#rwby volume 8 chapter 8

[small-bubs]

I've been catching up with RWBY Vol 8 because that's around when I dropped the show and.... why did I drop it in the first place? Why did I let the fandom convince me that this show lost its quality??? It's SO GOOD. Ok yes it still has its issues. But I'm having so much fun watching it!

I've also been reading the World of RWBY book and it's giving me so much new info that puts the show into a whole new perspective. Never let the haters get to you

[iactuallytryingtolovemyself]

here's why people who believe in the power of love and friendship are braver than the marines: an essay

[sir-adamus]

I feel like Rwby having a linear plot/story that's mostly focused on that is what causes a lot of people who are used to shounen or other media pieces with"filler" or one off episode with the characters just existing and doing little side adventures to be angry. Early Rwby had mire episodes like this but even then it was more linear than most series like it. Idk I understand wanting more moments where characters are just going on side quests or having fun, but this just isn't that type of show, Rwby feels more like your watching a storybook playout, think like how stageplays function, with a beginning middle and end. and I think some miss that point

honestly it always reads to me like "how dare they not include this - they should have included it and had it to even better quality than it is and delivered it in the same time for the same budget but they didn't because they're bad writers/animators/producers, i, an armchair critic with no practical experience in any of these fields, could have done it way better"

there's a complete - and fully intentional - disconnect in understanding how show production works because complaining and making the lives of everyone involved as miserable as possible (thinking back to the flash freeze in Texas when the last few chapters of volume 8 had to be delayed so RT employees could prioritise not freezing to death and some terminally online dipshit started harassing Kerry and saying he was bad at his job for not already having the episodes done - deliberately ignoring the concept of post-production - because it was absolutely vital that the episodes come out on time so the dipshit in question could continue his rewrite/fix fic. which is a. just unfathomably rude to say, especially to someone that heavily involved with the show - especially when the 'fic' in question was just a bulletpoint list of 'and then Adam says something cool. and then Blake stands there and does nothing.' or whatever, and b. fucking ghoulish and callous to say to people who are trying not to die)

[howlingday]

I just saw your post chain on RWBY rewrites and, yeah remaking an entire episode can be good to flex writing chops, what about scrapping an entire Volume and going from where you wrote?

Because I did that. I liked where Vol. 7 was going, but then once we got into the beginning of Vol. 8, I felt it began to nosedive, and that feeling persisted until where Penny's separated from Maria and her Father, where that was the final episode I actually sat down to watch. Reading the synopses for the other episodes and the vibe of what was going on in Vol. 9 via Twitter, I just felt it wasn't where it could have gone to be great. So, I re-wrote all of Vol. 8. Then continued from my storyline through to Vol. 9, 10, 11, and ending with 12. I even wrote out bonus chapters for extra character development. This whole thing went past 500 pages, and I feel content with it.

Dang... Got a link to those?

And yeah, I agree that the writing has been noticeably sour since Volume 7, if not earlier, though I will defend to the death that Volume 9 is up there as one of my favorites.

That said, I remember seeing a lot of RWBY "rewrites" that pretty much wrote certain characters out of the story, or just straight up ignore character moments because they're "unneeded".

And yes, I'm talking about Jaundice...

Actually, I had an idea of writing in additions that I feel improve Volume 1 by giving us more character explanation. For example, when Cardin is bullying Velvet, where Team RWBY just sit there and talk about how awful Cardin is treating Velvet, I add context for WHY Team RWBY doesn't get involved. Ruby wants to, but is being held back by Weiss because she (W) thinks Velvet, as the older student, should be able to stick up for herself. Blake tried to help when Velvet was getting bullied earlier, but was told by her that she can handle herself, similar to what happened in After the Fall. And Yang... Yang's on probation after her crimes at Junior's Bar. So, if RWBY can't do anything about it, Jaune steps in.

