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The Knights
Hey peeps!
Here are my designs for Carmine Esclados & Bertilak Celadon!
Ever since I saw Carmine’s official design I’ve wanted to redo it, because her original design is a crime against humanity and it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen
So I redid Carmine using her description in the book, and figured I’d do Bertilak, too, since the poor guy got literally nothing after the book was published
I really wanted to lean into both of their allusions to the Red Knights & the Green Knight respectively, so I gave them (specifically Carmine) a bunch of different armor pieces, and now they kinda match with their silver colors, albeit Bertilak’s is rusted
I also wanted to highlight them being described as total opposites outfit-wise, since Bertilak is described to not even look like a Huntsman because of his outfit, whereas Carmine is clocked as a Huntress with one glance from Coco
Anygay, that’s them <3
I guess I’ll do Team SSSNN next, but that’ll be after I finish reading Before the Dawn lol
Individual Designs under the cut <3
#my art#rwby#rwby art#rwby fanart#after the fall#rwby after the fall#Carmine#Carmine Esclados#RWBY Carmine#RWBY Carmine Esclados#Bertilak#Bertilak celadon#RWBY Bertilak#RWBY Bertilak celadon#knights#redesign#character design#Vacuo#RWBY Vacuo#greenlight volume 10
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RWBY Volume 10 predictions
Voice cast: Vacuo citizens
Starr Sanzang: Laila Berzins (newcomer)
Finn Asturias: Sam Riegel (newcomer)
Bertilak Celadon: Bryan Massey (newcomer)
Edward Caspian: Paul St. Peter (newcomer)
August Caspian: Ryan “@chongoblog” Mitchum (newcomer)
Slate: Dorothy Fahn (newcomer)
Green: Greg Chun (newcomer)
Lily: Melissa Fahn (newcomer)
Lily’s Younger Sister: Reba Buhr (newcomer)
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#rwby#rwby volume 10#greenlight volume 10#viz media#kingdom of vacuo#starr sanzang#finn asturias#bertilak celadon#edward caspian#august caspian#rwby slate#rwby green
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how would you rank dr watts faction from your least favorite to favorite members?
Obviously Watts is at the top, he's one of my favourites in the whole Salem faction overall and he easily gets top spot in this ranking too.
2# would be Carmine.
I love her design, I loved writing her personality and her character, especially her motivations in why she's working for someone like Merlot. She was undermined and underpaid in Atlas, even as a Huntress, and was suffocated in that environment so she left and became a trafficker. She's driven by money and I like that.
Carmine knows what she wants fr.
3# would be Merlot.
He's great, and I liked his potential in Grimm Eclipse, which is why I kept him for AZRE. Yeah, he could've been merged with Watts, but I like that there's so many pieces in Salem's arsenal. It makes it feel more lived in and expansive rather than just five council members and no one else.
But Merlot specifically is interesting in his views on Grimm and how unique that is. Others show interest like Watts with the Seer Grimm, but no one goes as far as Merlot and I think it just opens a lot of different storylines to go with.
4# would be Teumessian.
She doesn't have much going for her, which is why she's pretty low, but I think her friendship with Carmine is sweet and her design is really cute to me. She also isn't completely heartless, despite the fact that, no matter what she thinks, she will go through with evil acts for herself and the group.
When the trafficker group gets more in the sequel, I'll have more of an opinion on her.
5# and last would be Bertilak.
I don't... dislike him, but I'm not overtly fond of him either. He's just there, kinda like a boring Banesaw in his fighting and personality, and the longer I look at him, the more I just don't like his design.
A few things are positive, don't get me wrong. I do like that there's some form of a personality with his code and loyalty, even to people that he admits he doesn't trust or even particuarly like, but it's minimal and not enough to make me overly care.
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Sorry don't mind me, just reblogging this mostly to act as a bookmark for me to reread later because it's very insightful and my ADHD doesn't do great with long texts unless I'm committed to the task fsdf
Also just wanted to also write down some thoughts I got when reading through this (mostly for myself in case I forget them later lol)
I think you're absolutely on the money w/ everything in your post, but especially that last thought; i.e. the relics being a reflection of their corresponding maiden in the current story.
Like, yeah, I always found it strange how the relics didn't align w/ what we (the audience) would perceive to be the rational corresponding season/maiden (i.e. spring=creation; summer=choice; fall=knowledge; winter=destruction) and that they actually appeared to be more arbitrary/random in nature??
I mean, like you've said, the maiden mythos/fairytale supports the audience's initial view of the 'correct' order, but then instead we have spring=knowledge; summer=destruction; fall=choice; winter=creation, which seems out of place.
Until you look at the current Maidens and their actions/motives/narratives.
(these are just basic ramblings/thoughts and not super in depth, so forgive me fsdff. also apologies if you've touched on this before in a previous post or s/t)
First you've got our Fall Maiden and Choice, Cinder.
Girl has made so many spicy choices; some resulting in favourable outcomes, many not so much fsdf
— She willingly defies Salem's orders/plans in want of her own desires i.e. going after Winter maiden powers
— She killed Watts (which while yes, his usefulness at the end of the Atlas Arc kinda ran its course, I'm sure Salem might beg to differ, or at least not appreciate Cinder killing her followers w/o her say so)
— She also lied to Salem about Ruby being killed by Neo + about RWBY using the lamp (though we know she more than likely saw through that fsdf)
(also, yes she isn't a Maiden, but Pyrrha was forced to make The Choice™ and I think that is also vital evidence/fuel for this theory fsdf)
Then you have the Spring Maiden and Knowledge, Raven.
— She tells Yang in V5 to keep asking questions, to question everything about Ozpin, etc.
— She clearly knows what happened to Summer Rose and the previous Spring Maiden, and that knowledge has made her fearful as all heck, forcing her to go into hiding.
Then you have our Winter Maidens and Creation, Penny and Winter.
— Penny is literally created 3 times. Twice in robot form/s, then lastly as a human. She is a Creation™ and also embodies the theme of spring/creation most. i.e. youthful, naive, etc
— The obvious Winter comparison is the Scheme family semblance of summoning. She also sees Penny transference of the Maiden power as a gift, which I see as also kind of aligning w/ 'creation'. Kinda pulling at straws there, but I'm sure there's something I'm missing fsdf
Then we have Summer and Destruction, ????
— while we don't know who the Summer Maiden is, I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to be connected to destruction in some form, whether they do some destruction in their past and that has made them fearful of their powers or something along those lines, or that they will be destructive in the future volume, whenever it is released.
I am so excited for V10 and Vacuo, etc and really hope RWBY Beyond helps quell my anxiety and anguish that it may be the last RWBY content we get for some time 🥲
Read your post on the relics and I did not pay any attention to the chains until you brought it up.
