#V7 System

[traveller-of-the-knight]

Evolution of Marc Spector's eyes 2014-2015

Fist image: v7 1-6 art Shalvey colour Bellaire

Second image: v7 7-12 art Smallwood colour Bellaire

Third image: v7 13-17 Ackins, Palmer, Peralta

[satoshi-mochida]

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising DLC character Vane launches in early April, Beatrix in late May

From Gematsu

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising downloadable content Character Pass 1 character Vane will launch in early April, followed by Beatrix in late May, publisher Cygames and developer Arc System Works announced.

Get the latest details below.

■ Downloadable Content Characters

Vane (voiced by Zeno Robinson in English, Takuya Eguchi in Japanese)

A heavy hitting axe wielder who excels at keeping foes at bay with his axe. In addition to his diverse set of far-reaching attacks, this tenacious fighter also utilizes defensive skills that allow him to endure and counter incoming attacks. Playable early April 2024!

Beatrix (voiced by Jennifer Losi in English, Aya Hirano in Japanese)

A scrappy swordswoman who commands an aggressive battle style with plenty of skills that lunge her into battle helter- skelter, brandishing her seal weapon Embrasque, which grows stronger as her situation becomes more dire! Playable late May 2024!

■ New Costumes

Lady Serenity

Available to purchase on all platforms from March 12! (Also available from the in-game Rupie Shop.)

■ Figure Studio Photo Contest Results

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising is available now for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam.

Watch the trailer below.

DLC Characters Vane and Beatrix Teaser Trailer

English

Japanese

[virtualizationhowto]

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[melancholyofinvisibleshores]

Fella, v7 includes an entire mission in a dust mine… the place where faunus work as slaves. not only we aren't shown that, but the writers went out of their way to have the mine be no longer in use in order not to deal with the heaviest part of the faunus discrimination. They also went out of their way to make it so that all that Blake does in that mission is be Yang's arm candy, which is aggravating because we were previously (via Ilia's backstory) that faunus are treated as slave labour in Atlas and they die in the mines. And yet. Not a comment about that. Not a scene about the fate of the faunus that (presumably! We don't have much aside from implications) used to work in that mine. The thing is not brought up. There are two faunus (Blake and Marrow) and they don't bring it up, not even briefly.

And this becomes even more aggravating in light of the rest of the narrative: showcasing the evils of what the writers wanted to set up as a fascistic military dictatorship... you know... nazis and fascists, the ones notorious for being racial supremacists and using massive amounts of slave labour? And enforcing racial laws, and genociding people due to their racial supremacist beliefs? You know, the thing they wanted to make an allegory of? And you are telling me that in the volume intended to make an allegory and expose these evils, the writers didn't think to include the "use of slave labour" among them???? Because it was "unimportant"???? Let me tell you if the writers really thought that, they should not be employed as writers, producers, and showrunners. Because they can't even recognise a key element of their own narrative.

last but not least, you don't need a lot of screen time to set things up. It can be extremely brief and chilling. Like, a column of faunus in chains marching out of the mine, Blake wants to go and help them, but Marrow stops her, looks her dead in the eyes and goes "Don't worry about them, the military will take care of them, they are better off this way". Blake is horrified but understands that if she puts up a fight she is going to be terminated by fantasy!Gestapo right there because evil dictatorship be evil. That could be a major reason not to trust Ironwood. It's not that hard or screen-time-consuming. it's just that the writers don't care.

they didn't have twenty volumes to waste time on showing faunus get kicked around

Oh, sweetie...

It's never "waste of time" to develop and build up one of your crucial story pillars. WF subplot is crucial part of characterization of one of THE four leads the show is named after.

The narrative doesn't even need to be all edgy to convey the scope of discrimination and how something like WF could have happened. Discrimination can be conveyed without being crass about it.

XMEN 97 literally just underlined the horror of racism AND made the audience experience firsthand how easy(and sometimes justified) it would be to take a more radical approach against racism IN A SINGLE EPISODE. Hell, half an episode. And they still had time for relationship drama of four different pairings and worldbuilding. You know, the OTHER things RWBY struggles with or offscreens.

Maybe RWBY could have spent more time on that rather than wasting time with god brothers and relics and talking animal dimensions and whether Jaune gets to feel sad about more dead women, hm?

Nine volumes.

NINE.

[bestworstcase]

An additional reason for Winter and Cinder to interact - Puts Choice and Creation together as themes.

Knowledge is targeting information when paired. What are you choosing/creating/destroying. Why? (And Raven's already interacted with Cinder and Spring is in Vacuo to interact with Winter and Summer)

Destruction- Knowing what to destroy, choosing to destroy, clearing the field for a new planting.

Creation and Choice - that's trickier. To the point where honestly the choice to start anew, to start something is the only thing that I can think of.

