#RWBY volume 8

[hadesisqueer]

Man, I loved Winter and Penny's dynamic so much, one of the most underrated and unexpected friendships in this show for me.

Just, the way their arcs go so well with each other's? They're both about being "machines" learning how to be human, one way or another, and they were so sweet. When they were talking at Schnee Manor and saw that Penny was getting the wrong idea when she said Penny wouldn't understand? She corrected herself immediately. Winter was extremely conflicted about the whole hacking thing. She heard Elm at the airship refering to Penny as "technology" and "piece of junk" and she snapped at her. Winter was crushed upon learning that Penny had died. She never thought that Penny had stolen her Maiden Powers, and she always considered Penny a real person—more real than herself, when she said “I was the machine”. And Penny always valued Winter's life more than Winter did. Because she didn't agree with Winter when she said she was a machine, the same way Winter didn't think that about Penny. Winter was her friend. And it all makes the "This was a gift" moment even more powerful: Winter becoming "a real girl" the same way Penny did, breaking free from Ironwood completely and showing that she really isn't his "puppet" or "machine" at all, considering her Maiden Powers a gift from her friend. Incredible.

Penny had a lot of impact on Ruby as a character, but she had a lot of impact on Winter as well. I don't know, again, to me, one of the best friendships in the series.

[skidsspace]

One of my favorite Ruby faces because she just...looks so genuinely angry. We've never ssen this before man. And it is WONDERFUL. It does everything it should and tells you all you need to know.

Another one of my favorite faces. She looks so determined here and slightly pissed off. It's such a combination and I love it. And she actually manages to actually use her silver eyes intentionally.

[frishbi]

I MISS THEM

[bugsbiann]

go on yang. answer the question

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

[marsarchy]

dusty old crow doodles

[bobasisters]

like it's mandatory for her to be put through it at this point

[darius-1]

[gravitycosplays-solarflareart]

“I’m not going to pretend like we did everything perfectly, but if we’d done nothing, things would be even worse than they are now.”

Yang Xiao Long cosplay: @ezcosplay

Wig: @wigisfashion styled by me

📷: @angrylilcoconut

[bumblebybelladonna]

they.

[anthurak]

You know it’s been a while, but my favorite meme/fandom joke from Volume 8 continues to be Yang and Blake going full-blown ‘tired soldier angsting over her girl back home’ and ‘when will my love return from war?’ dramatic pining after being separated for LESS THAN A DAY.

[hadesisqueer]

To this day my favorite volume 8 dumb discourse was that at Risk, Winter wasn't going to switch to RWBY's side when you literally can see the moment when she mentally does lmao. She had her doubts all along and was struggling all volume, but when Ironwood tells her that he isn't bluffing about bombing Mantle? You can see how shocked and horrified she is, and then when he starts walking away, her expression changes and she's watching him like a fucking hawk. She'd come right then and there to the same conclusion as Marrow: that Ironwood had gone too far and they were both fucking done with him and this bullshit. The difference is that she didn't snap, like Marrow did. Then she proceeded to save Marrow's life when Ironwood tried to shoot him and safely got him and herself the hell out of there. It was so obvious that I still don't get how people REALLY believed she was still on Ironwood's side lmao.

[musicallypan]

some rwby doodles (its just ruby and penny)

just some warm ups before I do a ruby rose comm

i was listening to Picture You by Chappel Roan for the last one :ppp

extra!

:))

[frishbi]

atlas arc flashbacks

[bugsbiann]

the story of the faunus princess

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

i'm still reeling. here's more