under a curse that hides his true identity as the princess ozma and later in the book glinda implies that certain kinds of magic simply do not mix well together; for all her great power, she cannot undo mombi's curse herself because her own magic abhors deception and illusion. so perhaps the silver pill poisons tippetarius because he is not himself. the curse mombi placed upon him blinds him to his true self.

now in rwby, theodore is the last headmaster standing and the effective ruler of vacuo, and the sword of destruction that ozma last used to end the great war is locked in a vault underneath shade academy. if salem does not arrive to lay siege to vacuo as the coalition expects her to, the coalition will face pressure to do something in order to counteract the fraught social and political divisions threatening to tear vacuo apart—remember, this is a country on the brink of civil war that weathered a failed popular coup during the events of V7.

that creates strong incentives for a counter-offensive. to find out where salem is "hiding" after her (as the coalition will see it) pyrrhic victory in atlas and take the fight to her—which sounds great on paper but becomes a rather fraught proposition once salem is discovered to be at beacon. if the vacuo coalition attacks her forces at beacon, vale gets caught in the crossfires—and attacking beacon of all places will not be good for the morale of the coalition's fighters either. but doing nothing may still be the worse option, because that risks the coalition breaking apart without an immediate common enemy to confront. and theodore—as characterized in 'before the dawn'—very much seems like the type of character to favor a counter-offensive under these circumstances.

and that's tip's poison pill—ozma's submission to the divine mandate and the distorted narrative he's constructed around salem prevent anyone on his side of this conflict from seeing another option besides "defend" and "counterattack," when the true solution is "negotiate." the woggle-bug—raven—is able to find the true solution because she holds knowledge about salem (and summer) that the other characters do not. if theodore and his silver trappings represent the pill tippetarius cannot use, then summer and her silver eyes represent the pill the woggle-bug can.

[thebadchoicemachine]

[ID: an image of Glinda Goodwitch from RWBY. /end ID]

Where is she

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"ooooh, do you mean join up as students or teachers? Cause me and Weiss did like, a lot with our time out in the wild to hone our craft and rea=PHRRRRPPPHHTTPPPHT-really take stuff to the next level! LIke you wouldn't believe what we just did with our gas and our shit!" She said giddy as she could be, even though the ruined Atlas ship was right behind them. Solid proof as any to what they had done. She waddled up to Glinda and got a good whiff of her. She certainly smelled 'better' then the last time the trio had met up. Nora was a might bit annoyed that she was bigger then the two of them already. Having city food on top of everything else must have let her weight catch up. "Damn Miss Goodwitch! You are looking fine! You have an ass that won't quit!" She gave it a hearty slap and giggled "pretty soon you're going to need another plank of wood for your butt if it keeps getting bigger!

Nora let out a satisfied sigh. Today was a good hunt. She had been sent out on a special mission alongside Weiss to deal with a Grimm infestation deep within the woods. They were miles away from civilization, but it didn't bother her! She had plenty of fun, especially with her on again off again bestie Weiss! "Aaaand I think thats the last of them! A big win for team Snowstorm! Thats our team name! Ooooh, wait! Thundersnow? Or sleet? Hailstorm? What do you think?" Nora asked giddily. Her attention span wasn't the greatest, but she made up for it with bundles of positivity. Something the other lacked.

"Nora please I'm trying to concentrate..." Weiss said trying to keep her focus as she pulled her blade out of the corpse of a beowolf. "Though Thundersnow rolls off the tongue." She said her glyphs and ice shredding the remaining Grimm. Years ago she'd never dream of even debating combo names but Ruby and her other teammates had rubbed off on her enough. With skill and efficiency you wouldn't expect from her size she did an elegant twirl before bowing as the Grimm dropped at her feet.

"Given the average size of a beowolf pack and the presence of what appears to be a juvenile alpha... I'd say we've cleared the campsite. Though the assignment did note bizarre shifts in the Grimm population, we should remain vigilant!" Weiss said all business as usual.