#roman torchwick headcanon

[lesbianneopolitan]

Do you have any specific headcanons about Roman?

smol ones but, I like the idea that the eye covered by his bangs is scarred from a Grimm slash from when he was younger and more inexperienced

the grey neckscarf is matching with Neo's, in my canon it's not that Neo took his neckscarf or something, they just always had matchies and it was Neo's idea (because she's usually the one to make the outfits for them/is interested in fashion)

at some point and after the events of Roman Holiday he had something with Lisa Lavender

a Roman hc merging into a Neo one is that, the cigars he used to smoke were made in a factory in Vale, so when Salem destroyed the kingdom there was no possibility to get more of them- Neo clung to the last few ones like if they were gold, and only smoked them in important situations or very bad breakdowns

[papihomo]

RWBY Ethnicity headcanons because why not!

Tyrian Callows - Lebanese, I mean his name comes from the Lebanese city of Tyre and that makes sense.

Coco Adel - Belgian, I mean she just gives me Belgian energy idk why

Weiss Schnee + The Entire Schnee Family - Swiss-German, it makes sense, okay like Jacques has a French name and in Switzerland the main languages are French, German & Italian.

Nora Valkyrie - Norwegian, its basically canon

Oscar Pine - Moroccan & Bedouin + Scottish & Irish, I totally think he's Maghrebi like YOU CANNOT CHANGE MY MIND OKAY.

Professor Port - Hate that man, literally identical to my Bio Teacher, probably German because my Bio Teacher was German.

Mercury Black - Scottish-American, he just is.

Trivia "Neopolitan" Vanille - Neapolitan & Corsican

Roman Torchwick - Sicilian

The Belladonnas - Its of course canon that they are Indigenous, Ghira is on Chief & Council, need I say more? Anyways I have a feeling they would be from the Pacific Northwest, more specifically they would be Gitxsan.

Hazel Rainart - German + Assyrian, he kinda reminds me of the Sumerian folk hero Gilgamesh who stems from what is now Modern day Iraq.

Emerald Sustrai - Basque + Sudanese & Arab, her surname is basque, her allusion is Ali Baba/Aladdin and she seems to be of african descent as well so honestly she could be Basque, Sudanese and Arab.

Elm Ederne - Afro-Dominican + Mongolian, need I say more.

Vine Zeki - Tibetan + Japanese, Need I say more.

Harriet Bree, Afro-Jamaican + Cambodian, its my headcanon.

Marrow Amin - Paternally Ethiopian & Ugandan, Maternally Indigenous Australian & Greenlandic, his surname "Amin" is of Arabic origin but is prevalent in Uganda as a couple of my Ugandan friends from 9th grade had that exact surname, also his weapon being a boomerang could point to him being Indigenous Australian {Also the Faunus being very clearly Indigenous} & Greenlandic.

Clover Ebi - Turkish, that man is Turkish, okay? HES TURKISH TO ME.

Qrow & Raven Branwen - Welsh & Breton, need I say more.

Sage Ayana - Yoruba, one of my Nigerian friends presented me with this headcanon and now I hold onto it dearly.

[rwby-imagines-and-headcanons]

Can we get some NSFW headcannons for Roman torchwick :)

Oh heeeeeell yeah baby, we getting some Torchwick all up in here

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Roman Torchwick NSFW Headcanons

Roman may be a criminal mastermind, but he's still a gentleman. Both on the streets AND in the sheets

He never hits or insults you during sex without your permission. If you want him to get rough or nasty though, just ask! He'd be happy to oblige~

This man will never bottom, I don't care how much of a dom you are. Roman will make you a submissive bitch (and you'll like it)

Prefers to have you on top of him, whether with him leaning back or you just directly on his lap. Cowgirl/Reverse Cowgirl is his favorite and he always gropes your ass and chest during it. The view is just fantastic

If he wants to tease you, he'll just lean back and let you do the work yourself, all the while smirking at your frustration

It's not made apparent, but Roman is definitely into secretive exibition. He'll rub you under the table or run his hand over your body ever so gently, then have the audacity to act like nothing happened. Also expect saucy neck kisses when no one is looking

Whispers in your ear seductively just to get a rise out of you in public. And it pretty much always works

Do you reeeeally wanna get this man off? Two words: Thigh Riding

The hottest thing in the damn world to him is you straddling his thigh while he works, and grinding yourself against him. Hearing your desparate cries of pleasure makes him so hot, as well as feeling his thigh get progressively wetter. Having you face him makes it even better as he gets to see glimpses of your expressions