Is it cringe? Yes. Do I stand by this statement? For now, yes. Is there a deeper issue that I'm seeing and I'm just making an excuse for Jaune to stay a main character? SURVEY SAYS

[ao3feed-blakeyang]

Falling Despite You

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Ieu7DPp by Kiiratam What-might-have-beens flash before Yang's eyes. Takes place after Volume 8, Chapter 13 (My BMBLB fic index). Written for Bumbleby Week 2025: Day 1: Past & Future / Imagining A Future With You. Words: 1096, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: RWBY Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F Characters: Yang Xiao Long Relationships: Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Bumbleby Week 2025 (RWBY), Canon Compliant read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Ieu7DPp

[churchrvb02]

So, going through old documents, I found the first 2 chapters of an unfinished fanfic of RWBY Volume 9 I wrote, from before we knew anything about the volume except the Volume 8 end credits scene. Literally one like on this post, and I'll post it here on Tumblr, haha

[sir-virtem]

Welp, I finished reading the hundred chapter of Dust in the Wind, has being a good read those years and hope it came coming the next ones.

I remember started reading it back in High School, back then I would check my favorite fandom crossovers in FF basically dayly, now I barelly do that...

Well, to summarize it, Courier Six tested some big mountain technology and got isekaized to remanent and procede to courie all over the place, Six here is an old man in a teen-young adult body (I don't remember which one) that babysit team RWBY while make moonshine beneath Ozpin nose, at actuality I think they will soon reach the Colisseum part, I'm pretty sure is around that volume currently, fun reading if one can bear it's lenght, 8 years & 100 chapters and they're still in bacon.

[armed-and-rwby]

So, and I know this is kind of bad timing in June, but I can't deny any longer than Yang's character was seriously compromised after V5

This isn't really a scripted thing and I've not written analysis in a while, so forgive the loose formatting here, just something I needed to get out.

I think the overall issues can apply to more of the MCs than Yang, which I'll bring up later, but RWBY has an unfortunate tendency of resolving character arcs without much overlap with the plot, and Yang definitely gets it worse than most (and she's my favourite).

Back in V5, Yang was exploding with directions for her character and I think the writers worked hard to touch on all of them, from her recovery, to her growing mistrust of authority, to her issues with her mom, to her reconnecting with her team (and of course the deeper angst with Blake in that), but resolution for all of these largely fell short IMO. The last time she's even talked about the scheming of Oz was in V6 when she called him a bastard, Raven has never been mentioned or some up since V5, and I don't think she's even spoken to Weiss since their heart to heart in V5 outside of plot functional dialogue. The same can be said on her relationship with her sister, which, beyond her sacrifice in V8 and an unresolved conversation earlier in the volume about Salem and their mom, also haven't actually interacted with each other. The only thing really addressed was her lost arm, which was an extension of Bumblebey and closed off when they killed Adam in V6, a great fight with very little to do with the actual plot.

In V7 and 8, she's a complete third wheel, she talks with Robyn and fights the Ops in 7, and doesn't even get a fight in V8. Weiss certainly got it almost as bad, she was a bit more involved, but still not much given how this is her kingdom and her family that was so central to the plot. It's a condition of a bloated cast, which they've addressed a couple times, such as the start of V6 and all of V9 (though with their various guides, the girls don't make a lot of relevant decisions on the flow of that story either). It really did suck that we got to see Ruby's suicide through Yang's eyes, only for us to not see any of their reactions, and even when they see her it's all pretty surface level stuff (Yang even just repeats what Weiss tells her about Ruby).

My favourite scene in the whole show was her confronting her mom, I thought that was such a perfect direction for her character, tying together both her conviction to her family with her backstory of her mom to drive her arc forward in some unique ways, only to be sidelined in following chapters as her ship left port. And while this post isn't here to bash Bumblebey, I guess there's a bit of a warning that, since that was almost all of her drama and driving force for the last 4 volumes, with it canonized, I worry she'll only drift further away from the plot and her own unique character moments.

Wish I had some gifs or something to break up these paragraphs, but I'm just kind of vomiting out all these nagging issues that've been building up these last few years. Really does hurt to love a character like that and not see them utilized in the show

[princess-of-the-corner]

One thing to note about RWBY is that it REALLY "grew the beard" over the course of its runtime.