I remember seeing a theory that the sword will essentially be Excalibur and the spirit inside will essentially be the lady of the lake. Her name in Arthurian lore is either Vivian or Nimue.
Also have you noticed that the environments in the vaults is the season AFTER the corresponding maiden’s? The spring maiden’s vault had a hot desert (summer) and the winter maiden’s vault had a grassy field (spring). Which if the sword does turn out to be Excalibur, then the summer maiden’s vault might end up looking like a pond surrounded by trees with red-orange-yellow leaves.
Then imagine if the fall maiden’s vault looks like a snowy forest, just like Ruby was walking through in the red trailer.
kinda of two minds on the sword-as-excalibur thing because, while it does seem like the obvious pull and it is where i landed when i first started mulling over the sword and the crown for the purposes of fanfic (which is something of a complicating factor here, in that i have a pair of full-blown OCs and i gotta be real clear to myself on the distinction between "this is lore i assembled out of canonical crumbs to suit my fanfic" and "this is a theory i have about what's going on in canon," particularly when the two overlap significantly, which in this case they do)… well, rwby doesn't often go for the obvious pull. and jinn isn't an allusion to arthurian myth, so there's not exactly a pattern here, ya know?
the thread of imprisonment linking the genie in the lamp to merlin in the tree might be a pattern, or a coincidence, but as far as speculation goes i think “mythical characters for whom being trapped is a notable theme/event” is probably a category worth taking into consideration.
(for what it’s worth: the pulls i made for the aforementioned OCs were loki [sword] and prometheus [crown], and while obviously constructing OCs is a WHOLE other ballgame, on the most basic level of possible allusions they do check the “imprisonment” box and hold water if refracted through the lens of “spirit of destruction/choice,” so it’s like. i wouldn’t be SURPRISED? if rwby also went there. prometheus in particular feels like a solid candidate for the spirit for the crown because, well. something about choice and stealing fire from gods. and cinder lmfao.)
and oh ho ho i have a... theory? a thought ? about the interiors of the vaults. because it's, well, arbitrary. the maidens all have the same pool of general elemental powers. likewise the relics don't just lack any clear reason for their associations with the season of their respective maiden— they strike me as deliberately flouting the associations you might expect them to have based on the common cultural associations the four seasons have. like:
spring - the planting, the world thawing after winter = creation summer - a time of growth, freedom, maturation = choice fall - harvest time, preparation for winter = knowledge winter - cold, dark, symbolically everything 'dies' = destruction.
yeah? and where it gets even weirder is that the symbolic 'lesson' of each sister/season in the canonical fairytale describing the origins of the maidens themselves also fits much more naturally into the spring-creation, summer-choice, fall-knowledge, and winter-destruction schema:
spring plants a garden and teaches the hermit to tend to it; "life returned to the tired hermit and the forest, which flourished and became green and lush." creation, right?
summer dances and teases and invites the hermit out of his shell, reminding him of the possibility of joy and freedom. he learns not to limit himself to passive observance of the world and to instead takes an active part in it. that's choice!
fall advises the hermit to let go of his misconceptions about himself and his life and see himself clearly at last; he "realized that Fall was right" and eventually achieved a fuller understanding of himself. knowledge!
and winter—who arrived first, encountering the hermit at the height of his isolation, taught him to reflect and meditate until he found serenity and a renewed sense of purpose—in a sense, transforming his metaphorical 'death' into a period of rest or hibernation until his frozen solitude began to thaw. destruction, before the creative energy of spring entered his life.
and yet:
spring maiden = the maiden of knowledge summer maiden = maiden of destruction fall maiden = maiden of choice winter maiden = maiden of creation
why?
(the important thing to keep in mind here, i think, is that rwby has never presented these associations as a natural or intrinsic quality. the maiden-season-relic connection only exists, in-universe, because ozma set it up that way.)
now consider that—as you said—the two vaults we've gotten a look at so far don't line up with the seasons they're 'supposed' to have, with winter's vault [creation] being lush and green inside and spring's vault [knowledge] being a barren desert. so we've got this winter->spring, spring->summer pattern going on, and if that holds we should expect summer's vault [destruction] to be evocative of autumn and fall's vault [choice] to be evocative of winter.
BUT. i think—because of the arbitrariness of the seasonal associations in and of themselves, and because those associations are explicitly a social construct, and because if we follow the seasonal associations the plot has gone fall->spring->winter->summer and that’s um, not right, and i think it’s deliberately not right—there may be something different entirely going on.
namely, the relics exist in two different sets of pairs. right? we've got destruction+knowledge and creation+choice—the pairs given to humanity by the two brother gods. and we've (maybe) also got creation+knowledge and destruction+choice—the complementary power pairs, with the lamp able to eliminate (or at least mitigate) the risks of using the staff and (maybe) the crown and the sword being similar. [the world of remnant episode pertaining to the great war makes a heavy visual implication that ozma used the crown of choice in tandem with the sword of destruction, is where i'm getting that.]
moreover, the four relics symbolically [and perhaps literally] represent the four essential qualities that, together, define what humanity IS: creation AND destruction AND knowledge AND choice.
not four individual, separate magical artifacts. it's a set. we know there's a way to combine them into one thing that will summon the brothers back to remnant, and with the limited information we have now about how they work mechanically it seems very much like they are intended to be used together.
so: the vault with the lamp of knowledge inside it. what does it look like, on the inside? a desert.
knowledge was one of the gifts given to humanity by the god of darkness; the other was destruction. and where is the sword of destruction locked away? the desert of vacuo.
likewise, the staff of creation? hidden in a vault filled with green, grassy meadows. very much like the landscape of vale. where the crown of choice is hidden—and if i'm right about precisely where the crown's vault is hidden, namely the circular ruins where beacon academy's initiation is conducted, the crown is in fact hidden directly under a large, grassy meadow!
further: the vault doors we've seen echo the color scheme of the relics they protect. removing a relic from the vault destroys the doors, which to me suggests that the relics themselves might be the 'anchor' that sustains the vaults themselves—we don't really know enough about how magic works mechanically to say for sure that an 'anchor' is truly necessary, but cinder's use of the staff in v8 demonstrated that if you directly use a relic to create a portal to another realm, you cannot then destroy those portals until the relic has been removed from the 'interior' realm. the vaults were created by some other means, but the same basic principle of linking the existence of the vault to the presence of the relic inside it could very well still apply.
aaand if the vaults are materially connected to the relics in some way—if the presence of the relics in the vaults is somehow providing the energy necessary to maintain them, like plugging in some kind of magical battery?—then... it's not that much of a leap to wonder if maybe the vault interiors symbolically reflect, or are influenced by, the location of that relic's missing pair.
especially in light of the fact that: 1. the nature of the spirits inside the relics is very humanlike, with both jinn and ambrosius clearly being emotional, fully sapient beings, and 2. it rains in the ever after when ruby starts to cry.
