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ALSO [today is just Be Unhinged About The Little Prince Out Of Nowhere Day i guess rip],
summer.
summer is the rose.
the virtuous noble paragon who was the best of them all—until he comes down to earth, the prince believes that his rose is a perfect, unique creature and the only one of her kind. then he learns that roses are common, abundant even, and his rose is only special to him because of his personal attachment to her.
and summer was just a person, just a human being like any other. she tried her best, she wanted to do the right thing, but she wasn't some storybook hero. she was just herself. getting ruby there is half the point of volume nine!
further the ambiguity of the rose's survival is emotionally central to the narrative of the little prince: alone on his asteroid without him taking care of her, did she survive? will she be alive at all when he returns? after all the time he's been away? and even if she did survive that separation, of course the narrator has no way to know whether the rose is alive or dead; the sheep might slip free and eat the rose at any time, and the pilot will never know. shall he hope for her survival, or surrender to cynicism and assume that she is dead? is summer rose truly dead? has the sheep eaten the rose?
we don't know. rwby has been very careful about ensuring that we do not know, for sure, whether summer rose is alive or dead, and what state she is in if alive. tis the last rose of summer/left blooming alone and then what?
the speaker of the poem severs the rose from its stem to scatter her petals (and this part is the epitaph on her grave: thus kindly i scatter, a mercy-killing). the prince returns home to see what has become of his rose; the old man left behind wonders, never knowing. they buried a huntress, not a body. the last stanza of her poem is soon may i follow/when friendships decay/and from love's shining circle/the gems drop away!/when true hearts lie withered/and fond ones are flown/oh! who would inhabit/this bleak world alone?—the scattering of the last rose is only a symbolic articulation of the speaker's own loneliness, decayed friendships, withered hearts. has the sheep eaten the rose? the speaker did slay the rose, but in another sense the speaker is the rose, so is the rose truly dead? the ambiguity harmonizes.
the trick of course is that the double-dipping going on here is that both oscar and ruby are facets of the prince; the prince is oscar's core and the prince also reflects the lost child ruby couldn't face until she faced the whole, human reality of her mother—this is where the child-becomes-parent narrative of the little prince lives, not with oscar but with ruby and summer; reversed, mirrored as every part of the ever after arc is, such that the maturation of the little prince is not embrace of parenthood but embrace of the parent as a real person rather than a saintly icon. i fear i am perhaps sliding into incoherency here as is often the case when i get onto the subject of summer rose but it does all lay itself out very tidily.
also she joined--[is shot]
once was not enough they had to strand the old man blind in a desert twice.
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Nitpick November: said this a million times but why have most of the characters’ gotten worse hair? I think a lot of it looks too thick from V4 onward. Like Neo’s hair specifically looks bad. Yang’s hair thickness looks good, but Blake’s hair looked a little too thick after the animation switch. And then to add insult to injury, they have her the haircut instead of Weiss. I don’t even need to comment on Weiss’s braid. I want Blake’s long hair back and Weiss with a cute bob
Okay, I was totally planning on talking about hair changes in general as a nitpick eventually, but I'm just gonna talk about it now and do different numbered nitpicks later. I hate most of the hair changes in RWBY. I have a ton of pictures and gifs and rant about hair, so I went ahead and put this post under a keep reading, since it wound up being long. I didn't know you could only use ten images in a post, before I tried to talk about it. XD
Neo's hair originally didn't look too thick, it curled some in the back, it looked particularly shiny, with cute distinctively styled hair near the front that was shorter. Not a lot of movement, but this was poser era, so there are allowances.
And even when she first came back in V6 when she still had her same look, her hair didn't look too bad, though it did seem to lose a bit of its shine. (Side note, but Neo is still off the charts one of the hottest people in RWBY just look at these gifs!)
But what did they do with her hair when she changed outfits?
Seriously, why did they make it three times thicker while completely changing the iconic styling of her bangs at the front, and making her hair come out past her shoulders when originally it was hard to tell from the front that her hair was even long? It looks like they made her hair out of playdough! (Don't get me wrong, she's still gorgeous, just her hair looks not nearly as good and I'm still not sold on the outfit either.)
And with the other hair changes, James is one of the only people who got a hair change that wasn't freaking ugly or wholly unnecessary. For instance, despite the general idea that Yang would never cut her hair, her hair has gotten much shorter over the years as well as losing some curl itself.
And as for Blake, it's at least not too bad, but it defintely lost some curl and dude, why does the pick of Blake without a jacket look almost exactly like the hair for late season Neo just with different bangs? Weird.
But then IT GETS SO MUCH WORSE.
We need to be rescued from this monstrosity. And that's not even getting into Jaune's horrible haircut, or Nora's hair getting cut back to its original length because God forbid somebodies hair changes in minor ways instead of suddenly being completely different, Weiss's hair suddenly becoming super thick over night and the horrible braid, or Hazel's horrible hair change, or Cinder's haircut that was just like her flashback vision in volume 3... And I don't really actually mind Ruby's hair change that much, but it still isn't super good and seems kind of... Pointless? I'd happily say she's 'emulating Qrow,' but like, with how she treated Qrow and was so insistent that she didn't need him in volume six, I'd say that we're not supposed to see him as a mentor figure she's trying to be like anymore, so the symbolism doesn't work anymore than Blake cutting her hair after Adam's death works when the way they animated it makes it look more contained and heavy and boxing in her face than her long hair did.
I agree that Weiss should've one hundred percent had her hair cut short, it would've been so cute and nice looking and very good with her character.
But also, I just want to say with my whole heart that I hate Penny's long hair.
I'm sorry, but her hair looks like the fake plastic hair I might've gotten on a loving family toy figure as a nine year old for Christmas. All of it just... Looks bad. I have a bit of a problem with Penny's new look, but for the most part, I think it's fine. But the hair? The hair is a pretty big offender. If it wasn't for Weiss's horrible braid, I'd say it's my least favorite hair in the series.
My favorite hair changes? James's bird shaped hair in V7-V8. Winter's V8 high ponytail. Nora and Ren's V4-6 hairstyles. However, most of the time, the hair changes in RWBY are very disappointing.
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