#let whitley summon the freaking hound

[dragynkeep]

Beta testers going ice skating!!!!

Whitley has been taking ice skating lessons since hes been a kid, so he spent most of the time holding penny straight and helping her keep balance.

Penny is embarrassed by her lack of skill but Whitley is too busy freaking out internally about them holding hands than to notice.

Bonus: mini hound summon with 4 little ice skates zooming around them

help this is so soft—

especially since penny isn’t used to being unskilled like this, she was installed with all the necessary requirements & excelled in every one but this, this she flounders in. & whitley is so soft & gentle with her, taking her along the ice rink carefully & not letting her fall even though she could take them both down wheeze.

the idea of 4 little mini hound summons is so fucking adorable.

[swapauanon]

Last Minute Volume 8 Part 2 Theories

Penny and Cinder

Watts will die the same way the Madame did, strangled to death by a child he tried to exploit while desperately using technology to try and regain control of her. Cinder will bear witness to this, and will, for the very first time since learning of Penny’s true nature, regard her as a person instead of a machine. She’ll still try to kill her for the Maiden Power, but throughout the entire battle with the badly beaten and exhausted Penny, will not make any attacks on Penny’s personhood out of newfound respect for her.

But when she actually wins, and goes for the killing blow, she won’t see Penny Polendina: she’ll see her younger self. And that brief moment of hesitation will be enough for Penny to get away as Cinder quietly reflects on her actions for the past 8 Volumes.

Oscar’s Redemption Train

Emerald will help Oscar escape with the Lamp of Knowledge, while Hazel will probably end up dying to help JOYRE (the E is for Emerald) to escape.

Winter’s Fall

Winter and the Ace Ops will run into Salem, who’ll seduce them to her side against Ironwood by appealing to their emotions. For Winter, Elm, and Vine, she’ll appeal to their loyalty to Atlas and basically point out how Ironwood’s mismanagement has gotten so many people killed, and how sacrificing him might be their only option. For Marrow, she’ll appeal to the fact that the Military has rewarded his loyalty with nothing but abuse since Day 1, playing off of his hatred of his coworkers. For Harriet, she’ll take advantage of her misplaced anger and promise to help her get even with Ruby. To sweeten the deal, she’ll even heal Winter’s injuries, while lamenting that magic can’t cure infections. When Marrow shows himself to be unsure of his current course of action, Winter will try to be reassuring (as seen by that trailer shot where Winter’s hand is conspicuously missing the braces she has to wear to walk).

Why Ironwood Freaked Out

When we see that trailer shot of Ironwood’s panicked reaction to something off screen: I came to the conclusion that, in the show itself, it’ll be the last time we see Ironwood alive.

Something will happen when the camera cuts away, but when it cuts back, we’ll see one of two things:

Penny strangling Watts to death while covered in Ironwood’s blood.

Winter standing over Ironwood’s corpse as her new Ironwood summon orders the Atlesian Army to stand down and announces that Atlas is surrendering and submitting to Salem’s rule. Neo will use her Semblance to make the Summon look like Ironwood while Cinder uses her Semblance to dispose of his corpse.

Either way, Winter will make Salem the Queen of Atlas, who’ll order the Military to open fire on the reinforcements Ruby called for.

The Hound

Will be revealed to have Summer inside of it. Cinder will witness the Hound regenerating around Summer’s body and realize THAT is what Salem plans to turn her into.

Marrow’s Arc

While Marrow will pretend to be okay with joining Salem’s faction, he will take the soonest opportunity to flee and defect to the hero’s side as soon as the fighting stops, as he knows that there’s not much he can do if Salem kills them.

Raven’s Role

Raven, Taiyang, and Zwei (who is still a good boy) will arrive and join up with Yang’s group, with Raven very clearly having not learned her lesson and still being a self-serving coward, at which point it will be revealed that QROW was the only one unaware that Raven was the Spring Maiden, instead thinking that Yang was and just didn’t know how to close the Vault. While Yang never said that Raven was the Spring Maiden, everyone else was able to piece it together from context clues and just didn’t press it, Ozpin not wanting to force Yang to discuss something she clearly wasn’t ready for (Yang feeling somewhat guilty for lashing out at Ozpin after learning this).

Raven, however, will die in the final episode in a purely performative heroic sacrifice where she detonates the bomb to destroy the Monstra, raining the Grimm Liquid contained within on Atlas and Mantle and causing a huge chunk of Atlas to collapse into the Crater. She only does this AFTER Salem has already relocated to Ironwood’s office and her final words before getting vaporized in the blast will be a spiteful “Now it’s your problem, daughter!” even though Yang isn’t there to hear her.

Blake however, will have heard from Marrow that the last he had seen of Yang she had gone in to rescue Oscar, and state that last he heard of it, Oscar was still imprisoned by Salem.

The Final Shot Before the Credits Role

Just as all hope seems lost, reinforcement from Mistral and Menagerie will arrive, setting the stage for Volume 9.

Where Do We Go From Here?

JOYR and RWBN will reunite in V9C1 and swap notes.

Yang, upon learning that Summer is still alive and inside the Hound, will come to the realization that her REAL mother is still alive and decide that she will find and rescue her mother.

Cinder will be left alone, having driven away Emerald, while Neo will have found a way into Salem’s inner circle. With nothing to do but reflect, she comes to the (rightful) conclusion that she’s a monster, and decides that the only way to atone is with her own blood. From this point until she’s finally freed of the Shadow Hand (the official name of her Grimm Arm), she’ll be a death seeker.

