#poor dumb blake

[theosconfessions]

if youd like to read the stephens from the beginning you can over here:)

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@ohsosims

theo- well at least you have a job, i guess.

blake- mr kline? can i help you find something or ?

theo-mmm actually no. just here to talk.

blake- talk?

theo- yeah talk. you have a minute or ?

blake- not really?? im sorry did i do something wrong or?

theo- not yet. at least i dont think. riv told me about you two.

blake- oh. oh.

theo- and with that being said im well aware of your..hobbies

blake- sir? i mean i play football?

theo- thats not what i mean and you know that. you KNOW exactly what im talking about here.

blake- i mean i guess.

theo- you have any kids, blake?

blake- im? im sorry where is this going?

theo- do you have any kids, blake. that you know about?

blake- [blinks] um is this a question river wanted to know more about or are you just being nosey?

theo- watch your mouth

blake-right sorry. i have a daughter. but river knew that. long before we ever did anything. i wasnt hiding anything from him.

theo- and you still involved with the mother at all?

blake- she lives across the country,no. it was young,dumb, love . not that i regret my daughter but its not idea. the situation. not great. work here for child support payments. see my daughter in the summer.

theo- and how does that happen? mother flies out here with her or?

blake- no my parents go above and beyond . go get her.

theo- you dont?

blake- better that way. we dont mix well anymore.

theo- whys that?

blake- because i slept with her friend.

theo- i see. ive done that

blake- im aware. seen your seasons.

theo- right.

blake- mr kline is there a reason why youre asking me all of this?

theo- you have any more kids rivers not aware of ? any chance you think you could not be aware of them yourself?

blake- um no? im pretty careful.

theo- you use protection with them?

blake- some of them.

theo- you use protection with river?

blake- no

theo- then youre not pretty careful. youre careless. i cheated on myhusband fifteen years ago and ended up bringing back something that coudlve fucked his life up. luckily it only got me.

blake- oh.

theo- blake, listen. river lieks you. i think he takes after his dad too much but hey. i can only control him so much,right? warn him so much. hes going to fuck up regardless.

blake- and you think im the fuck up?

theo- i think you have a potential to be a big mistake he makes yeah.

blake- wow. i like river,sir. a lot. always have

theo- i get that. thats just words, kid. i mean this shit ..its like looking at my younger self just a little bit more of a pussy.

blake- whoa.

theo- just saying if you have any intention on being serious with my son you better show him actions, kid. because i swear to GOD if he comes home and he tells me his boyfriend got some bitch pregnant..

blake- yessir. i wont. i really do like him

theo- k good. love this song.

blake- um?

[howi99]

Blake: *taking a deep breath* Ah~ The smell of the sea, the beautiful beach! *Looking back at the rest of her team* Finally a break!

Jaune: *sigh* Ugh, i would prefer going back to school.

Blake: *frowning* And why's that?

Jaune: *looking at her* Your country is either in flames or flooded all the time, the faune and flora wants humankind demise and the second i took a foot here, someone called me a cunt!

Blake: *serious* What's the context?

Jaune: *pensive* ... I think they said "Look at ya, poor cunt. The sheila are going to tear ya apart!" ... Whatever a sheila is.

Blake: *looking up and down at Jaune* Good news, he wasn't insulting you. Bad news, you need to change your clothes and haircut as soon as possible or you WILL finish up dried up in a motel.

Jaune: *innocent dumb look, not understanding the innuendo* ... Eh?

Blake: *putting her hand on his shoulder* If ya don't change ya clothes right now, ya will know the second definition of the word "mate", mate.

Ilia: *already walking to the beach with her surf board, looking at Jaune* Not gonna lie, you do look like a piece of meat ready to be eaten by a bunch of predators.

Jaune: *looking at Adam, a perplexed look on his face* What?

Adam: *putting his hand on Jaune's other shoulder* Blond with blue eyes, a bit tan with all the outside work we are doing... Mate, you are a thirst trap for missus.

Ilia: Or their daughters.

Jaune: ... *Looking at "Bleiss"* Do you-

Bleiss: *shaking her head* I don't have a single idea of what they are talking about. Their accent seems to have turned up a notch the second they got out of school.

[transgenderer]

i think a specific sort of person is smart enough to realize that like as a society we're unautomated/poor enough that to maintain a modern standard of living basically everybody needs to work a significant amount, but doesnt want to work a significant amount, but isnt willing to accept an explicitly fuck you got mine position about minimizing the amount of work they do and benefiting from the more work other people do, and so concieves of a natural hierarchy of people, some of whom are suited to work and some of whom are suited to higher pursuits. im pretty sure blake is this type of guy and its like his worst trait. anyway. its a dumb kind of guy but i symphatize

[yanverse]

Ellie thank you for the FOOD!!! my brain .... I am already Contemplating the Possibilities....

babysitter!reader is so delicious, and God, I kind of love how complicated the situation could get with Siri involved. Because even if eventually you maybe pick up on a red flag or two from Blake, or even just don't feel ready to have kids / a serious relationship yet and feel uncomfortable once he voices those desires for you..... Are you just gonna stop taking care of Siri? You don't want to get him caught in the crossfire: you know he won't understand why you left, just that you did. And he shouldn't be punished for something that's not at all his fault. God, the ANGST potential.

And maybe over time, Blake starts to wear you down. You do like his company after all, he's handsome and hardworking and charming and he clearly adores you. So yeah, maybe you give in one night because you're inebriated, or horny, or just plain lonely. I assume baby trapping is a given with Blake, at least I hope it is 👀

😫😍🥴Agh grrrrr bark bark bark I'm biting him I'm biting him I'm knawing on him like a chew toy🤤🤤🤤

YESSSSSSS HEHEHE!!!!

babysitter!reader and blake goes hard--you'd feel so bad because blake has such a hard time getting sitters, whether it's expenses or scheduling or trust, or for the fact that most potential babysitters hesitate at the idea of watching a child with special needs. and siri just adores you right off the bat, you're an immediate friend to him instead of a caretaker, so if you ever thought to leave you know you'd be leaving that poor kid with so much sadness and hurt in his heart.

it's not his fault his daddy is so enamoured with you, and that he offers you a drink every time he comes home from work despite the fact that you always politely decline. or that he's constantly offering to give you rides home, drop you off places, even when you're not babysitting. when you come to the diner he works at he gives you your meals for free, and when he comes out to chat at your table while it's slow and people get the impression he's your boyfriend, he doesn't correct them. the one time he came home to find siri had dropped his dinner all over you, and you graciously accepted his offer of a shower, he could barely keep the urge to barge in at bay when he imagined you all sudsy and wet, soaping yourself down with those beautiful hands.

he kind of goes crazy for you. you wiggle into his brain and won't leave, he can't help imagining you with a little baby of your own to give siri someone to play with. after all, even though the last thing he needs for his financial stability is to support another kid, it would only take one time to get with you to lock you down to stay with him. just one torn condom, one drunken fling, and he'd have something you can share forever. how can he give up that opportunity once he thinks of it?

