#same goes for the rest of team rwb

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Yang Xiao Long

I’m a simple man, I see Yang, I want to give her a hug

[theseerasures]

I'm loving your "I was right" energy so: where do YOU think everyone will be at the end of the volume?

y’all are REALLY just encouraging me at this point, aren’t you? who knew my supervillain origin story would be getting exactly what i want in a televisions

E(VACUO)TION 2021: CALL NOW TO VOTE

IN VACUO

Oscar, Ren, and Emerald are stuck there for the duration. even if they had a way to go back, they’re a tad busy right now.

IN SUPERHELL

Yang is same and same.

AT AND AROUND GRAND CENTRAL STATION

Ruby, Weiss, and Blake are going to superhell. the only reason i’m a fraction less sure of this than with Team Green is that Team Green is already there. my prediction--and preference--is that they decide to voluntarily go after the climactic showdown wraps up, but i also have no idea how THAT’S going to happen, so.

Fiona, Joanna, and May are going to Vacuo. they’ve taken on the duty of protecting Mantle, and Mantle is going to be in Vacuo. the only reason they’d go back to Mantle-the-place is for Robyn, but a) they don’t know that Robyn is currently dogfighting with her minivan over Mantle’s skies, and b) even if they did know, that the Huntresses can and will work autonomously without their leader has been emphasized this whole season.

Penny is...likely to be in Vacuo. i won’t completely write off the chance that she joins RWB in superhell, but i also don’t think it’s going to happen. if anyone is RWBY’s fifth it’s Penny Polendina, but going to superhell just feels like a RWBY classic exclusive trip to me. Penny loves her friends, but she’s also a Maiden with a duty to Remnant. she set that aside for Yang in Worthy, and that was VERY MUCH a mistake, so having her double down on it when it’s not a heat of the moment thing feels wrong.

Jaune and Nora are likely to be in Vacuo as well. they’re not going to superhell, and the only reason they’d be in Atlas is if the portals closed before they could get there. another Renora separation would certainly be ripe for juicy angst, but right on the heels of them deciding to be independent together it feels arbitrarily backslide-y. my guess is we have another “so long for now” scene between Ruby and Jaune a la season 6, and JNPER as a whole goes with Penny to lay the groundwork for Vacuo.

Cinder, Neo, the Lamp, and the Staff: i’ve tentatively grouped them all together because i think they will all be in Atlas, but how much i’m certain of that varies. Cinder is not going to Vacuo; her primary objective is the Staff and even if Penny manages to take it through a portal there’s no way for Cinder to hide her presence, and we’re not going to end the season mid-brawl. Neo...might end up in Vacuo if someone just kicks her through in all the chaos, because she can stealth it up a lot better than the living fire tornado. i’m not going to discount the idea that one or both of them end up in superhell, but that seemed a lot more likely when we thought RWBY would fall, instead of jump. finding each other and exploring whatever newfangled dimension they end up in feels like more than enough plot without Team Rocket trying to kill them all the time in it. the Lamp is likely to stay where it is, with Neo, since it’s a much lower priority target now. the Staff...is likely to end up with Cinder (and by proxy Salem), if only because having a do-anything device (even with its limitations) feels like it would make certain logistical issues in Vacuo much easier than they should be (give me the forbidden refugee narrative Mr. Teeth do it do it)

LAST SEEN AROUND SOLITAS

Pietro and Maria are still on Amity! we haven’t seen them for this entire back half, and my guess is that we still won’t in the finale. odds are that if anyone has already rendezvoused with the mythical reinforcements from Menagerie, they have, and when folks get wind of what the fuck is happening (which...could take a while, depending on how/if they take care of Watts) they’ll take the long way to Vacuo, whereupon Pietro will meet up with Penny again and our hearts will collectively explode from joy and radiant warmth.

IN ATLAS/MANTLE

Salem is going to respawn on Atlas. what shape Atlas is going to be in when she does is...who the fuck knows, honestly.