Which - Atlas/Mantle is destroyed. Destruction has already been wrought. What comes after the fire?

the funny part is, the narrative is already doing this. has been since v3, when winter:

Emotions can grant you strength, but you must never let them overpower you. It sounds to me like you have two choices in front of you: you can either call [father], beg for his money back, and explain once more why you would want to study at Beacon over Atlas, or you could continue to explore Remnant, discovering more about the world and, honestly, about yourself.

couches her advice to weiss in these terms. you can choose to beg for father’s money, or you can choose to go without for the sake of living and growing and learning beyond his reach. she poses it as an open-ended observation but the way she phrases each path makes it quite clear what she thinks weiss ought to do. and again in v7, when winter tells weiss that ironwood picked her to become his maiden and weiss asks if that bothers her:

 It did at first, when the General first proposed it to me. But the more I thought about it, the more I saw it as a privilege, a chance to do some real good for Atlas. For Remnant. […] I’m choosing it now. I've made it my own. And I take great pride in it. That has nothing to do with Father, or the General… That belongs to me.

and that’s followed by this:

Penny. The general is making hard choices so we don't have to. For the good of all, not just a few.

in the penultimate moment before winter faces her crossroads, and this:

They won't change my actions. What I'm committed to. The power of the Winter Maiden and the Relic must be kept from our enemies. Even if it means she dies… But yes Penny, we must still acknowledge our personal feelings, wrestle with them. It ensures us that we're on the right path. It's what makes us human.

when she resolves that her feelings do matter and that choosing is what makes people human, seconds before cinder fall enters the scene and forces winter to choose. all this culminates, of course, in “You chose nothing; this was a gift.”

how does the maiden of creation become? she must choose, not once but again and again.

similarly, cinder – aside from the obvious piece that her outward presentation is a carefully manufactured performance – is principally concerned not with choice but creation; the system that created her and the outward self she creates in retaliation. her manifesto in v3:

This is not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you hand over your trust, your safety, your children, to men who claim to be our guardians, but are, in reality, nothing more than men. Our academies' headmasters wield more power than most armies, and one was audacious enough to control both. They cling to this power in the name of peace, and yet, what do we have here? One nation's attempt at a synthetic army, mercilessly torn apart by another's star pupil. What need would Atlas have for a soldier disguised as an innocent little girl? I don't think the grimm can tell the difference. And what, I ask you, is Ozpin teaching his students? First a dismemberment, now this? Huntsmen and huntresses should carry themselves with honor and mercy, yet I have witnessed neither.

doesn’t explicitly reference creation, but it’s a precise outline of everything wrong with the system as cinder sees it, and her stage is a symbolic reenactment of what was done to cinder using the violent death of an artificial child – the literal creation of atlas – to drive the point home. this is neither a tragedy nor an accident – i am your creation. i am your consequences come due.

(cinder knows, from salem, that ozpin built these schools, that the huntsmen academies are his creation, and she placed pyrrha onto this stage to represent rhodes – and so there is a grain of truth in “what is ozpin teaching his students?” too. it’s a rhetorical question about the academies as a whole. huntsmen and huntresses should conduct themselves with honor and mercy: why and how did this system produce a man like rhodes?)

and in v5: ozpin corrects ruby from “the fall maiden” to “cinder,” and raven hears ‘cinder fall’ and scoffs that she is “a fall maiden with a surname so appropriate she probably picked it herself” – given her history, it is entirely possible that cinder named herself both cinder AND fall, and the juxtaposition of these beats is interesting – ozpin separating “cinder” from “the fall maiden” vs raven mocking cinder for (she presumes) naming herself for the power she coveted. both, in different ways, imply illegitimacy – that cinder isn’t the rightful fall maiden, that she is a pretender, that her claim on this power is somehow false.

but cinder fall is in fact the fall maiden because she worked very hard to create cinder-fall-the-fall-maiden – from her semblance to dust woven into her clothing to the twofold attack separating and then recombining the magic within herself, which i think may have something more to it than merely trying to eliminate the risk that amber might divert the power to someone else. and then there’s the grimm arm, and this exchange:

RAVEN: Aura can’t protect your arm, it’s grimm. You turned yourself into a monster, just for power. CINDER: Look who’s talking.

juxtaposed with the narrative ambiguity regarding a) how much of a choice cinder had in accepting the grimm arm and b) if she did choose, why? (the presumptive reason is the same as the grimm beetle, but this is complicated by the symbolic role of grimm in cinder’s backstory, her moments of tenderness and identification with grimm, and the fact that she’s been habitually using the grimm arm to siphon aura, not magic.)

choice (and lacking choice) are very central to cinder’s character arc, of course, but why is she the maiden of choice? why did she want to be the maiden of choice? because to cinder this is a project of remaking herself into someone who is safe because she has power. ‘the maiden of choice’ is aspirational – that is who she is creating, and there is an inescapable hollowness to that identity because – say she succeeds – AND THEN WHAT?

she can create as many different versions of herself as she can dream up, but none of them will heal the wounds she’s trying to run away from – what she needs is to look inward and confront what she fears and what she wants, before she can choose who she wants to be. knowledge, then choice. always.

which, gestures at winter. lol. lmao, even.

