#RWBY 7 spoilers

[littlecornerofremnant]

This aged well lol

Based on a post by @miyavaaria , imagine this, since Penny is able to produce an aura, she's eligible to be a possibility for the winter maiden.

BUT my dear friends, this possibility comes with a terrible thought: Penny becomes the Winter maiden, but she gets hacked by Watts.

[clementinecloudz]

Long live pyrrha (she died 7 seasons ago but it's okay nothing bad ever happened)

[sparktdog]

I noticed a trend

[bonnibelleangelica]

My RWBY HeadCannons

(My fanfiction cinematic universe)

-Jaune can feel how strong peoples auras are when he touches them and can also tell if it’s activated at all

-Auras are visible (to the characters) when they get hit or at about to break (like in the show)

-Jaune’s semblance feels good and if he heals sexual masochistic pain (spanking), it’s extra good

-Ruby and Jaune will get married. They just will. It won’t be a plot line or a reveal, they’ll just end up together

[zexapher]

The Best Laid Schemes

The best laid schemes go oft astray. Poor Weiss, bet she’d been practicing lines in her head all day. And speaking of, Jaune certainly wasn’t too quick to recruit everyone else for his little trip, once he saw Weiss was onboard. Wouldn’t be surprised if he went through a line or two on the way over as well.

Even if they are now somewhat overshadowed by the immaculate story we’ve been blessed with in Volume 9, pre-Volume 9 White Knight moments are still very good. They’ll always have a place in my heart.

Some of you may have noticed me sneak in a not-so-subtle little Parks and Recreation Reference there. Love that show, and I quite like the idea of Weiss taking on a bit of a Leslie Knope edge while she tries to rebuild Atlas and Mantle, which makes Ruby Ann Perkins.

Hope you all enjoy this little comic I threw together yesterday!

[rwby-confess]

Confession #602

[enderfowl5]

I, General Ironwood, have conceived an idea most ingenious

[stardust948]

I have a weak spot for these type of kisses okay

[sleepyorchidmonster]

Twst Rwby Au, but it's just the twst characters in the plot of rwby.

Silver as Ruby because of the silver eyes, and the fact that they both look up to their parents. Malleus is Yang, but still as awkward as ever, dude can't socialize unless you talk about gargoyles or weapons to him. (Also Yang's name means sunny little dragon, so it's PERFECT)

As for the rest of the team, Leona is Blake because cat people (Farena is the leader of the White Fang but was killed by Adam, so there's this whole revenge quest in later volumes). He and Malleus are a couple just like the bees!

Kalim as Weiss! Both white haired heirs with too much on their shoulders, though he is much nicer than V1 Weiss.

Oz is Crowley because headmasters with ulterior motives and a big relevance to the plot. Yuu is Oscar, they're suffering SO MUCH. Grim is a grimm, but he just behaves like a cat and protects Yuu.

Riddle as Pyrrha. Both talented redheads with potential and a sense of duty that ended up kickstarting the plot (Riddle's overblot and the Fall of Beacon).

Still not sure about the rest of JNPR, since part of me wants to add Trey and Cater as Ren and Nora, while the other wants Jamil and Azul to be part of the team... maybe add Ruggie and just make it a second year team. Or forget renora and let it be just the octotrio annoying Riddle until his untimely demise.

Team STRQ is just all of Malleus and Silver's parents. Meleanor is Summer Rose, still haunting the narrative, Lillia is Qrow, training all the kids and being the fun uncle/parent, Levan is Raven, following the tradition to leave their loved ones for reasons. The Dawn Knight as Tai.

Whether they are all dating or it's just Meleanor/Lillia/Levan with Dawn knight tagging along as the calm uncle it's up for debate.

Rambling a bit here, but Ruggie or Azul for Jaune would be interesting... Ruggie doesn't have a semblance and forged his documents to attend Beacon Academy, but ends up as Riddle's partner, who, despite being mad at the rule breaking, notes that Ruggie is smart and skilled and the lack of semblance shouldn't be a problem, it will come sooner or later (Ruggie made a really good first impression during initiation, also Crowley didn't seem to care for the lie, so no problem).

As for Azul, well, he also forged his documents and is SO SELF-CONSCIOUS of lacking a semblance or not having the best stamina, but his team encourages him and he becomes a talented sniper. Then Riddle dies and it's depression time, especially if we keep the bit where Pyrrha locks Jaune away for his safety. He just thinks he is holding people back and blames himself.

