#pls let weiss be okay

[unofficialadamtaurus]

First of all CONGRATS for finishing! It could not have been easy (I say as I remember all the times you were sore, bruised, and/or sick while trying to write a chapter LIKE BRUH), especially when each and every chapter is god tier. Seriously homie, you’re amazing!!

But FOR REAL WTF?? these dudes keep working after having infiltrated a massive fucking whale, stopped a Grimm invasion, got exploded to bits, and fought an immortal milf? Babes pls get some. Idk. SLEEP.

Naw but i really do love to see it. Also especially love to see how much they support each other through it 🥹 honestly the highlight of the chapter for me.

GOD like this moment when all of RWBY hug is HNNNNGSOZHBEHAOXH

Blake and Weiss joined the hug by some unspoken signal. Ruby melted into their embrace like so many petals and Blake's heart melted with her. "I missed you guys."

THEY ARE FAMILY OKAY AND I JUST GXHWIYZBXOYWNJ

Ruby is being particularly adorable too (the carrots line killed me 💀) but also like GURL YOU ARE LITERALLY BLIND RN STAY IN BED??

Yang nodded. "We'll get through it. Speaking of getting through things…can we talk?"

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Yang shuddered at her touch. Their lips brushed when Blake continued: "Let's skip that part this time."

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THOSE TWO ARE SO *frantic arm gestures* YKNOW??? Im happy they got a happy ending because yeah I doubted it for sec okay 😩

LMAO at the reoccurring Oscar interruption but wait FUCK THE KID IS FUCKING DYING?? UGH god I didn’t expect the Oscar and Ozpin thing to hurt as much as it did. Ozpin deserves good things too dammit whyyy 😭😭

GODDAMN Adam and Blake conversations are always so top tier is2g. There’s something I love so much about this conversation brooo. Blake’s resolve and care towards him just 🥹 UGH. her unwavering stares? Easily expressed gratitude? Instant forgiveness (nothing to really forgive cuz like corruption feels like shit and pretty violating and traumatizing tbh fr but she does it anyway to help him feel better ANDANDAND—)? THE LETTER???

OWHXISOWHXNIWOEUDNCKEIHWKFIW I JUST LOVE IT WHEN SOMEONE CARES ABOUT HIM AND HE FEELS IT OKAY

And FUCK I love this part

He swallowed and looked away, unsure how to respond to that. He didn't want to say "You're welcome," because they weren't, and this was never going to happen again. Even if, in some small corner of his heart, the knowledge that he'd helped to save the world like some kind of fantasy hero radiated a gentle heat that would warm him for a long time to come.

YOU DIDNT HAVE TO GO THAT HARD HOMIE IM ALREADY CRYIN 😭

Also LIVING for Neo and Adam team up. Neo’s expressive mannerisms are genuinely so fun to read UGH it’s PERFECT. And the “Don’t stay too long” for Qrow OAISBXOIENWOWIDN

He clipped Blush to his belt and let the spark flare unhindered.

Homie when I tell that IM FUCKING LIVING FOR THISS

"'Part of starting over is saying goodbye. You were first; now it's my turn. If you want to, you'll see me again.

"'Goodbye, Blake.'"

OWJDNEOWHNDDIJENEIDNXIEUWNDIFUENEIDIXJNWO IM EMOTIONAL

wait omfg I think I forgot to mention to Jaune 💀 I don’t hate him I swear The way his semblance and aura are practically working against each other is a REALLY interesting and nice touch, and i don’t think ive ever seen it applied like this. And I love his “i went from nothing to nothing line” and how he’s just so glad he was able to save somebody. 🥹 it captured that part of his character so well and tbh the same goes for all the others (me @ ruby rn is going “bitch is you BLIND”). It’s a really neat touch to the chapter!!

I can't tell if you've read the epilogue yet, but either way I am injecting every keysmash in this message directly into my veins. Your reviews were one of the things I most looked forward to when writing a new chapter - I was excited to see which lines you'd specifically comment on. You're probably at least 20% of the reason this story got finished at all lol.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for never failing to bring a smile to my face when commenting 😊

[summerrose]

A much needed hug for Weiss

[harbinngr]

@mosaiqk​  :   “   don’t  talk  about  yourself  like  that .   ”   ↠   𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝 / 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝  𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚜   ||   𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐

qrow  doesn’t  turn  around  at  first .    he  simply  closes  his  eyes ,   lets  lashes  sweep  away  budding  tears ,  &  tries  to  will  his  lungs  to  just  breathe .   inhale ,   &  exhale .   breaking  down  a  looming  eternity  into  mere  seconds .  facing  weiss  seems  daunting  somehow ---   from  winter’s  demeanor ,   it’s  not  hard  for  him  to  piece  together  what  their  shared  childhood  must  have  looked  like .   controlling ,   cold ,   rigid .  

he  wishes  he  could  find  the  right  words  for  her ,   to  summon  whatever  optimism  he  can  muster ,  &  tell  her  it’ll  be  okay .   but  how  could  he  say  something  so  empty ---    especially  to  yet  another  child  ozpin  has  forced  to  face  the  end  of  the  world ?

after  a  moment ,   he  regains  his  emotional  footing ,  &  turns .

‘  sorry ,   weiss ,  ‘    qrow  says ,   shame  peeking  its  way  through  his  apology .   ‘  you’re  right .   i  just --- ‘  a  tired  sigh .   has  he  always  looked  this  exhausted ?   ‘  i  can’t  help  but  feeling  like  i’m  putting  you  kids  in  danger . ‘

[howlingday]

Whitely presses the emergency button.

Whitely: Orange is faking tasks!

Roman: Uh, I am not.

Whitely: You were standing still in the laboratory for almost a full minute!

Roman: Uh, I am trying to reverse Doodle search what kind of dinosaurs are in these fossils!

Ruby: I don't think we have enough evidence to vote yet.

Winter: I concur. Let us skip.

No one is ejected.

Roman presses the emergency button.

Roman: Okay, so, according to reverse Doodle search, none of these fossils match with any known fossil records, because they are cartoons.

Weiss: Shut up and let us do tasks.

Whitely: White sus.

Weiss: Nice try, bedwetter. Jaune saw me do trash chute.

Jaune: It's true! I did indeed see her shoot trash.

Whitely: Then they're both imposters!

Ruby: Whitely, there's only one imposter.

Whitely: Um...

Weiss: lmao bye kid

Whitely: WAIT! NO!

Whitely was ejected.

Whitely was not the imposter.

Qrow hits the emergency button.

Qrow: RAVEN

Raven: Qrow is the imposter.

Qrow: Raven has been chasing me the entire game and is CLEARLY trying to kill me!

Raven: I just like watching you run, bird boy! Plus, I saw Qrow come out of a vent.

Qrow: YOU LIAR! You did not!

Raven: Did too!

Qrow: Did not!

Raven: Did too! Sus! Big sus! Big bird sus!

Winter: Qrow, is this true? Are you, indeed, sus?

Qrow: I have been watching the security cameras for half the game, and the other half Raven's been chasing me!

Weiss: Well, Jaune and I were in security when the button was pressed, and I didn't see you there.

Qrow: That's because I was the one who pushed the button!

Weiss: Don't yell at me! Jaune, vote Black!

Jaune: Yes, Miss Weiss!

Qrow: WHAT?!

Qrow was ejected.

Qrow was not the imposter.

Raven hits the emergency button.

Raven: Hold up. Nora, where have you been all game?

Nora: I finished all my tasks, I've just been running around.

Roman: Already?

Nora: Yeah!

Weiss: How is that even possible?! We just started this game, and half of it has been emergency meetings.

Jaune: How do I do the card minigame?! I don't understand!

Nora: You can do it if you know how to ZOOM! Also, doing all the tasks as the imposter is so much easier, because you can vent, and the imposter doesn't have to do tasks.

Jaune: How do I vent?!

Weiss: Wait. Raven said she saw Qrow vent, but he wasn't the imposter.

Raven: Can I curse?