[my secondary theory here is that—well. the god of light says explicitly that modern humans do not have the divine blessings given to their predecessors, and while mechanically that seems to mean "they don't have magic," metaphysically it's not... entirely implausible that for ancient humans, "creation, destruction, knowledge, and choice" weren't abstract capabilities but rather actual. literal gifts, something that materially, measurably existed in the human soul, were the source of magical abilities, and were taken away when the gods left. (consider the four larger orbs of energy salem conjures when she's fidgeting with her magic at the beginning of lost fable, which are conspicuously missing when her daughter does the same trick later on.)
ozpin's explanation of the maidens is that he "divided his magic" somehow and his "remaining" magic is now dwindling, but the thing about that is magical power doesn't really... seem to be a limited resource in the way that aura is? we've yet to see anyone with magic 'run out' like people run out of aura. even ozpin seems to be fairly cavalier in his usage of magic—he's cautious of giving it away, and it's not the first thing he turns to in a fight, but he's never hesitated to make full use of his own power when the situation calls for it.
i've been thinking that maybe?? what he actually did with the maidens was give them each one of the divine blessings. like literally, removed the Quantifiable Gift Of Creation from his own soul and gave it to winter, and so on, leaving himself with the metaphysical capacity for these qualities—because that can't be taken away, just as the gods couldn't truly obliterate humankind—but giving up the limitless energy source of the blessings themselves; ergo, his magic is 'dwindling' in the sense that he has to use aura to fuel it now.
this does leave the question of how the hell he gave the branwens shapeshifting abilities, but considering salem seems to have given cinder the ability to control grimm long before she got the maiden powers... maybe folks with magical abilities can just do that? share specific skills? and what makes the maidens so uniquely powerful is that they didn't get specific skills, they got the power source.
anyway all that to say i do wonder if maybe 'seasons' are just an arbitrary smokescreen ozma fabricated and the maidens are literally rather than symbolically the maidens of choice, creation, knowledge, and destruction, with the relic vaults each being linked to the maiden with the matching blessing.]
#cant believe i hadnt read this post before#also posting rambling theories in the tags bc i dont wanna seem too obsessed...#BUT#there is no other candidate better for the Summer Maiden than Starr Sanzang#besides her 'uncanny sense for the weather' we also have her character allusion Tang Sanzang#guy was literally reincarnated from golden cicada—the second disciple of Buddha#this also made demons think that if they ate his flesh they would achieve immortality/great power#now while that feels more in line w/ ozma's reincarnation process i can see RWBY making that connection to the Maidens vis-a-vis Starr#PLUS (now this is also more V10 speculation) Tang Sanzang also gets kidnapped by a Scorpion demon in one chapter#and Tyrian has a thing for chaos and destruction#plus you've also got the circlet that Sanzang gives Wukong to control him/keep him in line#now hear me out... the twins wear diadems which are kind of circlets + Jax's mind control sembalnce...#Starr Sanzang is my Pepe Silvia and makes me sound like a raving madwoman but that is who i am fsdf#also side note#vacuo (post CFVY novels) is so arthurian coded its not funny fsdf#twins are arthur and morgan respectively#freaking carmine and bertilak are based of arthurian knights#jax and gill's 'lineage' to the 'great ancient ruler of vacuo' fsdf#i am seated and waiting crwby#also apologies again for the mad rambling. bye now fsdf
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People seriously think Bertilak is one of Salem's minions?
He's just some racist thug who wants to sell people to make money.
How hard is that to understand?
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RWBY Evermorrow Ep.7 Director's Commentary (or something)
The newscast segment was a late addition, we decided it was best to move a scene to a later episode for a better sense of narrative. I even already animated that whole scene so we don't need to worry about it!
We were gonna use Lisa Lavender here, but decided it was better to use Cyril due to availability of existing cast members as the scene was kind of last minute. We see it as Cyril being the guy in the studio, and Lisa being the reporter in the field.
Khaki's prison number is funny if you can decipher it.
Originally this episode was a big ol scene of RWBYCRDL recounting the mission to Oz and Glynda, then the punishments being dished out, but I was having such a dull time writing it that we decided it was best to cut the recap of the immediate previous episode and hope the teams' reactions did the work. I think it was for the best, a glorified recap episode seems like it would've been a waste of production; if it wasn't fun to write it wouldn't have been fun to watch.
It was a good time to bring in Glynda as she's always been Beacon's voice of reason around Oz's more whimsical tendencies. She's to-the-point and will make no excuses, which sells the teams being reprimanded more. Plus the added questioning of what exactly Ozpin is saying to Cardin offscreen is an interesting question in the viewer's mind.
(Also our Ozpin VA was kinda unavailable but for a very good reason lol)
Let's talk Dove. You've probably noticed he's very much the reasonable one on EM CRDL at this point, which is very intentional as going in I wanted to make them more interesting than Cardin and the Cardins. CRWBY once said Dove was the most skilled of CRDL, which is an interesting angle, and Doves are a symbol of peace which inspired me to make him the """nicer""" one, albeit a bit embittered by his lot in life. This episode has a montage of the moments in ep5-6 that really lay it all out that he's a little better than the others on his team, which is why Ruby vouched for him.
There was going to be a decent focus on family in this episode, but eventually we whittled it down to just Russel's and Dove's. Being like "oh and here's a character's parent being funny and mad" worked twice, but three to eight times might have gotten old lmao
Why did I pick Bertilak for Russel's guardian? Green. Mohawk. Moody. Not a big Faunus fan.
Okay so that's only part of it. Russel has been consistently portrayed as a bit of a doormat in EM, following Cardin's orders or deferring to the next biggest fish if he's not around. His actions around Bertilak imply that the latter is the source of all that behaviour.
Dove offers Ruby an "Olive Branch". I don't know if I can get more unsubtle than this.
Don't ship them they literally feel nothing about each other. That's canon.
Why did I pick Shopkeep for Dove's grandpa? Closed eyes, and Shopkeep is everywhere. That's literally the joke.
Pyke Rite from The Grimm Campaign.
There were a few characters I really wanted to get involved sooner. Can you believe it took us till Ep7 for Ren or Nora to say anything? It felt good to have all of JNPR and OP(A)L fully animated in the same scene, and was fun to set up dynamics like Oscar being a fanboy, Alyx being a little shit and the two teams generally getting along.