I tried to add a few ships, but mostly went with the characters and themes that matched. It also helps that rwby and twst are based on fairytales, though only a few people actually match. Since we have Kalim as Weiss instead of Neige (the team wouldn't survive if it was three NRC characters with a RSA student).

[gallopinggallifreyans]

hello fair game shippers it's angst time (based on the anne hathaway twelfth night poster. not the one you're thinking of, the other one)

[talia-pumpkinwand]

[lee-rambles-about-rwby]

another one

(a larger one)

(a birthday gift lol)

This picture makes the little one look so much worse than it does irl, rip

“Don’t speak to me or my son ever again”

They haven’t been charging under a light for long or else they’d be a bit brighter, but I just wanted a photo before I go to bed lol

[zexapher]

The caterpillar comes while Weiss is trying to grow and evolve, even crawling up to the visual representation of progress in Weiss' little summoned sword. She's not there yet, but is on the path. To ultimately become the Snow Angel, as Jaune always knew she could be.

And hey, look at that, she grows wings in the Chess fight of vol 9. Just as a caterpillar goes through metamorphosis to gain its own wings. Jaune saw it in Weiss from the beginning, because he's awesome like that, ngl.

We can associate this growth to be with more points of Weiss' arc. The Faunus/class conflict with the Schnee legacy for instance.

On a microscale, it's the whiteknight story arc, and the prejudices she associated Jaune with. Believing he was just like the shallow suitors of Atlas' high society, after the perks of her name. That was a false belief she'd eventually overcome at the dance, realizing Jaune was actually genuine in the end. And with their tenuous friendship established in vol 3, it would grow into the deeper bond we see in vol 9.

On a macroscale, Weiss is overcoming her greater prejudices and ultimately fighting against her father, as he's the manifestation of this part of Weiss' arc. The Faunus prejudice and conflict with Blake in vol 1, the callousness of Atlas' high society in vol 4, the Mantle v Atlas arc in vol 7, and so on. Weiss' growth as a character is necessary to overcome these challenges.

The butterfly comes when Ruby is struggling with her own identity, before ultimately realizing she doesn't need to change, but instead accept herself. She's already beautiful, if you will.

The butterfly being a sort of metaphorical guide, associated with Ruby's arc of not giving herself enough credit (as Maria put it in vol 6), putting herself down, before she's brought to the realization of how she's already good in the end and more than enough.

We could say Ruby is in the end a static character. Not meant to change, instead overcoming the conflict and doubt suggesting she should.

Volume 6 really started to bring this arc out into the open, volume 9 more or less resolves it, but it's been there from the beginning. Recall the leadership advice she gives Jaune during Jaundice. Ruby suggesting the leader more or less put aside and ignore their own troubles, for the sake of carrying the burdens of leadership on their shoulders.

Ultimately, this incomplete, and even detrimental, advice comes to a head in vol 9. With Ruby erupting over the burdens leadership has weighed on her.

So I’d like to talk about one small part of Volume 9 that was never directly addressed or even noted by the characters, yet feels like it is EXTREMELY significant going forward:

This infuriatingly CURIOUS Blue Butterfly that for SOME reason keeps showing up around RUBY.

As we all know, this butterfly first showed up in Volume 6 during Ruby’s conversation with Maria about the nature of their Silver Eyes. At the time, it seemed like a pretty vague bit of symbolism that we probably didn’t understand the full context for yet.

THEN that Blue Butterfly showed up again in the Ever After. Multiple times, and seemingly CLOSELY associated with Ruby.

First it showed up during prior to Ruby’s game with the Red Prince.

Next, and far more interestingly, the Butterfly shows up flittering around Ruby herself after she runs away from her team and Little. Again clearly establishing some kind of connection with Ruby.

And the funny thing is, this Butterfly is not explained or even acknowledged by the characters this volumes. They’re just… THERE.

Then we get to this Butterfly’s final appearance in Volume 9, which also happens to be massively consequential when you start thinking about it:

They appear in the Blacksmith’s flashback as the first being shown to be ‘awakened’ by the Brothers.

Implying that this Butterfly is not just a denizen of the Ever After, but may well have been one of, if not THE first Afteran to have been created by the Tree after the Brothers.

A Butterfly which again, seems to have a close connection with RUBY and others with Silver Eyes.

At this point, I’m wondering if Maria was actually wrong about the Silver Eyes coming from the God of Light. But rather somehow through this Afteran. Like what if the Brothers weren’t the ONLY denizens of the Ever After to come to Remnant?