[strqyr]

ozpin made finding the relic at beacon more challenging. he also told pyrrha to find glynda, ironwood, and qrow and to bring them "here" right away, that the tower cannot fall.

and then pyrrha goes to fight cinder and in the process, with her semblance, tears down the gears and cogs in the tower.

similar gears and cogs that the long memory have, that activate when oscar uses it for magic / mini-nuke in V7 and V8, accompanied by golden and green lights. the same green lights that are very visible in the beacon tower that couldn't fall, but did, in a way, when the gears were torn from their places.

i don't think the tower is necessarily where the vault is located but... it is a beacon. a lighthouse. and maybe it's just me, but i find it fairly common for lighthouses to be used in stories, not to guide people towards them, but to use them in some clever way to guide the way to the treasure (or whatever it is that is sought), or even unlock the first door to it.

(there is also signal academy, that they made sure for ruby to point out could be seen from all the way up there in the airship—it being visible from beacon wouldn't necessarily be too far-fetched. maybe they're connected, two beacons to light a way?)

i wonder how easy it would be for ambrosius to recreate beacon tower's system like it used to be...

[kitkatopinions]

Out of curiosity since we know that hunters are basically a sub group of law enforcement. Is there possible any way the show could've avoid the copagenda?

If not how would you rewrite hunters without being associated with cops?

Fantasy law enforcement is a little bit like fantasy royalty. There's a certain suspension of disbelief when it comes to fantasy worlds that they're not just going to operate with the exact same rules that our world does. This is different than things set in our actual world, like say NCIS or Brooklyn 99, that are actually portraying members of our real world police system. You can root for a fictional king without losing your good people points, and that doesn't mean that you're on board with the irl monarchy. You can root for fictional law enforcement without actually supporting real life police.

However, I'm of the opinion that especially with law enforcement, people have to be very careful if they're going to make fantasy equivalents because it very easily can get into copaganda territory if the law enforcement is too close to ours, used in the same ways, is proven to be corrupt and yet still celebrated, things like that. In RWBY "Hunters" (or, "huntsman and huntresses" cause I guess in universe they don't have inclusive terms for things,) are kind of used without much explanation for what they're supposed to actually do until season seven when the kids actually become hunters. At first it seems like Hunters are really just monster hunters, but we also see the kids training to fight humans (Pyrrha Vs CRDL, Vytal Tournament.) And no one acts like it's different or not what hunters do when Ruby fights bad guys like Roman or Cinder in the first couple seasons. But at that point, I didn't have (much) of a problem with the concept still. Then in V4 and V5, we started to get this picture of Hunters as essentially hired hands, protecting small towns outside the kingdoms from Grimm on top of their jobs within the cities protecting people from Grimm. There was still the knowledge that Hunters fought people too (Qrow tries to recruit hunters to help fight Salem's faction in Mistral,) but the job still seemed at that point to be more focused on the monster-hunting aspect, with the rest of it being special circumstances. Cool. It was easy to assume that Hunters were very different from the 'cops' we had seen in Vale chasing Sun. (Side note but even then, RWBY was still already in copaganda territory in V5 when Blake and Sun called the cops on the White Fang in V5 and I don't care about the in-universe necessity, I care about the fact that the writers chose to make up everything to get the characters there.)

But then in V7, the first we really see of Hunters at work and getting assignments and our main characters on the field officially, and they're pulling out their badges and arresting people and acting like authorities to the citizens and demanding entry into houses by pointing weapons at peoples faces and are basically just extreme versions of police except they believed they shouldn't have accountability. And I know that people are going to say that Atlas just does things differently because Ironwood is the headmaster and the head of the military, but A. it's very hard to say that definitively when we've gotten so little info on how licensed Hunters actually operate in canon, and B. It doesn't even matter, because the end result is that our main characters were licensed Hunters in Atlas, within that system and saw no problem. This on top of the fact that we've seen both corruption (Dee and Dudley, Leo, Ironwood, Qrow's mysterious Hunter friends,) and bigotry (Cardin, Weiss, Yang and Coco if we're being honest,) in the ranks of Hunters... It doesn't paint a flattering picture at all. Even then, I wouldn't be upset if this kind of thing was challenged and deconstructed within the show. But instead, the Hunters are looked at as superior to Atlas military (despite, you know, the fact that they're essentially the same thing,) the mains confidently flash their badges and proclaim themselves as Hunters with pride, and in V9, they essentially define what a Huntsman and Huntress IS by saying that they're good people who help others who can't help themselves or something, and then profess that their job is their identity and therefore they're good people. I mean, come on! We literally see Cardin harassing Faunus classmates and blackmailing others and he was on track to get licensed as a badge-carrying law enforcement officer that presumably can arrest people and muscle their ways into peoples houses, and the mains knowing that still define the job itself as something inherently good that good people do? Blake defines it as something good that good people do?!?! On top of all that, there's this general idea in the show (and from the fifteen or so chapters of Before the Dawn I read, the books too) that what actually makes Hunters good is the lack of accountability, which is a very bad messaging to give to your 'basically cops' that arrest people and point their weapons in peoples faces, especially in the 2020s.