In comparison to 6 this episode was a lot calmer and a lot more talk-y, but hopefully we managed to make it fun. The animators and VAs did amazing as always (the former has basically eclipsed my efforts at this point), and I'm looking forward to ep8 very much! Bigger and better!
If you have extra questions about this ep you can shoot me an ask, I'm always down to self-indulge lmao
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This was it. For decades Jaune had longed for this moment, the time he would finally leave the Ever After and return home.
It honestly seemed sureal. Every now and then, Jaune feared he would awaken and be back in his cabin, ready to start a new day of keeping the Paper Pleasers safe and failing to find a way back to Remnant.
But no such soul crushing reality came.
He... he was really going home.
Jaune watched as team RWBY stepped through the portal and made to follow them until the voice of the Blacksmith stopped him.
"One last thing, Knight." Jaune turned as the Blacksmith came towards him, her larger form towering over him, but not in a form of intimidation.
"The Tree watched over you, saw what you did, how you put your own life at risk to save the Afterans. Such nobility, such heroism." Despite the Blacksmith's encouraging words, Jaune only frowned in disagreement.
"Nobility? Heroism? No. I was selfish, I forced the Paper Pleasers to live in such frail bodies. I played the hero just for the rush, the feeling of being the hero because I could never be one back home." Jaune was no hero. He was, and always will be a fraud.
The Blacksmith only shook her head. "You thought you were saving the Paper Pleasers because you come from a world where death is the end with no new beginning. You became a hero because that's what the Afterans needed. For all you've done, the Tree has decided to repay you."
Now Jaune was confused. "What do you mean "repay me"? I already have my youth back and I'm going home. What more could I need?"
"The gift of youth was from Alyx. The Tree has her own gift for you, she sees potential within you. The same potential your partner saw. Untapped power."
Jaune nearly choked. "Pyrrha?" What was she talking about? What did Pyrrha see in him? What untapped power?
"This gift will be given to you when the time is right. The unlocking of your true potential."
Now Jaune was baffled, but figured it was another Ever After strangeness he had come to expect. With a grateful nod, Jaune bid farewell and left through the portal.
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Jaune gritted his teeth as his shield took the brunt of Cinder's fireball, the force of the blast pushing him back a few feet but he remained standing.
Damnit, this was bad! He and Winter were on patrol in Vacuo, having received a mission about a few bandits attacking a settlement. That's where they met Carmine and Bertilak, a pair of veteran hunters and members of The Crown.
The Huntsman and Winter Maiden then found themselves ambushed by a new ally to the Crown, Cinder.
Winter was currently occupied with fighting off the veteran hunters, their combined skills and coordination giving the magic wielder a challenge, leaving Juane to fight Cinder alone.
Cinder smirked smugly, fire dancing in the palm of her hand, though she also had a twinge of respect in her eye. "I must admit, you certainly have gotten stronger, a better warrior altogether in such a short time. But it's still nothing compared to the power of a Maiden." Cinder then aimed her hand at Jaune and shot forward a wave of fire, completely engulfing Jaune.
Jaune put his shield up for protection but the fire came over him like water, simply crawling over the shield and directly into him. He felt the intense heat all over, his Aura working overtime to try and keep him safe but even his Aura had limits. His vision was becoming blurry, black spots clouding his eyes and he felt his body losing strength.
This was it. He was going to die. At the hands of Cinder no less.
It was a shame, he never got to avenge Pyrrha or Penny's deaths. Now he could at least join them in the after life.
But a voice called to him, one he never expected to hear again.
"This gift will be given to you when the time is right. The unlocking of your true potential."
And then Jaune saw a bright, blinding light.
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Cinder felt satisfaction killing the annoying knight. He had been a bigger thorn in her side then she ever thought he'd be. Especially when he denied her the Winter Maiden powers, but she'd have that power soon anyway.
Though she did feel a little disappointed, he didn't even give an scream of anguish in his final, fiery moments. Maybe she shouldn't have done it too hot, it completely evaporated him before he could even feel any pain.
Cinder's eye then widened in pure shock as a golden pillar of pure aura came from the flames, where the fraud stood in the blaze of heat.
Cinder was too focused on the sight, not noticing how the Schnee, Carmine and her partner also stopped in the middle of their fight to see the light.
Her fire vanished yet the pillar remained and a silhouette stood in the centre. The light then disappeared and the silhouette became clear.
It was a tall, and powerful looking Knight with rusty armour, complete with a helmet that showed only two glowing blue eyes in the darkness of the visor.
Cinder stood in disbelief. What... what was this? Was this the fool? What was that light?! What was this?!
The Knight, with Aura practically flowing out from his body, took a step forward and readied himself for a fight.
Cinder growled in frustrated rage. Why wouldn't this idiot just die?!
"Come on." Cinder used her magic to hover in the air before shooting at the Knight like a javelin. "What now?!" She screamed and shot her hand forward, directly into the helmet as a fireball formed, exploding on impact. The explosion was powerful enough to send dust, rocks and debris flying away, even the other combatants were pushed back slightly.
When the smoke cleared, Cinder expected to see a smoldering, melted mesh of metal and flesh but her heart dropped when the smoke parted, revealing the fraud to still be standing without so much as a scratch!
Cinder looked up and saw the blue glowing eyes glaring down at her, making her feel like the weak, helpless child she once was all those years ago.
Before Cinder realised what was going on, Jaune pulled back his fist and delivered a devastating haymaker right to Cinder's cheek!
The blow sent Cinder to the sandy ground, the force behind the punch made her bounce up only inches from the sand the before falling to the ground again. Cinder lay there dazed as her head shook, her eyes came unfocused and her ears rung, her disoriented mind needing a second to register the pain, only then did she also taste the bitter iron taste of blood in her mouth.
Jaune looked at his own hand, seeing the familiar rusted armour now in place. He could feel strength unlike anything he felt before coursing through his body, through his skin, his muscles, his veins and bones. He also saw what looked like gold vapor coming from all around his form. Was that his Aura, was it literally pouring out of him?
"Huh. Thanks, Tree. That gift came in handy, and not a moment too soon." Jaune clenched his fist again as he finished admiring himself before focusing on Cinder again. His determination saphire eyes meeting her bewildered and angry fiery eyes.
"Alright. Now the real fight starts." Jaune, the Rusted Knight said and launched himself at Cinder.
#rwby#jaune arc#cinder fall#winter schnee#inspired by orange piccolo scene#Rusted Knight#blacksmith#rwby blacksmith
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Personally, my opinion on Evermorrow is they seem to respect the original work, and there are interesting ideas there, so I'll let it cook despite not agreeing with all the ingredients. Granted I have a high tolerance so long as nobody's vindictive, and I see enough people claiming nobody consumed the supplemental stuff, yet here's Evermorrow with an opening from Arrowfell, a Bertilak & Pyke Rite cameo(?), and a reference to rwby x JL 2.