Watts and Ironwood are not leaving Atlas. my guess is James Ironwood will breathe his last before the portals even close. the same...might be true of Watts, because i still lean towards Cinder did him a sabotage, but even if he lives to the end of the season he’s not leaving Salem’s side, and Salem is on Atlas.

Winter...is not leaving Atlas. out of everyone who i think will survive to season’s end on this side of the portal, this one is the one i’m most sure of. if Winter were going to step through the portal the story would have already let her; there was no reason she and Ironwood couldn’t have had their showdown in a separate corner of Grand Central Station instead of right next to its entrance. people have talked about the angst potential of Winter walking in just as Weiss takes the plunge, but tbh this again worked better when we thought Weiss was going fall. if Weiss is jumping then it just turns into a locked-out-of-the-loop thing that can get immediately resolved as soon as Winter talks to...i dunno, anyone? and on a metaphorical level: almost-Maidens don’t make it to the Promised Land. not through the easy way.

Willow, Whitley, and Klein are likely going to be in Vacuo. i’m not going to completely rule out “Klein Sieben runs James Ironwood over with a fucking airship,” but...okay, i am, for the Winter reasons above. there’s just no reason for them to stick around in Atlas when they know that in all likelihood Atlas is going to be rubble (it probably won’t be, but they don’t know that). this means that after their fleeting reconciliation all the Schnees will once again be scattered to the winds, and Whitley is--again--alone with Willow. at least Klein’s here this time.

Qrow, Robyn, and the AceOps: i don’t actually think ALL of them will be stranded in Atlas/Mantle, but some of them will be. if Marrow and Elm are still in Atlas they’ll make it to Vacuo, but if not things are dicier for them. Harriet and Vine are more likely to stay, but the long and short of it is that the AceOps might be split between continents. as much as i desperately want Robyn go to Vacuo so the rest of the Happy Huntresses can do the three-on-one version of the Madagascar hug scene...the thing about Robyn, in this season especially, is that she forms teams and coalitions wherever she goes. that would be useful in Vacuo, but it would also be useful for organizing the leftover stranded civilians and mediating whatever tensions might bubble up, should some or all of the AceOps stick around. i don’t see Qrow breaking off from Robyn for the time being, so: if Robyn stays he stays, and if he stays Harriet is also likely to stay. depending on how the “Salem in Atlas” plot shakes down (or opens), they might also join up with whoever signed Ghira’s Change.org petition this time. interestingly, this might mean that if/when Tai and Raven join up none of TRQ will know that...well, that both their kids are dead. (well. Raven might.)

and...that’s everyone, i think. see you Saturday, when all of this will be proven wrong because Salem is actually already in Vacuo and has turned Shade Academy into Mecha Godzilla

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I'm genuinely curious as to what would happen if Team RWB just agreed to go with May to Mantle or be let on the frontlines of Atlas. If the Hound would still enter the manor it would've been interesting imagining Willow and Whitley still have to deal with that on their own.

It's unlikely because Nora was injured and they wouldn't risk moving with a body to drag around while trying to not be spotted.

But Let's say the argument in Weiss' room ended with May winning and they decide to leave Nora to rest and the go. Not only would Whitley hear her sister agree to leave him once again, but also it would be out of character for them. More so than usual.

I'm going to make some speculations on how I think everything would go down.

So they leave, Nora stays unconcious, recovering, and I still feel like Whitley would call Klein for her, y'now beacause he didn't call him for Weiss' sake in the show, but for Nora's health. Whitley calls Klein and takes it upon himself to watch Nora until Klein arrives. They greet each other, they're about to go to where Nora is but then Penny comes crashing down like in the show, she passes out outside the manor.

Now we've reached chapter 8. It takes Whitley and Klein a while to get Penny in the room since she's so heavy. Now it's only Klein, Whitley, Penny and Nora in the sccene, the lights go out and Willow apears finally. Here's where things get a little complicated because Whitley had the idea of the ships and even found out through Weiss that there where people in Mantle in more danger than he knew, making him have the ships embargo idea, so I don't know if he would still have it?

