#rwby e10v04

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RUBY ROSE YOU ARE A GOD DAMN INSPIRATION AND A DELIGHT

KNOWING JAUNE HE'D STILL BE WALLOWING IN PYRRHA DEATH RELATED DEPRESSION IF YOU HADN'T GIVEN HIM A PURPOSE. BY WANTING TO COME OUT HERE YOU SHOW HIM THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO KEEP MOVING EVEN WITH GRIEF WEIGHING YOU DOWN, EVEN IF YOU COULDN'T SEE IT YOURSELF

YOU INSPIRED THEM TO KEEP TRYING TO FIGHT EVEN IN THE FACE OF SUCH INCREDIBLE LOSS AND GRIEF, BECAUSE IF YOU COULD DO IT THEN SO CAN THEY

AHHHHH

THE LOOK ON HER FACE LIKE SHE NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED THAT SHE COULD'VE INSPIRED THEM TO COME JUST BY CONTINUING TO TRY

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I'm sorry WHAT

WAS THAT HIS SEMBLANCE?!?

DID REN JUST UNLOCK HIS SEMBLANCE??!

That was definitely an Aura thing!! The light in water effect happened and everything, and I just remembered that we don't actually KNOW what Ren's Semblance is. He's the only one who we don't (other than Jaune, but he doesn't have one yet)

It went over him and he lost all his colors. And Ren like... calmed down?? After he went all monochrome?? Is that what his Semblance does, it calms you down?

WAIT

WAIT OH MY GOD THAT'S WHY WE'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE!! WE'VE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY BEEN FIGHTING HUMAN OPPONENTS BEFORE THIS, AND A SEMBLANCE LIKE THAT WOULD BE FUCKING USELESS AGAINST THEM!!

BUT AGAINST GRIMM THAT WOULD BE AN INCREDIBLE POWER TO HAVE!! TO BE ABLE TO GET RID OF ALL NEGATIVE EMOTIONS?! LITERALLY THE THINGS THAT LET GRIMM SENSE YOU FROM MILES AWAY??!

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WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT IS THAT

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?

IS THAT A GRIMM MAN ON A GRIMM HORSE?!? IS THAT WHAT FUCKING MADE THAT SCREAM FROM EARLIER??!

OH MY GOD

THAT'S WHY LI CALLED IT A BEAST, IT'S NOT A NORMAL GRIMM!! IS IT A HYBRID OR SOMETHING??! CAN THAT HAPPEN??! DID SALEM FUCK AROUND IN HER GRIMM LAKES AND COMBINE SOME FUCKING GRIMM TOGETHER??!?

WAIT!! WAIT WAIT WAIT!!

THE SYMBOL THINGY!! FROM THE PATH TO KUROYURI, AND THE VILLAGE WITH THE DEAD HUNTSMAN!! THE ONE REN AND NORA RECOGNIZED!! I KNOW WHAT IT IS NOW!!

IT'S A FOOTPRINT FROM THIS THING!! IT'S SHAPED LIKE A HOOF, IT'S A FOOTPRINT!!!

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AHHHHHHHH

REN GIVING HER THE HAMMER

REN SAYING "WE'LL KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE" WHEN NORA SAID LAST EPISODE "WE ALWAYS HAVE"

FUCKING INSTRUMENTAL COVER OF BOOP PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS SCENE

GOD DAMMIT

MY HEART

AH

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I KNEW THAT WAS GONNA BE THE END

I FUCKING KNEW IT

YOU COULDN'T ASK FOR A BETTER FUCKING CLIFFHANGER

WELL

THAT WAS A FUCKING EPISODE

Oscar left home and got on the train. Hazel saw him, and is apparently not someone to be trifled with. Hooray

Ruby FINALLY venting!! FINALLY letting out that she blames herself for this, and Jaune being the best friend a girl could ask for and VALIDATING HER TRAUMA AND BELIEVING IN HER

AND THEN REN'S WHOLE FUCKING TRAUMATIC ANIME BACKSTORY!! AND PART OF NORA'S ALTHOUGH CLEARLY THERE'S MORE GOING ON WITH HER!!

An and Li Ren seemed like great freaking parents. Kind, loving, the whole nine yards. AND THEN THE GRIMM HAD TO COME AND FUCKING RUIN IT!!

FUCKING GIANT HORSE MAN THING?! FUCKING HOUSE COLLAPSING ON TOP OF REN AND KILLING HIS MOTHER FIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM?! FUCKING DAD FALLING AND GIVING HIM THE KNIFE AND COVERING HIS ESCAPE SO REN WOULD LIVE?!

REN'S SEMBLANCE??!

BEING BRAVE DESPITE HIS FEAR?! GIVING NORA HER HAMMER?! INSTRUMENTAL FUCKING COVER OF BOOP?!

