#rwby v9 predictions

[short-wooloo]

RWBY V9 theory

Given how much Ruby is still repressing her feelings and ignoring her own state in favor of moving forward, I suspect that next episode or episode 3 she will dismiss the search for Crescent Rose under the pretense of "we don't have time, let's go", probably opting to pick up and use whatever weapon she finds, only for it to not "fit" her, and despite the fact that this other weapon does not work for her, Ruby will insist on pushing on

Weapons in RWBY are often crafted by the user, they are representations of the wielder and are effectively a piece of them, a piece of their soul, particularly true for Ruby, she's a weapons geek, Crescent is her baby

So in essence, Ruby would be discarding a part of her soul in the name of victory (which also can seeve as a parallel to Ironwood, the disregard of the self in order to win, ignoring what this does to a person, essentially Ruby is in danger of being on the path Ironwood took)

And I suspect the blacksmith will come into play here somehow, more or less articulating the above to Ruby

Ruby can't just replace/discard/foegwt Crescent, it's a part of her, it is her

(Couldn't resist)

Ruby will not be able to truly move forward until she reclaims Crescent, aka stops trying to push forward in spite of her issues, only when she takes time to see to her own needs, processes, reclaims Crescent, will she move forward

[grimmgrinningghouls]

guys the reason we don't see Weiss and Ruby meeting up yet is bc Ruby spawned in east zone 1 and Weiss spawned in east zone 3

[yangscowlick]

Me when Ruby loses her shit on Neo:

[bubble-hunter]

I have been waiting 6 years for this

[penny-weiss]

Things that broke my heart, RWBY V9C5

CRWBY are coming for my heart in Volume 9.

The memory of Penny is following Ruby everywhere, but Ruby is still insistent she can handle her burdens alone. Then after she insists she is okay, we get a flash with Summer.

Ruby then giving up the broach that carries a mother's promise.

Weiss having flashbacks to the fall of Atlas. At least her team is there for her this time.

Jaune named the rabbit "Juniper." Not to mention the obvious that he is a rusted knight and has clearly been in the Ever After for some time.

And lastly, the team's excitement at meeting the rusted knight disappearing once they realized who it was.

[z-1-wolfe]

[takes a deep breath] so CRWBY really looked at the bright girl in volume 1 and went like, we're going to traumatize the f*ck out of her so that in a decade or so she completely breaks down after seeing those she cares 'bout die over and over again and just kills herself

And this is going to weigh on the minds of her teammates forever. They're going to look back one day and remember who Ruby used to be, and then they're going to realize what the world made her become. And it will shatter them every time they remember this scene.

[gentlemetalcactus]

In anticipation of volume 9 I did my first full RWBY rewatch in years, and I noticed something that is all the more relevant in the face of Ruby and Jaune both breaking down. At each other. Jaune clearly feels like a failure, he “can’t even protect” the Afterans who saved his life, he “couldn’t even be the make-believe hero”. He couldn’t protect Pyrrha, he was forced into a position where he killed his friend Penny, and then spent several decades by himself, waiting and slowly losing his mind a little bit… But, Ruby, back in v1e12, clearly tells Jaune he can’t be a failure. “Because it’s not just about you anymore! You've got a team now, Jaune. We both do! And if we fail, then we'll just be bringing them down with us. We have to put our teammates first, and ourselves second.”

Which is a very unhealthy way to approach leadership, Ms. Ruby Rose! If you decide being a leader is more important than being a person with feelings, you shove things down, you make yourself the one people can always turn to, you don’t share the burdens of leading, then things will eventually hit a boiling point where that is no longer possible, and your feelings and all those other things you’ve been avoiding will erupt. And they did, in spectacular fashion.

That’s also why I think Ruby’s harshest reactions were towards Blake. Weiss may have triggered her by asking her to chime in at a time where Ruby was clearly struggling with PTSD, and it must be really hard to see Yang be happy when Ruby is so far removed from feeling anything close to happy. But Blake has been taking the lead this volume, clearly feeling more confident being trapped in a fairy tale than the others, trying to keep everyone’s spirits up, reminding them “saving those lives has to count for something”, when everyone else just feels like they’ve failed in their plans for Atlas. And Ruby sees Blake take that role and maybe it reinforces the feeling that Ruby is now lacking in that respect, maybe Blake is the mirror that just makes Ruby think she’s a failure.

And the other thing that both Jaune and Ruby need to confront is grief. That’s why we see Penny as well as Summer Rose pop up in their stories. And do you know who else needs to confront grief? Neo… which is why I’m hoping the Ever After gives them all whatever crazy, wacky opportunity it might be to confront the fact they have lost people and how that changes their purpose…

[puzzlingfrost]

She's gonna lose an eye, isn't she?

