#rwby roman holiday

[wildtornado-o]

The layout of this is messy oops. Felt like drawing some hot weather outfits since its been warm recently lol

[maxiemumdamage]

The way Neo gets her perfectly orchestrated revenge and then just…collapses. Because she spent so long blaming Ruby for all her grief, loss and failures, because she really thought revenge would help…and then it was worth nothing.

Like, Neo was so despicable this chapter. It was easy to hate her when she dedicated her time to torturing Ruby in the most painful ways possible. But then it’s over and she’s just…hollow.

We see it in the photos in the house:

First her parents, then Torchwick, then Cinder. Neo always had someone to lean on, even if they were also controlling or manipulative (true of 2/3).

But now? In the Ever After? Neo is well and truly alone, even with her semblance. Unlike baby Trivia, she doesn’t even have that imaginary friend Neo to lean on.

And because of that, the cat tore her apart.

[ceo-of-gelato]

roman during roman holiday

[anerdliveshere]

So I know I sound like a broken record when I talk about Neo and Roman, but there is a lot about them. The excerpts selected are not only some of my favorite Gelato moments, they also have some great depth.

First one - Neo and Roman Introduction: Neo was assigned to get intel on Roman, however, this interraction reveals how Roman unintently helped Neo find her identity and be comfortable with it.

Excerpt Two - Returning "Home": After a few months, our duo came across data that could leak information about the society's elite, including Neo's parents. On their way, Neo transformed back into Vanille, the child her parents know. Upon noticing this, Roman says she should be herself, and to show her parents how "astounding" she is with a pat on her head. This gentle embrace makes her feel safe and more at home than any moment where at the house she grew up in.

Excerpt Three - A True Friend: When Neo and Roman arrived at the Vanille's mansion, Neo's parents where running out of the hiuse, confused about the chaos. Her father notices her and calls her by whats basically her deadname at this point, and Roman stands up for her and tells her parents her preferred name. He even mentions how he knows her more than her own parents while they only known each other for a few months.

Excerpt 4 - Care: While in the mansion, Roman and Neo come across the family potrait. Roman can see how much this place bothers her, how she isn't comfortable. He comments on the potrait and Neo shifts it to match her more. Another example on how he is helping her find herself!

Roman Holiday gave us so much about these two, and there is tons of ways you can interpert and anaylize it; this was just my version. The list of why I love them keeps growing.

That is all for now

[caterpillarinacave]

You know, as ready as Neo is to ascend, and as much as she wants to, I don’t think she would be willing to entirely forget Roman.

I think Neo tells the Blacksmith that.

“Don’t worry” says the Blacksmith “You, and your friend, would approve the life I have in mind for you”

So Neo ascends. She’s different now. She doesn’t know who she is, where she’s going. She’s just a person, wandering around the ever after. She’ll figure out what to do eventually.

She wanders around the Ever After. She meets people, fraternizes with them, and inevitably moves on. Some part of the every after will fit her, or She’s been told.

She’ll find it someday.

Eventually She stumbles across a glittering table in the woods littered with all sorts of things. The air smells like smoke, the various colored gemstones lining the trees beautifully eyecatching.

“Don’t set those on fire!”

Someone at the table has spoken, and She turned quizzically toward the clamor, where several pairs of eyes had fixed on her, all looking rather frantic, with the exception of the young man at the very head of the table.

“You could actually” He twirls a silver spoon around in his hand “Light them on fire, that is.”

“They’ll blow up!” Someone shouts.

“Some people” He leans lazily back in his chair ��All up in a tizzy over the chance of an explosion.”

He meets her gaze, the lazy smile around his lips somehow deeply familiar.

The rest of the tables inhabitants return their clamor but She finds herself entirely focused on the person at the head, who continues looks at her with an odd sort of curiosity.

She finds herself at the head of the table next to Him. Somehow She’s enjoying herself more in this random gathering than she has anywhere else in the Everafter.

“So you don’t talk much, huh?”

She thinks for a minute. She’s never talked before. It doesn’t seem like something she wants to do, so;

Nope.

