#RWBY V1

[hiru3152]

Girls business

blake and yang are (kinda) glad they're each other partner in this~

[rubyfunkey]

robbed...........

[ahn1zos]

why won’t you let me hide from me?

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

Now that I'm finally caught up I'm rewatching from the beginning whoo whoooooo

[bumblebybelladonna]

"bUmBlEy Is OnLy FaNsErViCe" "BuMbLeBy WaSn’T aLwAYs pLaNeD" "I tHiNk It'S fOrCeD aNd FaNsErViCe"

They were designed to have matching colours, here blake had yellow and blue heterochromia and yang had a blue bandana to match blake, instead of a purple bandana

They were always complementary/soulmates

[0kamikamisama]

Red Like Roses~ 🌹 Remake of this (2019) 

[st-whalefall]

I’m taking a big ol’ swing with this one so everyone please keep your limbs inside the vehicle until we reach our destination (let me cook)

So, what happened here? For this to go from-

Goofy ass grin <3

Summer: “Trust me..”

To this-

Raven: “The creatures of Grimm have a master named Salem. She can’t be stopped, she can’t be reasoned with, and she will not rest until humanity crumbles at her feet.”

Raven: To Ruby with disdain, “You sound just like your mother.”

Let me lay some of my cards on the table. I’m in the “Summer is still alive” camp and I got thoughts on: if Summer is still alive, why has she not been in Yang and Ruby’s life?

Not even a peep? For 14 years?

Something BIG had to have happened to her to keep her away from them.

Now, a lot of folks will go straight to where Ruby jumped to: Summer got Grimm hound-ed by Salem

But I think that’s takes a lot of agency away from Summer and the building revelation of her character and the purpose she serves in the narrative.

If Summer has been grimmified, I posit it was by her own doing, by choice. And her choice alone.

Qrow: “You’re special the same way your mom was…The creatures of Grimm were afraid of those silver eyed warriors.”

Salem: “Do you feel it? Don’t fight it girl. It can sense your trepidation. You must make it dread you.”

How does Salem illustrate the melding of Cinders flesh with the Grimm arm and mastery over it?

In the few instances we get, how are silver eyes described in their effect on Grimm? Obliteration, yes. Resistance to their influence? Possibly (see Ruby & the apathy). But command over them? Let’s explore that.

We are working with a pretty small dataset here, so you’ll forgive me for mostly drawing from Cinder for this (separate post I think the hound is a reanimated corpse and so different from true living hybrids like Cinder (& hypothetically Summer)).

Grimm evolve and Grimm hybrids, like Cinder, adapt.

From vol4 to vol8, Cinder’s Grimm arm grows. It spreads. And she becomes more comfortable with it as time progresses.

Cinders Grimm arm has become an integral part of her and, side note, I dislike theories that revolve her hypothetical redemption around her being purified of evil (Grimm) by silver eyes.

[But that’s just me, I want the monstrous to stay monstrous rather than erased or watered down for easy digestion. Let the monster stay a monster in its appearance and still be worthy of love, and so on and so forth.]

So, we come back to Summer Rose.

Summer confronted Salem, learned something earth shattering, destroyed Raven’s faith and trust in her, and did something that prevented her from returning to her daughters for more than a decade.

What did Summer do? Agency, we’re thinking strong choices here.

Choices that are radical but in line for a character with strong convictions, an alluded to pedestal she stands upon and all the complexes that comes with, perhaps a little self destructive, and a big heart. Big enough to sympathize with the devil and do something about it.

The thing that could be preventing Summer from returning home could be as simple as:

After she learned the truth about Oz’s shadow war, she joined Salem’s side, and won’t return until she’s seen it through to the end.

But I want to put some spice on there because what if:

After learning whatever it was Salem told Summer, that turned her world upside down, Summer looked down into the pools of black and took the plunge

To understand Salem on a molecular level

To be Grimm as Salem is Grimm

To be a world changer

In the world of Remnant, that’s what the Grimm are. A force of destructive change, like hurricanes and wildfires, they shape the world through calamity. Disaster doesn’t feel any one way about you, it just is. It is devastating, but it doesn’t hate you. And it doesn’t love you either.

So, what would that make Summer?

How do you think that’s changed her, fundamentally?

Bloody evolution indeed.