I saw enough to feel like it isn't for me but I'm not trying to deliberately trash it.
For myself, I'm not big on re-inventing the wheel.
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So as you all have probably seen by now, in the other day during the RWBY Roundtable, CRWBY have mentioned that there is gonna be over 100 characters (!) in volume 10. Therefore, I have decided to list all the characters by how likely they are to appear here based on their appearances in the books or otherwise guessing.
Definitely: Arlsan Altan, Blake Belladonna, Bolin Hori, Cinder Fall, Coco Adel, Dew Gayl, Elm Ederne, Emerald Sustrai, Fiona Thyme, Fox Alistair, Gwen Darcy, Harriet Bree, Jaune Arc, Joanna Greenleaf, Klein Sieben, Lie Ren, Maria Calavera, Marrow Amin, May Marigold, Mercury Black, Nadir Shiko, Nebula Violette, Neptune Vasilias, Nolan Porifino, Nora Valkyrie, Octavia Ember, Oscar Pine, Ozpin, Pietro Polendina, Qrow Branwen, Reese Chloris, Robyn Hill, Ruby Rose, Sage Anaya, Salem, Scarlet David, Sun Wukong, Theodore, Tyrian Callows, Velvet Scarletina, Weiss Schnee, Whitley Schnee, Willow Schnee, Winter Schnee, Xanthe Rumpole, Yang Xiao Long, Yatsuhashi Daichi
Possible: Ambrosius, Argento Pocoron, August Caspian, Bertilak Celadon, Bianca Prisma, Camilla, Carmine Escalados, Ciel Soleil, Curious Cat, Edward Caspain, Flynt Coal, Ghira Belladonna, Gillian Austrias, "Green", Henry Marigold, Ilia Amitola, Ivori, Ivy Thickety, Jabberwalker, Jinn, Kali Belladonna, King of Vale, Kobalt, Little, Neon Katt, Neopolitan, Olive Gashley, Penny Polendina (Yep still got my clown shoes on here), Raven Branwen, Roane Ashwood, Rosa Schewin, Ruda Tilleroot, Slate, Summer Rose, Taiyang Xiao Long, Umber Gorgoneion, Zwei
Unlikely: Adam Taurus, Adrian Cotta-Arc, Amber, Amonico Glass, An Ren, Arrastra Skye, Arthur Watts, Asher Mora, Atlas Pilot, Bartholomew Oobleck, Bram Thornmane, Brawnz Ni, Captain, Cardin Winchester, Carmel Vanille, Caroline Cordovin, Clover Ebi, Corsac Albain, Dee, Deery, Dove Bronzewing, Dudley, Fenix Nemean, Fennec Albain, First Mate, Forest, Fria, Glynda Goodwitch, God of Darkness, God of Light, Hanlon Fifestone, Hazel Rainart, Higanbana Waitress, Jacques Schnee, James Ironwood, Jax Austrias, Jimmy Vanille, Junior Xiong, Leonardo Lionheart, Li Ren, Lil Miss Malachite, Lisa Lavender, Mata, May Zedong, Melanie Malachite, Merlot, Miltia Malachite, Nicholas Schnee, Nubuck Guards, Olive Harper, Perry, Peter Port, Pyke Rite, Pyrrha Nikos, Rhodes, Roman Torchwick, Roy Stallion, Russel Thrush, Saber Rodentia, Saphron Cotta-Arc, Shay D Mann, Shion Zaiden, Shopkeep, Sienna Khan, Sky Lark, Sleet, The Hound, Tock, Trifa, Tukson, Vernal, Vine Zeki, White Fang Lieutenant, Yuma
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Pondering the status of RWBY Villains
Second verse, same as the first, but with our villains. Where are they? What're their status? Is it something to be concerned about?
Again, spoilers under the cut.
Alive/Active:
Salem: Still active as always, as she'll ever be. Last seen fleeing the smoldering remains of Atlas alongside Cinder Fall, Staff and Lamp in hand. No doubt she has plans for Vacuo, but what are they?
Cinder Fall: Active. Last seen in triumph in Volume 8, having gotten both Staff and Lamp and supposedly killed her competition. And having lied to Salem successfully. Shrouded in mystery, her future is.
Emerald Sustrai: Alive, defected to the heroes side in Volume 8.
Neo Politan: Alive, let go of her revenge plans against Ruby and is currently reinventing herself in the grasp of the Tree in the Ever After circa Volume 9.
Mercury Black: Alive, but in doubt over his place in the grand scheme of things as of Volume 8. An uncertain fate awaits the young man.
Tyrian Callows: Alive. Still. And laughing mad about it. Last seen headed for Vacuo. Will the scorpion taste his own sting and die from it?
Bertilak Celadon: Alive, presumably. One of the primary antagonists of Before the Dawn. Convinced to swap sides as his partner Carmine attempted to kill him. He decided to try hunting her down.
Carmine Escalados: One of the antagonists in both Before the Dawn and After the Fall. Last seen during a massive explosion in The Crown's hideout. Presumed alive, since Bertilak is convinced of her survival.
Jax Asturias: Co-leader of The Crown from Before the Dawn. Lobotimized, vegetative, but alive.
Gillian Asturias: Other co-leader of The Crown. Currently incarcerated alongside the rest of the conspirators, but alive.
Lil Miss Malachite: Still living. Still kingpin of Mistral, presumably.
Carolin Cordovin: Stopped during Volume 6, presumably still alive and on the side of the angels.
Ace Op Harriet, Marrow, and Elm: Three remaining Ace Operatives, Marrow confirmed defected to the good side. Harriet and Elm presumably saw the light too when Vine sacrificed himself.
Corsac Albain: Alive. Last seen being detained and imprisoned after failed assassination attempt on the Belladonna's in Volume 4.
The Dead (Warning, LONG):
Roman Torchwick: Deader than dead. Ate by a Grimm in Volume 3, blew up, resurfaced in RWBY Chibi in Volume 9 as an illusion cast by Neo. Stars in the prequel novel Roman Holiday alongside Neo.
Neo's parents: Both dead via their house exploding.
Beatrix Browning: Spymaster in Vale, trained Neo and other girls. Dead via explosion.
Hei Xiong: Dead. House explosion.
Arthur Watts: Dead. Killed either by flame or smoke inhalation, and if that didn't do it then crushed during Atlas' fall.
Adam Taurus: Definitely Dead. Stabbed twice by Blake and Yang during epic duel in Volume 6, fell off a cliff hitting every rock along the way into freezing cold water.