I'm gonna go with probably not, or at least not for now. They would rather direct their focus on the two injured girls in bed. Regardless the lights go out and Klein needs the power to operate Penny and see what the fuck he's doing, because as much of a doctor he is, I don't think that's the same as being a mechanic.

Since Whitley doesn't need to make the ships requests he goes with Willow to turn on the power (YES WITH WILLOW. If Whitley goes alone he inmediatly DIES whe the Hound rips him out of the WINDOW and Willow wouldn't arrive in time to save him) and the Hound apears just like in the Ladybug scene. Why? Because as I said Whitley and Klein were the only ones in the manor and they had to drag Penny up the stairs, so only them have the goo on their clothes.

The Hound tries to bite at Whitley, sick fighting moves from Willow, she tells him to run, he runs back inside, the Hound goes after him, Willow is stoped from folliwing thanks to the other Grimm that fought Blake when Ruby was unconcious, yadda yadda.

Hacked Penny wakes up, so does Nora, basically the entire scene unchanged.

The Hound catches up to Whitley, he does his best to dodge and run away, maybe is thrown around like a doll and MAYBE activates his aura, mayybee. Or maybe not, but the point is that hacked Penny walks down the stairs, the same stand down between her and the Hound happens and Willow finally arives to fight it. Now, since she doesn't have the silver eyes the battle goes for a while until Whitley and Kelin drop the statue on top of it like in the show.

I bullshted my way into the ending so I am 100% sure you can come up with a better one because I lack creativity xD

But I think I summed it up well.

As for what would Team RWB do, I am SURE they would rather go to Mantle than go fight in the frontlines. Ironwood would absolutely make everyone stop fighting the Grimm to capture the girls.

But that's what I think anyway.

[dj-yukio]

A fanfic theory idea for rwby post v8 e13

Fun fact: I had a German test on Monday, so to relax I thought I’d go onto tumblr on Sunday, and it turned out to be the single greatest mistake I ever made because I found out then that Yang had fallen off the platform and turned into gold dust as she fell into the void AFTER not catching her literal lifeline so my mind has been coming up with a what if scenario about what happens next in the form of fanfic plot points

Fragmented memories like that of mirror shards

- end of battle, cinder and Neo escape, rwb sad before realising that ambrosius can’t kill

- Summon ambrosius, convo goes something like “ah, another chance to exercise my creative— oh it’s you guys, again— hey yellow is gone”

- RWB ask him about his warning, he tells them that his vault is about creativity, and that his creativity is like a bottomless pit

- He explains that falling is not fatal, however what goes in is going to be very difficult to extract out (in reference to oscar

- Semblance is manifestation of aura, aura is soul manifestation, and falling into vault fragments soul (thus yellow powder after falling in) (also think of fragments like mirror fragments such that each piece reflects a certain past or truth)

- Worlds created tend not to make sense as it follows a particular fragment’s memory or logic, but it is theoretically possible to put the fragments together to bring the person back (why penny soul remembers shtuff)

- After discussing with the rest of the other people like green team and Jaune team, they plan for what to do for vacuo and stuff

- RWB resolve to get Yang out, while other people who also fell in... well they’re living better lives, can’t exactly save them if you don’t know who the extras are

- Somehow get into vault without fragmenting themselves, with Ambrosius building a pathway for them (rabbit hole) directly to yang’s first fragmented world

- At the end of the path is just darkness, and the team wonders if they lost until they suddenly find themselves in Patch, a recreation of it

- Place is misty as hell (long forgotten memories), and Ruby sees her house and leads team there

- No one else is around, so Weiss goes straight to trying to knock on the door

- Knocking on the door, they easily find the first fragment, a young Yang about five years old

- The fragment confuses Ruby for Summer, and that’s when Ruby realises that her clock has changed to white among other things (such as how the cakes and drink in Alice in wonderland change one’s size and how the end of the story is about Alice recognising the logic and stuff) because Yang has perceived her to be their mother. Weiss and Blake are unaffected as this fragment has no prior memory of them at this age

- other shenanigans at each major life point

The goal is to reconcile the abandonment issues that Yang has, because we have the Story of the girl who fell through the world was that when she found her way back she was sad and not the same and honestly I just want a nice twist where Yang’s sad in the sense that she has, with the help of the team, finally accepted those abandonment issues of hers (bitch I think this has gone on way too long please for the love of god let her accept those fears and progress but feel free to correct me) and is no longer the same person in the sense that she has grown from the experience

And now my thoughts continue to be overwhelmed with oh shit what’s next when I don’t even watch the show, just slices of it in gifs but it’s forcing my brain to come up with scenarios that I’m too lazy to write a full fanfic out of but still want to theorise stuff which is why I’m here right now

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RWBY Volume 8 Chapter 4 (Fault)....