Ruby: No.

Raven: Oh yeah I lied. lmao I just hate that bird brain.

Weiss: Bye

Raven was ejected.

Raven was not the imposter.

Winter hits the emergency button.

Winter: Miss White, I fear I have grown suspicious of you. You have been eager to vote off our many compatriots a

Winter: Sorry. Character limit.

Winter: And yet none of them were the imposter.

Weiss: Are you serious? Jaune already said he saw me do trash. I'm clear.

Ruby: Visual tasks are off.

Jaune: Yes! Miss Weiss private messaged me to tell everyone I saw her shoot trash.

Weiss: #$%@!

Weiss: $%@#!

Weiss: %@#$!

Weiss: @#$%!

Winter: Lying AND swearing? Your crimes are numerous indeed.

Roman: Psh! Not that numerous.

Weiss was ejected.

Weiss was not the imposter.

Nora presses the emergency button.

Nora: How we all doin?

Nora was ejected.

Nora was not the imposter.

Jaune presses the emergency button.

Jaune: pls

Jaune: Vote me off

Roman: Uh...

Jaune: I have failed Miss Weiss. I could not protect her. It is only right that I follow her out in the airlock!

Roman: I can respect that.

Winter: Miss Rose. You are the only one left with an emergency meeting button. After voting off Mr. Arc, please vote me off.

Ruby: Why?! After Vomit Boy, there will only be three of us left, and if we vote it down to two, then the imposter wins!

Winter: Among Us is simply a game. The imposter changes every round, and their crimes have no consequence. I, however, am a specialist, a real one. It is my job to solve crimes and uncover criminal activity, yet under my w

Winter: Sorry. Character limit.

Winter: Yet under my watch, I have sent several innocents out into the unforgiving vacuum of space. I am unfit to wear this badge.

Winter: The only imposter

Winter: is me

Roman: ACAB

Jaune was ejected

Jaune was not the imposter

Winter was ejected

Winter was not the imposter

RUBY WAS THE IMPOSTER

Whitely: I'm so mad! She didn't even kill anyone!

Raven: See, this is what I keep saying! Y'all need to get more comfortable murdering children! Vindication for Raven! I'm the real winner.

[variousincorrectxreader]

Mind if I request Coco, Winter, Yang and Velvet (all 4 from RWBY) with gender neutral video game reviewer S/O?

Of course, honey! I didn't know what you wanted, so I just did head canons, sorry (030) I also ran out of ideas so I didn’t do Velvet, I might do her later when I have inspiration, sorry once more-

Coco Adel

Okay, she 100% calls you Her nerd

She won't admit it, but she loved watching your video's before you met.

She's played a few games, lesbhonest

So she loves making requests on what games you should play/review and she loves how you analyse them properly without any bias

If you’re streaming she’ll either burst in to embarrass you or she’ll join the stream and Superchat heaps of flirty shit LMAO

Will stop if you seriously don’t like it though. She understands its a job as well as a hobby

(won’t stop the superchat flirts though.)

But your viewers LOVE her

Honestly whenever you go live everyone is like: “Omg is ur gf gonna be here as well????” Or “@GAYMER WHERES UR GF”

Honestly you can’t tell if they’re there for you or your fashionista S/O sometimes

Enjoys hearing about your interests and opinions on games, she may not seem like it though. Its more of a ‘talks a lot/listens dynamic’

She finds it cute when you ramble over a new game you played, or a certain character from a game.

As mentioned above will join your streams, sometimes she games with you mainly its just her cuddling you and trying to distract you.

Overall a very fun relationship

Okay no offense but how did you bag her LMAO

She sometimes questions how she fell for such a dork but when she sees you smile shes like “Omg please stop being so cute I’m supposed to be calm and composed rn.”

Doesn’t fully understand your interests in games or reviewing them but nonetheless, she tries to engage

Im imagining you trying to teach her how to play your favorite games in her rare offtime but it doesn’t really work out

She just sticks to watching you game

Has only appeared once in a Livestream and it was an accident 

“Love, where do you keep the- oh, sorry, I didn’t know you were live, excuse me.” 

Okay wait Winter calling you love JKAJDEIJDEIO

Anygays

The chat eXPLODED with things like “OMG WHO DAT!?!?” and “WOW MOMMY” and other things like that

everyone thinks Winter is mommy now and who am I to disagree

You told her and she just rolled her eyes LMAO

Believe it or not she does remember everything about everything you tell her about.

Despite not playing any games with you she makes an effort to engage in conversation about the things you love

Besides the point but your viewers beg for her to come on to a live again and she always responds with a no LMAO

Still doesn’t understand your love for games but she understands her love for you <3

(okay this fanart tho-)

Yang has a side channel on DustTube (YT) and you can pry that away from my cold dead body.

Thats actually how you two met! Fellow gamers, shes more into just the playing side rather than the analysis stuff 

But she thought the way you analysed everything was really funny so she was like, lets contact them!

She loves streaming with you whenever she has time

Sometimes Ruby will join you two but it’s mainly 1 on 1 dates rather than hangouts

Both of you use gamer terms and memes around her team and Weiss and Blake are like “Wtf is this language”

They love and hate you because the PUNS

The two of you love making puns and they really love that you make her happy but please, stop making puns every 0.00000000000000001 seconds.

She loves cuddling together while gaming, its just so heartwarming and cute

sometimes you two fall asleep like that

Okay but the ragequits are memes in your following now.

Like: #IPULLEDAYANGTODAY or “Guys I almost made like @AsImP’s gf today pls help”

She finds some of them funny but like, it gets kinda old

But like, everyone thinks your gf is damn hot ngl

Loves playing horror and fighting games with you Has probably broken a controller out of surprise from a jumpscare.

100% most compatible relationship in my head

[kurokaneee]

I am so not okay right now

FUCKING CLIFFHANGER I CAN'T WAIT A WEEK. I NEED TO KNOW IF WEISS IS OKAY NOW.

[luminoushane]

Been making a TOH x RWBY au and accidentally made it Frosen steel 😭😭 they are inevitable.

Anyways-

It's under the cut!!

Enter Ruby Rose. Typical kid with anxiety back in school. Totally not half witch, with a witchy dad and a witchy half-sister, nope. Totally normal. (Lies)

Summer rose (who is alive) is pretty busy with her new job, bit she can't leave poor, 14 year old Ruby alone all the time in the house.

So what does she do? Why, send her off to a magical world with her dad and her sister for the summer, or course!

Yang and Ruby get along so well it's scary. Tai and Qrow now have two monsters on their home.

"wdym you don't have summer break here? That's tragic. Can I go to witchy school too?"

So she does

At first, Ozpin was a little hesitant to let in a half witch bc of the bullying she might endure. But Tai proposed that it was only for a few months, and Ruby would leave anyway

He agrees. "Don't get in trouble" he says

She gets in trouble

Oh no. She befriends Blake, who wanted to "get even" with this white haired girl for being so mean to her . This white haired girl who turns out to be Weiss Schnee herself.

Blake and Ruby are friends but only bc Blake owes her one but y'know what she's nice Blake thinks,,, a little sister, mayhaps. A little sister indeed when she sees her older sister, "hoo boy is it hot in here or is it you- wait no. Keep it together, Blake"

Weiss does not like Ruby at all "what are you doing here, hybrid? Shouldn't you be on you stupid human School? Or are you not allowed there too?"

Ruby: "Oh god you're scary, pls don't 🙏 we can be friends :D??? Oh she left..."

Weiss, in her head: "who the fuck is god?"

Ruby runs along the woods and encounters a beast, a BEAST! WONDERFUL! SHE CAN SHOW OFF HOW WELL SHE CAN FIGHt and she doesn't have magic. Oh well. It's been a good few days. Oh, someone saved her

"hey, are you okay?" The stranger with the sweetest voice asks. She even has this pretty white cape and gold belt and- oh it's an emperor's coven guard. One who apparently, must be from the higher-ups, considering the gold mask.