[rotisia]

Just had a thought and had to share. Did Ruby know that was her sister and friends watching her drink the tea? Cause I think an argument could be made that she just thought that they were more Neo clones made to torment her. Which is why she drank it so easily while looking them right in the eyes. She thought she was going to continue to be tormented by copies of her team. She wasn’t looking at them to show them she gave up, she was looking at them so that they would be the last things she saw, even if they were an illusion.

[seer918]

ADDENDUM TO MY ‘NEO BECOMES RUBY’S BIG BAD WOLF THEORY

I ain’t throwing in the towel, I will somehow come off with a one right prediction from this volume out of...well, four at this point given my previous post BUT

Imagine if you will Curious Cat in Neo's body and possibly(?) with access to her memories might know about The Hound and while not knowing the full context knows that Ruby's terrified of that thing because fair, it's a shambling abomination even by Grimm standards and uses Neo's semblance to give himself a more bestial body to fight with since it's a feral, it probably isn't used to using weapons yet CC: "There's one question, right now, that I want answered before I leave this damned place...Who's afraid of the Big. BAD. WOLF?!"

[short-wooloo]

So obviously we never got an atlas ball episode...

But it's not too late to get an Ever After ball episode

Balls are very frequent occurrences in fairy tales after all, and team RWBY is now in fairy tale land

We could even have a fairy godmother magically create dresses for the girls

[ryuto12]

Blake = Easiest Time In Ever After

Exactly what the header says.

I genuinely think Blake will have the easiest time in Ever After. She understands the whole "who are you?" concept better than anyone else there.

It's Blake who suggests they're in a fairytale. It's Blake who classified her friends as "strength", "defiance", and "purity".

Even though she hides it at first, she's a Faunus.

Though she calls herself a coward for the longest time, she's the girl who isn't leaving.

She's the girl who's done running.

She's the girl who isn't alone.

She's the one who sees so much of herself in her Leader.

It's Blake who mentions how once you've been at someone's side for so long, they become a part of you. But that's it, just a part because you can't forget about the rest.

Blake's entire character arc for the first six Volumes was about figuring out who she was.

I really think she'll have the easiest time out of everyone except for maybe Neo, cause that bitch got a whole book for a character arc about who she was.

[prodkeiji]

yang about to go batshit crazy in chapter 9 i fear

[yangscowlick]

Having had an interest in fairy tales and myths for so long, one thing I’ve found —I dont want to say deficient — but notable is that R-W-B-Y all seem to be working off the same Girl Who Fell Through the World tale. When Blake runs through the first chapters of the story, Yang immediately follows with the next chapters, and they land on the tree. There isn’t any difference in the versions of the story that they know, at least in the broad strokes.

But the funny thing about fairy tales is that they get morphed through generations and cultures. It would be interesting if the Atlas vs Vale vs Menagerie etc versions that RWBY grew up hearing all differed in small ways based on the winding path of mythology.

Which is all to say, it would be interesting if they come across a piece in the story that Blake doesn’t know. Perhaps one that only Yang and Ruby know from the version that Summer used to read to them, which Summer knows because [insert Summer lore here].

[blue-scorpion-king]

It always goes back to the metal of the Moon.

For my fourth prediction of RWBY V9 going forward, which it hit me in the form of a epiphany-

The Silver Eyes.

It always goes back to the Silver Eyes in RWBY at points of great importance.

Ever since the first episode of RWBY, at Volume 1.

At this point in time, this can be the moment Ruby uses her eyes or they activates on their own.

This... I have actually not thought of until this epiphany.

Like wait.

The Curious Cat did not ask about Ruby’s eye color.

I think. I could be wrong.

And when Maria tells Ruby about the foundation of the power of the eyes, which is the preservation of life, which is an aspect of CREATION-

The scene has a *butterfly* on it.

Now, the butterfly is linked to the eyes, to Creation. NOT ‘Ascension’ as people might think.

The symbolism simply carried over, like the butterfly is carrying it.

And.

It is going to come back and bite the Cat in the ass.

He wasn’t *curious* enough.

And this epiphany actually gave me *hope.* And I had to the urge to *laugh*! I didn’t really think about this, until I did, and when this hit me.

I will say for when Saturday comes-

The power of the Silver Eyes would be Ruby’s ‘cocoon’.

NOT Ascension.

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~The Bat~

[daniels-rwby-blog]

What if uno reverse happens?

so i've rewatched volume nine's intro recently and like. with the events of the recent episode i can't help but look at this image

and think

"what if the curious cat uses neo's powers to create illusions of ruby to torment wby and jaune?"

And pulls a uno reverse on what neo did to ruby and torments them as a side plot to cut to while ruby is dealing with the blacksmith and summer and all that sweet jazz in the tree, perhaps while Ruby negotiates Thier escape or the cats death, the cat is grinding down WBY+Jaune

Or ruby stabs the illusion of the cat as a symbol of getting rid of those thoughts?