While Team RWB find a place to hide we check back on Team JYR on the “Oscar’s been kidnapped” problem. Surprise-surprise it’s not looking good.

What did we learn.......

Robyn and Qrow bond in prison.

It was implied earlier but Robyn reaffirms to Qrow that she doesn’t blame him for Clover’s death. Qrow understandably doesn’t believe it because he’s aware that he “made a deal with the darkness”.

-We learn that Robyn relates to Qrow on the need to push people away out of fear that they’ll get hurt or will be hurt by others. Hmmmm....

-Say what you want about Robyn but it was satisfying to have someone tell the blunt truth to Harriet and her attitude as of late. According to Robyn, Harriet would rather take her anger out on others instead of learning the truth  someone point out that none of the Ace Ops want to use Robyn’s semblance to learn the truth. This was likely intentional to prove Robyn’s point) . If it weren’t for Marrow being in the room, Harriet would’ve tried to beat Robyn behind the General’s back.

*I’ve someone point out that none of the Ace Ops want to use Robyn’s semblance to learn the truth. This was likely intentional to prove Robyn’s point. I like it now that I think about it.

RWB and May hide out at the Schnee Manor 

-Whitley is not happy to see them and Willow has locked herself in her room. Weiss is having none of his BS (he has good reasons but now’s not the time) and tells him to go to his room while they take care of Nora. Yeah, this is not going to end well.....

The team loses Oscar and Ren snaps

Despite showing some cool moves in the chase scene Jaune, Yang, and Ren fail to save their friend Ren does not take the failure well and he lets it all out on how their actions made things worse for both cities and how they may not have been ready to become Huntsman. When Jaune tries to diffuse the argument, Ren hits Jaune were it hurts: Brings up how Jaune cheated his way into Beacon.

Oscar is having a really bad day

With Oscar refusing to give information on where the Relic of Choice is (As stated in Vol 5, Ozpin made this relic tricky to find) and how to use the Relic of Knowledge, Salem sends Hazel in to “persuade” him. 

Oh, boy.

The Hound is a new ‘experiment’ 

The fact that this Grimm can talk has led to theories that it may have been human at one point. The ideas I’ve seen is that it’s either Summer, Torchwick, or Lionheart.

Cinder is on thin ice AGAIN.

-Cinder has only been back for an hour and she’s already disobeying Salem’s orders to stay put instead of hunting down the Winter Maiden. She leaves the base along with a reluctant Neo (she’s about done with Cinder) and an eager Emerald (still in denial about Cinder caring about her) to “check on things.”

-Here’s an interesting tidbit: Cinder repeats the same line from the first episode (”Without you I’m nothing.”). Hmm, I wonder who instilled that belief in her? Salem or someone from her past?

Team JYR are going to be in trouble.

-After finding a place to rest, Jaune approaches Ren about the ‘incident’ from earlier. Instead of denying what he did in the past, Jaune acknowledges it and uses his experience with it to help Ren make the mistakes he made: Pushing people who care about him away in order to prove that he’s ‘strong’. Ren says nothing and storms off.

-Yang is worried that her decision to not help with the ACT is going to make “her” think less of her. Jaune assumes that it’s Ruby she’s talking about but it’s obvious this “her” is not her sister. Gee, I wonder who it could be.....

-The episode ends with something cracking its way up to the surface of Soltias. 

Overall I love this episode! Can’t wait to see where it goes next.