"fine. I'm fine" Ruby looks away bc ohhhhhh she has such a pretty voice gay panic gay panic g-

"you must be the half witch, no? I've heard so much about you." "Good things, I hope?" "..." "...good things, right?..."

After that incident, she now has a mysterious guard friend.

Weiss still dislikes her, a lot. And it doesn't help that her sister and Blake are too busy flirting with each other. One faithful day, she catches resident bully; Cardin Winchester, talking to Weiss. It doesn't sound good at all, they sound aggressive. It's an argument. Ruby couldn't hear much, but Weiss seemed intimidated when Cardin stepped closer, a spell circle ready. Oh, that wasn't gonna fly.

"Hey, leave her alone" says local half witch who hasn't mastered what little magic she has. Cardin laughs bc c'mon she's so short and tiny what can she do

Oh she took karate classes

Oh woe is Ruby who got sent to detention

(she met team jnpr there!)

Weiss is waiting for her outside the school. "Are you crazy, hybrid? You could've gotten expelled!" "Well, you could've gotten hurt!" "I can defend myself, thank you very much. I'm stronger than you! I have magic!"

Ruby looks down "right..." Weiss grabs her wrist and inspects it. "He grabbed your hand very hard, does it hurt? Why would you even do that? You think you're some strong hero? You could've gotten killed!"

Ruby looks up at her, fascinated. "Oh... Uhm, sorry." She pulls away and runs back home.

Slams door open "YANG I HAVE A CRUSHES WHAT DO"

"A WHAT"

Ruby explains like "So this one girl the other day was soooo nice to me and saved me and she has such a pretty voice and today I got sent to detention for protecting Weiss and after that she was worried I'd get hurt and she held my hand and she was checking if I had bruises and she tucked her pretty white hair behind her ear and-" "YOU GOT WHAT"

Ruby has been meeting up with her new guard friend. She's never seen her face :/. When Ruby asks about it, she goes "Just promise me you won't tell anyone, okay?" And Ruby lifts up the mask and stares at the green eyes of a cute redhead with a pretty smile.

RUBY FALLS OVER GOOD B Y E

"My name is Penny. You don't have to call me "miss guard" anymore 😅 it feels... Weird"

"okay pretty- I MEAN PENNY"

"also? Thanks for saving my girlfriend back there. She's said some good things about you today."

"your what"

Ruby goes back home, dejected. "YAAANNGGHHH THEY'RE DATING EACH OTHER! I AM LITERALLY THE EPITOME OF GRIEF AND LONELINESS! IMAGINE! YOU HAVING A CRUSH ON TWO PEOPLE! THEN THEY'RE DATING!"

"ask both of them out"

"huh"

"Ruby it's 2021. Polyamory exists."

"huh you have a point. Maybe... Maybe..."

[pilot-boi]

Ja--e. Pl---e he-- -s. Yo- ---d t- k--- be---e --nd --t P---ha's bo-- -s re--im--e-. --lem --ek- to --e h-- -od- -s a t--- to ---trol -ou! Sh- i- -one Ja--e. Re--mbe- t-at!

A staticky voice fills Jaune’s ears and he jumps up with a yell. “Stop, stop, stop-” He claps his hands over his ears, his fingers crushing the feathers there.

“Jaune!” Yang yells, clambering up with the others.

The voice is screamingly loud, and scratchy as a shattered record. It sounds panicked, desperately trying to tell him something, to push through some kind of barrier. “Stop! Stop, please!” Jaune yells, vainly pushing his hands harder over his ears. “Please, I don’t understand, I don’t understand-!”

Blake gets to him first, reaching her hands up to comfort him. Her eyes are narrowed with concern, and her lips are mouthing words, but he can’t hear them over the thunderstorm of static in his ears. It’s like nails on a chalkboard, but a million times worse.

A chainsaw on a chalkboard. And the chalkboard is his ear drums.

“It hurts, please!” Jaune is sobbing. He thought that he’d run out of tears. “Please stop!” Tai is in front of him now, scaled hands on his cheeks, eyes bright with worry. Ruby put her hands on his cheeks when she was comforting him earlier. Like father like daughter.

And the screeching static stops. Maybe the message was done, or maybe they’d just gotten bored with torturing him.

He can’t hear Tai’s comforting words, or Blake’s worried purring over the ringing in his ears. For a second Jaune isn’t a hundred percent sure it has stopped, the ringing is so loud.

But slowly it fades.

“What was that??” is the first question out of Blake’s mouth.

Jaune is shaking. His hands are glowing with Healing when he lowers them from his ears, and he realizes there’s blood on them. “I don’t know,” he rasps. “But… I think it’s a warning.”

“What kind of warning involves you having to scream your head off??” Weiss asks, her ears pressed flat against her head. “You’re already in the hospital, haven’t you gotten hurt enough?!”

Jaune shrugs. Getting hurt is what he’s for.

“A warning…” Blake murmurs thoughtfully, but she doesn’t elaborate.

A nurse knocks on the door, and everyone turns around. “Sir?” They look throughly rumpled. “A woman who says she’s your wife is at the front desk.” They glance nervously over their shoulder. “I don’t want to have to call security, but the girl she has with her-”

“Oh shit, Raven,” Tai swears. He turns from the door and wipes a tear off Jaune’s face, face wearing a worried frown. “You gonna be okay? It’s just I’ve-”

“We’ve got him, dad,” Yang says, stepping up to Jaune’s side. “Go make sure mom doesn’t attack anyone.” Tai nods and leaves the room.

“I’d be more worried about Cinder,” Jaune comments. He rubs a hand over his chest, fingers catching on the bandages. He’s mostly healed it, but the wound is still tender. “She’s… she’s dangerous…”

“Believe me, I am,” Yang replies shortly. “Now sit down before you fall down,” she advises, pulling Jaune to the ground. “What kind of big sis would I be if I let you make your injuries worse?”

“Sister?”

“Shut up, Rubes.”

Jaune watches their antics, feeling safe but slightly detached from the situation. Cinder is here, she’s in the building. Is she going to try and take him back?

Would he argue? He plans to turn himself in anyway. Anything to buy his friends more time.

The warning keeps playing in his head, in all its scratchy and screaming glory. What does it mean? Was it to keep him safe or to keep his friends safe?

And why now?

[lunatriense]

Weiss for that bingo?

Second-best girl, after Pyrrha (which makes Schneekos the OTP power couple par excellence, naturally). Love her to death, sympathise with her in a lot of ways, but damn did RT drop the ball hard on the follow-through with her character development!

Let's get into it.

Wasted potential

The Atlas arc in particular had so much squandered potential for Weiss, so many things that needed to be done with the way her story had been set up that were totally ignored. Her family issues were either twisted upside down, rushed through, or barely touched on. Her supposedly redeeming the Schnee name was completely dropped. She needed to realise the damage her family had done to the exploited workers at home and the land and people abroad, and we've really had none of that (and it doesn't seem likely we will going forward either). She hasn't learnt about the evils of systemic racism or classism or mega-capitalism.

All of this, all of it could've been such a wonderful development for a character like Weiss but RT just… didn't care about it.

Nothing I like about them is technically canon

Not exactly nothing, but much of what I like about her is more fanon, especially so for Schneekos fanon. They're deeper than they seem and if they were real I'd marry them tie into this, too (not necessarily with Schneekos, though that adds even more).

They work better as part of a dynamic

Okay, so I don't mean that she doesn't work alone, but she works amazingly well alongside Pyrrha (where they can relate to the isolation of fame and expectation and support each other in ways no one else could), Yang (fire and ice, need I say more?), and Blake (Schnee heiress and White Fang officer? yes pls).

[kitkatopinions]

(Rabbithole Anon) Y'know, I was going to send in an ask about just they could have made a compelling way to show how some people may have become hunters through pressure rather than an age excuse if they wanted to say some people weren't ready (joining to protect a friend who wanted to be one, wanting to travel for a variety of reasons, it being a general expectation but the person being hesitant) but it led to me wondering wait, would certain careers require a hunting lisence?