Volumes 1-3 were animated in Poser (software that wasn't intended for use in animation), with rougher backgrounds and more simplistic writing related to complex themes. They were also only ever intended to be an extended prologue to the ACTUAL show, with the Big Twist of the Volume 3 finale being that the climax was actually just the inciting incident to the show's ACTUAL conflict.

Starting from Volume 4, the crew switched to Maya (software that's intended for use in animation), got better at writing more complex topics (the White Fang is treated more sympathetically than in the "Beacon Arc"), and Jaune was actually an interesting character for the entirety of the "Anima Arc" that lasted from Volumes 4-6.

Volume 7 is probably the best season of the show (I don't have a Crunchyroll account and so I haven't had the chance to watch Volume 9 in its entirety yet, even if I know what happens there). It deconstructs the whole "America Saves the World" trope with Atlas, and has some pretty good political satire that wound up being eerily prophetic. Also, Robyn Hill is one of the best characters the show has ever introduced.

Volume 8 contains both the best and worst moments of the series. V8C1-V8C11 features some of the best storytelling and most tense action from the franchise ever, but V8C12 has the overall message of "Okay but, the people who dehumanized Penny over her mechanical body KINDA had a point, let's fix what isn't broken!", V8C13 is a pretty descent villain episode, and V8C14 is by far the most offensive piece of media I've ever been subjected to. But still, up until those last three episodes, it was basically flawless.

I've heard Volume 9 is pretty good, but I'm side-eying everything involving Jaune because I honestly DESPISE the direction they took his arc in. But if we ignore EVERYTHING related to Jaune's role in the Volume, I like basically everything I've heard about it.

RWBY: After the Fall is a very good spin-off novel focused on popular side characters Team CFVY and shows what they've been up to since the Fall of Beacon in Volume 3. it also has a really interesting gimmick, as every other chapter is a flashback to something that happened in Team CFVY's past, further fleshing out their minor roles in the show.

RWBY: Before the Dawn is actual garbage. Sun's character arc (wherein his hypocrisy from the show is actually acknowledged and challenged) and Coco's and Velvet's shiptease are probably the only redeeming qualities. Taking this book into account actually makes Ironwood's reluctance to call Vacuo for help look REASONABLE. 2/10.

RWBY: Roman Holiday is a prequel novel focused on Roman and Neo, but Neo is the true protagonist here. The first few chapters leading up to their first meeting alternate between their perspectives, with the book being largely Neo focused after they finally meet.

RWBY: Fairy Tales of Remnant is an anthology of in-universe fairy tales. You can read it at any point in the series, but the further into the series you are when you read it, the more hints to RWBY's overarching plot you'll notice. While all of the Fairy Tales are works of fiction, some of them are dramatizations of actual events in the shadow war that RWBY's plot revolves around.

RWBY x JL: Super Heroes and Huntsmen is a 2-part film series wherein Team RWBY teams up with the Justice League. Part 1 features the Justice League visiting Remnant (kinda) during the events of Volume 7, and Part 2 features Team RWBY visiting DC Earth after the events of Volume 9.

There's also some ambiguously canonical comics published by DC, as well as 2 explicitly non-canon RWBY/DC crossover comic series. One features alternate versions of the Justice League cast who were born on Remnant, another features Remnant and DC Earth fusing due to Salem tricking Lex Luthor into helping her by playing off of his hatred of Superman. Neither of these crossovers are in continuity with the crossover movies.

Fascinating actually

[abysskeeper]

WHABAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love ❤️

Yay, thank you! Ok, I'm back from a weekend trip now and can pick 5 I think. I'll mix it up for fandom and go in order of publication.

A Thousand Ways to (Never) Say "I Love You" - Baldur's Gate 3, Gale/Tav (Named F!Tav), act 2, emotional hurt/comfort, fluff with a sad ending Gale hasn't been the same since Elminster delivered the charge from Mystra. Nox has finally figured out how to offer a distraction, at least for a few hours. It does not go quite according to plan. Please read this. I understand it's a 13.5k one-shot but I poured a lot of heart and time into it. It's spawned a 6 part series dealing with act 2 and I'm simultaneously working on parts 2 and 4 because I'm so incredibly normal about wizards.