And that’s why she stayed away. Summer changed, and now she looks a little more on the outside how she feels on the inside. But to the rest of the world, she is something horrifying. Unspeakable.

She didn’t want to give her girls nightmares.

Yeah, Summer was the inspiration for the Hound, and Cinder’s Grimm arm. But not in the way Ruby thinks.

[hellcifrogs]

It's finally time for my annual Rwby rewatch~

[crazywolf828]

Leader talk, V1 vs V9

[guardianjameslight]

RWBY SPOILERS

Imagine being made a leader while being 15 at the time and having no experience in the position. You have to be responsible for others, not just your teammates, but for the people who trust you as well. But then you see those people get hurt or killed, and there's nothing you could do about it. But despite that, you continue to fight because if you don't, then who will? But even then, people you care about get hurt.

Then you learn about the ancient evil that wants to destroy everything you know and love and it wants you because you pose an actual threat to it, and you also learn that this evil took your mother from you.

But despite that you try to make the right decisions to save as many people as you can, but you fail anyway, and once again people you care about are getting killed, which hurts even more when this is the second time you lose them.

And then you end up in a place where nothing is like it's seems. You and your friends must fight to get home, but there's really not much you can do because of everything that happened. And the worst part is that you don't know who you are anymore. And then people think you'll give some inspiring speech to make them feel better, but after everything that happened you're done with being the leader and you're tired to be the one who always has to say something to make things better when you're the one who actually needs it.

Ruby has been through a lot, so it's understandable she's done with being a leader since her decision ends up making things worse. She's just a child with the responsibility no one is really ready for, and she can't get others out of the mess they're in because she's in it too.

[iamafanofcartoons]

“What is a Huntress?”

https://twitter.com/smxkeylight/status/1634608360573095936

[rubyfunkey]

this scene has been trapped in my mind the past couple days. wish i knew why

[ahn1zos]

“You are allowed to grieve over the child you could've been.”

hiiiiiii…. sooooo it’s been a while, right? sorry for not being active! but i have somethings to give to y’all later! i hope you like this piece bcs i love it

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

[bumblebybelladonna]

Happy 10th anniversary, RWBY ✨

[invested-in-your-future]

Out of first three volumes, which one do you reckon is the "weakest"/worst in terms of writing?

Hands down - Volume 1.

And half of the problems come from pacing.

It manages to do a ton of really bad decisions in terms of narrative structure and just overall writing:

Weird Comedy that mostly misses the mark- The show attempts to do "anime style" jokes, but most of those gags barring a few end up feeling extremely out of place (or end up retroactively disgusting and offensive like Mr Sexual Harassment Professor Port.)

The most frantic uneven pacing possible - One moment, characters might, at breakneck pacing, go through tense high-octane situations, and the next? You get the absolute show-stopper awful scenes like Jaune and the Honey. A lot of Jaune's arc in V1 is especially good at wasting time on things that could have taken half as long to do. Honestly? Considering the latter volumes, where they waste time drinking tea or the entire filler dimension volume, this one should have been an omen of things to come.

Narrative misfires - By now, the show is known for those more than for its actual positive aspects of the plot, sure, but this issue began very early on - whether it is the weird moments with no follow-up like Weiss's racism or the disgusting subplot of Jaune being treated as The Good Guy for not understanding that No is a NO - V1 is littered with moments that either completely miss the mark or don't achieve anything at all (or even are retroactively bad like Blake's flashback which by now we know is complete nonsense since she was a literal princess living in a paradise).

Lack of proper set-up - Be it the motivations of the lead characters not given enough time, Ruby's backstory and motivations(and the rest of the cast, really) - the world setting not given enough explanation or coverage. The Volume really needed either longer episodes, more episodes, or just fewer Jaune subplots(as much as I don't REALLY mind them)

There's a good core there and the Volume could be very good with proper pacing and runtime (not to forget that Volume 1 still has the BEST team fight for the lead characters TO THIS DAY and the best use of Ruby's theme song TO THIS DAY and one of the few moments where Ruby feels like she has earned her protagonist status TO THIS DAY), but as it stands it's the most messy out of the early Volumes and the most unfocused one.

A lot of the issues, however, even though they disappear into the background in the next two volumes, rear their ugly heads the moment V4 hit the screens.