#RVB12 TAG

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ok i'm watching the first half of S12 and doing the same as for 11. here we go:

the sniper rifle gag still hits

felix playing tucker like a fiddle (chefkiss)

hoo hoo wow tucker really did just watch one of his subordinates die directly in front of him

felix playing tucker like a fiddle (again) (chefkiss) and i made a Poast about it already but it's a special slap to the face that felix immediately starts laughing about it after seeing that it's really eating at tucker

"my naps take longer than five days" beerus and grif have this in common

man i love the way that 12 (and 13) started to play with halo canon. it's such a clever way to integrate a bunch of different assets without alienating non-halo-fans

f: ah, mm, okay, so you want me to help you rescue your friends because...? what? it's the right thing to do? t: yeah, it's called not being a dick. f: you know, if i recall, the first time these people ever asked you for help, you turned them down. figured this whole civil war thing wasn't your problem. in fact, i bet, if your friends had never been captured, you'd still refuse to lend them a hand. even if it was the "right thing to do." everyone has their price. i learned that a long time ago. and you're no exception.

whew, what a monologue. hitting them all (and tucker especially) right where it hurts and showing a teeeeensy-tiny bit of his hand in the process. felix's Baddie Moment monologue and the one at the end of this season are both really good too but this one's got to be my favorite. it's the "and you're no exception" that really seals it, tbh.

grif's sarge arc is also fantastic

tucker jumping over the crate and directly into the hole is exactly what happened to me during a spire of the watcher run a while back and blueregard was like "you hit that hole like nobody's business"

"i don't [care about losing people]. you do." (CHEFKISS)

"just sayin', guy does stuff for money" is unironically THE funniest read on felix possible and i th[TRUCK PASSES BY, HORN BLARING]

"i never wanted to be a soldier, tucker. none of us did. but felix? he chose this lifestyle. and he chose it because he's good at it."

i love kimball, A Lot, and i love how much this says about chorus. no one wanted this conflict to happen. no one wanted it to get as bad as it got. and as much as she leans on felix i feel like kimball also resents him for choosing to be what he is, even before everything comes to light. she would never have chosen this. it is unthinkable that he did.

i really like that the felix-and-locus backstory doesn't come right when we meet felix, or even at the very start of 12. it's at about moment that we're thinking "is there something else going on with the way that felix always zeroes in on locus as a threat?" after the battle at the end of 11 and the sortie at the start of 12, and it's also - even as The Lie he's selling - very tasty.

(my only regret with how i watched this season originally is that i wish i'd had more time to percolate in this lovers-to-enemies scenario for felix and locus because wowee if that ain't right up my alley... and to get The Reveal after weeks would've been Something. alas.)

grif's sarge arc.

felix's and locus's story, as kimball knows and tells it, is also really interesting for how different it is from any other antagonistic relationship we've seen in this show so far. there's really no one else i can think of who had a similar relationship. i guess wash and the meta, if you're really reaching, but the thing about felix and locus is that they chose to be on opposing sides, and rivalry bloomed into something uglier (at least in this version of the story). it makes for a GREAT yarn and it clearly strikes tucker very deeply when kimball tells him.

i loooove that the conclusion tucker draws from his conversations with both felix and kimball is "we should stop trying to be something we're not" and that it really was kimball who (inadvertently) pushed tucker to round of everyone else and leave

nearly 45 minutes into S12 and we get the first little crumbs that something bigger might be happening than just the civil war. again, love the way the chorus arc uses other H4 assets and the hardlight weapons especially

"they didn't take us to get shot, but they sure as hell left us to die."

"well, orders only work on soldiers. i am a mercenary." ooohoohoohoo. delightful crumb.

Team New Republic running face-first into Team Federal Army is so good. legitimately SO good.

honestly it would also have been really fascinating to see both sets of captives really buy into each side's motives and start fighting against each other in earnest. and THAT is a whole 'nother post

w: i did what i had to do. l: don't we all?

i love Bitch Mode wash, he should be allowed to do this more often

love the way this all starts to fray at the seams :)c

it's interesting that locus's portion of The Lie isn't actually much of a lie at all, and from what we see of felix in the second half of 12 and then in 13, i think felix would have been entirely capable of playing it like locus did: brutal and matter-of-fact, no frills. but he chose to become a (checks notes) charismatic mercenary with a heart of gold (or whatever it was), which, you know, speaks volumes

the shot focusing on the pistol wash is carrying when he faces locus in person again :)

locus really said "the mercenary (derogatory)"