Just You, Just Me - Baldur's Gate 3, Wyll/Tav (Named F!Tav), act 3, childhood friends to lovers, fluff Late one evening on the road to Baldur's Gate, Wyll is pulled away from camp by the sweet sounds of a violin. The woman he finds playing is familiar; unfortunately, he had hoped to never see her again. Result of my first Tav. Unlike the 30-something wizards above, Fi and Wyll really are just two kids trying their best, and I should write more for them.

Exit, Stage Right - The Great Ace Attorney, Herlock Sholmes/Mikotoba Yujin, Herlock Sholmes & Iris Watson, canon compliant, fluff and hurt/comfort A proper homecoming, a precious hour and a half before they needed to step on stage for the final act, and more than enough of a fool's notion of sentimentality. Herlock Sholmes was set to enjoy what little time he had with his partner before the grand finale of their ten year dance. It was a shame, then, that he had to ruin it. 3 months and nearly 20k words for a hyperspecific headcanon that maybe one other person has and appreciates. Also one of my most favorite things I've ever written.

Rebirth (oh cursed cycle that you are) - RWBY, Oscar Pine & Ozpin, volume 8 canon divergence, character study There's a fullness in his mind that's ready to burst at the seams. There's a clawing in his heart searching for the presence now missing. When Oscar said he didn't want the merge to happen, he didn't realize how close he really was to having everything he never wanted. Tied for first as my favorite thing I've ever written for RWBY*, and easily one of the top five things I've ever written at all. Weird and speculative are what Oscar deserves for his situation.

Under Guise - SWTOR, Jedi Consular/Cipher Nine, OCxOC, fluff, Tumblr prompt fill A night at an Alderaanian ball is not exactly how Trick wants to be spending her time. Pestered by a man she has a distaste for even less so. Until suddenly, it was exactly what she wanted. Beloveds having fun. For as much as I dislike looking back and editing some stuff, this has really withstood the test of time, and I had an absolute blast writing it.

*(Bonus shout out to Chapter 4: Interlude: Children of Fate of my fic A Funny Little Thing Called Trust. I can't recommend the whole fic because I do someday want to go back and edit it up to my current standards, but the chapter itself is the other thing tied for first as the best thing I've ever written for RWBY)

[zozoistireds-blog]

This post is mainly to flesh out a fanfic idea I posted a bit go for anyone who wants to read. Also, please be nice :) I'm not good at getting out my ideas into words

Prompt idea

This fanfic idea mainly centres around the arc family and how each of them react to the news of jaunes supposed death (set after volume 8)

And each chapters has each family member finding out in some way the news of what happend at altas.

Jaune's parents

Jaunes parents get a visit from someone who is apart of the atlas military who in as much or as little detail as one likes what happend to jaune and the others in atlas and we get to see how his parents react to the news of their sons 'death' whether negative or positive.

After the person leaves that can be when we get to see their reactions and learn how his relationship mightve been with them.

And How they react can be up to whoever

janues siblings

After jaunes parents react I believe there'd be a domino affect of one by one all of jaunes sisters finding out about atlas too,

Depending on what is wanted they can each have varying different reactions.

Like completely devastated or not being able to process or something in-between.

Jaunes aunts/uncles (optional)

Now this one can be optional since we don't know if jaune has any Aunts ot uncles at this point in time, but if he did I'd assume this could be how it goes down

They could get a call or letter from anyone if the arc family detailing what had been told to them about atlas and we could see how the relationship is between everyone in the family and see whether or not there'd be any more angst.

Ending

I think the ending could go two different ways or both,

The first ending could be some sort of memorial for jaune that his family attend where they share their regrets towards him or share their fond memories and basically see how jaune impacted each of them big or small.

The second ending could go like this, jaunes family one way or another end up in vacuo where they all end up reuniting with jaune (and team rwby) where basically we get to have the happy or sad ending where we see how much or how little he meant to his family with how they react to seeing him alive and well after how many weeks or months he's been presumed dead.