(cw: cheating)

and......now im thinkin....if you have a deadbeat boyfriend.....god help you. blake doesn't consider himself a traditional man by any means, he doesn't want a partner who's totally dumb and submissive to whatever he wants just cause he's a man. he likes it when you resist him a little, actually. but seeing you with some cheap, ugly, unkempt asshole will absolutely have him playing the father figure card when he gets the chance.

"does he treat you well? does he cook? can he clean? what do you mean he doesn't work? how is he gonna take care of you? what, he expects to live off you like a fucking leech?" blake has plenty of opinions and will struggle to keep them to himself. especially if there's an age gap and you're younger than him. he wouldn't have to ban your boyfriend from his home because you're too smart for that, you would never bring a stranger to meet siri in his own sanctuary, which is one of a thousand reasons why he loves you so much--he can trust you. but when your boyfriend picks you up and drops you off blake is hardcore glaring at him from the front lobby where he walked you down to hold open the door. and if you have a fight over text and he refuses to pick you up, telling you you're gonna have to walk, blake drives you with a death grip on the steering wheel as he forces a smile and pretends he's not seething at the audacity of such a pathetic man.

but despite hating your boyfriend with a violent passion, blake listens to you complain and will offer you reassurance, even though the mere mention of his name has him gritting his teeth. and when he has opportunities to turn you against him, he takes them. he'll slowly fuel your grievances until your partner gets heated with you, and tells you that your employer and friend is manipulating you, and the worst part will be that he's right. but you'll be so blinded by blake's words that you'll finally find the courage to break up with that deadbeat you called your love. and what better person to crawl back to for reassurance than blake, who will comfort and cuddle and fuck you until you can't think of that asshole for another second?

[brotherwtf]

clegan band/orchestra au ⁉️

basing this a lot on my experience in the orchestra so buckle up squad

Gale is the principle cellist in the symphony orchestra and is a very well respected musician, he's been playing since he was 10 and has played in countless orchestras since then

John is the trombone section leader, a loud but very competent player who has been playing since middle school and started a jazz club in his high school

They went to the same college and ended up in the same symphony orchestra, almost never crossing paths

Gale prefers to play in all-string orchestras, he thinks "band kids" are too loud and obnoxious, so this was his first time playing in a full orchestra (band and strings)

John likes to rib the string players for being so uptight, always telling them to loosen up a little bit

He especially likes to tease Gale at rehearsals, pointing out the size of his instrument or that he needs a chair to be able to play properly, and Gale just glares at him and ignores what he says

From where John sits, he can perfectly see Gale playing, and has to admit he's impressed. He likes to see the furrow of Gale's brow and the way his fingers work lightly on the fingerboard (definitely getting some ideas from that one 😏)

Gale secretly likes the teasing, he had been raised in such a strict household when it came to playing music that he never really thought of it as fun, that really only came into his mind when he would see John at rehearsal

Gale starts to tease John back and they form an easy friendship

It's their first concert together when they realize, oops, this is the hottest guy ever.

They see each other backstage in their CONCERT BLACK (every musician is screaming their heads off rn) and immediately their brains just short circuit

Gale's black dress shirt hugs his waist so nicely, bro John is losing it, and the black slacks make his legs look MILES long

John just looks so BROAD in his shirt, material tightening around his shoulders and biceps whenever he moves, and the material of his slacks hug his thick thighs so well that Gale has to stop himself from drooling

Gale doesn't really have an excuse to crane his head over to look at John while he's playing but he chances a look between pieces and always finds John looking at him intently. He raises his eyebrows and smirks at him, making sure to flex his fingers before putting them on the fingerboard

They find each other after the concert and immediately jump on each other. John leads them to an empty practice room and they make out (and probably fuck) in there all night

bro they're so dumb I love writing about them. missing playing my instrument hours; open

some other mota band/orchestra hcs below the cut!

Curt plays the trumpet, a loud instrument for a loud personality

Douglass plays viola and EVERYONE bullies him, poor guy can't catch a break

Blakely probably plays the flute and likes to point at people with it and play jokes with them

Rosie plays violin and is the concertmaster (first chair violin) everyone loves and respects him

Hambone (my beloved) plays violin as well, he's first chair second violin

Croz and Bubbles both play clarinet, clarinet buddies they are two thirds of the clarinet section (who cares about the other guy)

Harding is their goofy ass conductor, I have a hc that he used to be a percussion player before he decided to conduct. Really likes playing movie music and romantic classical, likes to mix in jazz every so often.

[lwde-encrusted-sideblog]

One person in the group has been writing smutty fics about the rest of the gang who is it and whose more upset about how they are written than anything else?

Blake: Hello Team- What's going on?

Ruby: Well, Blake ... This is an Intervention.

Blake: For what? The fish sticks? 'Cause I can stop any time i want!

Ruby: What? No. This is about the Smut Fics we found.

Blake: What?

Yang: There's nothing to be ashamed of. We all have desire we want to explore through fiction, we just ask that you don't include us.

Blake: I have NO clue what you're talking about.

Weiss: Really? Even the one where I'm the bicycle between everyone?

Blake: Yeah, no, I legitimately don't know what you mean.

Ruby: Blake, We're just asking that you be honest with us.

Jaune: Yeah, Pyrrha was nearly in tears when she found out.

Pyrrha: *Sniffles*

Jaune: Plus you make me this "Giga-Chad Harem King" where I get with anyone and everyone! I don't like it. I'm not like that. I mean! You even Wrote me with My own Sisters!

Nora: You Vile Cur!

Ren: *Tranquility* Nora, Jaune, We're here to have a discussion.

Blake: I never wrote Smut about you guys! Do you think I'm so dumb as to Use your real names!

Blake: ...

Blake: In the event I did Write Smut about you guys!

Ruby: Look, Blake, We'll leave you to Talk to Pyrrha alone, since what you've done has affected her the most. RPF is the lowest form of fiction anyway.

*RW_YJN_R Leave, Pyrrha and Blake sit alone in the room*

Pyrrha: *Sniffles* Blake ...

Blake: I swear I never-

Pyrrha: Thank you!

Blake: What?

Pyrrha: Thank you for taking the fall for this!

Blake: ... What?

Pyrrha: I mean, do you know how irritated Jaune was when he learned he was written as the Lovely hunk he is? How could anyone resist him!

Blake: You're blaming ME for this!

Pyrrha: I mean ... Yes. Yes I am. Of course I'll need to find a better place to hide my writings, But No one would ever~believe that Me, Pure, Sweet, Innocent Pyrrha Nikos, the poor girl on the pedestal, could ever think about people in that way! My reputation would Crumble! everyone would lose respect for me!

Pyrrha: But no one knows You. Besides, you're an open pervert. No one would doubt you would do this.

Blake: ... You're evil.

