#it’s like. the whole episode

[bestworstcase]

unrelated. “it’s not how it seems; well i suppose it is, but not the way you think, if you think like alyx… which it seems like you do!”

& “i gave him something new to do for the moment”

huntresses are heroes. we protect people who can’t protect themselves. eight volumes standing tall, bulwark between the grimm and the rest of the world. slaying monsters. keeping people safe

it’s not the real jabberwalker it’s neo. the first one walloped ruby pretty good but even doubled in size wby dusted it like it was nothing, and as soon as it shattered they recognized it as neo’s handiwork

go, the cat says. we’ll hold them off. run, says the rusted knight.

they run away and ruby looks over her shoulder and the hawker gets torn apart. they run away and the teapot lady sobs in terrified devastation and weiss whispers i am so tired of leaving places in ashes

the thing is they could have won this fight, easily. the real jabberwalker is a coward, neo’s constructs can only take a few hits each, and she only has so much aura.

but they’re so broken down. so scared. all this lacerating self-doubt lurking underneath.

there’s no shame in abstaining only in retreat

the cat tells them to go

the cat saved them from the red prince. the cat intervened to protect ruby during the herbalist’s trial. the cat gives them permission to retreat and they do because for all the “i am a huntress!” declarations they made an hour ago something broke in all of them when they lost the fight to save penny

something really critical happened here that’s getting lost in the wuh mind control noise—they just LEFT. weiss pulls ruby away and ruby watches the hawker die; weiss sees the rising smoke the terrified departures the teapot lady crying helplessly and ruby takes her by the hand and leads her silently away. these two blame themselves so much for letting atlas fall, for losing penny, for not knowing what happened next. and now jaune’s about to tell them exactly what happened next.

whether or not the cat ‘brainwashed’ the hawker (<- thoughts still cooking) i think the more salient concern for the kids, ruby and weiss in particular, will be that they ran away that they, within the ideological framework of the huntress system, let this happen something about the reversal of huntress-defends-civilian to civilian-dies-for-huntress here. like this is the locus of everything. the point of inflection. this is why they’re HERE

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[gammija]

nothing personal but this kind of comment rlly exemplifies to me a disconnect between canon and popular fanon jmart characterization because they almost literally had this conversation in canon - except, their lines are swapped!

jon, for all his scared grouchiness, is a secret romantic, while martin, for all his forced optimism, is at his core a pragmatist

[angelofdumpsterfires]

how i feel about all the changes in s3

[egophiliac]

he did it! 🐍 and it only took...uhhh...well, there probably could've been less punches, but why hold back!

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE

[cairafea]

my favourite genre of seventeen is when they're straight up lying

ref:

[awallflowerdraws]

i'll shelter and adore you more than anything

[nipuni]

Silence in the library

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on february 1st!

[laurrelise]

unfortunately it has been decided that this is one of the funniest scenes in the show, sorry i don’t make the rules

diego’s hand slowly bringing the knife into frame? peak comedy

luther’s “what the- put the knife away” literally never fails to make me laugh

don’t even get me started on klaus’ damn condoms

[stemmmm]

if you havent read my wife's gf fanfic WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!

(no sound)

[bixels]

Reminiscing about Little Witch Academia.

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 5x16 | “The Body” 

[doctorwhommm]

about to throw hands with l*ndy pepper bean

[observer1090]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Heh...Literally nothing personal, kid.

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[egophiliac]

we were fucking ROBBED