Anyway that's all I have for this Prompt hope you guys enjoyed!

And stay tuned for more ideas down the line :)

Link to orignal post:

https://www.tumblr.com/zozoistireds-blog/724893233057038336/fanfic-idea-im-probably-never-gonna-write-but?source=share

[onceuponalegendbg-rwby]

Reaction to RWBY Crew Commentary V9

Alright, as is tradition at this point, got my copy of the Blu Ray so let's get started.

Okay, first of all, before I even hop into the commentary, I love that the title screen for the menu is Ruby falling through that mural in the OP. That is... That is so cool man! Whoever thought of that... I love you. You're a genius.

So we start off with Kerry, Eddy, Laurie (hope I spelled that right). And addressing how they had to work mostly from home on this volume and the challenges that caused.

Yeah, quick reunion was the right call. I mean, we did the Team RWBY split for two volumes (4 and 5) and then again in V8. Don't keep the girls apart again.

Little origins! Give me! Someone that starts how Ruby started...

I mean... yeah, I assumed Ruby knew about Penny from Weiss. Like... duh.

Same peeps for episode 2 but also with Paula? Again, I hope I heard that right.

Return of Blake the Book Nerd.

Yang and Blake kind of dig the Ever After, Weiss hates it, and Ruby is lost in her thoughts.

Luci improvised Little's little song.

Oh, Yang might still think this is a dream so nothing here matters... That's an idea. Everyone grieves differently...

Man I love Weiss in this episode.

"We can't have her be the butt of every joke." .... I want to see what they cut.

Episode 3! We've picked up Conner, Dustin, and Kiersi! Lost Laura and Paula.

The animation is so good man.

Putting away depression to help her friends.

Prince Trauma(TM)

Neo Scary.

Episode 4. Kerry, Eddy, Miles and Dustin.

Curious talk.

Self critic!

"She learned her lesson in the end, right?" "Oh, I'd certainly say so."

"If there's something Ruby can blame herself for, do it!"

"Cat wanted to scope out which one of the girls was weakest."

Shout out to the VAs!!

Chapter 5: Kerry, Eddy, Paula, Kiersi!

Cat is dismissive of WBY. Focuses only on Ruby.

The Blacksmith: The Ever After itself is now reaching out to Ruby.

Walking the line between the audience knowing that Ruby needs help and WBY not quite understanding how bad it is.

Making sure the emblem wasn't on Ruby's model after was a pain.

"Oh no, he's hot."

Episode 6: Kerry, Eddy, Yssa, Laura.

The difference between Jaune having already lived for many years with this guilt in the Ever After and RWBY who are still fresh.

How protective Kerry is of the Bee scene is amazing.

There was an idea that the vision Alyx saw was that she saw that someone in her party was going to keep her from returning home, and it ultimately is herself before the Cat kills her.

Ya'll have already seen other posts about Kerry and crew's thoughts on the Bee scene and what it means for the Yang and Blake so I won't go into all that because, yeah, can't say it better.

"They were actually in front of each other the whole time." Excuse me!

"Now she has to step up again." ....Ow.

Episode 7: Kerry, Eddy, Miles, Dustin? I think that's what I heard.

How the meeting went: "Well he can't have been doing nothing, that would be really disappointing." *Beat of silence* "Oh, that would be really disappointing." Evil geniuses.

Stuck in the pattern of trying to be the hero. Both incredibly busy and doing nothing.

"He's more lost than ever."

Fighting on a hill. I'd never considered the complications of that either.

Miles and Lindsey kill this scene man. It's so good.

Episode 8 (oh boy): Kerry, Eddy, Miles, Paula, Kiersi.

Had to cut an episode due to scheduling and budget. Scary to have to rework that.

Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

The flowers on the Tea Cups are Forget-Me-Nots.

Imposter Syndrome.

Neo landed on the Brother's Acre.

"Neither one of them won that fight." Neo and Ruby.

Episode 9: Kerry, Eddy, Yssa, Dustin, Kiersi.

Blacksmith is a therapist.