If you moan out his name while riding him, he. is. GONE. You are gonna be slammed on that desk and ravished

Okay confession time. About half the time he calls you into his office, he doesn't actually have any work to do. He just finds the scenario hot af and wants to bang you

A big person on sweet talk and praise in bed. Nicknames especially. When he isn't calling you "Good Girl/Boy" or a pet name (Sweetie, Hun, Baby, Doll, etc), he is using his special nickname for you

Call him Daddy, please. You'll drive him absolutely insane. This man will get tunnel vision and wont stop until you're a twitching mess covered in cum

Actually fairly decent at aftercare. He'll help you clean up and even lay with you for a bit cuddling. He likes to tease you and say how horny and desperate you were, and then proceed to kiss you sensually

On the other hand, Roman is quick to get up and get dressed. It's almost superhuman how quickly he is able to compose himself. He'll pretty much be up and out 10 minutes after sex. He's a busy man, he's got places to be!

But if he leaves before you wake up, he always leaves a note behind to let you know where he is and when he'll be back

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I stg writing NSFW headcanons are so fun, thanks for requesting this!

[eagle-shadow]

Roman: Neo did you draw nipples on my binders!

Neo:*proudly nodding*

Roman: Why!?

Neo: *signing* well everyone kept saying free the nipples but you can't so I drew them on

Roman:*frowning* okay but how did you get them to match perfectly?

Neo: *holds out measuring tape*

Roman:*sighs* what else are you planning?

Neo:* opens sketch book showing her life drawings*

Roman: Wow amazing! How about you draw me like that~

Neo:*Nods happily*

*Roman posing naked*

*Neo drawing making angry huffs*

Roman: you alright?

Neo:｡⁠:ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ *signing* can't get the fucking shading

[thebunnyremix]

Cinder: Where are you going now?

Roman: To do a, um...exchange. We're in need of funds here, and I found a buyer for Dust. Neo and I are gonna meet him behind that crappy diner that closed down last year. It won't take long.

Cinder: Hm...all right...I'm going with you, then.

Roman: Eh heh. No, you are not.

Cinder: Excuse you?

Roman: Cinder, this is important. I really can't afford to lose a buyer right now.

Cinder: What, you think I can't handle an exchange?

Roman: Well, you probably could...if you could keep the blood lust under control.

Cinder: Blood lust? What is that supposed to mean?

Roman: It means you're too trigger-happy. An exchange like this requires a level head.

[Cut to Emerald and Mercury watching TV nearby.]

Mercury: Level head? You're just gonna go, "You got the money?" and "You got the stuff?" back-and-forth for twenty minutes.

Emerald: [laughs]

[Cut back to Roman, Neo, and Cinder.]

Cinder: [ignoring that] I'm very levelheaded.

Neo: [snorts]

Cinder: [glares at her] ... [to Roman] I promise I'm not going to scare away your precious buyer. Now let's go.

Roman: Yeah, um...look...no offense, but how exactly do you think this is gonna play out? Because let me tell ya...no one's gonna do business with you if they know they're likely gonna get a bullet to the head once they hand over the money.

Cinder: Don't you talk down to me. I know how to exchange Dust for money.

Roman: You know how to scheme and intimidate. I don't think you know how to do business.

Cinder: I do so.

Roman: All right, lemme give you a scenario. You're robbing a Dust Shop. What do you do? Tell me step-by-step.

Cinder: Okay, first I- ...do I have henchmen here?

Roman: No, I wanna know what you do flying solo.

Cinder: Okay, fair enough. [ahem] First, I walk in and threaten the shopkeep to unlock the displays...

Roman: All right. Good.

Cinder: Once the displays are empty, I take whatever valuables the customers have, if any are present...

Roman: All right. You're on a roll.

Cinder: Then...I kill all of them and the shopkeep, take the money from the register, and run before the police show up.

Roman: Okay, good- [jump] Wait, what? No! Don't kill the shopkeep!

Neo: [signing] And leave the register alone! You'll make way more money selling the Dust!

Cinder: Yeah, but if I empty the register, I have that money and what I'm gonna get for the Dust.

Roman: No, Neo's right. That's just gonna slow you down. Leave the cash and don't kill the shopkeep. Just get the Dust and go.

Cinder: Why?

Roman: Because the shopkeep is important.

Cinder: No, they aren't. I got the Dust. There's no further use for the shopkeep. They're just a witness who's gonna call the police, so they gotta go.

Roman: No. Don't kill the shopkeep. They're still important.

