#rwby vacuo arc

[peterneptune16]

This is so awesome, Cannot wait for the Vacuo arc!

there are airships from every continent in vacuo along with a fixed amity arena. this is incredible. maybe the message that ruby sent out to the world really did work. but it seems its been more than a couple days since they fell

[rainbow-zebra-art]

This drawing was done for my Boosty! You can download the full-sized version here. ____

The idea was suggested by my subscriber: "any characters you want watching a fireworks show". So! It's some celebration in Vacuo. Beautiful fireworks are unfolding over the desert, everyone is watching the show... And I imagined Emerald finally relaxing and letting her guard down at this moment in front of her new companions 😌

[hellcifrogs]

Team leaders I want to see together again!

[chantaldraw]

Vacuo Memorial

[zexapher]

Vacuan Nights, Like Vacuan Days

They’re just so great together! I’d love for Jaune and Weiss to get a little downtime in Vacuo to live out a moment like this. They really deserve it, and I’d love to see Jaune’s guitar make a reappearance.

The comic here was inspired by u/Silverstar1243’s excellent piece of art, A Serenade Under the Moonlight. Send some love to them on their twitter, commission some art if you’re willing and able, they’ve made some great stuff.

You folks may have noticed I threw in a couple of references for those in the know; the Golden Oreos behind Yang (double stuffed, I might add) for the trio’s ship, Weiss liking it rough for Mallobaude’s great fic, and of course I made a whole theme around the Arabian Nights Disney song. A song, along with its Aladdin compatriots, which I spent the better part of a day finding covers for just to listen to on repeat while I worked.

This one’s now officially my longest comic project, with 14 panels, two over the past record since I added the White Knight kiss at the end. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Not sure I’d say it was more difficult than my Vanity of Vanities post, but for this one I actually knew how to use my editing software going into it (at least somewhat).

Put a lot of work into this one, been working on it on and off since February. Took a few breaks for vacation, to make my memorial post for Rooster Teeth, and another five meme edits or so, but I came back around to it. First half was pretty easy, relatively minor edits inserting characters into scenes and so on. The second half with Jaune and Weiss was tougher though, with color correcting, merging poses, redrawing features, drawing Jaune’s entire head to fix some lighting issues, etc. Really like how the edit to make Jaune strum his guitar turned out.

The time it took to make the whole comic got me down a little, until I did a bit of math. Including my side projects since starting this, all the scripting and editing and all, I’ve been pumping out a panel every two days. That seems pretty good to me, that kind of accomplishment makes me a little proud of myself.

Really need to get around to watching the second part of the Justice League Crossover movies. It’s got a few Vacuo scenes that might make things a little more authentic instead of me just using Saphron’s house and pretending it’s a suite in Vacuo. I do love taking yet more character stills from Jaune and friends experiencing deep trauma and turning it into something positive, been making that a bit of a personal habit. And I’ve got to say, the background for Jaune and Weiss’ scene is really beautiful, pulled it from when Sun and Neptune hear Ruby’s message about Salem. That’s just a really good shot all on its own, I even saved a copy for my computer’s wallpaper after editing out the two.

Posting a big RWBY White Knight edit, watching not one but two RWBY Beyond episodes, and all on the trail of the news that RWBY’s found partners that they’re negotiating with and that the creative team is expected to stay on. And I'm sipping bubble tea. Life is good.

Anyway, pardon the long write up. I’m invested in this one, and am quite pleased with how the comic turned out. I hope you all get a kick out of it as well!