Weiss is the best, true.

What do the characters want?

Episode 10: Kerry, Eddy, Yssa, Kiersi, Dustin.

Aw, their kids contributed some of the background drawings for Yang and Ruby's room.

Furious Cat.

"She's the self that chose herself." "She emerges herself but different."

"I'm so happy." I love how much they love this show.

"How do we not redeem her but give her this sort of neutral path?"

Oh man, I'm tearing up before Somewhat even shows up.

Somewhat is no longer defined by having one purpose.

Dude, they keep talking about not wanting this to be filler so they had the backstory of the Brothers but I will always stand by that if the characters learn and grow as people then it will never be filler. So from the beginning this was never going to be filler.

"One small kindness, in one small moment, led to such a marvelous transformation." That line always destroys me.

Whelp, that's a wrap on the commentary for V9. Now... we wait.

[sir-adamus]

You know it’s funny to me that crwby is getting shit on for promising there’ll be an update but please have patience bc I’m just sitting here thinking how that video cost them money to produce. So did the holiday recipe videos. Now I’m sure they didn’t break the bank or anything. They were all filmed on the same day it seems but still crew had to be hired Arryn was flown out to be on location for it. They are actively spending money on something which let’s be honest. Could’ve been a tweet. Would people prefer radio silence? I don’t get it. Arcane a show with an exponentially higher budget and much larger crew working on it took YEARS to produce and didn’t have the hurdle of the company that produced it being shut down and the IP rights being transferred to a new entity. It’s so tiring that RWBY can’t do anything and be judged fairly for it.

yeah like - they would've been recording for hours for all that, with the cooking stuff, crafts, then the holiday messages and then this most recent one

but they're getting shit on for. not releasing the new season already, apparently. when it hasn't even been a year since RT shut down and Viz has only had the rights for, what, 7 months? and there's so much behind the scenes work that would have to go into just sorting out the acquisition let alone getting stuff back into pre-production - i'd say i refuse to believe that it's an inability to understand that animation takes time, but i'd be lying, as in among this crowd of dipshits was that one clown who harrassed Kerry on twitter during the delays of the last few chapters of volume 8 because of the cold snap in Texas where people were at very real risk of freezing to death in their own homes

because he thought the CRWBY were being 'lazy' and that the episodes should've been finished already (as post-production is something these clowns refused to understand)

not because he cares about the show, i have to add, no. this dipshit needed the episodes to come out so he could continue his 'rewrite'*. the lack of human decency or any concept of how much goes into making an animated show that we do see among the negative crowd was really exemplified by that asshole

*not a rewrite, not even a fanfic - it was just a list of stuff happening. not even specific stuff, like "x character says cool one-liner" levels of nothingburger

[the-elegant-necromancer]

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: RWBY Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jaune Arc/Cinder Fall, cinder fall & jaune arc Characters: Cinder Fall, Jaune Arc Additional Tags: Fluff, Work In Progress, Volume 6 (RWBY), Cinder Fall Redemption, Jaune Arc/cinder fall - Freeform, jaune arc - Freeform, Romance, Memory Loss, Enemies to Lovers, Knightfall, Temporary Amnesia, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jaune has anger issues, Angst, but in a good way, Mentioned Ruby Rose (RWBY), Mentioned Weiss Schnee, Mentioned Yang Xiao Long, Slow Burn Summary:

Jaune Arc finds Cinder Fall devoid of all her powers and the majority of her memories. Will he take revenge on the woman or will he decide something else? This and questions about who he really is will plague him for answers he thought beyond himself.

This story starts during Volume 6 when the group is in Argus.

[ao3feed-blakeyang]

Falling Despite You

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/f8odeFM by Kiiratam What-might-have-beens flash before Yang's eyes. Takes place after Volume 8, Chapter 13 (My BMBLB fic index). Written for Bumbleby Week 2025: Day 1: Past & Future / Imagining A Future With You. Words: 1096, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: RWBY Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F Characters: Yang Xiao Long Relationships: Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Bumbleby Week 2025 (RWBY), Canon Compliant read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/f8odeFM