"holy shit he's bilingual" ppl at work when they realize i'm not just smiling and nodding (joyful in this case not derogatory)

"the only people who aren't wearing armor these days are dead!" is still one of the bleakest things in this whole trilogy. man. i know it's a justification for machinima, but man.

wash moving to diplomacy immediately is so good. love that for him.

i've watched The Reveal a few times over in the past couple of weeks for reasons but it's especially good in context. man.

i love the way that locus tries to curb felix's monologue but lets him go on -- he's probably frustrated with hapless-as-fuck doyle and the others, too, and they're about to just slaughter all the reds and blues so whatever, toss felix this bone, right?

"does it hurt? knowing just how much death you've brought to this planet?"

see, okay, this. this is a GOOD way to use the medium for what it is. chorus is the first time that the reds and blues (minus wash lol) have ever racked up a considerable body count. and with machinima, the whole point is that you interact with the game world in a way that's different from the gameplay itself, so this lands really well as the reds and blues making the choice to kill, rather than a video game chiding you for being violent when the only thing you can do is click button to shoot gun.

"faster than you" : )

"miss me, assholes?" no. not in the slightest.

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((Tonight is less watching rvb12 as it is going through the rvb12 tag on my personal and laughing at all of the fan theories of how we thought it was going to go

I am so excited to get to That episode, especially because I was at rtx when it dropped

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I did the tag thing 3 times just to see if it changed and legit got "Rvb12 and me, Rvb12 and anonymous, libra and Rvb13"

tshfydjhvgfkhdsf tumblrs bringing back my rvb past

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Apparently I’m into RWBY again, so yeah, go ahead and blacklist RWBY7 and RWBY7 Spoilers from me- I still have First until the end of the year so RWBY7 is the general season and RWBY7 Spoiler is the episode only out for first members

back on my bullshit and falling 4 years back to use the rvb12 and rvb13 tagging system what’s up

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eliashaverson replied to your post:thoughts on the #rvb12 finale, spoilers under the...

i would’ve liked the charon CEO to have been like, this big, over the top, gloating bad guy. i really just want handsome jack to be the bad guy. all the monologuing of felix, all the combat skill/brutality of locus.

citizeeeeens of choruuuuus

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thoughts on the #rvb12 finale, spoilers under the cut

first and foremost, reax: the credits started rolling halfway through and i was like "dammit i have to sit through all of this t– HOLY SHIT OF ALL SONGS" like jfc of all goddamn songs it had to be half life like i have had this song on repeat since the damn trailer aired okay

second: i am. not actually pleased about the maine thing. :| like yeah i'm never going to shut up about being totally fucking right but at the same time a) why and b) for what reason. like, the cryogenics thing has been brought up on my dash already, and from there it either spins off into Meta 2.0 or a winter soldier-esque brainwashing/cryofreeze plotline and both of those UGH drags hands down face. just. i do not want the meta cheapened as an antagonist and i do not want maine "resurrected" in any capacity not only because that cheapens both characters and their related plotlines, but also because i don't trust anyone at rooster teeth to write something like this. fic writers? yes. RT? no. a Meta 2.0 plotline would ruin everything about recollection and the meta as an antagonist (in S6 and in S8), and a "resurrection"/winter soldier plotline requires way too much emotional delicacy and careful character development (which, as we saw in S9 and S10, isn't something RT is willing to do for maine).

of course, in the end, it could just be that the chairman/charon industries wants maine's armor and equipment (the trophy room line), which is cool, and would neatly tie up the meta's end.

i also....... really don't think i like the chairman reveal? like it just kind of. doesn't make much sense. the chairman should have remained as he was, honestly; he works as a Morally Right Authority Figure, that was his role in recollection, and this reveal complicates that (along with everything else) to the point where it kind of just doesn't make sense. i like that charon industries shows up again – like, i really like this, and bringing them back as a "faction" really works, but getting the chairman involved with that plot point is so weird??