[sunnysunsins]

My contribution to RG Vacuo dance trend. Let them have a little bit of fun before shit hits the fan

[st-whalefall]

Oscar: *doing some unhinged but absolutely precedented self-destructive shit in Vacuo*

His team + RWBY & Co.: *completely reasonable response of concern and alarm*

Oscar:

[bestworstcase]

& in fact one of the things that makes salem compelling as a character is this juxtaposition between her personal cruelty and the rightness of her cause; it bears repeating that she chose to live in exile rather than fight back for thousands of years while ozma dedicated himself to the cause of destroying her, and that her war follows on the heels of ozma forging a global alliance and then, as ozpin, abruptly locking down the relics in apparent preparation to summon the brothers back to remnant. if salem’s true goal is to avert the final judgment—get rid of the gods—then it is clear from the historical timeline and the events immediately preceding her commitment to war that she really did not want to go to war.

but with the information she has and the experiences she’s had there really is no other way to achieve her goal – every other possibility requires her to take it on faith that ozma is willing the break from his task now, against all signs to the contrary. he is still openly promoting worship of the brothers and urging everyone to live as if the final judgment will come tomorrow while zealously guarding the relics needed to summon them – no reasonable person would conclude from ozpin’s public actions that he is, in any way, wavering from his task, and so it is wholly irrational to expect salem to just intuit that somehow. and if ozpin is, as he seems to be, more committed than ever and on the brink of summoning the brothers, war is in fact her only recourse.

what makes salem a villain in this story is the abusiveness toward her associates; her individual cruelty, far more than the war of last resort, because the cruelty has no justification. and i think rwby is interested in the tension here, between how long salem refused to fight back and how cruel she is on a personal level. the tenderness with which she speaks of humanity versus her violent resistance to letting herself care about any one specific person.

i think it’s easy to write the cruelty off as a simple matter of salem… not caring, not having any interest in caring – in extremes this is how we get the "spoiled bitch" reading – but the same could be said of ozma; he’s nicer about it but no less willing to use people as disposable tools. why does he lie? why does he manipulate? why does he get violent when his secrets are about to be exposed? you don’t treat people you care about that way.

so ozma has his reasons – the trauma and the cognitive dissonance and the self-hatred and learned helplessness that motivates his submission to the divine mandate, the palliative fairytales, the retreat into dissociation to cope with being forced to exist as a parasite, and so on – and so too does salem, it’s just that hers are made more opaque. what drives this woman who speaks so lovingly of human virtue to treat individual humans like garbage? some of it is sheer alienation – she hasn’t been allowed to participate in civilization in thousands of years, of course she is antisocial – and the trauma of ozma’s betrayal, the deeper trauma of collective punishment, the fear of being hurt again, the resignation to being seen as a monster no matter what she actually does…

which i expect will begin to rise to the surface over the last few volumes. but the point is i do think her villain -> hero arc will turn almost entirely on ending and atoning for the personal cruelty as opposed to the war, and in fact i imagine there may end up being a stretch of the story wherein salem has moved clearly into the ‘good’ camp (as in: made things right between herself and her remaining associates, cinder in particular, and her true end is known to the audience) and still actively in conflict with the vacuo coalition because Her Cause is just. and that’s the kind of complexity rwby is interested in.

[astraskylark]

The reason Vacuo's sky is filled with airships.... The world heard Ruby's message. They're all here together because of her voice.

[moth--mallow]

I now this edit is bad but I want to use this as an example of what could have been it took me less then 8 mins to edit out Oscar backdrop and edit him in to this

Here's the original

[tumblingxelian]

Hello again!

Sorry it took me so long to cover these but they are here now, my reviews and analysis for RWBY Beyond!

[erros429]

gonna start a bake sale so i can eventually buy rwby from warner bros yall i’m gonna save us don’t worry

[lovingdabeessss]

BUMBUMBUHBUHBABABA MORE ME ME S

i actually think qrows really great I love him I’m so mean to him maybe I’ll be nicer to him in the future

The raccoon is jinxy but you all knew that already theres only so many anti yang raccoons in Rwby

[matt0044]

Might we get a Volume 10 Chapter Zero?

Part of me feels like we're likely to get a recap special of RWBY so far. Maybe go the extra mile with it being framed as an interview of the girls with their arrival of Vacuo, many reporters wanting to strike while the iron is hot.