[captain-ezri-dax]

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“I wanna uhh Info dump abt my rwby ocs”

Do it I thrive ob this

y EAh im very late BUT i will literally never turn down an opportunity to infodump abt my rwby ocs

Okay uh lets start w/ Lyca bc she’s my main girl. She’s a fox faunus w/ the ears & is Small, like 5′3″. She’s like. demisexual & cis. Her timeline sorta follows the canon rwb/y volumes so she’s 17 at the same time as the canon characters & in the same school year, tho she’s only like 2 months from her 18th birthday at the time of her initiation. She grew up in one of the coastal cities in Sanus w/ her mother & her older brother, learning to fight from him & basing her weapon off his, having had it built before starting combat school a year or two late. She mainly keeps her weapon in staff form which is thick enough that she can barely wrap her hands around it so the top of it has enough room to hold the folded down halberd form, the staff form painted to look like wood as to look similar to a bo staff. A switch near the bottom extends the halberd part on top which is sorta rust coloured. The blade itself is larger than a normal halberd’s to compensate for the weight imbalance from the thicker staff part, letting her use the weight of the blade itself to swing instead of needing to use her full strength. At least part of why she prefers staff form is that if she’s facing an opponent with any form of intelligence, like the white fang at the fall of beacon, she hopes they’ll slightly underestimate her thinking she uses a simple bo staff. The first version of her weapon is lost when she uses it to barricade a door in a hospital to keep everyone safe, knowing she couldn’t fight off everything/everyone that entered the room. When they retreat to the roof where they’re all evacuated, her weapon is left behind & subsequently lost. It’s loss breaks her heart but It’s later replaced with a very similar built in collaboration w/ Kale & Lilen. It’s near identical to the first design but thinner, the bottom half folds into the top for easier carrying, & it looks more metallic w/ a golden brown colouration. She spends a few weeks getting used to the lighter weight. Her semblance is sorta like mental camouflage. I like comparing it to not noticing a bench in the park that you walk though every day until one day you suddenly notice like “ohh i didn’t know there was a bench there” but you know it’s always been there. That’s the type of effect Lyca triggers, mentally blending into the environment. She has to make sure she doesn’t do anything noticeable while using it since standing out dissipates the effect, she can’t use it mid combat since everyone knows she’s there already & it doesn’t work much against grimm. It can be used on other people too but only through physical contact. She herself thinks of her semblance as useless, rarely using it. She didn’t really have many choices of career growing up, her mother pressuring her into the huntress career in an attempt to make her family name mean something, her mom pushing her to the point where she unlocked her semblance by mistake, tho she doesn’t fully realise what it does for a few weeks. Her brother takes over training when she’s abt 12 until she joins a combat school, taking a coat that belonged to her brother w/ her. Choosing Beacon wasn’t a particularly significant choice for her, it was just the closest academy to where she grew up. She tends to get minor injuries a lot during her training since she got into the habit of activating her aura simply during combat instead of a lot of other instances where it might help. She often has a few cuts or bruises, but her subconsciously using her aura wherever it may help improves over her time at beacon. She ends up as team leader sorta by mistake when she finds Idris, Lilen & Kale all together and lost after getting her own relic solo, leading them back to get theirs, ending up in charge sort of by default & becoming Idris’ partner at the same time. I’m 98% sure she ends up dating Kale at some point. She ends up w/ appendicitis during the vytal festival, meaning she’s in hospital in vale when the attack on Beacon happens. She ends up briefly fighting & splitting open her stitches, leading to the situation where she loses her original weapon. She & her team then spend a few months apart but still in contact, staying in vale to provide a little aid where needed until they’re ready to move to another academy, likely vacuo apparently like other beacon students w/o a school. Now for. Other Facts. She’s a real bad potty mouth, swearing constantly no matter the situation. She’s allergic to strawberry, coconut & is lactose intolerant. Back home she has a cat she called Cat & in her apartment before transferring she had a room full of nothing but empty boxes. She keeps the coat her brother got for her & wears it in most environments, even tho it’s pretty badly faded & tattered. She likes to goad racists & bullies into fights where she’ll happily injury them, then claim self defence when questioned later. Has a real low alcohol tolerance. Tends to pretend everything’s alright to the point where her pain killers are too low while in hospital & instead of asking someone to up them, she has Kale climb into bed next to her to squeeze. Not a morning person at all, needs coffee. Hates the cold, loves warmth. Can’t cook to save her life.