So yeah, the show itself had a chance to make the Hunters distinctly other from cops and not full on corrupt, which in a fantasy world I would say is good enough. If the Hunters were just monster hunters with Ozpin's shadow war fighting Salem's people behind the scenes, I think that would be a good way around it. But even if they wanted to lean more on politics and takedowns of people like Jacques in the Atlas arc, they could've had our mains either just be adjacent to that as part of the shadow war, but not as licensed badge-carrying law enforcement officers themselves arresting people. Along with some other changes like not having Sun and Blake call the cops on the White Fang and not have the White Fang this big bad terrorist group either, that would make it so that I'm fine with it.

Personally, I would've gone the route of making the Hunters just monster hunters while Oz also has this shadow war going on, and the Hunter Academies are regulated by the government. And instead of having the Atlas hunters just basically cops under the military, I would've had the Atlas military and the Hunters be much more separate, with (not evil) James running both, but in different ways, and eventually have him fired from his position with the military and have somebody else more corrupt come in or something. I haven't made many plans to the Atlas arc for my own personal rewrite ideas yet, but I think that could work.

I would go the route of trying to make the Hunter Academies less corrupt and more separated from police, but I know other people are going the route of leaning into the problems and then having them acknowledged and dealt with instead, and that's a good option too. But yeah, the way the RWBY writers decided to go is just cops and copaganda by a different name. They might as well have just had the mains become cops in V7 and then profess that their identity is being cops and cops are perfect, because it's basically the same result imo.

[the-path-to-redemption]

Hello, redeemed Adam AUs anon here! Thank you so much for your thoughtful response. Despite close friends telling me to watch FMA for years, I've never gotten around it so I didn't know about Scar. However it's obvious the writing is far superior, and I've watched Arslan Senki from the same author so I know we can trust her with antagonists.

You mentioned the authors having to acknowledge that the system is flawed in the first place, to which I nod eagerly! Except, the authors already acknowledged this!!!

In V4 E6, at the charity party, there's a businessman that's always forgotten, who mentions the real problem is society as a whole. Even worse, that the faunus were PROMISED JOBS by the SDC! So they were cruelly tricked! By the dialogue, Jacques says mining staff from Atlas and Mantle are paid the same, but the businessman points out that there's a significant economic disparity between the two. Obviously it was a good scene to portray and acknowledge the actual issue and how people of power in Atlas didn't care anyway. Good scene.

Except it was never brought up again!!!

I swear, every time you think CRWBY can't get worse, they prove you wrong. So you acknowledge society is at fault, Adam and Ilia's families were tricked into getting a job, and the SDC is very aware of the issue (including Weiss WHO WAS PRESENT), yet ADAM is at fault? Huh? Wha? HUH?!

I know V4 and V5 are known to be some of the worst volumes (dethroned by V8 and V9), but they had so much lore hidden in details that went forgotten two seconds later, they sometimes feel like a fever dream.

Thank you again for reading my ask and answering it! I read the response many times!

Long Post Ahead

You're welcome, anon! To be honest, having such a nice ask after so long was a refreshing surprise for me lol. I'm glad that my answer was satisfactory, and you really should get into FMA! (Based for reading Arslan Senki tho-).

I'm really impressed that you remembered that segment of V4, so I went back to rewatch it myself (in Japanese dub, I can only take Nora and Ruby's Eng voice for so long), and yeah! They DID acknowledged it! Which is why not having Weiss confronting the malpractice of her family's company in V7-8 was so frustrating! Not SHOWING MORE of the wealth disparity of Atlas and Mantle was so bad! We were stuck in a nothing arc where the only person making sense, Ironwood, was bastardized even though in the same episode in V4, he stood up for Weiss!

Ironwood understood that the system of Atlas was extremely flawed, and he ran himself ragged to make sure it gets reformed against an entire council who doesn't care! The guy who actually gave a fuck was made into a villain because the writers are incompetent, the child slave who was branded and disabled was killed off with NO ONE knowing about his abuse or even acknowledged after his death, and the two main characters (Weiss and Blake) fucks around in Atlas with people they do not like instead of at least going to a political rally to support a council candidate who wanted to do better for both human and Faunus!

Hell, Blake and Weiss never brought up the abuse that Faunus goes through in the SDC itself after V7C3, where all Weiss does was give Blake a luke warm apology about her family's sin. Hello?? DO SOMETHING THEN! ARRESTING YOUR SHITTY DAD WILL NOT CHANGE THE WAY FAUNUS WORKERS ARE TREATED, ALL YOU DID WAS CREATE A POWER VACUUM FOR PEOPLE WHO BACKED HIM UP TO TAKE CHARGE AND CONTINUE THE ABUSE!