I can see each girl giving accounts of what came before. Maybe even justifying it as the interviewer wanting to know what happened during the Fall of Beacon. I also think that it would be interesting to hear the characters speak for themselves of their journey.

I know clip shows are reviled but some of the better ones have characters actually talk about the moments in retrospect, giving us new appreciation for what came before.

Like Blake and Yang explaining how they fell for each other.

Weiss speaking of her family troubles and finding solidarity with Team RWBY and JNOR.

Maybe even a JNR section where they honor Pyrrha's memory by talking about her and how she did all she could to the very end.

This would be a primer for those who follow Viz Media's releases and liscenses but aren't sure about this RWBY business. Maybe even give a more legitimate overview of the story compared to certain videos with an incentive towards the negative.

[n1blakelover]

HI THIS IS ME SPILLING OUT WHAT I WANT THE VACUO OUTFITS TO LOOK LIKE OR AT LEAST SIMILAR TO

im gonna start backwards

yang:

do not ask me why but i really want her to wear some sort of gold/yellow vest with arm bands (either black or yellow) kind of like blake’s in the beginning + ofc she’ll have the fingerless gloves that she’s always had (probably black). this is a reference for the best image in my head

first image is around the color i could see it being, either a gold or yellow but the second image is the type of vest i see her wearing. im not sure if she would wear pants or shorts bc she hasn’t worn shorts since beacon but they will also be in vacuo next which means it will be HOT. so i could see her wearing either tan cargo shorts (but i don’t think they’d be short short like her shorts used to be bc she has moved to more of the masculine style obviously) or maybe black pants + ofc boots and she’ll definitely have little specs of orange and purple throughout her outfit (for herself and blake). and don’t forget the belt bc crwby loves their belts

AND I SWEAR WE BETTER GET YANG WITH A PONYTAIL. I AM PRAYING AND MANIFESTING THAT WE GET PONYTAIL YANG IN VACUO PLZ PLZ PLZ.

im gonna leave it at yang for rn and do the rest later 🫶🏼

since i’m assuming that rubys new model will look more mature, does this mean wby will get more mature models and outfits too for next season? 🤨🤭

[zexapher]

Taking Out the Trash

This is essentially how I see the story going now that we’re back to Remnant. Jaune and Weiss are definitely gonna settle the score with Cinder, in a Bumbleby v Adam-esque final fight imo. A lot building up to this; Pyrrha, Cinder almost killing Weiss, Penny's sacrifice, Jaune's ongoing conflict with Cinder, the way it would really hit Cinder if Ruby didn't focus on her and goes after Salem instead, the way Cinder thinks Jaune is beneath her and is outraged over the thought that he could have killed her and on and on. Although, I wouldn't be opposed to Ruby being part of that fight.

And hey, Cinder’s already made something of a dumpster fire out of her quest for power. Really her greatest achievements seem to be the result of working with the people around her; Torchwick, Watts, Neo, Emerald and Mercury. Increasingly though, Cinder’s becoming isolated, in no small part due to herself. That's all coinciding with the show’s theme of the importance of trust and cooperation bringing about strength and the resolution of the world’s and individual’s problems. Not hard to imagine where Cinder will wind up after taking the opposite path.

I originally intended to just edit Cinder in place of Marrow in the scene where Weiss is dragging him across the room. Put a good amount of work into fixing up that background, too. But a brilliant suggestion by Mallobaude to add a dumpster in the corner of the room changed my mind, and with a change of scene and a bit more editing we gained the nice scene we see before us now. The reference scene I took the background from is just brilliant, Weiss literally throwing a racist guy in the trash.

Anyway, I thought it was a fun idea to make my own little version of that meme trend I referenced in the 1st panel, with the rest of this little comic putting a bit of a twist on it actually being Weiss who’s all set to take care of Cinder. Hope you all enjoy!