Idris time. They’re a very bisexual NB human who’s like 6 foot tall, which is kinda jarring when stood next to partner Lyca, exclusively uses they/them pronouns & the same age as as the rest of their team but is technically the youngest. They grew up in a mining town on a cliffside in mistral, learning survival skills relatively early in their life, as an early child & probably had 2 dads. One dad taught them how to survive in the wilderness, fight & cook and the other taught them how to be Human. Grew up kinda isolated tho since their community is kinda small and rarely entertains visitors & their social skills didn’t develop fully, keeping them relatively isolated from anyone but their team at beacon. They never attended a combat school & was only initially interested in beacon as a way to advance their fighting skills, not caring about the team aspect. They’d planned to use their hunter licence to bring more money into their home & the assorted skills to protect it. They get super attached to their team super quickly tho, especially when showered w/ affection. Often cooks for everyone. But gets homesick relatively often. Very likely has their pilots & drivers licence. Their weapon is an overly large shotgun like weapon w/ three separate barrels in a triangle pattern, each one fires a different type of dust ammo for different effects. The barrel at the top of the triangle is the one to fire, glowing  the used dust colour when active, the separate barrels rotating to slip into place. It doesn’t technically have a melee form but it’s heavy, hardy and can swing real good, so getting smacked with it is gonna be pretty rough. Their semblance is more passive then active. It’s like that check in dnd where you roll to find out if a character is sincere or not - they can passively read even the most subtle of body languages, letting them see who’s sincere or hostile or friendly. They can, for the most part, see through even the best of liars. They’re a walking lie detector.

Lilen is an asexual trans man of average height but is pretty skinny, especially w/ how low an appetite he has. He’s definitely autistic & has a small range of mental illnesses, all of which he gets medicated once he gets to beacon. He grew up in a small settlement in vacuo almost alone after his parents died, quickly adapting to living on the streets. He didn’t do great but learnt how to survive, scavenging old broken tech that others threw out & restoring it to working condition, getting good at engineering & growing an interest in it. He spent 7 years of his life without a home, moving around different sleep spots and taking odd jobs to get pieces of technology working again, developing his weapon out of junk parts in this time. He & Kale also met during this time, tho Kale’s parents didn’t want her talking to him so she’d meet him just briefly after classes at combat school, which is where he learnt to fight just well enough to pass the beacon entrance exams. Beacon became his choice when Kale asked if he wanted to go with her, and that he likely didn’t have many other options. His talent & interest in engineering grew pretty quickly while at beacon, developing his own tools to expedite the process & learning to work on vehicles as well as appliances & weapons. He isn’t particularly verbal & knows a form of sign language that he shares w/ Kale that Lyca & Idris come to understand. His weapon both is and looks as if it’s been built out of junk parts, cobbled together over months of trying to find all the right components. It’s original frame was a simple fireaxe, tho the wooden handle has been replaced w/ metal & the blade was reforged and made collapsible. A barrel was added to the top of the handle, the area of the handle being surrounded by a jury rigged firing mechanism for dust bullets, the trigger near the grip of the handle, preferring electrical dust ammunition. The different types and panels of metal aren’t seamlessly connected or coloured, some of the metal being slightly rusted until later replaced at beacon. His semblance gives him minor control over wind currents. There isn’t really much more to say about it, he’s a windy boy w/ a bit of control over where the wind goes and it’s strength. He’s only discovered it relatively recently and doesn’t have a lot of practice with it, making it not very powerful when he first joins beacon until he gets some practice, but it ends up useful in combat over time.