Neo: [signing] And you don't think you have blood lust...

Mercury (v/o): Just kill the police when they show up!

Roman: Okay, don't- ...I mean, do that if you have to. But don't stick around for that. What you want is a clean getaway.

[Cut to Emerald and Mercury.]

Emerald: Wait, so she can kill the customers and the police, but she can't kill the shopkeep?

[Cut back to Roman, Neo, and Cinder.]

Roman: Because the shopkeep is the only one who's important!

Cinder: How? I got all the Dust.

Roman: Yes. You did. But then what?

Cinder: What?

Roman: You cleaned out the Dust Shop. Now what?

Cinder: I... [frustrated] I sell it all?

Roman: And after that?

Cinder: What?

Roman: You sold it all. Gotta replenish your stock. Where are you gonna get the Dust from?

Cinder: [annoyed] The shop.

Roman: How? You emptied it out and killed the shopkeep. There's no more Dust.

Cinder: What?

Roman: You think that next shipment's gonna order itself? No. You need the shopkeep to do that.

Cinder: Oh, come on. Surely someone else will take the job.

Neo: [signing] Oh, yeah. That's gonna go over well. Everyone's gonna be lining up for that job interview. "Okay, so the previous owner was killed during a robbery and the culprits were never caught. I'm sure you'll be fine, though."

Cinder: [scoff] I'll find a different Dust Shop, then.

Roman: Yeah, I dunno how many Dust Shops you think Vale has, but if you keep killing everyone behind the counter, you're gonna end up having to outsource.

Cinder: [heavy sigh] Why are we even talking about robbing a Dust Shop? We're about to go do an exchange. That's not the same thing.

Roman: Because it's business. Which you apparently have no idea how to do.

[Cut back to Emerald and Mercury.]

Emerald: Still confused about how she can kill the customers, but not the shopkeep. Won't killing the customers scare off future business, and then the Dust Shop will have to shut down?

Mercury: No, no. See, that's when you go back disguised as a customer and make purchases, and then resell what you bought for double. That way the business stays open and you still make a mint.

Emerald: How is one patron gonna keep it alive, though?

Mercury: Just be a regular. Go in every day. That makes it look safe, and then regular customers will pile in.

Emerald: But then you should totally empty the register when you go back to rob the place, since you basically helped fill it.

[Cut back to Roman, Neo, and Cinder. Roman is rubbing his temples in frustration.]

Mercury (v/o): Nah, you sold what you bought for double already. Let the shopkeep have what's in the register. Think of it as tipping the waiter.

Emerald (v/o): Oh, yeah. I guess so. They'll need it to order the next shipment, anyway.

Roman: [lowers hands] Okay. That's it. Everyone in the car.

Cinder: What?

Roman: Get in the car. We're gonna go deal with the buyer, and after that I'm taking you guys to rob a Dust Shop.

Cinder: Wait, what? Why?

Roman: Because I didn't know it was frickin' amateur hour over here. [grumbles as he walks off] Gotta show you people how it's done...

Neo: [signing] I call shotgun! [follows him]

[Pause.]

Mercury: Aw, I wanted shotgun...

Emerald: Is he being serious right now?

Roman (v/o): GET IN THE CAR!!!

Cinder: Let's just go. [walks off]

Mercury: Okay, but try not to kill the shopkeep when we get there.

Emerald: I promise nothing.

[uunromanticized]

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[eiiskonigin]

@candlewick-corporation: [skin]: obviously colour, but also if they’re inclined to run hot or cold, do they have any blemishes or unusual markings, are they inclined to blush, are they freckled, do they tan, what does their skin feel like, etc.

Winter's skin tone is quite pale, and she comes by that honestly, given that both of her parents are equally as sheet-white. The unfortunate downside to having such pale skin, of course, being that things tend to show up more notably: when Winter flushes, she turns a deep red -- the color spreading from her face, across her shoulders and even down to her chest. There really isn't much pretending not to notice, because she does flush quite dark.

She also burns almost hilariously easily... a fact she is desperately fighting against in Vacuo. It's part of why she's desperate to stay covered in the desert: better to fight the heat than to suffer a burn.

As a rule, Winter tends to run quite cold -- her skin often being cool to the touch. She blames it on poor circulation, although once she gains the Maiden powers this seems to have worsened. It's a large part of why she wears her gloves most of the time -- she finds that people reacted strangely to her cold hands, and prefers to skip that interaction when she can.