Hazel Reinhart: Defected in Volume 8, fought Salem off, burned himself to death and died presumably from that or point blank magic explosion.
Tock: Dead via Maria's blades.
Jacques Schnee: Dead via Ironwood gunning him down in V8 after being imprisoned in V7.
Clover Ebi: Dead via Harbinger through his gut via Tyrian circa V8.
Ace Op Vine: Redeemed himself via saving everyone from Ironwood's nuke in V8.
Rhodes: Dead via Cinder.
Cinder's evil stepmother and sisters: Dead via Cinder.
Chainsaw dude/Banesaw: Presumed dead during Mountain Glenn.
Leonardo Lionhart: Grisly death via multiple stab wounds via Seer Grimm in V5.
Fennec Albain: Death via entire balcony and then explosion from overloaded weapons.
Grimm:
Kevin the massive Grimm Wyvern: Frozen atop Beacon tower, still attracting Grimm as of After the Fall.
The Hound: Dead via Silver Eye blast and a statue falling ontop of it during V8.
Alpha Centapeedle: Killed via Ruby and Blake in V8.
The Queen Lancer: Dead via Knight summon from Weiss in V5.
The Apathy: Killed with fire and silver eye blast in V6.
The Leviathan: Killed via silver eye blast and giant drill in V6.
Monstra: Dead via point blank magic blast in V8.
Beringel: Killed via Ruby in V4 short.
Arma Gigas: Killed by Weiss in White Trailer.
Nightmare: Killed by everyone on Team RWBY as of Ice Queendom. Or at least sealed away by Shion.
Various Geists: 1 major kill via Team RNJR in V4, other via Ace Ops in V7.
The Nuckelavee: Killed by team RNJR in V4.
Sea Feilong: Killed by Blake, Sun, and a sea captain's massive ship cannon in V4.
The Chimera: Killed alongside its army of Manticores in V6.
Massive Army of Grimm (Megalioths, Sabyrs, Pteranadons): Killed via Atlas, Mantle, Team RWBY, and Ozpin magic blast.
Deathstalker and Nevermore: Killed during V1 initiation
King Taijitu: Killed via Ren during V1 initiation
One headed Taijitu: Killed during the Breach in Volume 2.
Unknown:
Bram Thornmane: Antagonist of Arrowfell. Status unknown after Atlas fell.
Dr. Merlot: Status unknown after his laboratory blew up. Secret ending/all artifacts ending of Grimm Eclipse point to him living.
Xiong Junior: Bouncer at club during Yellow trailer and volume 2. Status unknown. Last seen alive during volume 2.
Miltia and Melanie Malachite: Ditto with Junior. Background antagonists of Roman Holiday, Yellow Trailer. Last seen in Volume 2.
#reblog#rwby#rwby spoilers#pondering the fate of villains#this one is longer#if I forgot any please let me know
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Her audience to the complete story of her perspective on what happened in the Ever After would be the main members of the Remnant Alliance: Team JNR plus Oscar/Ozpin and Emerald, Team _TRQ, Zwei, the Ace-Ops, the Happy Huntresses, Winter, Team SSSNN, Team CFVY, Team ABRN, Iris, Whitley, Willow, Klein, Maria, Pietro, Ghira, Kali, Ilia, Oobleck, Port, Glynda, Theodore, and Rumpole.
“I metaphorically died”, I think, is immensely sugarcoating it. What happened was more along the lines of, “Neo handed me poison tea intended to wipe me from existence, and I was so full of suicidally depressed self-hatred that I drank it and killed myself.”
This is the only way anyone will believe them let’s be fr
#rwby#rwby volume 10#greenlight volume 10#team rwby#team jnr#oscar pine#professor ozpin#emerald sustrai#team strq#zwei#ace ops#happy huntresses#winter schnee#team sssnn#team cfvy#whitley schnee#willow schnee#klein sieben#maria calavera#pietro polendina#ghira belladonna#kali belladonna#ilia amitola#bartholomew oobleck#peter port#glynda goodwitch#professor theodore#xanthe rumpole
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anyway new RWBY s/i is based off of Lord Bertilak from the Green Knight
#🧤 through the void || ooc#ive been looking shit up and trying to find actual knight stories and all google was giving me was this and honestly im here for this#yeah sir gawain kiss him with much enthusiasm#the him is my s/i and sir gawain is ozma#brrrrrr
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RWBY Volume 10-onwards new voice actor predictions: rest of Ruby’s Solidarity
Lauren Landa as Carmella Lindt (not the character’s official name)
Laila Berzins as Starr Sanzang
Sam Riegel as Finn Asturias (Vacuo citizen)
Melissa Fahn as Lily (Vacuo citizen)
Reba Buhr as Lily’s younger sister (Vacuo citizen)
Bryan Massey as Bertilak Celadon
Paul St. Peter as Edward Caspian (Vacuo citizen)
Ryan Mitchum as August Caspian (Vacuo citizen)
Dorothy Fahn as Slate (Vacuo citizen)
Greg Chun as Green (Vacuo citizen)
Kimberly Woods as Olive Gashley (Shade Academy student)
Ryan Bartley as Arslan Altan
Aleks Le as Nadir Shiko
Alfred Coleman as Merchant
Chris Kokkinos as Spider Bodyguard 2
Brian Beacock as Roch Szalt (Vale Huntsman)
Cassandra Lee Morris as Kandi Floss (Vale Huntress)
#rwby#greenlight volume 10#viz media#monty oum#miles luna#kerry shawcross#eddy rivas#kiersi burkhart#ruby’s faction#carmella lindt#hop on spots#starr sanzang#finn asturias#lily and her younger sister#bertilak celadon#edward caspian#august caspian#rwby slate#rwby green#olive gashley#arslan altan#nadir shiko#team abrn#rwby merchant#rwby arrowfell#rwby spider#roch szalt#kandi floss#rwby voice actors
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How big is the crown group? do they have like a dozen members or hundreds?
The Crown is the biggest organisation in Vacuo, and to get away with just how much trafficking and kidnappings they do, they need the forces. We may only see Carmine, Teumessian and Bertilak, but there's hundreds of agents that help their work; whether it's the heavy labour, the scouting, the spies, they're all needed to make the Crown work.
And it is expensive. Merlot pays them by using fences to hawk off the things the victims have.