i'm not really sure what i'm trying to say here, but:

i think the chairman should have remained as he was (i.e., a member of the UNSC assigned to the director's particular case)

i like that charon industries has such a deeply seated vendetta against PFL that while running their extremely illegal op on chorus they took the opportunity to down a ship carrying PFL shit

charon industries as the overall antagonist Works just like hyperion as the overall antagonist Works and i really like it

i just think the chairman should not have ended up linked to charon industries

it complicates too much of the plot in too many ways

or like, a plotline where the chairman as this Moral Authority Figure becomes corrupted and gets involved with the crap charon is pulling on chorus? please sign me up, i'm 100% here but it's just that this....... doesn't.................. , i mean??

a plotline where the chairman was....... plotting revenge the whole time? idk i just feel like this not only complicates things way too much but it also cheapens a lot of recollection. which. frowns loudly.

tl;dr i still don't really care about much rn except what i can use for S11 au SHRUGS back to plotting and notes

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what i'm trying to say is im not even in the realm of fucking around where my AUs are concerned

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honestly though, the bottom line is this: rooster teeth is about the last group of people i trust with a "resurrection" storyline and i hope to hell this is about maine's equipment because i really, really don't want to get the meta as an antagonist cheapened which is essentially inevitable but i still fucking called it and you will pry this victory out of my cold, dead hands

i present to you: 

june 23

august 11

i actually, honest-to-god, was able to call this happening because of being so far up my ass about S11 au that i grasped at any straws

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i watched it

don't touch me

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i have class until 9:30 so i can’t watch it when it airs for me but jesus christ im watching it the second i get home

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rvb reax, #spoilers under the cut

i am really angry

tucker has a very legitimate reason for his anger and to be feeling the way he's feeling. this isn't up for debate. the reds and the blues, during caboose's "motivational speech," trampled all over him and completely invalidated all of his feelings, and i am fucking furious.

while i'm glad that tucker has grown enough to be able to put on his big boy pants and be the one to start the make-up process, he was not in the wrong and doing that should not have been on him to do

like. god. as someone who has lived most of their life dealing with emotional invalidation this makes me really, really angry on a lot of levels and that's even bypassing the fact that epsilon has literally no reason to be angry with tucker

but at least things seem to be moving along at a decent pace, now, and hopefully this means that the rest of the season will keep moving at a more normal pace (as opposed to how oddly the first ~3/4 of this season have gone) so yeah, here's hoping

i ended up watching last week's episode before this one (since i hadn't watched it when it aired last week, oops) and jesus christ i'm so glad wash and tucker had that conversation

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what i'm really glad for that rvb S12 (and S11, to an extent) has been doing is that they've gone back to using the resources that the multiplayer maps give them by default – layouts, background, scenery, little details

RT used the halo 3 multiplayer maps (and forge) to huge success in recollection and they were able to build so much around everything that the maps were in and of themselves, and i really missed that in S9 and S10 (among other things, like plot. and good writing.) so i really, really dig that they're back to, well, the root of machinima itself – working with what the game gives you

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eliashaverson replied to your post: rvb12 reax, #spoilers under the cut ...

i still think it might be the “freckles” chip that tipped them off to the location (mostly because i don’t want gray to be control but w/e)

oh shit

eta: i'm for gray being a villain if only because we have yet to have a female villain and i get the feeling that she would be a really, really great "terrifying presence" sort of antagonist

i haven't seen rwby so i don't know if arryn can pull out a Scary Voice (or if she does in rwby?) but man gray would make such a great antag

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rvb12 reax, #spoilers under the cut

man i have just. not been very impressed with the episodes lately. i don't know if it's because i watched S11 all in one go and going back to weekly episodes is throwing me off or what, but lately the episodes have seemed kind of... dry and oddly paced?

regardless, at this point i am 1000% convinved that gray is either control or working for control because come the fuck on

i'm also really fucking glad they've started splitting up into reds vs blues again and i'm really glad that grif and simmons had a "wow shit we've changed" talk because that was sorely needed

i'd also say "god the look on tucker's face at the end of the episode" but. well. i can't really say anything about his facial expression or posture. so.

i just kind of.... don't know what to do with this episode? and i hope this season comes together more nicely when i watch it over again top to bottom

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red vs blue reax, #spoilers under the cut

they brought up the meta again so is it too much to hope for chekov's gun to go off next time or

but no real talk i'm glad they're finally bringing up the fact that if there was a crash site bravo, there should logically be a crash site alpha

idk if i don't have a lot of Reactions because of tonight's news or if the episode was just underwhelming but. yeah. i think that's it for my reax tonight