( it certainly adds to the ice queen teasing )

Her skin doesn't seem to have any notable freckles or moles, but she does have a small birthmark on the left side of her ribs. It isn't shaped any particular way, at least not to Winter's eye: perhaps a more creative person could find something in the shape of it that she misses. To her, it just appears like a small bruise.

Speaking of bruises: this girl bruises like a fucking peach. When her aura isn't capable of or worthwhile expending to prevent them, she bruises almost hilariously easily. Her bruises will come to the surface quickly and turn quite dark. It takes a while for them to go back down, as well.

There are only a handful of scars worth noting: minor scrapes and nicks on her hands from blades when she was too young to fully activate her aura. A jagged line on her right foot from an incident when she was a child, involving her shattering several windows in the Schnee Manor. A burn to her left shoulder, following her fight with Cinder, as well as small scratch across her nose, most often covered by her makeup.

Winter does follow a pretty strict skincare routine, one of the few things she does to relax after a long day, and one of the vanities that she regularly indulges in. As such, her skin tends to be quite soft ( save for her hands, which at times are more calloused ) and usually smells like cocoa butter.

let's get physical ( features )

[fatesunwritten]

headcanon | roman torchwick

roman unlocks his semblance later in life, after years of thinking he doesn’t have one. it usually occurs after the events of the fall of beacon, if he lives through it.

his semblance is the scrapped deep pockets semblance crwby originally planned to him— he can store items away into a pocket dimension and retrieve them later. items usually vanish into the palm of his hand and reappear the same way, but he has occasionally made them vanish or reappear between his fingers as a fun little “trick.”

the pocket dimension does not effect his current body mass and weight. he will always remain around 185 pounds, and does not appear to be encumbered either.

however, much like a bag of holding, he has a limit— he can only hold up to twice his body mass (roughly 370 pounds)

[shilps7]

Ask me about my RWBY headcanons, and it can be for team RWBY, team JNPR, team CFVY, team SSSNN, team ABRN, team NDGO, team FNKI, and Cinder, Emerald, Mercury, Roman, and Neo.

[sir-adamus]

Plus, Ironwood telling Roman he has custody of him for as long as he sees fit…. Roman is terrible to be sure but yikes

oh yeah, just subverting the local justice system by holding a man indefinitely on your own ship without trial (which calls to mind the later reveals that his Ace Ops can just black bag 9 people off the streets on flimsy justifications, and his attempts to have Robyn snatched off the streets with no official warrant for her arrest), because yeah, we know Torchwick is involved in Salem's schemes at some level (though like Adam he is, for the most part, a patsy who doesn't know everything), but the public don't, so this is just Jimmy, a foreign military leader, putting himself above the nation's law with no justification (especially as it seems like any of the surviving White Fang just got arrested), with the implication that he's going to try and torture what he wants out of Torchwick (which as we see later on, with Watts, that he's not above doing) - which all feeds into this hero complex Ironwood has that he thinks he's the only one capable of saving the day

really nothing he does later on is surprising, because it's all laid in the groundwork earlier, but because there's an air of affability and civility early on, that he's not snarling and stomping his foot every time he doesn't get his way, it's easier to not recognise those red flags for what they are, especially because we have audience perspective of knowing more than the characters do

it's like in volume 4 where he makes it clear he is blatantly and flagrantly corrupt by boasting about his two Council seats, diverting all responsibility for the Fall of Beacon (and by proxy, the loss of life his robots are responsible for) by blaming Oz, and threatening Jacques in his own home when the latter criticises his methods - but because we're primed to not like Jacques, it's easy to write off his complaints as him just being a greedy capitalist (instead of seeing that while his motives are impure he's not wrong) and side with Ironwood because we want to see Jacques squirm

but yeah, throughout Ironwood's entire time on the show there's been this weaving in of red flags that, because he's on the 'right' side, only flag as kinda weird in isolation and not an immediate problem to pay attention to as they stack up, especially if you were watching the show as it released so there's weeks between those weird flags and then months between volumes; memory smooths over the flaws and headcanons calcify, and, in the case of people who have contempt for the show at its core, the presumption that because RWB/Y is 'bad' and 'poorly written', then there's no way those early hints were actually hints because that would be halfway clever writing, and the show isn't 'good enough' for that to have been intentional, blah blah something something Monty's vision blah blah blah (sidebar, not only does Monty outright say in the volume 1 commentary that Miles and Kerry did most of the worldbuilding, he outright said in interviews around volume 2 that Ironwood was a character they invented - so fuck, maybe Ironwood's downfall arc was intentional, who could've guessed)

[cdawgy2]

I just had a thought. And this is just a headcanon, so you’re perfectly welcome to disagree.