“How charming!” He grins. “Why talk talk, when you can talk without talking?”

She smiles. Some people have trouble listening without talking.

He nods solemly. He has no problem hearing her without talking.

What’s your name?

“Oh, my name? I can’t say I’ve ever thought about that. I’ll get to it later. You?”

Don’t have one.

“Well, you’ll find one. Coffee?”

She doesn’t know what coffee is, but she knows it’s not supposed to be in such a lovely cup.

She sticks her tongue out at him. He looks mock aghast.

She sticks around with Him. He likes to talk, talk with words, and seems to know everything about everything, but nothing about anything. Eventually, they start to wander, having a wonderful conversation about everything and nothing.

She pauses the walk to climb a strange looking tree while He happily looks on from below. “I think” He says “You are my favorite thing in the ever after.”

She grins back down at Him.

The feeling is mutual. “Where is it you belong?” He asks, pulling himself onto a branch next to her “In the Ever After, what section?”

I had been looking for it.

“Ah. Have you found it?”

Yes.

[britishneopolitan]

This gives me such Roman Vibes, I cannot explain it.

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

So I finished Roman Holiday

[hadesisqueer]

Can't wait til it's Semana Santa and I have a break and I can finally read Roman Holiday in peace

[cosmicbob]

Since Roman Holiday established that Neo liked video games growing up as Trivia, I wonder if that carried over to Neopolitan?

Like Roman is just chilling in his Secret Crime Lair when from the other room he just sees a console controller just go flying out in a fit of rage, smashing to pieces against the wall.

ROMAN: Gods dammit, Neo, you need to work on your rage quitting! I'm not stealing you another controller this time!

[sillytorch]

what would roman torchwick think of neo's choice at the end of v9 and her wanting to be like them

I think he'd be happy for her.

Yeah it sounds crazy considering who Roman is but remember at the end of Roman Holiday after she saved him Roman says "I don't know why you would stick with a guy like me. With your skills, you could be anything, even a Huntress."

Not to mention Roman has expressed several times to Neo that she shouldn't stick with him, even at one point pleading with her to save herself instead of worrying about him when her life was at stake.

I also believe he wouldn't want her to pursue revenge. esp if it has her costing her own life and well-being. Basically it goes against his philosophy of survival.

So yes imo, I think he'd be happy for her choice

[dyscomancer]

Just finished Roman Holiday, and it made Neo shoot up from my favorite character in RWBY based purely on aesthetics to my favorite character in the show full stop. Wish we'd have gotten some of this in the show but I get how that wouldn't have quite fit

[wildtornado-o]

Some misc things :) Includes: Random Roman and Neo doodles and some stuff for my Roman survives Neo dies au. (The Roman outfit is kind of a messy drawing but I injured my arm so shhh)

[dallina17]

You know... maybe this wouldn't have happened if CARMEL VANILLE AND JIMMY VANILLE WEREN'T SUCH AWFUL TERRIBLE PARENTS

[hawklanthebard]

The small cat following the big cat

[caterpillarinacave]

Roman: The real treasure was the memories we made along the way.

Brick: I almost died!

Roman: And that was my fondest memory!

[britishneopolitan]

As a huge gelato/pumpkin spice icecream shipper I couldn’t help but notice some of the hate directed towards the ship in the fandom and I just wanted some explanation as to why people see it as bad? I joined a RWBY discord server that had ship channels and I suggested a gelato channel but they said it won’t be accepted since it’s not great to ship Neo and Roman (While they had a spicecream channel which- no hate- but seems much more of a toxic relationship than gelato).

As far as I’m aware they are both legal adults when volume 2 comes out, so when we meet Neo for the first time so I don’t really understand the whole age gap argument? Also I guess some do see it as more of a brother/sister or parental relationship but personally I think it’s quite bad to interpret it that way since the entirety of Roman Holiday talks about how sick and tired Neo was of authority figures/adults constantly pushing her around so her seeing Roman as a fatherly figure just wouldn’t make sense?

Give me your personal take on this.

Also I respect people who don’t ship it and see them just as good partners and friends but going after those who enjoy them as a ship is just wrong.