Pyrrha: All is fair in love and War~ If only Jaune could Realize He oh-so deserves ALL the love in the world!

Blake: Is that your plan? To Convince Jaune to have a harem?

Pyrrha: And isn't it the perfect plan? Once everyone loves him the way I do, then He'll never hate himself again~

Blake: *Horrified*You're MAD! Depraved! A Foul-Minded harlot!

Pyrrha: And who would ever believe you about that~ One day All will bow to Jaune and I~ You're Reigning Champions of love and lust~

Pyrrha: Jaune Simply needs to learn his proper place!

Pyrrha: AS do you and the rest of our underlings~ Ehehehe~

Blake: You'll never get away with it! This is Madness! Insanity!

Pyrrha: Of course it is~ Why do you think it's called falling madly in love~ *Giggle~*

Blake: ... Oh my God, you're really trying this.

Pyrrha: Of Course I am. *Opens Door, Wiping tears* Blake, I'm so glad we could reach an Understanding!

[kitkatopinions]

Just saw the extended animatic that was originally meant to end V9 and is now gonna get repurposed into the (possible) V10.

Let me just say, I still feel the same about the things I saw in the first animatic. I can now firmly say that Qrow has been replaced with a doppleganger same as Blake (I wonder if it's like a partial possession thing in this case where sometimes it's Qrow and sometimes it's the faker.) I hate the dumb Winter scenes about how disappointed she is that poor people aren't nice enough to her billionaire blue blooded mother in her silly little sunhat. I have no idea what the hell Raven is doing there. The 'Remember Her Message' thing is stupid because of how poorly done Ruby's message to the world actually was and what little impact Team RWBYJNOR has actually had on the world at large. And I still want to see Whitley without Willow for three point five seconds. And I'm still wondering why the presence of an army in Atlas was a sign of pure evil and was immediately seen as a horrifying threat but seeing an army in Vacuo is meant to be a sign of peace and hope.

But also, now I have more to say.

Like first of all, I'm even more confused on how Remnant managed to pull off any sort of army now that we know what remained in Vale after the Fall of Beacon got decimated. Where are they getting their army? From Mistral, where we know Leo had all the Hunters killed? Are we meant to assume that the people that showed up from Mistral are the cops Blake called on the White Fang? Or, maybe from Argus, even though we're meant to hate Cordovin and the Atlas military that was there? Second of all, this makes me even more annoyed at Winter for being like 'if my poor martyr sister could see how badly we're doing, she'd be disappointed,' Winter get realistic goals challenge 2024. Third of all, Team SSSN and CFVY made appearances and if I ever have to see Coco "based on a nazi" Adel ever again, it'll be too soon, but I still insist that it should've been just Sun, Neptune, and Velvet because none of their other teammates got enough focus in the actual show to be real characters. They could've been casually name dropped off-handedly and it would've been fine. Speaking of teams making reappearances, Neon is there, which means she didn't die in the Fall of Atlas and likely her teammates didn't either, but they had better have a full explanation in V10 for how soldiers on the field got back to the city and threw the portals, and it's weird that we saw Neon but not Flynt. Also can I just point out that "the people who were colonized by Atlas are being aggressive to innocent Atlas orphans and need to be told off" is a writing choice the writers didn't have to do, and considering all the whole history with RWBY and bigotry, I don't know why they did that. Neon and Nora had a moment though, and I was like... Ship material? Also, Tyrian and Mercury are working with the Crown, but... To be honest, if they don't scrap that in V10 (if V10 ever comes,) I'm gonna question their decision making even more, because they just did a new location with a new villain and it proved that this late in the game it's hard to set up or properly execute new threats, and if V10 ever comes out, it's a high probability that we're not ever getting a V11. So if you ask me, if they don't cut out the Crown, they're either gonna badly execute these new bads because they expect their fans to do homework to understand the main show, or they're gonna spend way too much focus on establishing them and the Mains will get sidelined again. Merc looks like a mess, though, and this would make me think a redemption arc is a-coming except that they're pressed for time like I said, so I'm not counting on it. The fact that I have to see Peter Port of all characters is also making me want to say a lot of bad words. Like I cannot emphasize enough how much I hated seeing him and his stupid face and how much I wish he'd never existed. What is this choice to not have the serious potential mentor character who had been part of Oz's inner circle come in and instead having the comic relief teacher who blathered about testosterone and flirted with an underage student be the one to break what should be devastating news that should by all rights get a lot of focus? And where the heck is Tai in all of this? Rip to Oobleck, but out of everyone from the Vale seasons, I would not have picked either of these men to bring back, I'd have brought in Tai and Glynda. It's just a bad choice. And still no sign of Maria and Pietro, so like... What the heck?

All in all, I thought before that I couldn't have less hope for the future of RWBY, but whoa buddy this extended animatic proved me wrong.

[onboardsorasora]

Does Tennis star Daniel break his wrist also? How's he getting on? Is Max devoted boyfriend we all know him to be? Love the au sm!💖

OMG Pixie! Thank you for this ask! I'm so happy you enjoy it! 💗💗💗 Originally I had no intention of Danny getting injured, there was like a vague outline of what I wanted to happen for the US Open. Then I read this lovely ask and my brain pressed delete and then I furiously wrote this. It is not edited lmao, I hope it makes sense. I'll put it under the cut, we got a little angsty too.

Part 1 | Part 16 | Part 18

Part 17

It was in the second round of the US Open when it happened. In Arthur Ashe Stadium at prime time. A freak accident they called it. 

It was the second set, Daniel was returning a volley and he…tripped. The ball boys had accounted for all the stray balls except one that had fallen from one of their hands. They couldn’t stop play in time and instead of allowing himself to fall into the teen trying to retrieve the ball; Daniel pivoted with the grace of a UFC fighter and landed on his side. Heavily.

He had thrown his arm out reflexively to catch himself but his momentum was too much and long story short he was sat in the hospital in a cast. 

“At least it’s a clean break.” Blake had said, trying to find any silver lining. Daniel stared morosely ahead as the news (which he requested be kept on) kept replaying the moment of the fall and him immediately clutching his arm to his chest in pain. They were praising his quick thinking and agility for not injuring the poor boy with a montage of him being led from centre court to a standing ovation overlayed.

His phone was going off uncontrollably, but he was ignoring it. Max had called Blake immediately after it happened; he saw it live watching from Italy. They’d had no information for him then, and Daniel wasn’t sure if Blake had been keeping him updated. He hoped he was.

Daniel stared ahead for an indeterminate amount of time. He was in shock. How could it have gone so so badly in so little time. He was the fucking world number one; something he’d dreamt about for ages. He was on his way to win the final grand slam of the season and now…

The cast felt heavy against his chest where it rested. He couldn’t breathe under the metaphorical weight of it. 

“I want Max.” Daniel croaked out, clearing his throat. He hadn’t spoken since checking into the hospital, letting Blake and Micheal do all the work. 