I think I have an idea about just why Ozpin let Ruby into Beacon two years early.

Because there, she would be safe from Salem (or at least safer than on Patch).

Think about this: we know that Salem hunts down silver-eyed warriors. In Volume 6, Maria Calavera tells the heroes how she lost her eyes to Tock, who confirms that she serves Salem, and in Volume 4 we are introduced to Tyrian who seems to have taken Tock’s role as Salem’s personal assassin.

In the very first episode of the show, Ruby foils Roman Torchwick’s dust robbery.

And that was on the news.

Imagine if Salem learned how one of her pawns’ plans were foiled, and she saw that the girl responsible for it looks a lot like Summer Rose. It wouldn’t be hard for her to put two-and-two together, and promptly send Tyrian to find out where she lives.

And if you believe the theory that Taiyang is guarding the Relic of Creation, then the situation goes from bad to worse really quickly.

I think Ozpin knew this and this is why he allowed Ruby to skip a couple years. So that her (and by extension Tai and Yang) would be in less danger.

That’s just my opinion, though. What do y’all think?

[lesbianneopolitan]

Sometimes I ask myself, how much RWBY would be different if Roman didn't have died unluckily by that Grimm?

Also it'd be interesting if he didn't have died after all and managed to get out of the stomach of that bird, like until now fighting to survive in that wasteland

I feel if he would've survived, he and Neo wouldn't have tried to keep getting involved with Salem's plans after the fall of Beacon, so a lot of things could've changed, mainly because Neo has actually been pretty useful for Cinder in previous volumes before the end of V8 and V9

Now that Roman's death is mentioned, though, I have this headcanon of Roman not dying inside the Grimm (mainly because Ruby kills it like 5 second after)- I like to take the angst route of an unconscious Roman dying in the CRASH of the airship they were in not long after, which made things 100% worse for my Neo once she actually found the remains in the ruins of the crashed ship (plane crash accidents are VERY nasty). A vision that got engraved in her mind for too long, and that not only sent her into a depressive spiral but also, ultimately fuelled her need for revenge later on once realizing that, if she killed herself and gave up there, she wouldn't be able to avenge Roman

You didn't ask for the angst, more like on the contrary, but I felt like I had to bring it up because it still HURTS

[iamafanofcartoons]

No , RWBY is neither misogynistic nor homophobic...it is every bit the opposite

Rwby not written for the male gaze. Redesigns made by critics focus on sexualizing women.  RWBY has women show much less skin than the typical fairy tail woman. Also their clothes have pockets and pouches. Rwby is not written for the patriarchy.

So Personally I've always felt like misogyny was always made by the critics. A common thread in a lot of that group's criticisms seems to come down to not liking that some of the show's villains embody male power fantasies, and that the positive male characters it has aren't the main characters, with the female characters being a harem for them.

It's a female-centered story whose true focus is its main characters' growing and supporting each other through their weaknesses and struggles, and a lot of men can't stand it.

Rewrites and AUs focus on men, on straightwashing women, on validating edgelords, on telling women that they suck. And more importantly,  rewrites are obsessed with not letting women be right about anything or important unless they're tied to a male protagonist story.

But Rwby is about giving women roles typically held by men. Women not requiring men for authority, or guidance, but instead being men's equals. Or in the case of the female antagonists? Having mental superiority over deconstructed edgelords like Adam taurus or the "ends justify the means" deconstruction of ironwood.

They have girlfails like Cinder, who you can hate, but also admire that she keeps coming back and refusing to give up.

They have badass grannies like Maria Calavera.

They have autism-coded women.

And unlike Naruto? Women can actually WIN a 1 on 1 fight against a male opponent.

Edgelord is what incels see themselves as. Incels also see themselves as victims of women. They also see themselves as tragic,  misunderstood,  or entitled to an ego.

Adam is the example of the incel: "I was hurt by society, so I am going to make it everyone's problem! I am a hero of justice, for I am giving the world the justice it deserves! I am an underdog!"

That's how incels, conservatives, otakus see themselves.

They saw Adam as a Vergil Sparda. A dude who murders countless innocent lives for the sake of power.....who believes that power is the only thing matters. He ain't morally grey, he's evil. But he's cool, and to a lot of very emotionally immature people, coolness means morally grey or anti-villain/anti-hero. Adam was introduced trying to rob a train and blow up innocent people....people accused blake of being a murderer and trying to blow up the train, then running from adam. Adam was shown in volume 2, as a cult leader neglecting the deaths of his people. As with "Burning the candle" Yang and Blake scene, RWDE and RWBY Critics disregarded that because it ruined their headcanons of what they wanted Adam to be.