Either way, there is clearly SOMETHING important about this Butterfly and how it connects to Ruby and the other Silver Eyed Warriors.

And as a final note, I thought I’d point out that while Volume 6 was the first time we were introduced to a specific Blue Butterfly in relation to Ruby, it wasn’t the first time we had butterfly imagery associated with a character. But it wasn’t Ruby…

…It was WEISS back in Volume 3.

Connection?

[bonnibelleangelica]

My Hottest RWBY Take:

Vol 7 spoilers

Jaune shouldn’t have gotten his huntsman license.

All he did was attend less than a year of school, walk for a few months, fight some random Grimm and be there when some bad guys did stuff. Thats not enough to believe that he should be a huntsman when Coco and Velvet and shit were left with nothing after Beacon fell. Coco would rock his shit from episode 1.

Tbh, none of them were really ready but i guess its easier to have your allies be licensed so whatever, but Jaune Arc has never won a 1 v 1 with anyone in his life. He completely relies on his team and would be killed immediately if left by himself to go fight crime. And everyone else actually finished combat school before they got to Beacon. Soooo?..

Name one villian that Jaune could actually win against. Your silence is deafening.

[zexapher]

Art Imitates Life

Had this idea in my back pocket for what must be a few months now, but after Akumu_Oukoku’s wonderful ‘Weiss is silly’ meme,  I thought I’d finally put this one together. That, and I wanted to make a little something to celebrate White Knight’s glorious victory in Ship Wars 8! The hordes of r/fnki well and truly descended upon the tournament, and all the better for White Knight!

I think there were a few folks on the regular sub that hadn’t quite realized just how popular White Knight had become within the community, but fnki itself has turned into something of a fortress for the ship, and the results of the tourney speak for themselves. White Knight really wound up dominating, becoming champion by an overwhelming margin, and with just Lancaster and Nuts & Dolts putting up strong competition in the previous rounds.

I’m impressed, and super stoked. It’s really something special seeing White Knight come out so strong after so many years treated as a pariah, having never before made it past the first round but now becoming the champion. The stars had aligned, really. The final round taking place on Weiss’ birthday, White Knight winning the championship being the perfect gift. Volume 9 had given the ship strong foundations to stand on. We can see that expressed in not only the various memes put out over time, but also in the A-Jaune-da alliance and numerous comments inundating the polls in order to promote the ship. White Knight shippers really had an incredibly strong messaging campaign this tournament, I might say no one else came close, and we always kept it positive. Everyone involved should feel proud.

Now, as for this meme, I chose these six characters (and Weiss) because I found it rather appropriate that they have all to some extent shipped White Knight in canon. Jaune, of course, is an obvious one. The story is littered with examples for him all the way through. Similarly, Weiss has been growing fonder of Jaune throughout the show, but Volume 9 saw her interest revealed in a very pronounced manner. Nora has the most tenuous claim here, having shared few moments with Weiss. However, Nora has a moment in Volume 5 where she teases Weiss about liking Jaune’s nickname, going on to tease the Ice Queen about her thawed heart.

Oscar, of course, gets his absolutely stoked look that he throws at Jaune when Weiss accepts Jaune’s invitation to the movies. Like, Oscar is just so happy for his big bro. Blake has a moment or two over the course of the show, notably her happy little glance between Jaune and Weiss at the Argus reunion, her smug look at the ~mature~ line, and how she perks up at Weiss’ giggle with Jaune about his restored youth. No real surprise there, since Blake is actually Jaune’s offscreen super-secret best friend. Yang herself throws a little dating advice Jaune’s way, and gets her ‘one day’ line, when our boy was down in the dumps following a rejection or two. She points out to Weiss that her harshness rejecting Jaune is the sort of thing that earned her the Ice Queen nickname. And, like Blake, Yang gets her own smug look following the ~mature~ line. Then there’s my most controversial addition to this list, Pyrrha. After all, she did walk Jaune through how to ask Weiss to the dance.

Yes, this was all an excuse for me to make a post about every little scrap from the show suggesting the characters ship White Knight. If anyone can think of any more, feel free to share. Maybe Cindere killing Jaune’s rival love interests, yet her attempts on Weiss’ life seem to have only helped Jaune and Weiss grow closer, hmmm. Well, I hope you all enjoy, I had good fun making it!

[rwby-confess]

Confession #54