“He’s sending his plane to take us to Spain. Red Bull are getting us a consultation with a Dr Mir to— apparently he’s the best at this sort of injury.” Blake offered instead, still texting feverishly.

“At least this was the final of the year. I mean outside of the invitational…” Michael trailed off.

“Where’s my phone? I— Max.” Daniel motioned with his good hand jerkily, hissing when he jostled his cast. Blake caved and handed him the device which he took to immediately facetime his boyfriend. 

Max answered before the first ring even finished. His worried eyes filled the screen and Daniel offered a small smile in spite of himself.

“Hey.” Daniel whispered, because he all of a sudden felt overwhelmed. 

“Danny! How— how are you feeling?” Max seemed like he just jolted himself into stillness. Maybe he had been pacing.

“Can I see you?” Daniel bypassed answering, because he wasn’t feeling up to trying to put words to the tumult inside him. It wasn’t all good all ways, not by a long shot. 

Max hesitated, and Daniel felt bad immediately. It was a stupid question, Max had just arrived in Milan, this was a full race weekend. There would be no opportunity.

“Sorry— fuck. That was a dumb question.” Daniel mumbled. 

“Vicky says that Dr Mir is like on call for Moto GP guys— so he knows what he’s doing. Hopefully you can get surgery this week a–and  then I can meet you in Monaco after the race, maybe? You can stay at my place— I have a week before singapore— I can help take care of you?” He said it all in a rush, as if thinking if he gave Daniel a moment to consider or answer he’d have declined. 

This was new for them, they were still new. They didn’t really know how the other were when they were losing or hurt. 

“Ok– yeah.” Daniel replied because, of course. He wanted to see Max, needed to be held by his boyfriend right now. And if everyone trusted this Dr Mir, then he would too. He could probably ask Fabio about him, or something. 

Everything was a rush and a blur after that. Daniel slept most of the flight to Barcelona, he was in surgery within two days and on some amazing painkillers. He didn’t much remember getting to Moncao or arriving at Max’s but he’d woken out of sleep enough with a cat randomly on or by him that he knew he was there.

Max arrived Sunday night, his hair still smelled like champaign. It was the best smell Daniel smelt when Max leaned over to kiss him while he was propped up on the couch. It was clear that Blake gave him all the information over the phone because he didn’t ask anything, just made himself comfortable on Daniel’s good side and cuddled him closer, tracing the lines of the cast lightly with his finger. Outlining the rose he knew to be there.

Daniel leaned into him easily. It was a shit situation, but Max was here.

[howlingday]

Omg! Theater camp au w/ Jaune and Blake please?

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First/Previously

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“Psst! There he is!” Whispered one of the girls. “He’s still practicing as he’s sweeping!”

Sure enough, Jaune Arc, a young man of twelve was sweeping the outside of the backdoor to the kitchen. The play this year was Dancing on the Roof, a tale Blake felt very close to once she heard of it. It was the sad story of one man struggling through poverty as his three daughters break the tradition of their once peaceful village. While, yes, it was romantic that the girls betrayed their father’s trust for their happiness, it was also tragic that he’s forced out of his home with only his wife and infant child at his side.

“Oh, Brothers, you have made so many, many people poor…” Jaune stopped his sweeping. He shook his head. “No, no. It’s poor people. You have made so many, many poor people. I realize it’s no shame to be poor.”

“He’s so dumb!” Giggled one of the girls.

“No, he’s not.” Blake said. When everyone looked at her, she flinched. “He’s… He’s just dedicated.”

“Ooh~!” One of the girls crooned. “Do you have a crush on Jaune~?”

“I do not!” Blake shouted.

“Is someone there?” Jaune called out. The girls scattered behind the corner. Suddenly, though, Blake felt herself shoved out into the open. “Oh, hi, Blake!”

“H-Hi, Jaune.” Blake said, pink in her cheeks. “What, uh… What are you doing?”

“Sweeping.” He answered. “I’m on sweeping duty this week.”

“R-Right.” Blake had sweeping last week. She tilted her head. “Don’t forget the spot behind the steps. Sometimes food falls out back there and raccoons get into the kitchen looking for more.”

“Oh, thanks!” Jaune said, turning to dig his broom into the crevice. “You’re a good person, Blake.” She smiled. “Even if you’re a little off-key sometimes.” Blake frowned.

“I am not!”

“B-But you are, though!” Jaune said from shrunken shoulders.

“When?!”

“When you sing your lines!” He answered. “You’re too low during the wedding song, and you’re too high when you sing about Holder!”

“Hodel!” Blake shouted back. “And I sing just fine!” She then stomped up and took the broom from his hands. “And I’ll prove it!” She stepped back and took a deep breath. “Okay, you start.”

“Uh, o-okay.” Jaune hated remembering his lines, and so far, nobody questioned if he knew them or not, so being put on the spot to recite them made him nervous. So nervous, he forgot them. “Uh, h-how does it start again?”

Blake sighed. “It starts with you singing, ‘Is this the little girl I carried?’.”

“Oh, right!” Jaune cleared his throat.

“Don’t do that!” Blake chided. “It’s bad for your vocal cords!”

“R-Right!” Jaune instead rubbed his throat. His voice cracked, but he started.

I-Is this the little girl I carried~?

Blake waited for a moment. She sighed. “Is this the little boy at play?” Jaune nodded.

Is this the little boy at play~?

I don’t remember getting older-

“See, you got too quiet.”

“I’m being somber!” Blake defended her mumble, making him wince.

“Uh, what’s a somber?”

“It’s-” She took a deep breath. “It means sad.”

“Oh, well, you can still be sad and have everyone hear you.”

“I can be heard just fine!” She pouted.

“Well, uh, I can’t, so try to be louder.” She shot him a glare. “Um, please?”

“Fine.” She snorted, then tried again.

I don't remember getting older~

When did they~?

"There you go!" Jaune said with a smile.

Softly, they together sang in near harmony. Near as in, sometimes Blake would drift too quietly or almost scream her lines while Jaune kept forgetting his. By the performance at the end of camp, they were so perfectly harmonious, they won "Thespians of the Summer". And it would be the best summers of their lives, especially since one of them never came back to theater camp.

[ourpickwickclub]

Do you think ML or GR took the B&G relationship seriously when it first came out or do you think they laughed and thought no way that’s lasting?

I think it was both of their worst nightmares because it gave power to Blake and Gwen. I think GR was scared and pissed and threatened but thought Gwen would still go back to him in the end. I think ML was shocked and intimidated and angry but thought Gwen would dump Blake and she could continue to torture him. GRs first post was about always keeping your knives sharp. Creepy. ML was a bunch of strong sad victim posts and then following Gwen. Creepy.