The show can acknowledged the imbalance all it wants, if it doesn't take the fucking charge of challenging the system it's calling out with its characters, it means nothing. Adam and the Amitolas weren't the only ones tricked to work so that they can survive in a kingdom that hated them for existing, but our protagonists do nothing to prevent more like them from being exploited.

I also stated that the authors have to acknowledge this systematic abuse applies to fan creators. You can criticize Adam for his actions against innocents all you like, but the moral of the story is that he is still a victim and shouldn't be made into the scapegoat of anti-Faunus violence. Adam wasn't wrong to be angry or hateful, stop demonizing him for being rightfully bitter about being abused! Stop with the Perfect Victim shit, please!

V4-5 were bad because they had potential but the writers elected to be boring with them instead, at least those two had a point. V7-9 meant nothing, and that's why they're the worst of the show yet.

Thank you for your asks, anon!

[citadelofmythoughts]

The whole arguing about Ironwood being right and how he must be right to be "morally gray" really just shows how narrow people's perception of what "morally gray" really is. As if a large part of V7 - V8 hasn't literally been revealing how morally bankrupt and broken the system that Ozpin created through Atlas (and by proxy, his entire world order) in his single-minded pursuit of stopping Salem at the expense of the very people he's supposedly trying to protect.

As if showing how much said system actively hurts and CAUSED the villains of the story to exist in the first place, with Hazel's life being harmed by the Huntsman system, Cinder being enslaved due to Atlas, Watts being underappreciated and overlooked due to Atlas, Emerald being stuck in poverty, Salem herself being harmed by Ozpin's religious crusade and the gods behind it. Yes, they are still villainous in their actions, but they exist precisely because society and many people absolutely failed and damaged them.

As if highlighting how for all that Team Remnant are genuinely good people who are morally righteous, they also live and protect a broken society that refuses to treat its civilians as anything more than fodder for an eternal crusade that fixates on the "big picture" at the expense of the actual people, and how much this kind of burden absolutely crushes and hurts each and every one of them on a personal level. But all of that is apparently irrelevant because Ironwood didn't get the "morally gray but ultimately right" choice of genociding his own people to save his ego because he kept on spouting out platitudes about how his actions are for the "greater good".

It's times like that which make one realize that many people don't really give a damn about truly complex stories.

The only thing I would argue with you about is painting Oz's actions with a slightly more generous brush. He wasn't trying to stop Salem as much as delay her. He didn't have the slightest idea how to stop her so everything he did was a desperate stopgap measure.

But then again, my defense of Ozpin sounds a bit like the Ironwood defenders. They were both great at making a road of good intentions that led ultimately to disaster.

All the adults in power have failed the people of Remnant because they've forgotten that if you sacrifice your people, what exactly are you protecting from Salem?

It's taken a group of smaller, more honest souls to see that the "big picture" is composed of hundreds of thousands of smaller pictures, each one is important. No life is worth more than another.

It seems fitting that the last stand will probably take place in a kingdom abused and neglected by all but it's now the last refuge against darkness.

[x-heesy]

He called me a dyke

I called him an ambulance 🚑😂😂😂

Equal rights

Equal lefts

Fight for your right

To exist

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To exist

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To exist

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He called me a dyke

I called him an ambulance 😂😂

I can make you famous too

But you tremble at the thought of that

I've seen more spine in jellyfish

That's in the vertebrae

Google that

I've been in the shadows long enough

I got nothing to lose

So I'm playing rough

So humdrum, so dumb

You picked a fight

With the wrong one

You brought a butter knife

To a tank fight

I'll put you on blast

And fucked your wife

Weapon system's activated

Your ego's been deflated

Oh so dumb you need a ventilator

She seems so sweet

I had to taste her

Let's get one thing straight

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Sex is an art

I'm a biscard

Love is love

It can't be stopped

So go fuck yourself Cause it's all you got

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Equal rights

Equal lefts

Fight for your right

To exist

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Equal lefts

Fight for your right

To exist

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Equal lefts

Fight for your right

To exist

Coming out, swinging

I am a prior

To every religion

It isn't a choice

But it is a decision

Come out of the closet

Break out of the prison

Love who you are

Let no one inhibit

Don't get in your way

Or make a mistake

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For the rest of your days

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He called me a dyke

I called him an ambulance 😂😂

I can make you famous too

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I called him an ambulance 😂😂

I can make you famous too

But you tremble at the thought of that

So go fuck yourself

Cause it's all you got

Last but not least

Let me finish the story

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And we fucked till the morning