AND THEN THEM BOTH FINDING OUT THAT THE BIG GUY IS ON ITS WAY TO KILL BOTH OF THEIR FRIENDS

FUCKING SHIT FUCK

I HAVE NO MORE TEARS TO GIVE

I HAVE NO MORE WORDS TO SAY

THANK YOU ALL FOR READING AND SUFFERING WITH ME, FUCKING CHRIST, THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ON PATREON, ALL THE EVERYTHING, I WANT TO DIE

I'LL BE ON THE DISCORD TO SCREAM, MAYBE, AND IF NOT I'LL BE BACK NEXT FRIDAY

FUCKING SHIT

NO IF YOU EXCUSE ME I HAVE TO GO LAY DOWN FOR A MILLION YEARS

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LITERALLY HOW IT STARTED VERSUS HOW IT'S GOING

LOOK AT HOW FAR THEY'VE COME

THEY'RE STILL ALONE, BUT THEY'RE ALONE TOGETHER AND AHHHHH

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Ooooo match cut! I love me a match cut

Flashback time? Are we getting a flashback? I don't know if I'm gonna be able to handle actually SEEING Ren's home be destroyed while he's forced to watch

OH NO

OH NO

HE'S SO LITTLE

OH NO HE'S SOOO LITTLE!!

GOD, KID'S GOTTA BE LIKE SEVEN OR EIGHT, OH FUCK NO. PLEASE. ANYTHING BUT THIS. WITH THE INNOCENT SMILE ON HIS FACE BECAUSE HE HASN'T FACED THE HORRORS YET

NO GOD PLEASE NO

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SHIT

I HATE THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO ANIMATE IT MORE LIKE A BIRD NOW

MAKES IT WAY MORE SCARY

THE FREAKING TWITCHY HEAD MOVEMENTS AND SHIFTING FEET

HATE IT

REN I SURE HOPE YOU CAN USE YOUR SEMBLANCE ON MORE THAN ONE PERSON BECAUSE I DON'T THINK NORA IS GONNA CALM DOWN ENOUGH TO NOT GET YOU BOTH FOUND

COME ON PLEASE PLEASE

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OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

FUCK

GONE JUST LIKE FUCKING THAT

HIS MOM IS DEAD SHE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT OUT OF THE HOUSE

OH MY GOD

I HAVE NO WORDS I'M FREAKING OUT

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OH GOD AND BACK TO TRAUMA FLASHBACK

Sort of a match cut, between the dead tree in present day and the thriving one in the photo. They look like such a happy family

BUT OH GOD NO PLEASE NO

THE LAST FLASHBACK SECTION WAS FOR SET UP, TO GET USED TO THE NEW PERSONALITIES OF REN AND HIS PARENTS, BUT NOW THERE'S NO MORE SET UP. IT'S GOTTA BE TIME

FUCK I'M NOT READY PLEASE

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Li Ren. Wonder where LIE Ren got his name from

Also oh my god is Ren the first RWBY kid who doesn't look like a carbon copy of his parents? He's got his mom's eyes, and his dad's hair, with a streak of pink like his mom. It's an actual genetic mix, I can't freaking believe it

Also hold on *googles something*

Why's Ren's dad looking like Hanzo Overwatch? I swear he's got the same beard and hair

Tell me I'm not crazy. Y'all see the resemblance, right?

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NORA'S FACE LIKE SHE'S NEVER BEEN GIVEN ANYTHING HER WHOLE LIFE

GOD HOW LONG HAS SHE BEEN ALONE

HOW LONG HAS SHE BEEN ON THE STREETS GETTING BEATEN AND MOCKED AND HAVING TO SCROUNGE TO SURVIVE THAT SHE REACTS LIKE THIS

MY LITTLE BOLT OF LIGHTNING MY CHILD

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Lord

Now THIS is a destroyed town. The other one was clearly only half built, just frames of buildings and whatnot. But this one was lived in, and then destroyed by Grimm and time

It's a small town by IRL standards, but in Remnant where every settlement outside the capital is at constant risk of destruction, this is a big place

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I feel like that says more about YOU than it does about Oscar. Hazel won't let anything stand in his way of achieving his goals, apparently

But what IS his goal? Salem wants to divide and destroy the world, Cinder wants power, Tyrian wants... Well honestly I don't think Tyrian wants anything so lofty as power, I think he just wants to kill things

But what does Hazel want?

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YES THANK YOU THIS SHADOW IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE ALSO I'M TERRIFIED

HOW FUCKING BIG IS THIS THING?!?

IT'S GOTTA BE TWICE MAYBE THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF A NORMAL HORSE, AND THAT'S JUST THE HORSE!!!

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Okay good. At least he's not walking to Mistral alone through Grimm/bandit infested countryside. RNJR, why the hell didn't YOU take the freaking train? Public transportation, my dudes