These are all my guesses. I watched it play out live back then and it was a rollercoaster. I was on to GR but I fell for some of MLs stuff early on because I didn’t know who she was other than the country singer whose music I didn’t know married to that guy on the show Carson Daly hosted. Seriously. That was my knowledge level before I watched the second half of season six when I heard Gwen would be on in season 7. I only ever tuned in for Gwen but Blake won me over in about 4 seconds. Charming, talented, funny, handsome, and that amazing voice.

Anyway, it’s funny to me now. I really thought watching the CMAs, oh poor ML, she had no idea Blake had started dating Gwen and there she is with pink hair that looks so dumb in comparison to Gwen’s iconic looks. No wonder she’s crying. She lost her man, he’s with Gwen so she will never get him back, and she looks so stupid with that hair. It never would have occurred to me that the psycho had pink hair on purpose and cried for attention, had repeatedly cheated on Blake, etc. Shows how little I understood!

- B

[pugsbone]

Thoughts on Volume 9? I really could've done without Jaune during that whole arc, and just let the Rusted Knight be someone from the Evr After. I want to see more of the title characters, and not a secondary protag get his metaphorical dick sucked.

I want to see more of Ruby than I do Jaune.

(Also, it was a dick move of Winter to look right at Jaune, and not help him get to safety.)

Personally, I don’t think Jaune should’ve fallen in with RWBY, and this is for a few reasons.

1. The dude gets a lot of exposure during most of the volumes, definitely feels like he’s THE main side character at this point, and this isn’t getting into the common debate on if he’s Miles’ self insert or not. It would be nice to get a break from Jaune, mostly so that both sides of the fandom can calm down about him. Also, side point to the Jaune thing, it would've been nice if he actually brought up the fact that he "had" to kill Penny (had is in quotation marks because it feels like to strong a word for what happened during that volume.) Hell, have it be part of his dialogue when he's shouting at Ruby, let that be the final straw that breaks our hero, to learn how her BFF died.

2. I really think it should have been somebody else from the main group who was forced to grow up in the Ever After. In my personal opinion it should have been either Ren, Nora, Oscar, or Emerald. Ren/Nora for arguably the same reason, Nora wanted to figure out who she is without him, and this situation is a freaking monkey law of that, either she thinks he’s dead or has been given plenty of time to find the answer to her question. If she fell in, suddenly she has all this time to find herself, let her grow as a person while also figuring out just how much she does love Ren and misses him. If Ren falls in, he now has to deal with being all alone along with his brand new semblance, seeing all the different emotions of the strange creatures around him, making this whole experience even more confusing as he has to deal with this alien culture.

Emerald because this could all be her way of trying to show that she has become a better person, her guilt over the fall of Beacon, making her guarding the paper people even more poignant since she wants to make up for who she was, not wanting to be like Cinder ever again. Like just imagine her trying to keep the paper people alive, acting a little crazy as she calls them Penny, Hazel, or Pyrrha, all people that she has either helped get killed or watched die for her, she's just trying so dang hard.

And for Oscar, this would be the first time where he’d be someplace where Oz is just as clueless as he is, the two of them being on even footing as they explore this new land. With them being in the Ever After, we can finally get a conclusion to the convoluted mess that is the whole reincarnation thing, which is a rant for another day. Also, it would be cute to see Ruby's reaction to a grown up Oscar, I'm sure it would be adorable.

With Jaune, it just feels like we're getting kind of a rehash of his arc during the fourth and fifth volume, where he's trying to process his grief and trauma, only to channel it in some pretty self destructive ways instead, until he gets better through the power of friendship. We've done this song and dance before with him.

Now for my real thoughts on the season, it had some decent ideas, just poor build up to them. Like I love the whole thing with talking to a part of themselves that they don't want to face when they go into the smoke, love that trope, but all the problems that the girls face don't feel like they were actual problems. (Mostly Blake's dumb ass thing, "Am I a person or an animal?" When has that ever been a thing for this fictional race?!) Could've done a sweet callback to Volume 2 by having them face their old dreams, Weiss becoming the head of the SDC, Yang doing this for the thrill and adventure, Blake trying to help the Faunus, Ruby becoming this fairytale hero, let these be what they have to face. Weiss, Yang, and Blake can all see how far they have grown, seeing how they have become better than those old dreams, that sort of thing. All while Ruby just gets asked "What happened to you?" or something, just another part of that is cracking under the pressure.

But yeah, most of the ideas just didn't feel they were implemented all that well. I think it's just another example of something that CRWBY could have foreshadowed better overall, heck, even just having someone reading The Rusted Knight would have been a pretty easy way of doing it, like during the montage of good deeds they do in Atlas, maybe Yang is reading to a bunch of kids or something. Would've been sweet.

[xarrixii]

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“Son of a bitch!” The heavy metal door crackled off, slight vibrations of electricity running through the floorboards. “You! You lying, cheating⸺ Why? What compelled your dumb ass to be here instead of Urban?”

Alph drew a grin onto their face. “Y’know, usually, a ‘hi’ does just fine.”

Blake—if Alph remembered correctly—swung a fist that connected with Alph’s chin.

“Answer the fucking question!”

“‘Lil something called friendship. I know, very hard concept⸺”

Blake kicked Alph in the chest, crouching down to pick them up with a fistful of T-shirt. “You know full well how ridiculous it is that Raijin picked you up instead of the guy we ACTUALLY WANTED.”

“Lucky guess,” Alph said with a still-wide smile.

“You’re, you’re fucking average. We wouldn’t have sent all hell raining on your building if all we wanted was you.”

“Oh no, my poor feelings.”

Blake dropped Alph onto the floor, taking a deep breath. “God damn it. He was the only one we could reasonably convince! The rest of you don’t belong to reason, you just blindly follow Cinder because you’re told to.”

Alph pushed themselves up, metal binders proving just as difficult as always to do anything in. They’d slowly been whittling away at them.

“Of course you have nothing to say about it. You’re the, the what? The child of a psychopathic monster sending people to one of the many things Storm is trying to abolish? What do you care?”

Alph wasn’t dumb enough to fall into the trap, however convincing the idea was. It was just too quick of a solution. No plans for what happens after. “For one, you could offer safer working environments. Only thing I’ve experienced from Storm so far is a bucket full of violence.”

Blake clenched a fist, glaring over at Alph.

“Also, you could learn where to put your thumb when you prepare for punches.”

“You have no fucking idea what Storm has lost.”

“No, I don’t think you do.” Alph stretched, arms relaxing almost as straight as they had been before. These must have been an older style because there wasn’t any wrist movement. Their nerves were on fire from lack of movement.

“I plenty understand Storm’s lost one of their best EKs. Do you comprehend that?”

“Nobody told me about that one.”

“Really? Last I knew, your little joke got him captured because he was too busy having fun to realize he was up against the real threat!”

Alph’s smile got wider. “Sounds like Urb.”

Blake’s heel dug further into the ground as he went to bite at his thumb.

“That all you had to say? For all your claims that he’s the only one you could possibly convince, if you hadn’t started off with violence I’m pretty damn sure I woulda ditched my mum already.” Alph chuckled. “Though, I don’t think putting anyone in hand binders is a good way of saying you want to be friends.”

