#rwby could never

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If K. A. Applegate had been RWBY's writer from the get-go, it would be the greatest show to ever exist

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Mon Loup

Please send help, Wenclair has taken over my brain.

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What about her?

She’ll find herself, one way or another.

[daenystheedreamer]

i feel like cersei needs a crazy anime girl weapon like a whip or a huge fuckass scythe. there's something missing from her character design and its a gunsword from rwby

[aerithisms]

the little scene we got of team rwby talking about ruby's outburst was very telling with everyone's reaction.

blake didn't say much but she was sympathetic, and it makes sense - she's no stranger to depression or to lashing out and running from the people you care about. and she was still playing the leadership role in ruby's absence, mediating yang's frustration and keeping everyone together.

i think it's fascinating that yang was the angriest over it. yang loves ruby more than anything, but i think there is truth to the idea that the nature of her relationship with ruby as her big sister and protector made it harder for her to understand this side of ruby, because to yang ruby has always been her happy, brave little sister who she protected from the horrors of the world. and now she must be hating herself for that blindness (though of course it's not her fault).

and weiss seemed to understand ruby best. she got that ruby felt isolated, and put on a pedestal, and that she didn't think she could talk to them. and i think she gets it because as ruby's partner she feels responsibility over it. since volume 1, weiss has only ever wanted to be a good teammate and a good partner to ruby, and now she must feel like she failed.

[anthurak]

So here’s an interesting little detail I noticed while rewatching some of the Beacon arc:

Out of all the various disposable pawns, patsies and stooges we’ve seen utilized by Salem over the course of the show (not counting the stooges who make up her inner circle), it’s funny how the only one who seems to actually recognize how much of a pawn he really is, is TORCHWICK of all people.

Like when you look at Roman’s scenes with Cinder and her minions, and particularly his final fight with Ruby in Volume 3, it’s pretty clear that he was always acutely aware that he was a very small piece of a MUCH larger game.

Just compare that to the likes of Adam, Leonardo, Jacques and Ironwood, who by all rights were all COMPLETELY oblivious to how much they were getting played, or just how little they mattered to Salem.

And that gets even more interesting when you consider that Roman was probably the smallest piece in terms of both status and overall significance compared to Salem’s other pawns. Like I actually don’t think for a moment that Torchwick ever actually met Salem or even KNEW about her by name. I imagine all Roman knew was that there was some boss/mom that Cinder was reporting to.

Instead, Torchwick was able to look at everything Cinder was doing and plotting, between manipulating the White Fang, securing several warehouses of stolen dust, planning a full-on grimm-incursion of Vale during the Vytal Festival with the ultimate aim of toppling one of the four Huntsman Academies. Not to mention I imagine Roman had at least an inkling as to the whole Maiden business that Cinder was after, plus the fact that she seemed to be able to control grimm to a degree. Maybe even guess that this was a plot years if not decades in the making.

And it’s pretty clear that Roman took one look at all this and rightly surmised that he was a bit player in a truly MASSIVE game. As he implies to Ruby during their final fight, Torchwick may not have known much about Salem or her plans, but he knew ENOUGH that he didn’t want to be standing AGAINST her.

Again, just compare that to someone like Adam Taurus, so-called big-shot revolutionary with his big plans to topple the oppression of the humans… who seems to have had no fucking clue that his new ‘friends’ were fully intent on sending him and his followers out to die as a DISTRACTION for their own plans.

Or of course, James Ironwood the big, strong (self-appointed) defender of Atlas and (also self-appointed) last, best hope for humanity, who to his dying breath seems to have been ENTIRELY oblivious to just how completely Salem and her minions were playing him like the cheap kazoo he was.

Or just Jacques Schnee the big-shot corporate overlord who wasn’t even important enough to know about any kind of scheme. All he needed was Watts dangling an election win like keys in front of a baby to be a dutiful little pawn for Salem.

Though funny enough, to Jacques’ credit; the moment he hears about the heating grid going down he does seem to immediately catch on that Watts played him for a chump.

And it’s rather amusing that this is more than can be said for the likes of the ‘Faunus Revolutionary’ who bent the knee to a human girl who kicked his ass, or Ol’ Jimmy the Child-Shooter himself.

