#Glinda goodwitch

[minecraftgender]

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

[roseburning]

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)

[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.

[citadelredlightdistrict]

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

[penname-artist]

Trick or treat!

*offers candies* Happiest of Halloween! Hopefully you don't get any of those weird orange peanuts this year!

And your coin flip iiiiiis...heads as well! I'm surprised I haven't landed trick for anyone yet, but lucky you!

The Crophopper family has had a lot of great Halloweens celebrated, from offering a spooky corn maze to trick-or-treaters, to dressing their two kids up in DIY - and usually matching - costumes. Dusty and Chase have done a whole myriad of things over the years, from pirates to pumpkins to - and he kinda hates remembering this now, given context - dressing as his then-idol and now greatest rival, Ripslinger.

Their best year yet was a recent one, where the two brothers Dusty and Chase teamed up with parents Tess and Charlie to do the Wizard of Oz: Tess as Dorothy, Charlie as the Tin-Man, Chase as the Scarecrow, and Dusty as the Cowardly Lion. They also managed to convince Skipper to be the wizard, Dottie as Glinda Goodwitch, and Jenna (Chase's wife) as the Wicked Witch of the West. It was nigh short of a phenomenal matchup year.

[chimichangacongaline]

broke my rule of just getting the basic first edition of each doll again... i had to have costume ball bella shes so gorgeous, a modern glinda goodwitch vibe

i pulled out all the tinsel in her hair and re-styled it with these cute glitter bows i had, switched her stockings and shoes, and added crystals by her eyes

[thormanick]

I know next to absolute nothing about Alhaitham's and Kaveh's interactions but boy do I find them amusing

So I gather that they are roommates, and I think to me this is the funniest aspect. The other one coming quite close is that on a scale from "Arts Kid" to "Science/Math Kid" those two seem to be on practically opposite spectrums, which is also very fun.

I'm just thinking of some daily scenarios when they happen to discuss briefly their respective projects with each other and BOTH leave such conversations with "I have absolutely no idea how this man is even alive" thoughts. Like- the wavelengths are so different that absolute chaos that could be them living together is somehow averted only by some sort of miracle, as both think in retrospect.

I guess the idea of Kaveh being more open to critique/critiquing could be fun, but the thought of Alhaitham having in the back of his brain some remnants of the info on the new project that Kaveh told him about in passing several days ago only for him to stop randomly whatever he's doing and whisper into nothingness "this doesn't make any sense, how on earth has it worked out?" is just

so hilarious to me

edit: also the way I saw leaks of Kaveh and my initial reaction was "male!Glinda Goodwitch???" oh boy

[chiefatticcreator]

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..."

[nitpick-november-2022]

…what color is Glynda supposed to be?

Like, with the naming convention rules in place, her color would have to be white, right? Except white isn’t a significant color on her the way red is on Ruby, or green is on Ozpin. I would have to guess that her color is either black or purple or yellow, except Glinda in the Wizard of Oz wears pink (in the movies at least)! And no part of her name has these colors! On a character who was there from the beginning!

Honestly, I've never been able to pick out a color from her name. The closest I can get is Glynda meaning "fair", which could mean "light", but that's not exactly a slam dunk connection (I've never really a fan of her name in general, always found it too on the nose for her allusion).

Then again, not all of the teachers have color names as far as I'm aware (Peter Port and Ozpin aren't the most colorful of names), and I believe that there was an asterisk on that color name rule that side characters weren't bound to that convention - which makes sense! Don't want to waste time coming up with a name and color scheme for a character that's not going to be a major player or, in the case of Oz, has lore reasons to have a name that's noticeably not a color name.

If I were to guess what color she's meant to be, I'd say purple. It's the color of her Semblance in action and the color on the inside of her cape - if I were to do some headcanon speculation here, you could say that her usual attire is very much her "deputy headmistress" uniform, and that, like her students, she wears something very different and more reflective of her colors while on the job as a huntress, with her cape being a hint of what that outfit may look like. I suspect that if we'd stayed at Beacon longer, we may have gotten to see the teachers in their own Huntsmen outfits at some point like we do Oobleck.

But perhaps that's giving too much credit. While Port doesn't have a color name, Peach (a teacher we've never even met) and Oobleck (technically) do, and I'd consider Glynda a more important character than either of them. She is also the third character we see in the very first episode, and does make multiple appearances in all of the Beacon volumes. It does seem odd to break convention right at the very start of the series without a very good reason (though I suspect that reason would be "Glynda Goodwitch" rolls off the tongue far more easily than any alternatives that may have been come up with). Then there's also Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, and Pyrrha Nikos - what colors do they have in their names despite being members of the B team (as far as Google can tell me, Ren can mean lotus in Japanese, but lotus flowers can be in a range of colors, not just pink which I heard somewhere is his canon color and honestly his color should be green why make him and Nora share a color and Lie can mean "Ardent" which is apparently a shade of red?? But that's definitely not his color???)? So not giving three out of 4 of your main secondary cast members clear color names doesn't bode well for your naming rule being a rule rather than just a guideline to be followed whenever and to whatever degree you want to.

[enchantedfms]

✿ ― 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.

[silentmagi]

Wicked 'Verse!(Princess Ozma & Dorothy), Glinda x Elphaba in "Okay, Now That's Adorable..."

Stumbling upon the two young ladies 'resting' on a couch in front of the fireplace, Glinda and Elphaba couldn't help but smile at the signs of their charges growing close.

The chaos compels.

If you want to write one of these, please just link me!

[thebadchoicemachine]

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

Where is she

[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.

[witch-iz]

Can I say there's such power in reminding us of dust till dawn, we've had such darkness and probably will continue to have that for a while but the dawn will come, the dawn will be bright and help continue us on our way

[citadelredlightdistrict]

Muses: Female/Futa/Loli

(These muses ARE females, remember muns must be 18+ to interact. All characters in RPs must be fictional.)

Adventure Time: Marceline, Princess Bubblegum

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

Arcane: Powder/Jinx, Vi

Avatar the Last Airbender: Katara, Azula, Ty Lee

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, Aanya

Fate/Stay: Artoria Pendragon

Final Fantasy: Tifa Lockheart, Aerith

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

Mario: Princess Peach, Bowsette

Marvel: Gwen Stacy, Susan Storm (Invisible Woman)

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

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

[ndgo-nebula-violette]

okay but the fact is, we haven’t seen glinda for 5 volumes now and dang oh dang is it nice to see her face. it’s nice to know she’s actually okay. like there may have been a mention of her. but we haven’t seen her since beacon fell. like dang. like the first time seeing her with the animation change. i mean yeah it’s changing every year. but that’s 5 volumes of slight adjusts that we haven’t seen her for. good to see you girl.