He stopped, turning back to the door. “What the hell would you know?”

“I’ve seen a kid unable to open a door in a rehab clinic before. That work?”

Blake was silent for a few moments before walking out, the heavy crash of the door reverberating in the resounding silence.

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guys i did it i finally got over my writer's block THE STORY CAN MOVE ON!!!

[divinecomedyproductions]

RWBY Saints of Remnant Notes: Adam Taurus, Surrogate Brother, Liberator, and former slave worker

WARNING: This post contains is a radically reimagined Adam Taurus in a positive light in a heavily reimagined RWBY AU and has cliche and a ship that may turn you off due to Canon, if Canon Adam has given you a permanent bad taste in your mouth, I understand, this is an AU, just please do not come in with bad faith and ignore me instead.

Said AU is connected to The Emperor-Verse

Now following my altered Jack Schnee is Adam Taurus

Now given the whole grievances the RWDE tag as made about him, and looking back on him myself, I'd had figured there were two options for him, at least in my opinion

Either make him anti-villain or initial antagonist turned ally, which I have chosen for the latter. Either way, I threw out him being Blake's ex because I honestly thought it was kinda dumb and melodramatic.

Though FRWBY as I heard has done a good job tweaking that to make it work as well as Adam as a villain.

But I chose to go for something else, Adam being something of a surrogate older brother for Blake instead.

For this specific backstory, Adam is from Mistral, from a small village led by his father, a respectable Huntsman.

Now I'm trying to figure it out but with my Altered SDC and Jacques post, Arthur Gray(Watts) megacorporation GigaWatts Incorporated has outsorced work, and much like the SDC in Canon!RWBY Adam's family worked at one of their factories in the East under poor working conditions which claimed the life of his parents.

Adam much like his Canon counterpart, also worked pretty much as a slave, and his eye injury I chasing between either branding or a factory accident.

Now this draws on Fritz Lang's Metropolis which I feel like doesn't get enough love, and I will use this clip along with Metropolis when I get to post about the not-so-good doctor, his mega-corporation, and the current state of Atlas later.

But basically, Adam was emotionally drained at that point. A zombie of a young man who felt hopeless.

One day in his younger days The White Fang's Eastern Branch attacks the factories. And the one leading the charge was the current White Fang leader, a spider Faunus by the name of Rina Kumokage(first name a placeholder) and her second-in-command Sienna Kahn. Seeing them in action reinvigorated and inspired him and joined them instantly when the two offered a hand.

However, this wouldn't be the liberation that he thought it was, at least not entirely.

Rina's leadership was questionable over in the East while the other branches of the other three corners were busy, Rina seemed to be driven more by politics than the morals of common decency, and had abusive tendencies towards Adam and later on Blake whom she also took under her personal tutelage due to knowing her late father Kuroto(aka Ghira) who was a high ranking member of the White Fang.

But it wasn't all bad, for while Kumokage was a cruel teacher, Kahn on the other hand was the closest thing he had for a mother after losing his parents, and she herself was often downplayed by the current WF leader.

Soon Adam began to realize Rina saw the White Fang as a means for political power, a demagogue exploiting a legitimate cause for mercenary motives. But he wished for no outside help, for reasons I am trying to figure out, but partially the same reasons for Blake of being introverted, not to hurt those close to him.

Now for his allusion, there's always been the argument he was the beast and Blake was the Beauty

But after remembering an analysis post I can't remember where on Tumblr I figured

What if Blake and Adam were both the Beast? like a collective allusion? Which is based on my RWBY collective allusions theory but that's another post for another day.

Adam's individual allusion however is not the Bull Demon King, but Red Boy, with his late parents being The Bull Demon King(his Father) and Princess Iron Fan(his mother), both of their lessons sticking to him. So unlike his canon counterpart while his sanity may had been bent, it wasn't broken.

Now Sun in this AU is the 'Beauty' to Blake's 'Beast' and as for Adam, the ‘Beauty’ to his ‘Beast’ is and hear me out here...

Yang Xiao Long

now I know what you all are thinking...

But here's the idea

Adam as a good guy I would imagine being this grumpy kinda no-nonsense dude and something of a ham(he writes poems in his downtime) and I feel like that would compliment Yang's 'flirty party girl' personality and would play off Black Sun too

Two ships that are similar, yet different, and I just don't mean in a gender bent way.

But not only that, Yang’s role is also to mend the strained brother-sister relationship of Blake and Adam. Adam isn’t obsessed with Blake but was kinda like “Blake, what the hell?” When she left. He’s kinda pissed, but not a flat-out murderous lunatic.

And Yang being an older sibling herself can relate to Adam and talk it out with him, notably all the good things Blake has told Yang about him.

And then of course Yang does try to resort to some spicy flirting, but Adam being taught about earning the blessings of the parents and abstinence, doesn’t reciprocate the same way.

Spoiler alert, Adam is flustered by Yang’s midriff but also know it’s not good for practical purposes in her line of work. Yang notices and tries to tease him further, only for him to tickle her mercilessly to make his point, leading her to make a wardrobe upgrade for “V2”

And I’d be lying if my this was not somewhat influenced by my Catholic faith about modesty and no sex outside of marriage, but I’d think it be kinda cute and funny to ship Yang who’s flirtatious and likes to flaunt it with a very honorable and kinda traditional dude. Expect lots of disappointed pouts from Yang.

Now his altered personality I was inspired by 2 sources

Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender

But also Grimlock in Transformers: Fall of Cyberton which the game is also an influence for my reimagined Arthur Watts

For those not in the know-how, Fall of Cybertron due to it success had become the reboot basis for all G1-esque Transformers stories onward.

In it, Grimlock is the commander of the team and had been captured by Shockwave, who is a scientist, to be painfully experimented on which would turn them into Dinobots. Grimlock, driven by furious vengeance free's his comrades and seeks to destroy Shockwave.

Now Grimlock is still a good guy and believes defending the weak and migh-for-right, but he's bad tempered, stubborn, and headstrong really doesn't see eye-to-eye with Optimus Prime, seeing him as a weak leader and barely accepting him as leader due to the Matrix.

So it's kind of the same principle with Adam, with Watts being the 'Shockwave' to his 'Grimlock', though to be specific, Adam has a vendetta against the one running the factory he and his family worked at. Will get to him in the future.

So yeah, that's my Adam so far.

[crof-fwf]

The joke / take / argument about "The Cishets dudes did it again ahh"

Well hello.

As always I make another appearance since I have inspiration to write about the topic of the day. In this case I want to start with a post that I found a long time ago and a recent one, these posts are for reference so I can talk a little about the topic of this post.

Well let's start with the first case:

Well in the "deep context" is the same discourse about the "Canonical designs vs Fanon or "Fix" redesigns about the cast, in this case the "individual" aimed about how the "Cishetdudes" have an inclination or "preference" about some archetypes of some "redesigns" of Yang.