[tumblingxelian]

Having been reminded there's a whole genre of reaction videos along the lines of Ex-Mob Boss Plays Mafia 2. I think there should be RWBY fanfics where Blake Belladonna provides realistic commentary on depictions of: Revolutionaries, terrorists & criminal syndicates.

They could be set anywhere from pre Faunus reveal in volume 1, post reveal, or as far forward as Atlas when they're having a night off. Any variant can be funny, incisive or character driven, n& even educational given what the author is going for.

[onceuponalegendbg-rwby]

Figures the second I express public-ish confusion about this supposed 'let go of ur anger/ego yang' aesop someone pops up repeating it. And I mean…where? When? How was she somehow 'worse', 'less noble', 'cockier' or 'dumber' than any other leads in the Beacon volumes ('specially Weiss 'grouse about not being team lead & tackle tourney rival into a lava geyser' Schnee or Blake 'try soloing a crimeboss and run myself to near-death' Belladonna)? Do Angry Effort Noises alone mean a character ain't zen enough?? Gawd, I've even seen vintage reach-du jour-takes claiming she basically deserved Cinder's framing. I just don't see how any of this meshes with what we see onscreen or constitutes an Engaging Character Epiphany throughline (as opposed to Weiss escaping Jacques or Blake's trials in forgiving herself & reconnecting with her parents).

Some days it really is exhausting being a Yang fan.

I don't know what it is about Yang in particular that just deletes people's media literacy but they really do just make a sport out of it, don't they.

[peridotite]

Also funny that adam cutting yangs arm indirectly led up to yang thinking about her feelings for blake and the start of her butchification

adam has always been the number one catalyst for bumbleby but it is indeed funny it also made yang go "i could be a better boyfriend than him"

[averagemrfox]

No clue if rwby will ever go this far but if we ever see an epilogue and find out what everyone is up to [x] number of years later I would really like Blake to have written some kind of sequel to The Girl Who Fell Through the World. Casey’s lyric “I’m what inspired the fairy tale” is what brought this to mind

[astronnova]

these two drawings are from like ... september. was making a set and was gonna include ruby and yang but i never did LOL

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I don't think anything will ever be funnier than Banesaw's first of his only two sentences being, "Finally, I get to kill a Schnee," knocking Weiss unconscious in a single hit, then just chucking her into the next room so Blake can save her

[rhatatootie]

Just saw a post about how RWBY became unwatchable after they killed Watts off but like the second he started mouthing off at Cinder I knew he was dead. Like did she need to hear some of that sure but Cinder is not about to take criticism from someone like WATTS.

Cinder is a maiden with the backing of SALEM, a trigger finger and something to prove. Was Watts right? Yeah, but now he’s got to die. He’s annoying and useless. Cinder used him for what she needed and discarded him. He got “everything he deserved.”

And it’s not like he’ll be missed necessarily. He had knowledge of atlas tech but atlas does not exist anymore. He didn’t even have one of the top three semblances on Salems team when it was still whole - those three spots going to Hazel, Emerald and Tyrian - like he was not making it out of volume 8 and I think it’s so funny that people are mad about that. Salem is not about to miss him she didn’t even ask about him :P.

He mouthed off at trigger finger, power hungry, has something to prove Cinder, and then expected her not to retaliate. Yeah okay lmaoooo

[scattered-winter]

it's not even that I think rwby is perfect because I KNOW there are a lot of flaws in the writing and how some things were handled (particularly the faunus racism plotline) but I will also be defending that show to my last breath because the only people who ever try and "critique" it are angry dudebros who can't STAND that the story revolves almost exclusively around women. and most of them haven't even watched past season 3.

[nightmare-foundation]

Back on my RWBY bullshit again (ranting in my head about the Academies legal processes, how Ozpin isn't responsible for every bad thing that happens in the kingdoms, and how the belief of the previous point colors the fandoms views on certain things in the show)

[ceo-of-jennette-de-alger-obelia]

Drawing my au version of Whitley is so comforting to me now, no thoughts only pretty boy