Okay, I love this rabbit hole. XD It illustrates a couple of RWBY problems here and it's the fact that they often are lacking in the character development/character journey department, and that they're often lacking in the world building department.

We actually have plenty of characters that can serve as examples for people who maybe should've thought twice about entering the Academy (when they did.) There are people who entered the Academy for the wrong reasons/not noble reasons, people who entered the Academy during a time they might not have been ready, and people who would be full on dangerous with a Hunter badge, and most of our mains fall under one of these categories (though mostly the first two.)

Ruby - Two years below the standard age of her class. Whether or not she was at the skill level of a first year (she was,) and whether or not she'd received special training from Qrow (she had,) Ruby was still essentially a kid, and her mind and body both hadn't developed completely. Ruby should have been traumatized after the Fall of Beacon and been allowed to show that more as a character, she should've had straight up PTSD, she should've been allowed to have emotion in Volume 4 than Jaune's sidekick who makes sad eyes when she sees him grieving. Weiss - Her main motivation for joining Beacon was to reclaim her family legacy. Yes, her desire was to reclaim it and use it for good, but it was still arguably more about personal and familial glory. On top of that, Weiss has been blatantly anti Faunus and has never so much as addressed that. Weiss's character journey should have reflected more personal growth, and either her unlearning much of her Faunus racism and clearly changing priorities from her name and family legacy and onto the actual people in need, or her flaws should've led her into being more of a morally gray character who displays her selfishness and pride (in a way that's actually addressed and treated like a flaw.) Yang - She expresses admiration for people like Ruby who want to help people and be kind, but her main point in becoming a Huntress was getting thrills and going where the wind takes her. She didn't join Beacon for any sort of serious purpose, and even when she rejoined Team RWBY in volume five, it was to be with her sister and not because of her own morals (not that I think she's lacking in morals, just that her main motive was different.) This could lead to her having to figure out a lot of what she actually wants, being unsatisfied with being a Huntress in Atlas, being in over her head when things get serious, being more mentally exhausted than the others after long days, etc. Jaune - Wasn't ready to enter Beacon. Idk if he just wasn't allowed to go to a lesser combat school like Signal or if he flunked out, but he wasn't up to scratch to get into Beacon and cheated his way in. On top of that, he lacked in the emotional maturity department as well when he entered. Jaune was a little more invested in his own appearance than Ruby was, but still seemed to have similar good reasons for wanting to be a Hunter. And he did grow a lot. But he was much less prepared, skilled, or equipped to deal with the training or the career and it's a miracle he didn't die in the initiation. Granted, Jaune was handled arguably better than anyone else, since a lot of this was addressed, but these days it feels like it isn't actually playing a part in his character anymore that he's way below the people around him, and I feel like it should still be impacting him. Penny: Honestly, Penny seemed very newly born during the Beacon Arc. She might have been combat ready, but she also started spilling secrets to the first person who was a little bit nice to her, and was clearly naïve and childlike. Imagine if it had been Emerald that had befriended Penny instead of Ruby. Penny dying and then getting resurrected should've been deeply traumatizing for her and it should've made her undergo some major changes and been treated with importance in the show. Qrow: Literally wanted to be a Hunter in the first place to try and learn how to murder Huntsmen. He might have changed later and it’s not exactly relevant, but he arguably shouldn't have joined when he did either. Meanwhile, Nora's just one big mystery, because we don't know why she joined, and Ren likely joined for good reasons, but neither of them have ever actually talked about their motivations. The only character we can safely say joined for noble reasons and who was up to scratch and ready when she entered is Blake, who also had good reason to not fully trust the system she was working with, so there could've been complications and character interest there as well.

Please don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean I don't think the others should've been in school, I love that they were! I just think the writers should've explored the various ways they might've been not fully ready, not completely well suited to the job they took. The characters are allowed to be flawed and to flounder and it'd make them more full, nuanced characters imo.

On top of that, we have other Hunters to look to as well, outside of our main cast. Cardin, for example, was a terrible person, still in school and already abusing what little power he had to target a member of an oppressed minority group and blackmail other kids into doing his bidding, while plotting revenge on someone for correcting him on his anti-Faunus answer to a question. People like him should not be Hunters, and he was arguably our first sign (of many signs) that the position of Hunter can and will be taken advantage of and misused by bad people. And although the After the Fall/Before the Dawn books aren't canon, while reading BTD (I haven't finished it yet,) Coco and all her team members but Velvet also struck me as people I wouldn't want to be Hunters and wouldn't want to wield any sort of power. Coco is proudly described by one of her friends as sadistic, lets her unfounded opinions of people cloud her judgement, shows respect and admiration towards criminals, and enjoys her classmates being afraid of her. Fox is self-described as sadistic as well and is a bully who tried to use a classmate's phobia against them in a brute-like interrogation. And Yatsuhashi is leagues above the two of them, but also bullied Neptune despite saying the words 'I don't want to be a bully' and threatened him.

There are so many ways the writers could've explored people who went to Beacon too soon, weren't ready, or entered for the wrong reasons. Instead, outside of one conversation in season two about the girls’ motivations and Ren exploding that Jaune cheated his way into Beacon all the way in season eight, it seems like the only take away we're supposed to get is 'all these kids are officially the thing they wanted to be in the beginning and they're all amazing at it, woo!' No acknowledgement of the fact that they could use higher education still, that some of them are still immature or naïve, that some of them are still below the combat level they should be in, that some of them kinda haven't done super well since they left Beacon (cough Ruby cough.) It's all just... Flat, lackluster. And meanwhile, characters like Cardin were written out of the show easily. We've had plenty of examples of corruption in the Hunter business, but the show hasn't paid any attention to that and still is treating being a Hunter like the only true noble goal and the only good and non-corruptible way to defend people, despite the fact that it clearly isn’t. Being a Huntress is not better or safer or more noble in-universe than being an Atlas soldier/Ace Op/Atlas hunter. I’m not saying that all of this needed to be featured, but exploring the differences in motivation and how the Hunter lifestyle affected the various mains could really flesh out their characters. Instead, by the time everyone is heading to Atlas in volume six, they all pretty much have the same reactions to everything and the same motivations and the same beliefs. The rare deviation - like Ren in volume seven and eight - is treated as bad and a mistake that must be rectified, rather than... A natural consequence of the group being full of different people with different upbringings and different motivations that result in different opinions. That sort of thing is only ever explored as a problem that makes someone lacking, and it’s really weird and it makes the show feel... Juvenile, and lacking in nuance or depth when it comes to the characters, which is a really big shame, since the characters have a huge amount of potential and exploring the differences between them and their reactions to being in way over their heads would be - I think - the natural place to take their characters? Especially because so far their storyline has been... Not the highlight of the show.

But, as for how semblances and Hunters should impact the world building, there’s a lot to say about that! They don’t explore a lot in RWBY outside of what’s relevant to the mains, leaving the world building feeling flat and like the world itself doesn’t matter much. RWBY often feels more like a video game world than anything else, which I believe @why-i-hate-rwby-now has pointed out, so credit to them for helping me realize it. There’s one large location per continent and a couple small villages where they only really talk to a town leader and village blacksmith, or encounter a fight, relevant NPCs and characters only going to certain locations that can further the plot, characters only mattering through the ways they interact with the protagonists and seemingly getting benched with nothing to do if they aren’t currently plot relevant, health bars that can be monitored over scrolls, every weapon and semblance has a name even if that name isn’t ever mentioned in show or might not really make a lot of sense, frequently encountered enemies of various threat levels who the characters can plow down without remorse because they’re not sentient or don’t have souls... The list goes on. But one of the ways that it feels very video gamey is that the magical powers actually don’t seem to impact the world.