Winter, Elm, and Vine will be morally conflicted, and if Winter killed Ironwood herself, she’ll try and consult her Ironwood Summon for advice. Either way, she’ll have officially alienated her family.

With Hazel and Watts dead and Tyrian and Mercury in Vacuo, Salem will use Neo and the Ace Ops to replace her followers.

RWBYJRON will reconcile with Ozpin.

Emerald will develop a guilt-complex and start treating Penny the way she used to treat Cinder, much to Penny’s concern.

Yang and Blake will get to meet each other’s parents. Awkward hilarity ensues.

Ironwood is dead and nobody cares except for Winter.

Cordovin will show up with the reinforcements and she and Maria will find come to the horrifying realization that they are, for once, on the same side and have to work together.

Volume 9 Opening Guesses

We’ll have a shot of Salem placing a white king on a chess board. The white queen will turn into Winter as the king turns into either a Seer (if Penny killed Ironwood) or an Ironwood Summon (if Winter killed him) and the rest of the pieces turn into Winter’s other Summons, as the black pieces turn into the heroes, with the Black King turning into the Staff of Creation and Penny being the Black Queen (ironically enough).

The Happy Huntresses will fight Winter and the Ace Ops who haven’t defected yet, Robyn vs Harriet, Fiona vs Vine, Joanna vs Elm, and May vs Winter.

There’ll be a shot referencing the V7 OP where Weiss stands with her mother, Whitley, and Klein before the snow sweeps that image away to reveal Winter standing alone.

There’ll be a shot of Cinder glaring hatefully at her Beacon Arc self as the image of Amber materializes behind her, before Yang and Penny show up, the images of Raven and Fria behind them. All three will be using their Maiden Powers.

We’ll get a shot of Ruby, Taiyang, Yang, and Qrow reaching out for Summer, who gets dragged into the shadows, only for the Hound to lunge out to meet them.

Maria and Cordovin will awkwardly shake hands while glaring at each other and visibly tightening their grips to try and get the other to let go.

The final shot will be the Vault of the Winter Maiden opening to reveal the Monty Oum credit every OP closes on.

[shadows-twilight]

RWBY Volume 8 Chapter 8

Finally, we are back from this unholy hiatus! So, without further ado, here are my thoughts and opinions of RWBY’s 100th episode, “Dark”

SPOILERS BELOW:

Not even trying to be subtle with that title, are we?

For a moment of levity, I love how confused Robyn must be. As far as I know, she has no idea about Qrow’s secret ability, so seeing the smoke clear and seeing some random corvid bitching at her must have really sent her for a loop.

Yay! Nora’s awake! And she gets to meet Klein. This is a good day.

“Hey, medical doctor! We need you to fix a robot.” “And you think I know how to do that? If anything, that’s more your expertise, Miss I-built-my-own-transformer-sniper-scythe-from-scratch”

Damn, those giant jellyfish monsters are just terrifying.

A wild Momma-Schnee appears!

Look at our boy Whitley coming into his own! I am so proud of him!

Is there a specific for when you ship a pair, but no in canon? Like, you ship it to the moon and back, but you’d never want to see it become real? Well, that’s me for Ladybug, and right now that part of me is feeling INCREDIBLY WELL FED!!! We’re finally getting some Ruby/Blake interactions and it is EVERYTHING I COULD HAVE EVER WANTED!!! now we just need some White Rose content and I will be a happy bean.

Should anything ever happen with RWBY, CRWBY should move on to try their hands at a proper horror shows. They are proving to be quite effective at it.

Willow’s demeanor is certainly interesting to me. To the people who would know better than me, is it normal for alcoholics/addicts to freak out like this under stressful situations? To me it feels like their might be some underlying trauma bubbling to the surface, but I’m not the kind of person who would know.

Hacked!Penny has joined the game! I like that she’s fighting back, though

Oh, so the disgusting vomit grimm was just some kind of Alpha-Centinal. Makes sense.

Nora is melting my heart at an alarming rate!

Willow is the woman in the chair! I like that the cameras she hid around the house came back around.

I swear, it’s like the Hound saw how much we loved the Apathy as a horror monster and said “Please, let me show you how it’s really done.” God, this thing is so fucking creepy!

Ooh, it’s tracking the blood on everyone’s clothes! Clever. Guess that explains why it went for Ruby first.

Congratulations, Whitley, you’re now in a Jurassic Park movie.

The Hound talking will never not be unsettling as all hell.

Willow Summon!

Aww, Whitley took the risk to confirm the order before running! I’m so proud of him! This has been a really good episode for the Schnee family.

Here we Ladybug fans thought we were fed with that first scene, now we see RT’s coming out with seconds.

“I must open the vault, and then Self-Terminate.” No! Bad Ironwood! How dare you make Penny reference Terminator in such a way!

Would slitting Penny’s throat actually do anything to her? I know what Klein said about her basic anatomy and all that, but the fact still remains that she is a robot.

Ruby uses Silver Eyes! It was...not quite as effective as it really should have been.

Ok, real talk, was I the only one who thought this dude was Adam for a brief second?

What I find interesting is, while this confirms that the Hound was not indeed Summer Rose, it doesn’t destroy the idea entirely. Whoever this poor bastard was, he was a Silver-Eyed Warrior, and Salem called him an experiment. This Hound may not have been Summer, but there’s nothing saying that the next one can’t be.

As much as I hate Cinder and love Watts, seeing her throw him around like a ragdoll is incredibly hilarious.

Holy shit, that was an episode worthy of being #100. CRWBY once again dipped their toes into the horror genre and man did they deliver. I am both excited and horrified to see what comes next!