She found religion in every position

Screaming "OH GOD" and singing in hymnals

Day for the day

Thus she claimed

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Do what you do

But I'll always get

More pussy than you

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Equal rights

Equal lefts

Fight for your right

To exist

Equal rights

Equal lefts

Fight for your right

To exist

Equal rights

Equal lefts

Fight for your right

To exist

Fight for your right

To exist

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To exist

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To exist

One thing straight

I'm not

Sex is an art

I'm a biscard

One thing straight

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Equal Rights, Equal Lefts by Otep v7

@bixlasagna @frenchpsychiatrymuderedmycnut

[yukami08]

And this, kids, is why when you want to buy new hardware for your company, you buy standard stuff! For real though, who's the genius at QNAP that decided they were gonna make an enterprise grade NAS with a single board computer based on ARM v7? Fuck you. When the server reaches your pathetic EOSL, what happens? It stops being maintained and it has to be decommissioned. What happens then if someone wants to buy it back? Do they have to plug a security vulnerability on the network? All of that because you decided that using the cheapest components was a better idea? "But Yuka, you can hack the firmware to install Linux on it so you still have security updates" Debian isn't compiled for ARM Marvell anymore. The only version of Debian that is ready to install for this machine is Debian 10 which reached it's EOL only 2 years later! And that's not even taking into account the fact that you have to work around the system to flash the installer to the poor 16MB of unupgradable flash memory on board! "But further updates are too heavy on the system. It's just not powerful enough" Which is why it should have been made with standard components! So you can upgrade and maintain it! And then again, I'm not the one who decided that *an enterprise grade storage server* only needed 1GB of RAM! Tell me, oh great defender of garbage ideas, why do I have in my room a laptop from 2008 running ArchLinux in glorious 64bits with a desktop environment and everything if the system if just not powerful enough to get further updates? Tell me how the system is not powerful enough for updates when I used TrueNas Scale on my main storage server built on a Core2Duo from 2006! Not to even get into the default software of this thing which by itself is a crime but this isn't about that

[foulfirerebel]

I’ve discussed this with sone others, but do you think Rhodes was doing the best he could given his situation? Mister of the fandom seems to agree Rhodes cared more about the law than cinder, but I’ve heard arguments that that wasn’t necessarily the case? By training cinder at all he was potentially breaking the law, and he likely truly believed that if he had just smuggled her out of the hotel that she’d always be running or looking over her shoulder, there’s every chance he truly believed what he was doing was the best way to help her as opposed to being afraid to risk himself for her sake.

Well. That's. Rather odd. Rhodes Discourse is a weird area for me.

I honestly do agree Rhodes, much like a lot of Atlasian Huntsman, does have his mind set moreso on the law than doing the moral thing. There is the idea that even training Cinder at all that he did break the law that can be worth thought, however, considering from what we see of Atlas later on it's evidently against the law to even possess and fire a weapon without registration.

"That's all you'll ever do" is an interesting line, given his station. Considering Atlas is a strict nation of LAW and ORDER(tm), there's probably reason to suggest they would've probably hunted her down and jailed her regardless of the circumstances.

Alas, this is the problem as I see it. It was clear Cinder's Madame was abusing her, since she seemed to be the sole "employee" (slave) at The Glass Unicorn. While I have no doubt Rhodes thought he may have been doing the best he could at the time, he obviously didn't think outside the box enough and (much like Clover in V7) reverted back to the Good Soldiers Follow Orders mentality.

It absolutely led to his death and Cinder's utter hatred of the Huntsman/Huntress system and Atlas as a whole. It's also something I hope gets brought up again when Cinder's worldview of Power and Strength are Security and Freedom gets shattered.

[dailynnd]

Answering a reply from the #15 Backup post

The logical side of my brain wants to properly argue and theorize about this so let's go with my shitty media litteracy.

On one hand you might be right, because trusting Winter after the two's development in V7-8 would be in character for her. If she was trully at a point in her life where she had to choose, maybe Penny would go for Winter for practical and personal reasons. She's been trained to become a Maiden while unfit to do so because of her heart. She rebelled against the system forcing her into a mold and started to accept her emotions and her humanity, standing against IW.

But at the same time, I feel like Penny could sense in V7 when obversing Fria alongside Winter, that the latter didn't want to be a Maiden at all. She was doing it for the sake of duty, going against her own feelings, at that point in time. Winter getting the powers feels terribly off in that specific context.

There's also a part of me that feels like Penny not choosing Ruby because it would be too big of a burden is a possibility but aaaaalso not? To me it always seemed like Penny cared deeply about family, friends, coworkers even - but lacked a certain awareness when it came to their feelings. I'm not saying she's naïve or stupid, but that she believes so much in people and their strengths and downplays herself so much that she might be missing out on the troubles of others.

In that vein, If you look at all of NND's interactions, Penny mostly protects Ruby physically, and the heart-to-heart are always Ruby comforting Penny. For the other way around to happen on purpose, Penny would need to be aware of Ruby's struggles, but she isn't. Instead, it's implied Penny's presence alone, her energy, righteousness and genuine behaviour and sometimes even candid side are what /passively/ put Ruby at ease. The V8C5 scene where Penny seems surprised at Pietro fearing to lose her and the V8C11 scene where Penny begs Ruby to kebab her to get the powers are imo the biggest indicators of that lack of awareness.