We know people can have auras even if they don’t have semblances (Mercury, Torchwick, Watts,) and we know lots of even grown people don’t have auras (the citizens of Mantle in danger of dying of cold while our aura having mains aren’t,) but also that auras can be unlocked, by well trained seventeen year olds (Pyrrha,) and we also know that semblances can be unlocked from a very young age due to trauma (Ren, Neptune in EU) but some people are born with their semblances (Qrow and notably Blake use language suggesting they were born with their semblances,) and some semblances are passed down or hereditary (the Schnees.) Semblances can be passive (Qrow, Clover, Ironwood in word of author,) and uncontrollable, or active (almost everyone else,) and some semblances have carried personal negative effects like in the case of Qrow who was even named for being bad luck and Robyn who said people were on edge with her because she can sus out the truth via skin contact when she wants to. Also Mercury’s father was able to somehow take away his semblance.

That’s... Pretty much the extent of our knowledge and it doesn’t tell us much. What RWBY does is give each character abilities that make them iconic and different from each other as fighters, with a shield function that wears down slowly to explain how they can take certain hits and keep going while also allowing them to eventually suffer higher damage when that shield wears down. They had a character get this shield ability unlocked to explain the existence and function of it, and featured some characters who didn’t have the super powered abilities like Roman, an early enemy meant to herald in new, harder enemies who are more plot relevant, and Mercury, who makes up for it by having higher speed and functions exclusive to him through his prosthetics. And then they seemingly built a regular world unaffected by these powers. It sounds like a video game. Civilians just don’t have this power or the shield because they act as non-playable characters. In a way, it almost makes sense to me in conception, because when RWBY was originally created, it was high on visual appeal, fight choreography, and character design. The plot elements were small and the character stories seemed to be pretty simple, the only real complication to this being the White Fang plot, which has always been a major blight in RWBY. But one of the reasons why this video-game feel kinda worked at the start of RWBY was because the story and characters weren’t meant to be the focus of the story, so although the world building at the start was definitely lacking, the audience knew that things like auras and semblances were meant to hype up and add interest to the main highlights of the show: Design and fight choreography. At least that’s what I assume. But in volume three, they started to lay the groundwork for more, bigger plots, more focus on the story, the characters journeying to the outside world, undergoing personal arcs, and that’s what V4 and onward started focusing on.

To be clear, I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. I started really liking RWBY for its potential and concepts after getting through the first couple episodes of V1, but I actually really enjoyed quite a bit of V4 and V5 even though the design drastically changed and the fighting had gone way down in quality because I found some of the new focus on characters and the plot to be compelling, interesting, or to also have a lot of potential (though I was let down over and over in regards to pay off later.) However, with the new focus on the characters and storyline rather than design and fight choreography, they really needed to do some legwork on fixing the aura and semblance systems and paying attention to world building and making sure the world felt well put together, nuanced, and real. And I don’t feel like they ever did that.

Why is Pyrrha able to unlock auras? Well, because the writers wanted to explain the concept of auras and used Jaune - the unprepared - to do it. But now, auras are actually an important part of the story - for example, the people of Mantle don’t have unlocked auras, so will die of cold, but it doesn’t affect our heroes because they do have unlocked auras. So who can unlock auras? Is it a learned skill or is it hereditary? If it’s a learned skill, why isn’t everyone eager to learn it especially in places where it’s life or death if they don’t like in Atlas? If it’s a hereditary skill, why aren’t the people who have that skill put on a pedestal and being pressured into using that skill to save civilians in places where having an aura is the difference between life and death? In either case, why aren’t there people who professionally unlock auras? Why aren’t they on the pay roll in Atlas and Mantle? If it’s a skill that all powerful hunters have, why aren’t our heroes (who we’re supposed to think are now more powerful than Atlas’s best) unlocking auras for dying children in Mantle? Why don’t specialists and longtime fighters with Qrow, Winter, Robyn, Maria, or James have this ability if it comes with skill, time, or talent?

Why are semblances unlocking or morphing in times of trauma so rare? Why didn’t the Fall of Beacon unlock loads of new semblances and new semblance abilities? Why didn’t Ruby get a new semblance upgrade when she saw Weiss getting stabbed? Why didn’t Weiss unlock a new semblance ability when her plane was crashing? Why didn’t Pilot Boi unlock his semblance during the same occasion? Why is it that Jaune didn’t get a semblance upgrade when the light bridges were disappearing? Why didn’t Blake get a semblance upgrade when Yang fell into the void? Why did Ren get a semblance upgrade because he was upset while with the Ace Ops after Oscar got captured, but Nora doesn’t get an upgrade while she’s electrocuting herself? If semblances sometimes unlock in times of truama, why is it that some characters like Oscar and Torchwick and Jaune pre-V5 who we know have encountered lots of trauma just still don’t get semblances? If you can train your semblance into upgrading, why is it that we don’t see long time hunters and fighters unlock more semblance abilities, like Qrow, Winter, Robyn, Maria, or James? It just doesn’t make any sense! And I get that stories always have things happening just because the writers want it, but in RWBY, the hand of the creator is so obvious that it’s ridiculous.

And then there are other questions. Do people avoid bad labor practices out of fear of causing a semblance awakening? Well, from what we see of the SDC, the answer is no. So why not? Why weren’t they worried about an uprising? Work rights becomes a lot trickier when you have to add in tons of qualifiers. Maybe it’s illegal to use a semblance at work, but the SDC also has a history of child workers like Adam who can’t always control it (like Neptune couldn’t control his,) so are there laws protecting child laborers? Perhaps not, since you know, they were already child laborers, so were already suffering unchecked. Are there laws forbidding the use of semblances in government buildings, non-combat driven schools, or parks and libraries? And meanwhile, how would any of this apply to people with a passive semblance? How do you figure out that someone has a passive semblance? How do people know if they’re born with a semblance? Are there people that spend their whole lives having semblances that never get discovered? Do people have semblance detection... Semblances, that they get paid to use or do so out of charity? Did the Schnees rise to power due to their powerful and hereditary semblance, perhaps? Are people discriminated against if they don’t have semblances or pressured to become Hunters if they discover they do have semblances? Shouldn’t civilians in Mantle and Atlas be joining combat schools in droves in the hopes of unlocking an aura so they can better survive? And shouldn’t there be discrimination against people with certain semblances? Outside of Robyn saying she’s personally experienced mistrust, and Qrow’s self-hatred, we don’t see any real prejudice against certain semblance types, or for that matter, any praise or extra significance pointed to certain other semblance types. It would go a long ways towards world building if there were things like people having to divulge their semblance or lack thereof before entering Beacon, or for people to have to register a semblance evolution, or for Emerald to have lied about her semblance because “everyone knows illusion semblances automatically draw suspicion,” or for Qrow to comment that he’d never seen Clover in a Vytal Tournament, only for Clover to say his semblance was deemed ‘cheating’ back when he was in school so he hadn’t qualified. And on the flip side, you could have things like semblances being judged as better and more powerful based on how useful it might be, Pyrrha keeping her semblance on the DL because it’ll just bring more unwanted admiration on her, Sun keeping his own semblance on the DL too because it always make people put a lot of expectations on him, while Neptune’s semblance leaks and he deals with people treating him like he’s selfish and cruel for not wanting to use his own “gift of a semblance.” And people like Jaune could be bullied extra because he doesn’t have his semblance yet, and people in the stands at the Vytal Tournament could be chatting about “when are they gonna pull out their semblances?” and get annoyed and pouty when people don’t. To be fair, we do get things like Mercury’s father having declared his semblance a crutch, but... Still. why isn’t there more of this?