How many Adam fanfics have you seen where Blake is written as the one abusing adam?

Male abusers see themselves as victims of women.

Coffeehouse Crime, Danielle Kirsty, Eleanor Neale. Look them up on Youtube. They cover multiple cases of murderers and abusers. And the details that go into emotional and mental abuse/gaslighting? They cover them all. Including how society turns a blind eye to abuse if its not physical. Which is what Adam fans do.

Btw, if you want an example of a murderer who was an IRL abuser? Just look up OJ Simpson, who got away with both thanks to his fans.

RWBY covers emotional abuse, shows the damage it can do, and shows through Blake the recovery.

Arryn has been a victim of IRL cyberbullying from blacksun fans, BobxEliza fans, and Adam fans.

To where she's had to deactivate her social media.

Art imitates life....RWBY Critics harassing voice actresses. Though thefloofartist actually sent CRWBY gore fanart of Bumbleby and tauradonna ntr fanart, that was horrific.

Roman Torchwick is an example of charismatic sociopaths being the criminal: Society was mean to me, so I'm going to be racist, steal from the elderly, and hurt kids. Sure he has charisma as a character....does that excuse racism, calling Emerald a Street Rat, trying to rob old men, and shooting teenage girls

Jacques emotional abuse and gaslighting, something many people refuse to acknowledge unless its clearly spelled out from A to Z. One Adam taurus fan on twitter made death threats to a woman trying to explain that emotional abuse is real.

Raven is a bandit. A bandit is a killer and a thief. You don't romanticize killers and thieves. One piece paints an unrealistic view of pirates. 

Ironwood and Atlas represent the American Macho mindset and the nationalism issue Americans have. Illegally occupying foreign nations with military force as a means of "peacekeeping"? Removing leaders from power who don't respect your authority or your ideas? My way or the highway? Unwilling to compromise? Willing to work with capitalist Corporations so long as your war machine is funded? The ends justify the means? Only villains say that! Merging the police with the military to have unlimited power? Putting the good ethical cop "Marrow" under pressure and mockery? Treating the poor people as acceptable losses to cut and cutting all aid and support to the 99%? Arresting or threatening good samaritans who try to help the impoverished and underprivileged because they're not recognized by your licenses? Refusing to accept checks and balances because you see yourself as above the law and being the only one with the big picture? Seeing it as your duty to police others?

People were willing to consider Ironwood a sussy baka so long as they could consider Atlas to be like Germany. But the moment CRWBY pointed out how Atlas was too much like America? The "patriots" got furious...because it was too much like looking into a mirror, and the Ironwood fangirls did not like what they saw.

Less character bloat compared to shounen anime. Shounen has thousands of character. RWBY barely has 200. But they focus more on women's characters than men, and that upsets the Cardin fans and fanfic writers. If I had a nickel for every youtube channel that decided to make the racist incompetent bully into some "gigachad", I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but still weird that it happened twice. Meanwhile, let a man have 3-5 minutes of screentime, the critics will say that Team RWBY don't act like the main characters. Protagonist centered morality only in shounen. Team rwby do face consequences and are forced to evaluate their decisions. The women are the protagonists, and they can spend more than 10 minutes without breaking the Bechdel test. Something that, once again, adam and cardin and jaune fanfics fail within a paragraph.

"A man and a woman can spend several seasons together and be just friends at the end"

Ichigo and Rukia from Bleach, One Piece Live Action, Naruto and Sakura from that Gay Ninja Series.

Or in RWBY's case, I'm referring Blake Belladonna and Sun Wukong

Neither showed romantic attraction towards either gender for the majority of the show. Blake and Sun's arcs in V4 and V5 were about Blake learning to accept help, and Sun learning to recognize and respect people's boundaries. Neither Blake nor Sun actually made serious advances, and simply stayed good friends. Also if lesbians cannot exist without being fan service to you, that just means you're a pervert and need to touch grass.

Anyway, whomever said that RWBY Writers have no idea how to write women need to take a look at how their critics make video after video bashing women and LGBT.

Oh, and twitter calls RWBY post v3 "pandering to tumblerinas".

Given how Tumblr has no pedophiles/lolicons, less conservatives and terfs, and is very feminist? I'll take that as a compliment.