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And then the shipper side of my brain is like "haha more angst for NND yay *shatters into pieces at the thought Penny thought Ruby was gone* "

[deedeli-liveblog]

@crimsonxe   They don't ignore it, they just realize the entire thing is difficult thing. Speaking as someone growing up surround by people with let's go with ignorant views due to being a progressive in a red southern state, thus having been put in those types of situations. In Weiss's case it isn't even per se about race, it's about the deaths and harm the WF specifically caused vs. faunus in general. An idea that is furthered by Ice Queendom. Should Weiss have apologized? 

Sure, does it break the story or message that she doesn't? No. Weiss isn't framed as being in the right by any means, which is why not only does 90% of the audience see Weiss in the wrong but also at panels crew have joked about her "I'm a victim" view. 

As for "consequences", people are way too damn easy to jump to those for anything. No, there shouldn't be "consequences" towards her for speaking out w/ ignorant and wrong views. Now if she were out there going after faunus w/ violence being used = for sure. But you don't fix ignorance/bigotry via coming down on someone that's reachable; you do so by giving them a guide out of it. 

Hell v7 circles back around to it to make a note of Weiss's regret over her past views showing it's in her mind. 

The only frame of Blake being wrong is in her running away from the group. It has nothing to do with nor comes across as having to do with being a faunus. I don't think anyone is going to call it the best handling of all time, but the details of why matter.

Realizing it’s a difficult topic and choosing not to speak on it is ignoring it. I fully understand why someone wouldn’t want to speak up, and I’m not saying someone needs to start an argument with their racist Uncle Joe every time he starts running off at the mouth. But when someone is making racist comments to or near people of that race-- well, you know what they say: silence is complicity. And whatever an individual’s reasoning is, that aspect needs to be acknowledged.

Ruby and Yang not speaking up seems to me more like a place of poor writing, than a decided character flaw. If Ruby and Yang’s silence is supposed to be from the discomfort of not knowing how to tackle a complex issue like racism, I think it needs to be acknowledged in some way in the story. I was under the impression that Vale (or Patch, since that’s where Ruby and Yang grew up) was a comparatively more progressive area, so I don’t think they’d have quite as much of an issue speaking up. But I can’t remember where I got that idea from, so maybe it is for them. Which is why the story needs to acknowledge it in some instance, because I’m otherwise left to make assumptions.

And while most of Weiss’ ire is directed at the White Fang, it is 100% about race as well. Someone who’s anger is not racially motivated would not bring up race as much as she does. And her comments are not directed at just the White Fang, the main ones I’m talking about when I call her a racist is her calling Sun a “filthy faunus” (which is just complete racism, there’s no justification for that kind of comment) and saying that he’d eventually join the White Fang. Yeah, she’s saying it because he broke the law, but it’s also a racially motivated and targeted statement. Blake even says as much to her and Weiss ignores that. And then she flat out says she doesn’t particularly trust the Faunus. Not the White Fang, the Faunus.

And that makes sense! She grew up and was indoctrinated in a system that held, benefitted from, and sanctioned these kinds of feelings towards the Faunus-- and that’s not even getting into her own experiences with the Faunus-- and she has had no real reason or opportunity to challenge those feelings. The issue I have is that the conflict that arises from her views also does not challenge them-- at least not in a satisfying way.

When I say that Weiss needs to face consequences for her actions, I mean purely from a standard storytelling perspective, in order to craft a satisfying narrative. Usually a character that is meant to develop has a flaw that directly causes / allows / continues a conflict. The character struggles from that direct conflict, and learns from it because of the struggle they had to endure. I’m not saying someone had to knock Weiss’ teeth out, but at most she is just inconvenienced by a day of searching for her friend. She doesn’t seem to struggle from the conflict at all (at least not in any way that we’re shown), and her development therefore does not feel earned. 

The consequences don’t need to be anything big, either. It could be something as simple as Yang and/or Ruby refusing to speak to Weiss until she apologizes. That’s a momentary consequence directly caused by her own actions that forces her to reflect and then change. Instead she spends some time looking for Blake while commenting the whole time about how wrong Blake is in the situation. What part of that forces Weiss to reflect on her own actions?

Comparatively, Blake’s flaw during this arc is defending the White Fang and running away from her team without discussing the issue with them. Her consequence is that she is proven wrong about the White Fang and gets into a fight with them, without the aid of her team. That’s why she’s able to come to Weiss with a changed perspective, because her old one was directly challenged.