And we see the need for Hunter protection in villages like Kuroyuri and the village that Team RNJR stops to help on the way to Mistral. Small villages outside of the four kingdoms fall to Grimm, or are in danger of falling to Grimm. Ships get attacked by large and dangerous Grimm, we see (corrupt) Hunters on the train to Argus, accompanying for safety, and we see that with a rise of Grimm activity in Mantle, Hunters are dispatched to help kids travel to school. In a world like RWBY, fighting is essential for survival outside of the Kingdoms, and became very essential in the kingdoms as well once schools started going down. You’d assume there should be Hunters accompanying everyone traveling outside of the Kingdoms, resident Hunters living in villages outside the Kingdoms as their on-hand protectors (and more than one Hunters seems to be needed.) Hunters also could be extra protection for anything that’s definitely going to increase negativity, like hiring Hunters to bodyguard funerals seems like something that could be normal in the world of Remnant, and for visiting graveyards (we see Ruby get attacked by tons of Grimm when she visited Summer’s grave in the red trailer.) On top of that, celebrities and rich people hiring Hunters seems like it’d become pretty common. But all that we see outside of Dee and Dudley are traveling Hunters stopping to help people out of the goodness of their heart while they go place to place, and Kingdom Hunters who are assigned to things like border control, clearing out Grimm near or in the Kingdoms, and things like that. What we see is a Kingdom-centered morality complex our protagonists are one hundred percent invested in, Hunters are Kingdom driven and anything outside of that is a kindness, a job they can take or leave in passing. And on top of that, it seems like there aren’t a lot of people in the Hunter profession, and I feel like there should definitely be more. There are people like Jaune who didn’t make the cut but accepted that, we can only assume that there are drop outs too, so like... How many kids are there actually in a year at Beacon? I mean, look at where the Relics were found in the forest during initiation at Beacon.

This gives us a rough idea of how many people are in each year at Beacon. Assuming everyone graduates school and there’s no drop outs and no deaths, that’s a graduating class of twenty. That’s a very small number, comparatively. The job of a Hunter is dangerous. We know of Hunters that died (Summer, Pyrrha, Amber.) We know a lot of Hunters that have other jobs that take a lot of their time (Glynda, Ozpin, Robyn,) and lots of people who quit being Hunters too (Maria, Tai, Raven,) and Hunters who aren’t always on the field like Qrow who was a teacher for a stretch and acted as Ozpin’s spy, the Ace Ops who became part of Ironwood’s inner circle and therefore had a bigger picture, and even all of Team RWBYJNR, who got their Hunter licenses but are also more concerned with bigger picture stuff (if you don’t believe me just look at volume eight where JRY stopped defending Mantle to go rescue Oscar, and Team RWBN + Penny, who were involved in big picture stuff like launching Amity and then saving Penny the Maiden/their friend.) So out of a class of twenty, how many of them are even staying on the field? For a show pushing the narrative that Hunters are the ultimate saviors who are the only true good defense for the world, that condemns even the notion of an army... Like they villainized sending Team FNKI onto the battlefield while also treating it like proof of Ironwood’s evil when he didn’t want to stay and fight when Team RWBY said to, and also made Ironwood’s desire to move into having a robotic army to get soldiers off of the battlefield part of his... Over reliance on machinery, which is full on suspicious considering their ableism towards Ironwood and the fact that he literally has to rely on machinery, but that’s a topic for a different post and this one is already so long. But yeah, my point is that we’re meant to see the army as bad. So if we’re meant to see Hunters as the only true and pure form of defense (which is already off because we know��it’s corrupted,) there ought to be way more people in the Hunter field.

As for the schools, we only know of a couple of schools that exist outside of RWBY as combat schools that seem to act as basic training before people go to Beacon. We know of Signal, the school Ruby and Yang went to that Qrow was a teacher at for awhile (I have lots of teacher Qrow headcanons, but sadly Qrow being a teacher wasn’t very well explored,) and we also know of Sanctum in Mistral and (in the EU) Oscuro in Vacuo, presumably one of these existing in Atlas as well. I personally headcanon that there are a lot of these smaller combat schools littering the whole of Remnant (but then again, I also headcanon that the Kingdoms of Remnant are bigger than just one very large city, lol) and that a lot of people attend these schools even if they don’t go on to join one of the Hunter Academies, but this isn’t necessarily supported by canon, I think. But as for other schools...I think it’s fair to assume that there are at least elementary schools, since everyone can read, write, and presumably do basic math, and what we do know is that Ilia went to a prep school in Atlas (which was info dropped in Blake’s pre-V5 trailer, not even stated in the show proper,) so we can probably safely say that people who don’t go to the Huntsman academies go to some form of high school, but you’re right that we don’t see this actually in action. I personally always headcanon that Whitley had a tutor, since Jacques wanted to avoid too much outside influence.

I am so sorry that this response got so away from me and I myself got into so many rabbit holes as well. XD I just have a lot to say about the world building in RWBY (or sometimes lack thereof.) Although I admit that I’m not as into or as good at analyzing as blogs like why-i-hate-rwby-now, but yeah, this is... A very long post. Sorry!

[crazywolf828]

Okay but have we thought about dragon Yang acting like a snake. Also you know that one vine where they're like "I wanna see my little boi, I wanna see my little boi, here he comes" and they're walking up to their cat? That's Blake whenever she picks up Yang from Weiss's bc she let Yang come over to hang out with Ruby. (Also pls tell me Weiss's familiar is Ruby and she's a wolf)

That vine is amazing and I absolutely agree. But tbh I never really considered Ruby... If she is in this au she wouldn't be related to Yang I don't think. It would mess with the whole super old dragon last of her line thing.

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Volume 7 First Impressions/Thoughts in No Particular Order (Spoilers)

I forgot entirely that Qrow has a different VA until about halfway through the episode. Seriously. Good job Jason.

Weiss has so much faith placed in Winter to be a Good Person I sincerely hope it isn’t misplaced....

I’ve never shipped Nuts and Dolts before but dear god I might just start that was so wholesome

On that note, PENNY! I knew she wasn’t dead-dead. And she got some UPGRADES fuck yeah

Seriously. Penny and Ruby’s eyesparkle moment destroyed me

Qrow got a new outfit! Yes! He looks so good! HotTopic rights!

They put Oscar in the middle of team JNR at the start of the intro (so their names would spell JRON) idk if that’s significant or if it was just a place to put him so they’d have an even four and four. What color/color related thing would “JRON” even be?

New outfits (only seen in the intro so far) look amazing animated. I can’t wait to see them for realzies

Who Is She

And more importantly, does she know Qrow?

Give Qrow One Of His Old Friends Pls Thank

Weiss is done giving a shit about reputation and social expectations and I am LIVING

Blake’s little smirk and eyeroll when Yang accidentally DEMOLISHES that servalence camera bot and then awkwardly tried to play it off killed me okay I’m dead now

No sight of other strq members in the intro hmmm

Let Nora Wear The Dancing Shoes

“You painted it?!”

Days Since Last Nonsense - 0

Atlas Teen Titans wtf?

We know who made Yang’s arm he’s prob gonna fix it he’ll probably ask Yang what happened to it 👀

The music score never disappoints

The chaotic dumbass that is team JNR makes it vary evident that Pyrrha had the single braincell they all shared when she died

[appleseverywhere]

Winter deserved to be the next Winter Maiden

Okay, so I just finished rewatching V7 since V8 announcement is in a few days and I noticed something.

Personally, I’m one of those people that was hoping Winter would become the next Winter maiden. Obviously, that didn’t happen and I was extremely disappointed. 

Now I completely understand why CRWBY would decide that the powers go to Penny (lest they’d want to complete her real girl arc) and I’ve seen a lot of people defended that Penny deserved to be the maiden but I just need to point out that this isn’t exactly the case. People were also saying that Winter couldn’t be the maiden because she didn’t understand her emotions or couldn’t even be understanding of the emotions of others, and because she was a military officer who seemed to always “follow orders”. 

So why should Winter have became the next maiden?

Winter is actually one of the most rational characters in this volume. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. She understood that with General Ironwood keeping secrets, that yes, it would leave everyone skeptic and doubtful of his capabilities, which was why she had told Weiss the truth that she would become the next Winter maiden when he offered it to her. 

She understood the pressure that the general had to make at this time, that everything he was doing was to protect Atlas in ways he thought was right. In the real world, no one will ever really agree with you that everything you say is right. She points this out flawlessly, even expressing her doubts several times in the volume (I’ll get to this in a bit).