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as the resident salem crank i gotta say i like that she’s straight up not involved with anything that happens in the CFVY novels (unless we’re counting the very interesting things bertilak has to say about ozpin as an implication of some history with the inner circle, which is juicy; if anyone in those books is spying for salem, it’s him).
the fandom kinda takes at face value the idea that salem is (or must be) the secret mastermind behind All The Bad Things Ever, but that is… boring, and also presumes that salem is nigh on omniscient and omnipotent, which… she isn’t. ozpin’s paranoia isn’t fact.
so the CFVY novels are a neat opportunity to, for lack of a better phrasing, take the ozpin-vision goggles off. he thinks salem pulls every string to make the whole world dance to her tune, and he passes that perception down to everyone who gets looped in to the conspiracy. is he right? is this accurate? well, no. theodore is so preoccupied with the distant threat of salem that he straight up ignores the crown until the eleventh hour; it’s got nothing to do with her, therefore it’s not a real threat as far as he’s concerned, and that way of thinking lets the asturias twins swan their army right to the walls of shade academy completely uncontested.
which realizes an important thematic idea that rwby has been building for several volumes now: salem is just a person. one person. she is not the source of all evil in the hearts of men. the world is more complicated than that, and you can’t fix anything by pretending otherwise. at best you’ll just be letting problems smolder until they blow up in your face; at worst, you end up like ironwood.
and if the CFVY novels are any indication, vacuo is when that theme comes due. the coalition is obviously expecting her to roll in with another massive army to attack vacuo like she did atlas, and salem is almost definitely not going to do that. ’cause she’s ripping beacon apart in search of the crown. what happens if the great evil takes a rain check on humanity’s last stand? how do you handle all these very complicated problems in the absence of a simple answer? etc.
i’d actually be interested to hear your thinking here in regard to the treatment of coco/velvet in the novels, if you’d care to share. mainly because i came away from the books with the opposite impression. is it just that they aren’t portrayed as already dating, contra chibi?
’cause like, chibi isn’t canon, it’s a “and nothing bad happens ever” fluff au meant for Silly Goofs, but the goofs are all done with foreknowledge of where the real story is headed. coco and velvet are side characters; going “yup, these two are gonna date” well in advance of that actually happening in canon is not a huge deal.
and… when your story’s flagship romantic pairing is a slow-burn between two of the female leads spanning nine volumes over the course of a decade? a super low-stakes spoiler confirming that a couple of side characters are also sapphic is a way to offer some reassurance that the sapphic narratives aren’t just bait—here’s a fluffy “what if these two started dating at beacon and nothing bad ever happened?” au in the Silly Goofs spinoff.
(a cfvyshop au, if you will.)
whereas the sense i get from the CFVY novels is that coco and velvet are slated to fall in love in vacuo, with a core purpose of the books being to flesh them out both as individual characters and eventual romantic partners—a way to give this fairly inconsequential side pairing the same serious, emotionally-compelling and thematically-motivated narrative treatment given to the romantic arcs involving the core cast.
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the CFVY novels make it expressly clear that coco is a lesbian—she thinks glynda is hot, velvet recalls her “breaking performance records and breaking girls’ hearts” at pharos academy, coco briefly considers partnering with another girl because she’s “cute.” velvet’s sexuality is not confirmed, but, uh:
If she had had a choice—which she apparently didn’t—she would have chosen Coco Adel. They’d both come to Beacon from Pharos Combat School, so Velvet knew her … sort of. Coco probably had no idea who Velvet was, but Velvet knew all about her. Coco had been popular at their school, breaking performance records—and breaking girls’ hearts. Even from twenty feet away, Velvet could see Coco was falling with style. It wasn’t only because of the shades, but because of her whole form. She wasn’t slowly tumbling in the air like most of their classmates—she had her feet pointed toward the ground, as if she expected to just land like a cat. As far as Velvet knew, Coco wasn’t hiding cat ears under that beret, though. One hand was keeping the hat on her head, the other was at her waist holding on to her purse. And Coco was smiling. Anyone who could look completely confident and happy while plummeting to the ground at thirty-two feet per second was someone you wanted on your side.
girl.
so like right out of the gate, we learn:
coco likes girls and is supremely confident in her sexuality, and
velvet may or may not be aware that she likes girls, but when the headmaster yeets her off a cliff she sees coco and is like “omg it’s the hot popular lesbian from my high school! i wish we could be partners. she probably doesn’t even know who i am, though. wow look at her go, she’s so stylish and confident, i wonder if she’s a faunus like me–” GIRL. THE GROUND??
from here, the book establishes that while coco is outwardly flirtatious and charming, that’s… sort of a front. she struggles to form deeper, more meaningful bonds with people because showing any vulnerability makes her intensely uncomfortable. she doesn’t feel secure in her position as team leader, so she tries to compensate by adopting a my-way-or-the-highway attitude that just fosters resentment and feeds her growing lack of confidence in her own leadership.
meanwhile velvet is a vibrating ball of social anxiety with no self esteem. she’s brilliant and powerful but the nature of her semblance and what she’s chosen to do with it makes her look like the team’s weak link, and in after the fall, she spends quite a lot of time feeling that way and desperately trying to prove to her teammates that she doesn’t need to be carried. (and coco is overly protective of velvet—fox even thinks in one scene that he can’t tell coco that velvet is out in the desert, or else coco will drop everything and rush to cover her instead of staying put to defend a vulnerable settlement from grimm.)
so while coco’s foibles irritate fox and tries yatsu’s patience too, velvet takes it a lot harder and the central emotional conflict of the book is about coco and velvet figuring out how to resolve what seems like an irreconcilable difference.
(which… is very much how rwby Does Romance. every canonical pairing in this story faces a serious, nigh-insurmountable emotional obstacle that they have to clear together before they can be together. the bees have got blake running away vs yang’s abandonment issues, for example.)
the way this central emotional conflict gets resolved is: in a tense moment, velvet finally outright tells coco that she never wanted to come to vacuo at all but felt like she had no choice but to go along because her team brushed off her concerns. and coco listens to her, and answers with the humility and emotional honesty velvet really needs from her (that coco did what was best for herself, not the team, because she was scared she’d get them all killed if they stayed)… and then the blind worm that’s been hunting them resurfaces, and coco grabs velvet and throws her to safety—sacrificing her life to keep velvet safe—whereupon velvet chops the grimm IN HALF to save coco. like,
Then the worm flooded with a bluish light as a glowing line sliced through the worm, only two inches away from Coco’s face. As it passed, she realized it was a replica of Brawnz Ni’s claw weapons. She stumbled backward as the weapon faded. A beam of sunlight appeared on the ceiling and spread quickly down the curved walls and along the floor, widening as the tough skin and flesh and sinew separated—as Velvet pulled them apart. She had hacked and slashed all around the creature and then let it pull itself apart as it tried to dive under the ground. The front portion of the worm disappeared into the sand in front of Coco, spewing ichor that turned the sand black.
this thing is described as being the length of six goliaths lined up end-to-end and the width of a nevermore’s wingspan. it’s on par with the fucking leviathan or the wyvern AND VELVET RIPS IT APART PRACTICALLY BARE-HANDED? BECAUSE COCO’S IN THERE?