[matt0044]

Who would you say your three favorite heroes and villains are from RWBY

Heroes:

Ruby Rose. Especially after Volume 9. Christ, that meltdown was so deliciously messy. "Likable" can bite it. My favorite characters are human.

Ilia Amitola. Many gripe about the Volume 5 short of her telling Blake's backstory but Cherami Leigh works her magic in selling how vulnerable she is opening up to somebody she loves. Hell, it SHOWS how much she values Blake in the form of talking about a painful past. It also invites a lot of imagination of how she found out. My headcanon is that she called her mother on break when the mine collapsed during the feed.

Little. They're a little guy. Luci Christian voices them. Nuff said.

Villains:

Adam Taurus. Both as a villain and this bizarre fandom phenomenon that I've made posts at length about. One that General Ironwood clearly sought to inherit.

Cinder Fall. How will it end for her? Will she break away from Salem and try to gather the Relics to burn the world down for her own reasons? Will she possibly see the light albeit begrudgingly? There's no telling with her.

Roman Torchwick. Specifically in how his final scene encapulates all that RWBY intends to stand against. Specifically his "real world" rant. I can't help but feel like too many fixate on him for that and don't realize that he's suppose to be wrong about how hope is for fools. Especially after the past decade.

[isolement]

A common trope I see with villainous couples is for the relationship to be horrendously toxic. I mean, the trope maker (oddly enough, I think this is a trope that Tvtropes notably lacks) would have to be Harley Quinn and the Joker. Two horribly codependent people who bring each other down through sheer toxicity and yet refuse to leave each other, even though doing so would (probably) improve both their lives.

Well, Neopolitan and Roman Torchwick are not that trope.

Yeah, I know, Roman Holiday already showed that, and it’s one of the few things I like from it. However, I’m not the biggest fan of Roman Holiday’s insistence that their relationship was romantic. Don’t get me wrong, I think Gelato has potential, it’s just… Well, to me, the pair always seemed to give off the energy of platonic life partners. Akin to how there’s no Shephard without Vakarian, there was no Roman without Neopolitan, and vice versa. If one of them didn’t want to work a job, neither of them did.

I tend to headcanon Roman as being in his mid to late 30s as of his demise in vol 3. This lets the impact of his death hit Neo far harder, since this means he would’ve been around since Neo was ~10. It also shifts their dynamic to more of a father/daughter type vibe, which I think helps explain how Neo’s so good at fighting by Volume 3, and doesn’t just handwave it away with ‘ehhh they’re just that good.’ However, what if he wasn’t that old?

Truth be told, you’d be surprised how little changes if you age Roman down to mid to late 20s. Instead of them meeting when Neo’s a child, the two meet on a job about 6 years before Roman’s death in Volume 3, with both already being established criminals. The two hit it off and choose to keep working together after, eventually moving in to a crappy Kuchinashi 2 bedroom (or 1 bedroom, if they’re dating) apartment. From there, they get the attention of Cinder and the rest of RWBY (and the divergency) progress as normal.

Technically, this means not even Roman knew Neo’s true name. Neo also has more baggage regarding Atlas, due to escaping it as a teenager with nothing but their wits, most likely illegally. Also, this goes against ‘One Thing’, since it’s stated that Roman named them Neopolitan, but then again Roman Holiday basically ignored that song, so whatever.

If I had to ship Neo and Roman romantically, this would be the backstory I’d use, since the age gap is only a couple years instead of more than a decade. However, I think in any universe in which they did date, Roman has to stay dead. For example, if my Neo ended up dating Jaune, or Weiss, or whoever, and then Roman suddenly came back to life? Outside of a ‘Fuck it we ball’ polycule (which Neo, 9 out of 10 times, isn’t down for anyways), there’s no satisfying way to resolve that in writing.

Really, I’m fine with either backstory to explain how they met, since the end result is the same. However, Roman being older lets me write about them more, so with all that out of the way, lets take a trip down memory lane, shall we?

warning, this ended up being a lil long, almost 800 words. enjoy!

Their first meeting takes place in a busy Mantle marketplace. There are stalls everywhere, organized in blocks of 4 each with space to maneuver between them. It's loud and busy, but it's the kind of market where people make way for those wanting to get by, and where the noise gives you a bubble of privacy, perfect for haggling over knick knacks, tools, or food. It's sunny today, for the first time in weeks after a long, harsh winter. Still cold, mind you, even with the 'advanced heating technology' that Atlas installed. But, if you live here, you’re used to the chill. Underneath the hastily constructed awnings, a lanky, orange-haired man bends awkwardly over a stall, arguing with the stall-keeper.