She knows that the way Atlas was handling everything wasn’t perfect, but it was a reasonable. It’s absolutely true that YOU CAN’T SAVE EVERYONE, but you can save who you can. She understood the importance of the relics and the maidens, that if it fell into Salem’s hands, then the world would surely crumble. 

She thought differently from team RWBY, and honestly, it was so disappointing that just because she did, she suddenly couldn’t be the maiden. In reality, not everyone will look at the world the same way as you do. She was someone who understood BOTH what the military was doing and what team RWBY wanted to happen. She agreed with both, but had to weigh out which would be the more logical decision. 

She understands the emotions she keeps behind her facade. A lot of people were saying that it wasn’t right for her to be the maiden because she disregarded her emotions as well as others. If you were to think about it, it’s because as an officer, you cannot let your emotions get the better of you when put under stress or pressure. Otherwise, you’re prone to make mistakes. She had to remain calm and understanding of everything that was going on, and she analyzed and weighed down everything in front of her so she could make out the situation and what to do. 

She wasn’t always someone who ignored her emotions. This was clear when (1) the teams along with Weiss stole an Atlas airship, (2) the dinner where she burst in front of Jacques, (3) admitting to Penny that she should have stayed in line instead of telling her father off, (4) telling Penny that she agreed with her that they shouldn’t abandon Mantle, and (5) telling Penny that WRESTLING WITH EMOTIONS is what makes them human.

While preparing Fria in the Aura transfer chamber, Winter and Penny’s entire exchange shows us that even she knew that emotions are something that should be accounted for when making a decision.

“I hope it will be painless for her.” “You said that your personal feelings do not matter.” “They won’t change my actions, what I’m committed to.”  ..... “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.”

Honestly, the things Winter says in this exchange were absolutely spot on. She understood the duty she had, but also understood that her emotions were an important factor when it came to making important decisions. “It’s what makes us human.” She herself was honestly more human in this scene than Penny, who didn’t completely understand what it meant to weigh actions and their consequences.

Winter understood exactly what it meant to feel everything that everyone was feeling. Being a soldier, she understood that emotions are kept in check so that it wouldn’t result in rash actions. She understood that emotions held significance when coming to decision, but should not be controlled by it, which was what was happening with team RWBY. What was frustrating about all of this was that it was made to look like just because Winter had different views from team RWBY, suddenly she can’t be the maiden because it would go against what they stand for, when in fact, she was making so much sense.

She had doubts. I honestly don’t know how people could say that Winter was this tool that Ironwood groomed to be the maiden, that she simply followed orders without question, when in fact, SHE WAS THE ONLY SOLDIER WHO QUESTIONED IRONWOOD.

She questioned everything from the start. She told Weiss that she’s known about everything since the fall of Beacon, and she was given a choice. She didn’t accept the idea just like any of the ace ops might have if it was given to them. Like she said, it bothered her at first. That meant she didn’t accept it immediately. Instead, the more she thought about it, the more she realized she could do some real good for Atlas and Remnant instead of simply following the orders of her higher ups (I’ll get to this in the next point). 

When V7 occurred, she explained to Weiss and everyone who questioned the military why they were doing what they did. She knew it wasn’t perfect but also knew that their heart was in the right place. During her conversation post-training with Weiss, you could tell by her expression that even she had doubts about the general’s decisions, but told her he wasn’t keeping secrets from her, unveiling that she was chosen to be the next maiden. 

When she was given the order to retrieve the maiden powers, she questioned everything in between. It was actually obvious that even Winter knew that the General’s decision in leaving Mantle to perish was not sitting well with her. Penny says “I do not see what is good about any of this”, to which Winter replies “On that we can agree on.” She understood the consequences of their actions but also knew what could happen if they continued with it. 

She fought for it the most. Despite being given the chance and eventually groomed to become the next maiden, she made it clear during her conversation with Weiss that she was CHOOSING her destiny, that she was making it her own. She understood what having this responsibility meant and dedicated her life for it, nearly dying just to make sure it was kept from Cinder. 

During their sky battle with Cinder, she had even expected to die as she fell from the sky since she knew Penny had to get to Fria with Cinder after her, saying that her life didn’t matter, knowing that the maiden was more important. The moment she saw that Fria was dying in Penny’s arms, she still made it a point to fight off Cinder EVEN WITHOUT HER AURA to protect her. She likely knew at that moment she would die but fought her anyway. She would give her life to keep the powers away from the enemy’s hands. 

This was frustrating because Penny knew that it was meant to go to Winter, that she had an intact aura, and during the time that Cinder was screaming, she could have called Winter to Fria and battled Cinder herself. But she didn’t. By calling to Winter at the time, it would have saved her the severe injuries Cinder inflicted, and maybe would have an actual shot at bringing her down and not escaping like she did.

From V3 to V7, we can assume that the timeline went on for 2 years. She was given this responsibility and devoted herself to it for 2 years. She worked so hard to make sure that this destiny wasn’t something that people would say was given to her, instead, something she chose for herself and carved to make it something that was hers, and hers alone. Imagine the frustration of committing your life to a mission for this span of time, only for it to be taken from you in a matter of minutes. I can’t even imagine what it must have felt like for her to have something that precious taken from you. It basically makes her question her identity, her mission, and her place in life. 

She actually deserved to be the maiden more than anyone else in the series. It’s not because of her very obvious name or anything like that, but because she made the most sense, she worked the hardest for it, and she understood both sides of the story the most.

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So these are some of the main points why I think Winter should have been the Winter maiden. Thought I might point these out before V8 comes out soon. 

Thank you for reading! I’m really psyched to see Winter again and I truly hope she’ll be okay this volume. (KEEP THIS QUEEN SAFE PLS)

Please, Volume 8. Don’t brush Winter off just like that. SHE DESERVED BETTER.

[theraikouhotel]

Rate each muse on how huggable they are on a scale of 1-10

I’m fucking crying omg thank you for the non nsfw ask omg omg I’ll happily do this anon omg thank you! The ratings under the cut!! 

Apologies if it’s um very long.... I forgot how many muses I had ahaha....

Fate

Mama Raikou: Is very huggable to the point that you don’t want to let go of her because she’s so comforting, especially with her being basically your mother so 10/10!

Murasaki Shikibu: Quite huggable, may appear awkward at first but also gives that motherly hug that you need so 9/10!

Bunny Arty: Has no idea how to hug, but will do so willingly. Very awkward at it. However, once she’s settled in she’ll be the best hugger ever! So 7/10!

Tiamat: She’s Earth Mama. So 10/10 silly~

Europa: She’ll smother the fuck outta you and it’s so comfortable and loving you’ll die. 10/10!

Irisviel von Einzbern: As the mother of Illya, Shriou and Chloe, she has given out so many comforting hugs that it’s so second nature to her! So 10/10!

Black Clover

Asta: He loves hugs! He loves giving them out too! He’s given out hugs to the children at the orphanage as he grew up so he knows how to make sure they’re safe and comfortable, even with his muscle! So 9/10!

Noelle Silva: Awkward. What are even hugs? She’s never had them before so she’ll be so uncomfortable with it. But when she knows it’s needed, she’ll do her best! So I’ll give her a 6/10!

Vanessa Enoteca: The Witch Queen of Hugs. 10/10.

Bleach

Ichigo Kurosaki: If it’s not his siblings or Orihime, he’s kinda weird about it. He’d rather stick to headpats. 6/10.

Orihime Inoue: Undisputed Hug Lover. It’s so loving to be in her arms. Absolutely comfortable with it! 10/10.

Yoruichi Shihoin: Will hug you to see your face go even more redder by the minute as she keeps on teasing you! But when it’s needed to be done, she gives the most understanding and comforting hug ever. 9/10!

Highschool DxD

Issei Hyoudou: He isn’t very comfortable with such close contact with anyone, he even gets nervous around the girls he lives with when they hug him as if he feels like they’re not genuine. But as soon as you get past that barrier, it’s so comforting. 9/10!

Rias Gremory: The Devil Queen of hugs. 10/10.