... So, me being a "Cishet dude"... should I consider this "archetype" of "redesign" like a pander for me?

... What the fuck?

No . "Where the fuck i should find these "appeal?"

To continue, i also present this quote:

"All the men in the replies..."

"Mens" in the post: 4 of the 17 replies

1 Sharing 2 fan arts of "redesing" of Yang (not being similar o anything to the "archetype" presented by the "author"; i have to say what that outfits were fine.)

1 Critizing Blake outfit (ended being blocked by the author)

"This is stil better"

2 of the 4 "mens" said that (I don't even know if it was said for irony, but just in case we'll say "yes.") :

Bonus: a person drags a "redesign video", to agree with the author of the publication:

"But F0under, you clearly see what they´re joking hehe, they´re mocking "dumb redesigns"

My dear and honorable reader, I know that people make fun of stupid people, however I would like to point out and ask how these individuals have to think that everything bad about "redesigns" being stupid, poor quality and etc. This fandom necessarily tends to say that "The Cishets Guys ...". Although in the case of those 2 individuals who said "looks better" we can leave it in a statement or make fun of the post by saying it ironically.

But anyway, If you ask me about the designs, I think that any canonical or fanon outfit is fine for me (I don't see myself as very demanding)

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With this I want to point out what the Fandom is like; especially with the toxic part of the "female fanbase community" tends to be "toxic and prejudiced" when it comes to Yang's redesigns for pointing out an Oversexualization in those designs ( + the "imaginative addition" of believing that the characters' clothing was equivalent to their sexuality... [taking into account the part where she grabs the flag in that fanart]).

As the "first post/case" makes me think of this tendency of using the same phrase, to say a questionable take or make some "rant".

In the next post that will be presented below:

The author begins by making a mockery of those who make a “Yang x Self Insert” being a reference to the drama “Ships with Yang x Male”.

Although the author insisted (subsequently) that "her publication is not intended to prevent people from shipping any Yang x Male".

The thing is that you immediately think that this is associated with the "Ships between Yang x Male" (regardless of whether the male characters are OC or Canonical)

And within the context (that I understand) it is about how some Fanfics, Fanarts, etc. have existed. That they have always been accused of being cringe and disrespectful. In fanfics: Because of how "Gary Stue" the character is and how poorly they write the characters (especially Yang). In the Fanarts: If it is OC/Canon character it may be because it is a "generic design", as well as how they are represented in said arts.

Thanks to the amount of this "junk content" in this category of Ships, this is how the community has come to imposingly generalize all material that comes from this category (Yang x Male [OC/Canon Character]).

So this category has already become tainted due to its junk content. With this, prejudices and stereotypes for that category are created by the fandom.

But well, anyway. That drama is already so "marked" and "symbolic" that it was honestly no surprise that people made the kind of comments that one would already be imagining… Oh yes:

"PLEAZ, LeT YIkes AL0ne."

One thing is that the author makes fun of "Yang x Male" (especially in the trash stories) and that comments automatically appear for her that say: "Keep cishet men away from her (yang).

Which is barely left as "a post making fun of "Yang x Male (due to the issue of poor quality fanfics)" But the question now is that she gived "like" to those comments.

(Sorry... I have the interface in Spanish)

Which makes the skepticism notable and even more so taking into account that in her words:

Although, one can agree regarding the need to improve the standards of "M/F Ships fanfics/fanarts and the redesigns of Yang". But the question is when people doubt about the intentions behind "that joke." And this doesn't "help at all" seeing that she gives "likes" those types of comments.

And the problem is that it can be implied that she complements the message of her post with the comments that she liked (taking into account that those comments were written in her same post)

This question and doubt about their intentions arises due to how the fandom is earning this reputation of "Hating Cishet dudes", since it seems its the same about how they called out the "Cishet dudes" who criticize the series but also to the fans of those ships (due to the "profile "from those who make those poor quality Ships)

Coming to imply that any content, criticism, Ship, Fanfic, Au, HeadCanon, and much material that encompasses "FanWork" is destined to be of poor quality, offensive, repetitive, and disgusting, as long as the creator is a "CisHet Dude."

And all this "fame" of prejudice is sustained thanks to a minority of users who end up "favoring" that image of the "CisHet Dude of the fandom" that has been created in the fandom, adding to how they are used so that the fandom can affirm and sustain said prejudices based on the activity of said users.

At this point the jokes or arguments of "Cishet types are like/are like:" are being used noticeably and repetitive way. which regardless of whether they use it as a "phrase", "mockery", "joke", etc. They may unconsciously or discreetly make it clear to the rest of the fandom members about their true mentality.

AND NOT. I am not pointing to narratives of "Male Oppressed" and those mental gymnastics stuff, because it is stupid to reduce the intention of my post to this… so I emphasize: "This topic is about RWBY fans using this phrase and always ending up with questionable comments that make you wonder if they are "/j" or if there is "a double intention."

But hey, at least if you are a "Cishet dude" you will already have the idea that you are not welcome in this fandom almost full of misandrists.

But at least you know that I don't judge you :)

Bonus:

Literally when i see these kinds of posts like: "cYzHeTS SaYiNG / CriTIZNG ...", that makes me think that now they are ironically assuming that my 2 dear (female) friends who watch the series are men... I mean, for them it seems only the "CisStraight Men" criticize:

"Ship of the Golden Eggs"

"The Girl Who let her little sister drink that tea because her sister wasn't her neko girlfriend"

"The character with cat ears who has everything at her favor"

etc

In conclusion:

"Fucking town (or well, fandom in this context), full of stupid people"

Postscript: Hello, I'm sorry if my activity has been reduced lately, and to tell the truth I haven't forgotten about this account since I love writing posts for you... But hey, the important thing is that I have content to share for you, dear ones.

So I will be (trying to) cooking up more topics that will be presented later. :)

[hexcorazon]