When I say that the narrative frames Weiss positively and Blake negatively, it’s mostly at the conclusion of the conflict. It’s feels like both parties need to learn a lesson and grow as characters from this event, but that’s not how it ends when Weiss doesn’t even acknowledge her own contribution to the conflict (her casual racism) and admonishes Blake for her’s. Blake was in the wrong, but so was Weiss, at least in some way. She may have learned to drop her bigotry later, but it is because the plot demanded it, not because the writing justified it. And most people recognizing that Weiss is in the wrong is in spite of the writing, not because of it.

TLDR; The message with this conflict is too muddled. You’re right, the focus was mainly on the White Fang, but it shouldn’t have been. Weiss’ comments and feelings were racially motivated-- at least partially-- and that’s what sets Blake off in the first place. But that aspect is ignored completely once Blake reveals she was a member of the White Fang. The writers may not have intended for Weiss to be framed, narratively, as the “correct” one in the conflict, but that’s certainly how it felt as a viewer. 

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[bestworstcase]

Great, now a couple more questions about the life-death-rebirth cycle come to mind. Namely, isn’t it some level of unfair to punish characters who “break the rules” by resurrecting the dead when they don’t know that’s a rule in the first place?

Take Pietro. He had no idea about Remnant’s past nor any way to learn about it (the only conceivable courses are the relic spirits, which are off limits without a Maiden, and Lewis, who is dead and likely never told anyone beyond what he wrote), so why should he and Penny suffer for it?

Heck, you could make a similar argument for Salem and even the GoD, but really, I’d like to hear what this says about the GoL. He created and strictly enforced the entire false paradigm of death being eternal. Sooo… what about him?

(Sorry if I’m asking too many questions, you just have so many amazing insights.)

in the case of pietro and penny, it’s less about punishing wrongdoing than it is just a natural consequence of the way penny is treated (not just by pietro but by the whole system of the atlesian military) – why does she suffer? because her father built her as a living weapon owned by his very powerful employers and brought her back, after beacon, into a situation where she had zero autonomy. it’s implied that penny literally does not have down time – she’s either working or in standby mode, no time for friends. and when she breaks away from ironwood, he gets so obsessed with forcing her back under his control that he winds up treating salem assaulting his city as a secondary concern.

this has nothing whatsoever to do with some sort of cosmic punishment for “breaking rules” – there aren’t any rules at all, besides the arbitrary ones the brothers tried to impose and light is (notionally) still trying to enforce. the point is that abrogating someone’s personhood, taking away their autonomy in this manner, is wrong because it inflicts grievous harm on that person. and in a setting where death isn’t an ending but rather a moment of transition between the old life and the new, where nothing can happen to you except what you want to happen, it’s wrong to take that choice away from someone by bringing them back.

that’s not to say it would necessarily turn out badly every time – for example, in a world where the brothers decided to relax, salem and ozma would’ve been fine, probably; millions of years later when ozma’s given the chance to return to her, he eagerly takes it. but there’s always, inescapably, that dimension of wrongness. of not letting go. of not letting the person you love choose. (& this is why salem did the right thing in not ever trying to bring ozma back herself after the gods fucked off.)

the narrative explores this with penny through the extreme control she’s subjected to in life. she isn’t allowed to leave. she isn’t allowed to make her own choices. she isn’t even allowed to die, because the atlas military considers her its property, and her father loves her very much and is also cheerfully complicit in this system right until the moment his daughter gets branded a traitor.

pietro knowing or not knowing about the distant past or the arbitrary rules set by the gods doesn’t matter. what is salient is that he knows what he’s bringing his daughter back into – the military machine of atlas in which she is, against her will, a mere cog. and he’s fine with that.

(i do think it’s sort of interesting how blasé he is about penny being the protector of mantle early in v7, before public opinion turns against her; this is a dimension of his overprotectiveness that often gets overlooked, but pietro is completely fine with penny being atlas’s robotic supersoldier. similar to his blithe lack of concern about mantle’s network security, pietro has several massive blindspots because he has very much drunk the atlesian exceptionalism koolaid)

and eventually that view of penny – doesn’t matter if she dies, we’ll just bring her back; doesn’t matter if she’s unhappy, she’ll do what we built her to do with a smile on her face; doesn’t matter what she thinks or feels or wants, she’s under control – was going to come due. inevitably. in the same way that rhodes training cinder to fight and then putting a weapon in her hand had obvious, completely predictable consequences.

what happened with salem is a whole different kettle of fish because she is being punished – tortured, really – for not even breaking but just questioning an arbitrary rule that had no basis in reality. and of course that’s unfair; that injustice is the beating heart of the story because salem was and is right to loathe the brothers as tyrannical monsters. all she did was pray to both of them for something light didn’t want her to have.

and then light’s issue fundamentally is that he doesn’t understand destruction, and therefore disdains and fears it, so change terrified him and he’s obsessed with control. very much in the same mold as ironwood; by the time it gets to the point of light setting up the divine ultimatum it’s less about the original sin than his fixation on salem as The Aberration Who Must Be Corrected (By Punishing Her Until She Submits).