Sona Sitri: She isn’t well versed in the sort of contact like that. She prefers to have people at arms’ length. So 6/10.

Date A Live

Kotori Itsuka: It’s the bone crushing ONII-CHAN!!! hug at all times with her if she does decide to hug you. 8/10!

Kurumi Tokisaski: It’s either loving and caring or yandere crazy hug. No in between for her. 8/10!

Love Live!

Chika Takami: She’s hugged quite literally everyone in her town but mostly hugs her friends the most! She’ll rub her cheeks against yours because she likes you that much when she hugs. 9/10!

Emma Verde: She gives out the big sis kind of hugs but not the kinky kind. Soft, warm and fuzzy hugs! 10/10!

Karin Asaka: Bit awkward. She’s not used to such kinship with anyone as she’s almost always alone. But it’s such a tender and loving hug when she does hug you! 9/10!

Kotori Minami: Normal Cute Hug or Yandere Hug. That’s it. That’s her hugs. 8/10!

Mari Ohara: GLOMP FEST WITH MARI AITE! 9/10!

Umi Sonoda: Has no idea, thinks it’s shameless to even hug in public. When in private, she’s so tender! 8/10!

Bang Dream!

Arisa Ichigaya: TSUNDERE HUG BLUSH FEST OMG IT’S ADORABLE???? 9/10!!!

Aya Maruyama: She loves giving out hugs, she loves to comfort people and she likes to see people smile. 10/10!

Sayo Hikawa: What the hell even are hugs? So awkward. Headpats are better pls. 6/10.

Tomoe Udagawa: Meant for it. She hugs literally everyone. 10/10!

My Hero Academia

Kyoka Jirou: Hugs? She’s too ‘ard for that. But she’ll indulge you so you can be happy! 8/10!

Momo Yaoyorozu: Hugs? HUGS! It’s her literal greeting to people she’s known for a while too! 10/10!

Danganronpa

Kaede Akamatsu: Princess of the Hugs, she’ll make sure you’re comforted and loved with them when needed! 10/10!

Tenko Chabashira: Depends on who it is. Girls = 8/10. Boys = 8/10. She unintentionally makes good hugs for everyone.

Komaru Naegi: She’s hugged her brother so much that she knows the art of hugging! 10/10!

Makoto Naegi: He is a little awkward on approach but does his best and gives the most amazing hugs ever. 9/10!

Others

Haru Okumura: She’s always the one giving hugs to her friends, so she rules at them! She’s basically the mother of the group! Makoto would probably be the dad... 10/10!

Jotaro Kujo: No. But they’re nice when he wants them to be. 6/10.

Lelouch: If you’re not Nunnally, Cornelia or Euphemia then it’ll be a 7/10. Otherwise, straight up 10/10 for those three!

Levi Ackerman: Nah mate not this one. They’re like okay. 6/10. 

Mami Tomoe: She’s your mentor, senpai if you will, of course her hugs will be a max 10/10!

Natsu Dragneel: Bit weird on that approach, but gives out the most tender of hugs whenever you need it. He’s also warm constantly. 8/10.

Weiss Schnee: Hugs... are foreign to her. Unless if you’re Ruby Rose. Then it’s a 10/10. If not, maybe like 6/10.

[set-wingedwarrior]

Number 8 random, pls?

Prompt: "Can you please…? Hmmm, I don’t know. Maybe put a shirt on?!”

Okay, I wrote this before my panic attack, and it got recently checked by my proof-reader, so there it is! I'm starting to feel better so I might at least share this and try to prove that I'm not dead (yet). Enjoy! 

AO3 

Prompt List 

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It was a normal day at Beacon Academy.

Students were busy with their students lives, Pyrrha was training with Jaune, Nora dragged Ren away to let them be alone and Weiss did the same with Ruby, but to make her study with her in the library because “as a team leader she had to be prepared”.

Yang got back to Team RWBY’s dorm after her own training session at the gym (these guns wouldn’t maintain themselves!), where everything was as normal as everything else.

The bunk beds stayed in a precarious balance made of pure steel will and ignorance of how gravity works, a couple of shirts, most likely hers or Ruby’s, were on the ground (Yang made mental note to pick them up after showering) along with some books Blake’s most likely went through already.

All of that was normal, just like Blake laying on her bed with a new book in her hands.

What wasn’t normal, was Blake laying on her bed with a new book in her hands wearing her underwear only.

Yang’s face lit up and her eyes widen, before covering them up with a hand. It was probably dumb considering they shared the room, they changed together countless times, but it was different from seeing Blake just chilling on her bed with nothing covering her up!

Yang groped for her drawer with closed eyes. She did, in fact she ended up hitting it and cursing under her breath.

At that point Blake moved her eyes from her pages and noticed her “Oh, hi Yang.” She greeted with nonchalance.

“H-Hi Blake.” Yang answered, giving Blake her back, and trying to sound as much natural as she could. Which meant, sounding super unnatural and making her partner suspicious.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, totally! Why are you asking?”

Keep it cool Yang told herself, trying to keep focus on her drawer as if in deep research of something.

Blake raised an eyebrow, and got up from her bed to get near the blonde. Yang’s only response was to get even more flustered, desperately trying not to look at her partner’s very exposed body.

The Faunus noticed immediately and just grinned knowing exactly what was going on “I don’t know, you seem a little tense… can I do something to help?” she asked with fake innocence.

Yang wanted to die. But there was something the brunette could actually do to help her at the moment.

“Can you please…? Hmmm, I don’t know. Maybe put a shirt on?!” the blonde requested, miserably failing at not sound freaked out.

Blake just giggled “I didn’t take you as the prudish type!” she teased.

“One thing is my own body, another somebody else’s!” Yang tried to defend herself, but her pouting was too cute to be taken seriously.

“I see. But this is my room as well and I have the right to dress anyway I want. It doesn’t make you uncomfortable, does it?” then Blake leaned closer to the mess of a blonde beside her “Unless, it’s the opposite...?”

Blake stepped even closer, and Yang gulped, getting even redder. There was a moment of tensed silence, before Blake just laughed at her face.

“I’m just messing with you!” the Faunus kept laughing “I just found myself without clean clothes, I’m waiting for my laundry to get done.” She explained herself.

Yang was still trying to recover, but the explanation eased her and she nodded.

Actually, it kind of triggered her Mom Friend mode. Now chiller and way less red, Yang got to her drawer again and easily pulled out her cleaned clothes, plus and extra baggy shirt that threw at Blake.

Blake looked at the shirt and the blonde, confused. Yang just gave her a smile “Next time, just ask if you need something to wear.” She said with a smile, then headed to the bathroom closing the door behind her.

Still stunned, it took Blake a couple of seconds before putting the shirt on and get back to her reading.

On her bed again, Blake gave a little look around and after getting sure no one would catch her, she pulled up the collar of the bright orange shirt and sniffed.

It smelled good.

[technicallyblakebelladonna]

this thought just popped into my head so pls for a moment, consider with me the idea that wings is a song about blake.. but it’s blake singing to herself

i know it’s probably a huge stretch but im just thinking about how wholesome it’d be if like, after blake went through that whole thing of being outed as a faunus and a white fang member and even after all that, learning still that her teammates (even weiss!) still were looking for her and cared enough to search for her after a pretty horrible (in her mind) truth got out about her

and then also take into account blake’s line about her team being the people she “loved more than she thought she could love anyone” in v4, and it’s like.. she sees these people, just barely formed team rwby, still caring about her? and feeding her so much hope and love and care that it nearly completely changes her mental state and allows her to let them into her life.. but also allows her to be more gentle on herself

i know, looking at most of the lyrics, it doesn’t really match up without a fair stretch, but i just love the idea of blake telling herself that her own broken wings wont hold her down. her failures and her past can’t hold her. that she’ll be lifted up, given hope and love with the help of her new friends

also i mean im crying just thinking about blake telling herself these words in particular

Don't be disappointed Don't let your heart break Don't spend another minute in this way It's okay

and i just needed to Talk about it for a hot second thank u for ur attention