#hell - Para-Magic and Dust are very similar

[sir-adamus]

Final Fantasy VIII has a lot of influence on RWBY but the first most notable example was also foreshadowing

quite famously in the Yellow trailer, the picture Yang shows Junior of the person she's looking for is a piece that Monty had made years before titled Transient Princess, which had initially started as something with Rinoa Heartilly, a major character in VIII's story

Rinoa, during the events of FFVIII, becomes a Sorceress - the only real magic users in the setting, all Sorceresses are women and their power transfers to someone else when they die. Rinoa has a white feather motif and manifests wings when using her Sorceress power

we later learn that Yang was actually looking for her mother, Raven Branwen (whose last name means 'white or blessed raven'), who has a lot of feathers in her design

and then in volume 5 we learn that she's a Maiden, one of the only real magic users in the setting, all 4 Maidens are women and their powers transfer to someone else when they die

meaning it was right fucking in front of us before the show even started

[hubakon1368]

#there are so many big and small things in the show that track with VIII #like Yang and Ruby's dynamic and parental situation is a mix of elements from Squall and his adopted older sister Ellone #Yang and Blake's relationship is a mix-and-match of elements of Squall and Rinoa's (including ballroom dancing) #hell Yang's Beacon design seems to be based on a cosplay Monty made in 2010 of a genderbent Squall #the whole structure of the show - with the first act set at Beacon - is reminiscent of how VIII's story starts contained to Balamb Garden #before expanding out into the world #hell - Para-Magic and Dust are very similar #being ways for everyone to use magic but having to use resources to do instead of being able to use it naturally #oh and of course VIII is the game that introduced the gunblade and RWBY takes that to its logical conclusion #by making almost every melee weapon 'also a gun'

Preserving @sir-adamus' tags.

Final Fantasy VIII has a lot of influence on RWBY but the first most notable example was also foreshadowing

quite famously in the Yellow trailer, the picture Yang shows Junior of the person she's looking for is a piece that Monty had made years before titled Transient Princess, which had initially started as something with Rinoa Heartilly, a major character in VIII's story

Rinoa, during the events of FFVIII, becomes a Sorceress - the only real magic users in the setting, all Sorceresses are women and their power transfers to someone else when they die. Rinoa has a white feather motif and manifests wings when using her Sorceress power

we later learn that Yang was actually looking for her mother, Raven Branwen (whose last name means 'white or blessed raven'), who has a lot of feathers in her design

and then in volume 5 we learn that she's a Maiden, one of the only real magic users in the setting, all 4 Maidens are women and their powers transfer to someone else when they die

meaning it was right fucking in front of us before the show even started