(coco literally falls into her arms afterwards.)
the book closes with coco taking charge (“first let’s get these people to their new home”) and velvet confidently backing her up (“and then we can go home”)—they’ve surmounted the insurmountable obstacle, they just back-to-back saved each other’s lives, they’re fully on the same page now. and that’s ultimately what after the fall is about, coco and velvet finding that balance.
before the dawn doesn’t revolve around them in the same way—the interpersonal conflict between them is over—but again, when team cfvy is forcibly disbanded, the emotional focus is on how distraught velvet and coco are in particular. (yatsu and fox aren’t happy about the situation either, but they end up with people they can work with alright; whereas both velvet and coco get stuck in teams that are awful for them and spend that whole section of the book pining.)
plus details like coco now being able to pick up with a glance when velvet isn’t on board with a decision she’s making (velvet told her a month ago that it hurt her feelings when coco brushed off her concerns, and coco made it an immediate priority to learn how to read velvet well enough that velvet will never feel overlooked or dismissed again). or velvet having spent over a year designing and building a pair of tricked out sunglasses with night-vision capabilities because coco admitted one time that she’s scared of the dark. or coco sending velvet after gillian on the grounds that “you’re a one-person army” and how thrilled velvet is to be shown that level of trust.
what it all adds up to is like… this is how they did the bees. this is how they’re doing renora. with ozlem it’s blown up to cosmic scale but they’re doing this with ozlem too. romance in rwby is about overcoming.
so while, on its face, “coco and velvet are girlfriends in chibi but not in the canon novels” sounds like backpedaling, taken into context with a) all the characterization in chibi being rule-of-funny caricature, and b) the novels developing the relationship between the two from “superficial attraction but their respective baggage makes them kind of awful for each other” to “but they care and they listen and they try until they grow together into their best selves” with a side of [gestures at the blind worm incident] THAT… well.
to me, that looks like either chibi crosshares was just for fun and then the writers started thinking about it and got invested to the point of “whoops, we’ve got two novels worth of story about how these two fall in love For Real,” or the novels’ story (+ coco and velvet getting together in vacuo in the show proper) was already sketched out before chibi and because chibi is for sillies and crosshares is a side pairing anyway, why not indulge in a little established relationship fluff?—or somewhere in between.
Rwby beyond March 30th, any theories? What are you hoping gets explored? Please let me see team OREN, 🅱️lease
given how directly salient RH was to neo’s arc in v9, i expect the same to hold true for the CFVY novels in regard to the vacuo arc, and i think making that backstory more accessible to general/casual audiences is one of the core purposes of rwby beyond—giving cliff notes in a brief animated short is a lot less of a barrier than asking viewers to read two entire novels, even if the novels in question are quite short. a succinct recap of what went down with the crown’s insurgency prior to the broadcast and arrival of refugees from atlas + character-focused shorts giving some sense of what’s been going on with the vacuo coalition in the aftermath so that v10 can hit the ground running seems the most likely. a sort of after-credits “where are they now” for v8 but with the intention of setting the stage for v10 as opposed to tying off loose ends.
i anticipate it’ll be in a similar vein to the epilogue animatic—like a more narrative-driven world of remnant-esque series where it’s in-character exposition over a sort of slide show. (what i would ideally really like is if we got the same basic story told in a different ways by different characters, rashomon style, as a way of elaborating on the story’s themes about storytelling and the nature of truth.)
i am not holding my breath for anything to do with salem or cinder or summer, but i would be over the moon to get even the tiniest crumb of what’s happening over there given that they are Clearly Not in vacuo.
given the description of “untold stories happening in remnant during v9 and even beyond” i am wondering if the series will like, end around where the storyboard epilogue does—ie with the reunion after rwbyj return—again for the purpose of easing the narrative burden at the top of v9. i could even see it going as far as settling rwbyj into the New Normal in vacuo (as in, establishing up to the equivalent of where they’re at in rwby x jl pt 2), although that depends on how important the Explanations are narratively (the more important they are, the less likely they’ll be in rwby beyond bc you want to reserve critical scenes for the show proper)
the other possibility is that “and even beyond” means in the past, in which case we might get some “missing scene”-esque shorts set during previous volumes. which i think would be pretty neat.
i would love it if we got a spot or two focused on civilians rather than the main cast—for many reasons, vacuo is the ideal point in the narrative to start breaking down the hard boundaries between huntsmen and civilians and the CFVY novels focus quite a lot on non-huntsmen experiences, so i’m pretty optimistic that this will happen generally but i’d be stoked to directly get a glimpse through the eyes of an ordinary vacuan citizen or mantelian refugee with no connection to the plot whatsoever, and the relative low-stakes of an ancillary “untold (short) stories” series is the perfect place for that. fingers crossed.
in addition to the CFVY novels recap, i’m placing my bets on a short centered on qrow, oscar+ozma, ren, nora, emerald, winter and/or the schnees, robyn and the other happy huntresses, pietro+maria and whoever else is involved with converting amity into a battleship, arrival of aid from vale and mistral, glynda, (possibly) mercury+tyrian, and raven. plus tai if he’s left his cabin. that’s assuming like WOR-length shorts; if they’re longer then these can and probably will be combined more efficiently. but broadly speaking those are the important narrative gaps to fill in.
#i did have some frustrations with how before the dawn portrayed#the politics of the insurgency—it feels pretty ungrounded compared to like the mantle/atlas class divide#or even the white fang arc which is not *articulated* well but does embrace the complexity of the issue#whereas BTD is about a popular insurgency but uses pseudo mind control to pull the punch. my hope is that#the show proper will be less flinching about the part where the crown did have a base of real support#bc that’s more interesting#like BTD has umber and carmine so it’s not like there’s NO depiction of the true believers but proportionally it’s#pretty lopsided#but on the whole i do like them they have a lot to chew on
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This dialogue is something I’ve always thought about. And after thinking on it, I wonder if Bertilak Celadon realized to some capacity the existence of the Ozluminati.
And I wonder what Oz’s actions must look like to outsiders. You see these teams get special treatment from the headmasters...and not just being selected for certain missions, but also receiving special priviledges. As Raven stated...
“-Turning a blind whenever we happened to break the rules and get into more trouble should’ve.”
And how would that make you feel? Just because they’re “A great team” they get let off the hook all the time. And yet, you must always pay the piper for your misconduct. Wouldn’t that make you angry and resentful?
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