Throwing his hands up in frustration, he pulls out his wallet, tossing a couple lien onto the table. He slips his wallet back into his pocket, storming off. As he does, he bumps into a short pink and brown haired kid, a small hand reaching into his pocket, lifting his wallet up and out. The man snatches the kid’s wrist, stopping them in their tracks. He only gets a few moments to look at the would-be pickpocket, heterochromatic eyes wide with fear and clad in ratty, torn clothes. The kid shatters, thousands of tiny, pink fragments falling on the ground before they puff away, his wallet disappearing along with the kid. Dumbfounded, he stares at the space they once occupied, brain having to catch up with what the hell just happened.

Once his brain starts working again, his first reaction is to chuckle, feeling as though a chase was now on. He spends the next few days pursuing the kid in search of his walletHe finds them at a tea house, a couple hours before midday. The kid sits on a waist-high wall, a mug of tea in their hands and wearing notably cleaner clothes, the funds from the wallet obviously having gone to good use. Approaching from their blind-spot, he seats himself next to them, startling them to high heavens. With a great deal of luck, as well as a few pastries from the tea house, he convinces them not to run off and that he only wants to talk with them.

Truth be told, Roman was more impressed than angry with the kid, Trivia. It’s not everyday someone who’s spent as long in the criminal underworld as him gets pick-pocketed, let alone by a child who’s barely four feet tall. He offers to be their mentor. Get them off the streets, a place to live, have some semblance of an actual life, one that Roman never got to have. He stands up, and offers a hand to Trivia. They freeze, staring up at him. Slowly, tentatively, they place a small hand in his, and the two walk off. Inspired by Trivia’s hair color, Roman’s first stop with them is an ice cream parlor in Mantle, buying them a scoop of Neapolitan ice cream. Trivia hates it. Laughing, Roman nicknames them Neopolitan, much to their chagrin.

From there, the two stay in Mantle for a couple months, Roman gets Trivia actual healthcare, food, and Trivia turns 11, having an enjoyable birthday for once. After that, Trivia practically begs Roman to get them the hell out of Atlas entirely, and he agrees. The two move to Argus, and Trivia sheds their name, choosing to go by Neopolitan. I think Roman genuinely tries to set Neo on a better path than resorting to crime. He enrolls them into a middle school in Argus, Neo makes the transition to using Mistralian Sign Language very easily, and for the next three years, Neo doesn’t do too horribly in classes. Throughout school, though, they are most definitely a problem child. Too used to crime already, it’s difficult for them to make friends, having very little in common with the average child there. Come the end of middle school, Neo says that they still hold a dream of being a Huntress, so they are enrolled into Sanctum Academy. However, this is where Neo starts losing steam.

First, it is confirmed their semblance does not work against Grimm. Illusions fail to fool them, and the deadly mix-ups Neo has access to via teleportation do a lot less damage against Grimm. Second, Neo does not play well with others, preferring to work alone or with one other person. Third, despite excelling in anything combat related, they fall behind heavily in other subjects. Feeling isolated and burnt out, Neopolitan drops out of Sanctum Academy in their fourth year, now nearly 18. After a long discussion with Roman, he reluctantly allows Neo to start working with him in criminal undertakings, unsure if he’s disappointed more in Neo, or himself.

There’s not too much left to say about this, really. From here, the two move out of Argus and into Kuchinashi, making one helluva name for themselves. And then Cinder Fall comes by with a job offer. I’m sure we all know how that ends.

Ok by--

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[Going to a bar after a heist.]

Cinder: [abruptly stumbles into Roman, voice slurring] Ahem! I just wanted to tell you that you are a swe- Have I ever told you that you are SWELL human being, Roman! Roman, you are...a FASCINATING creature!

Roman: [a mixture of amused and annoyed] Oh, is this really how you feel? Are you actually opening up to me? [tries to steady her]

Cinder: [swaying as she tries to gesticulate] Is it-? I-! I--! These are thoughts that I have had...um...never. But right now I am having them, and I am embracing them, and I want you to know that THIS is a...this is a thing between us! Yeah, I think...where... [knees cave in] I need to sit down.

Roman: [gently helps her sit on the floor] Are we ever gonna have this kind of talk when you're not drunk, or is this just like a one time-

Cinder: No! Nooo, uh...noooo! [slumps back, now laying down] Nooo. No-ho-ho...

Roman: [now more amused than annoyed] Okay. Okay, uh...what-

Cinder: [abruptly raises finger] PASS THE COURVOISIER!!