#V7E1

[aknolan]

ok so can you explain how nnd have more buildup then other ships (not a rant)

Is the "not a rant" like, an instruction for me? Because I am very bad at not going off on a rant but the good news is I'm not currently interested in giving the full overview anyways so I'll stick to the main points of their buildup.

This is going backwards a little but looking at volume 9, I mean, it's pretty clear? Penny's death is a big part of Ruby's current breakdown and it's because Penny is so deeply important to Ruby. And when you consider how different parts of the scene with Neo's constructs are framed? When not!Penny starts talking, everything goes quiet. No fighting, no running, just not!Penny talking to Ruby, and Ruby listening. This is where you put the love interest in a scene all about an antagonist using the protagonist's emotional weak spots!

Neo was trying so hard to hit Ruby where it hurts, and all the other attempts include physical violence, but this? This just just emotional. This is what Neo thinks will hit the hardest, and from a meta-perspective it's what the writers think is the most meaningful part.

Going back though, I feel like it's a little bit obvious to tell how important Ruby is to Penny, right? Like, we all know that? First friend, first to treat her like a person, etc. etc.

The other way around, up to v3 there's not that much for how important Penny is to Ruby, really. I'll accept that. There's nothing necessarily distinguishing Ruby's grief over being too late to save Penny from her grief over being too late to save Pyrrha later either. But v7 is when Penny returns, and it's interesting! Really interesting!

This is where Penny starts getting consistently framed as Ruby's love interest. It's like that one post about her return in v7e1, "goddamn anime love interest framed by the fucking moon", if I'm quoting it right. And the v7 intro showing an image of a very happy Penny at the end of the phrase "in time you'll find through love your power just shines" is also some love interest framing. Then of course the election night episode pairs up a couple of characters, Ren and Nora of course, Blake and Yang going dancing, and then... Ruby and Penny hanging out. And of course the repeated important conversations happening, and the thing where Ruby almost fell asleep on Penny's shoulder which is just like, such a ship tease moment.

But v7 isn't that clear about it, so I get if that's not very convincing. I think it's more than any other ship has but the really big stuff gets there in v8.

The volume where they really Cannot Stop Hugging, and where Ruby promises they'll see eachother again soon, and Ruby's silver eyes are (not for the first time!) suddenly able to activate when Penny's in danger, and Ruby holds onto Penny so tightly - so afraid to let go because something is wrong and she can't lose Penny, and they all use the relic of creation to save Penny before they do anything else (and yeah I hate that scene but it's meaningful and I won't deny that it's meaningful), and yeah saving Penny is the theme of the volume because she was the winter maiden but for Ruby it's not about that. She can't lose Penny.

And then she loses Penny and she literally passes out the moment she finds out.

To bring it all back down to something simple, when the antagonist torments the protagonist with someone close to her saying the words "can you imagine what that's like? To be completely and utterly failed, time and again, by someone who meant the world to you?" after which the protagonist is more distraught then we've seen her all volume, in a volume all about how distraught she is all the time? That person meant the world to the protagonist too.

So yeah, I'm inclined to say they've got more buildup than any noncanon ships, you are free to point something out to me if there's a ship with a ton of buildup that I'm somehow missing but like... I'd be shocked.

[elliesgaymachete]

Starting v7e1 with my gf and I am calm I am cool I am collected everything is fine no one is dead (again) (yet) I will not cry the moment I hear salutations

[ideas4ever]

Since Ironwood gave them their huntsmen/huntresses licenses, they were official Atlesian huntsmen/huntresses. So in his mind at least, they were official members of his military and thus under his command. He and the Ace-ops probably saw Ruby’s group’s “betrayal” as insubordination from “ungrateful subordinates” more than disagreements from allies/friends.

The only one this didn’t count towards was Qrow, but we already knew from V7E1 how little Ironwood cares about foreign huntsmen authority.

Not that I want to start up the Ironwood discourse again but one thing really bugged me about how it all went down and it's mostly his and the AceOps reaction.

Team RWBY+JNRO+Qrow were not under Ironwood's command. They were cooperating as a courtesy.

Non-Atleasian huntresses/huntsmen are independent contractors or even mercenaries.

So, honestly, the team was well within their rights to answer to their own consciences and morals.

[yinyangofnevermore]

Every time Yang and Blake smile when looking at/after looking at/because of each other in volume 7 (as of V7C9)

[rarasdomain]

PENNY RETURNS 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hellalesbiangirl]

Ace ops have a Faunus memebr!

[lacependragon]

Emerald and Mercury’s new looks in V8E1

[conehatcryptid]

RWBY V7E1 mood

Additionally:

I'm so ready for Robyn to say "fuck capitalism" and kick Jacques Schnee's teeth in please RT make it happen

[peridotite]

ruby may have taken after qrow in the scythe + aesthetic sense but yang definitely inherited his punching

[mrdistracted]

“I have absolutely no idea who that child was. Is she important somehow?”

Maria has the same energy as Toph not knowing anyone from season one of ATLA

[geekreate]

RWBY & crew vs Grimm — V7E1

(part 1 - part 2)

[stickyphantom]

v7e1 review

So yeah, I've decided to write some brief reviews of the rwby eps this volume, mostly to get my thoughts down on paper so to speak.

Starting with episode 1.

I really really liked this episode. It picks up right where volume 6 left off, and it's a good place to start. The crew is nervous about landing in Atlas in a stolen airship, so they understandably decide to detour into Mantle to collect their thoughts and get some space.

Weiss slam dunking the drunk into the dumpster was very cathartic, but also shortsighted. Blake isn't safe in Mantle like she was at Beacon, so it's understandable that she was trying to diffuse the situation (even if, morally, she wasn't in the wrong). Also, they're trying to keep a low profile, but that doesn't seem to be in Weiss's vocabulary lol. I would have liked to see this turn into a plot thread later on, where Weiss gets herself into more trouble, but since ep 2 is out now... well, that doesn't happen. :) Moving on...

We get to meet Penny's dad! AND PENNY! I know some folks were unhappy with her return, since there didn't seem to be consequences for her death, but I was never really that attached that idea. I knew that, as a robot, there was a huge chance she was going to come back, so I'm not that broken up about it. Besides, Cinder got what she wanted anyway. The world no longer trusts Atlas, so the job is done. Now it's about repairing those relations. But that's a discussion for later.

It's cool to see that Pietro made Yang's arm (and Maria's eyes!). I'm looking forward to the upgrades she gets, and what it can do.

And now for the grimm attack! Looks like Mantle isn't as secure as the rest of the kingdom, so that's a little unnerving. And I think that's going to be represented with Robyn's campaign against Jacques.

Alas, the group is captured. Looks like their little detour was futile, but at least Mantle is safe for now.

[captain-ezri-dax]

why do i always get so nervous before a new episode of rwby!! like!! im shallow breathing!! i’ve got butterflies in my stomach!!! im nervous!!!!!!

[raeezor]

blake you’re so pretty when you look at your gf like that

Screencap redraw from V7E1 - reference below the cut

[empress-s]

Redrew that one red tailer shot of Ruby in front of the moon

Not rlly a fan of how it turned out tho so i might end up redrawing it (i might also shatter the moon bc its kinda bugging me)

Im also gonna do the other 3 + Penny's one in v7e1

[sedlex]

The drunk guys from V7E1 made it to Vacuo.

(without any change of clothes, but hopefully the racist who was thrown into the trash cleaned himself up at some point)