What is it about Jaune that makes you like him? /gen

i know a lot of what im about to say can be boiled down to "hes miles self-insert" but like. as a certified Miles-Hater thats so dumb to judge a writers fav character (i dont think jaune is even miles character) or the character they heavily base around their own experiences on the feelings you have for the writer. many MANY writers far better than miles luna have based characters on themselves-- which is what jaune is btw a self-insert/mary-sue is ENTIRELY different-- anyways

you see, something that made weiss and pyrrha (and somewhat blake) in vol 1-3 many peoples fav characters, including me, was that they had functional character arcs. pyrrhas was far more deep and interesting than weiss' (bc the writers were scared to actually tackling unlearning racism) but functionally: weiss started off as an uppity racist bitch that was entitled and self-important, and by the end of vol 3 she had not only learned to summon, but also did it in protection of a faunus-- regardless of the quality of writing, this was a perfectly acceptable story arc during vol1-3 era that made weiss a standout. pyrrha went from a sort of empty mentor shell character to somebody that the audience understood to struggle with her identity, her destiny, her talents and lack of agency, coupled with this idea that she might be forever changed should she take on the burden of her destiny... and then she kissed jaune and took on cinder solo (meaning that if she was rescued [meaning she escapes the stigma of being the unbeatable girl, thus escaping her destiny] or somehow won, she could return to jaune [thus gaining the joy she was always afraid she would never have] OR she would die [again, escaping her destiny]

you see, people LIKE character development and that is in woeful short supply in RWBY. but jaune is constantly changing, while other characters remain static for massive bouts of time (ren, weiss, yang) or repeat the same character arcs again and again (ruby, nora) and while hes changing, its always for the benefit of others

jaune starts off as a doofus cringelord that throws up on the ship to beacon. hes a liar, getting his hands on fake transcripts (ive always wanted to know how the hell he did that), hes a poor student (like everyone else tbf) and he struggles to fight. hes unprepared, and he struggles with leadership, like ruby! where ruby had to deal with internal team struggles (blake v weiss and weiss v ruby), jaune struggles with external factors (his own backstory and cardins bullying)

ive seen Certain Individuals say they hate jaune because hes mean to pyrrha when she offered to help him but like. isnt that the point of character arcs and development? jaune started off as thinking he had to shoulder the burden of what cardin was doing to him (which btw was physically bullying and mental exhaustion, he was doing the burden of five people and in the meantime was being physically harmed) as well as the guilt of his own backstory (failing to live up to a huntsman legacy [which GOD why havent they come back to this at all] and his lies.) and by the end of it, off the advice of ruby, he fights back to protect his team and DEVELOPS into someone that willingly and genuinely apologizes to pyrrha and asks if she would still be okay with training him. its genuinely good development for both of them!

jaune continues to change post pyrrha. he honors her by incorporating her armor into his own, carrying her silently alongside them, while also keeping up his training because he knows that the best way to honor pyrrha is to keep up the fight, to protect their friends, to make sure she didnt die in vain. hes ALWAYS supported ruby from the very beginning, following her, supporting his teammates

im not going to pretend jaunes flawless or faultless. especially in vol 4-6 where a LOOOOOOOT of writing flaws and character issues crop up for me, in all characters including jaune. i hate the way they all blame Oz/Oscar, i hate his stupid plan to steal an atlas airship (cordovin literally offered to escort weiss just have her claim oscar as a servant boy and have qrow go along as her pet bird, have her go to atlas with oscar and qrow with the lamp and then ironwood would have given cordo orders to have everyone else shipped out GOD), i hate the way they all just SIT AROUND at haven, i hate the way they all act like qrow turning into a bird is some fucked up thing, yadda yadda yadda. the fight at haven is bad and ugly and he (like everyone) fights like an absolute ding dong but OUGH his semblance...

listen one thing about me? i love paladins. love healers. im a support main, i play clerics and bards, i LOVE paladins. theres something really great to me that his aura was set up from the very beginning as something he had a lot of and now his semblance is literally giving that away to his friends, literally giving his SOUL to others to heal and boost and protect. that's genuinely so beautiful to me. its not only a wonderful semblance that has really good utility and synergy (regardless that he only seems to use it with ren) but its wonderful that it heals, because thats the first thing he found out aura can actually do; pyrrha unlocked his aura to HEAL him. and he struggled for so long with the fact that he couldnt help pyrrha because he didnt know how but now? his literal super power is to help others. (i mean. not that the writers use it to great effect but still. the potential is there)

and then the atlas arc starts and man this is some of my favorite jaune era because a lot of what i like is background details! i ADORE his friendship with marrow, i truly wish more characters got to make friends with the characters in atlas (give me blake/neon NOW!!!!!!!!! give me weiss/flynt NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! double date!!!!!!!!) guard dogs is literally one of my top five ships (i also adore marrow to death and back so its a no brainer) i like that he actually steps up to do huntsmanning work that isnt glorious or battling, even if at first hes a little disappointed and then!!! it literally comes back around in the finale episodes!!!! it showed that even seemingly silly tasks like escorting kindergarteners to school and back can be utilized in the right situation, bc hunting in atlas isnt just about fighting monsters, its about taking care of the people, from evacuation procedures to literally escorting children. i loved it and it felt really satisfying to watch (even if it did make me judge literally everyone else like what now suddenly you dont care about the civilians in mantle?)

and also, this entire time, its been wonderful to see jaune slowly build up his arsenal and his fighting skills. ill admit, some of my fondness from jaune comes from my own headcanons regarding his legacy and such but tbh the fact that only some of my enjoyment comes from my headcanons and not literally all my enjoyment (like most characters) is an improvement. but also, its just ingrained in my media to want to root for the underdog, the clumsy bad fighter that gets cooler and cooler, thats the appeal of the literal Heroes Journey (sora, noctis, link, jaune; all swordfighters, all either knight/royalty coded, all went on the heroes journey, all some of my favorite characters... coincidence? i think not!)

im not really going to speak on vol9 too much because its a lot and its unfinished rn and i dont know how this series arc is going to end for him so i cant make an informed sort of conclusion but i think hes very in character as a naturally continuation of his character before the time in the EA that was put through the Horrors for a couple dozen years. it makes my heart Ache

anyways this was already a lot. basically, i like jaune because he feels like a genuine paladin and feels like what a huntsman should be like. one of my biggest complaint that is specific to him and not a series wide issue with writing is i wish his designs were better? im loving the rusted knight look with the full armor and the longer hair and i hope that he keeps the ponytail (if he survived vol9). hes a genuinely good friend who ive never questioned whether he actually would be a good huntsman (as ive questioned with literally everyone else of the main cast except ruby) or if he even wants to be there at all! he has his own motivations to be in this fight beyond just following ruby and he actively gets better throughout the show (unlike rwby, who all started off goated and then have had to be nerfed through the show). i think he had a lot of potential that was wasted but i think hes genuinely one of the better characters we've gotten as a main staple of the show and hes been there since the beginning!

i hope this answered your question! i could literally go on for hours (it took me an hour to respond to this alone) so if you have specific scenarios you want me to break down i can totally gush about jaune, or my headcanons (for example i have a hc that he has a drag persona named Matre Domme, a play on matyrdom (bc joan of arc) as well as being french for Master Domme bc of course jaunes experience with feminity and what he would explore through drag is rooted in strong dominate women)

[musings-from-mars]

Monochrome meeting at their first pride? 👀

Blake ran past the alley at first, but put on the brakes when she saw her. Or at least, she saw the end of her white ponytail, peeking out from around a stack of boxes. Blake chuckled at how poor of a job this girl was doing at hiding from her, and peeked around the boxes and smiled. "Hey."

Weiss was crouching and hiding her face in her bi flag t-shirt. "Nooo…"

Blake just rolled her eyes and took Weiss' hand. "Don't worry, I won't tell your dumb family that I saw you here. Now come on, you're missing out."

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