And last but not least - Kale. She’s a pretty tall lesbian w/ the worst fashion sense of the team, usually showing a bit of skin similar to how Sun has his shirt open after growing up in the heat of Vacuo. Her family wasn’t particularly rich but would act as if they’re already important, trying to restrict their only child into doing what they wanted. She didn’t take a single part of their wishes on board tho, eventually forcing them to allow her to learn to fight or risk losing her, hiring a huntsman to train her. She took to fighting like a duck on water, enjoying throwing some punches and using every type of weapon she could get her hands on. She wouldn’t start fights with anyone but would be eager to fight someone if she saw a need, having little self preservation instinct until she ends up getting her arm broken when she was like 13, at which point the basis of her weapon started to form. She started off by wrapping her arms in thick layers of bandages to blunt the hits she’d give out, officially adapting it at school by adding a harness strapped on her forearm to use arm blades, similar to blades used by The Predator. She ends up choosing beacon over the natural choice of Shade for the simple reason that her parents wanted her to go to Shade Her fully developed weapon & semblance are completely connected, her weapon being utterly useless to anyone except her. Her semblance allows her nervous system to connect to and control machinery via touch, sort of assimilating it into her control. She can’t walk up to a random android or take a stranger’s weapon and know the full extent of it’s controls, assimilating a piece of technology takes time and a large amount of aura - the larger and more complicated the machine, the more aura it takes to assimilate - and every time she gives it a command it takes either another, much smaller, pulse of aura or a sustained use. Firing a gun without pulling the trigger just by holding it takes a pulse of aura so small it’s basically nothing, but something like controlling a car with her semblance takes a heavy sustained use of aura that’d deplete it quickly, tho she has a small surplus of aura compared to a lot of others to help compensate. Her weapon is so heavily connected to said semblance that its physically impossible for anyone to use it to it’s full extent without her semblance. It resembles two heavy pieces of armour covering her forearms with smaller and thinner pieces of armour more resembling purple leather extending from underneath the gauntlets & up the rest of her arms up to her shoulders. Her gauntlets are about an inch thick but have a smooth surface, save for where the different components are built into the structure. They have no control systems, not movement or trigger or any form. When Kale activates a component that she needs, the component that she’s chosen springs or pops out of the structure of the weapon. For example if she wants to use a blade, the weapon she’s best at, a small dagger will spring out facing outwards. When she needs a ranged attack a small cannon like gun will pop out the top near her wrist (think of the car w/ the headlights that sorta... fold into the car? idk ive been writing this for Hours my brain is dying a bit), the need for mobility will activate a grappling hook on the underside, on the same side as the dagger. Only one component can be used at a time, as locking in one component will lock out the others. Kale has a tendency to add new components impulsively or work on it while she’s depressed, seeing it as a literal part of herself since it kind of is w/ her semblance. Despite a potential for abuse from her semblance, she uses it sparingly & only connects to pieces of tech that she owns or belongs to someone who gives her permission. She connects to both of Lyca’s weapons for example, once activating the halberd transformation for her while she’s exhausted. Bonus - Kale’s parents were really unimaginative w/ naming their children.

this is super long enough already so uhh lets leave Beryl, Polo & Cide for another day

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Five takeaways a quarter into the NBA season

Joel Embiid’s huge start and other takeaways from the first quarter of the fantasy hoops year (AP Photo)

1. Biggest Surprises

Otto Porter, LaMarcus Aldridge, Victor Oladipo, Robert Covington, Aaron Gordon and Clint Capela have all been top-25 fantasy players. Some growth was fully expected by Porter, Covington, Gordon and Capela, but even their biggest backers likely didn’t expect it to be this dramatic. While all may be playing a bit over their heads (Covington isn’t going to shoot so well from downtown all season), they are more “holds” than “sell-highs” in fantasy leagues. The same goes for Oladipo, whose resurgence can directly be tied to a huge increase in Usage Rate going from OKC (where he shared the court with Russell Westbrook) to Indiana. As for Aldridge, he’s no doubt played his best basketball by a mile since joining San Antonio, but his value is likely peaking, as Kawhi Leonard’s return is finally on the horizon.

Other surprises include Andre Drummond’s hugely improved free throw shooting, Tyreke Evans coming back from the dead to be a borderline top-50 asset, and Joel Embiid’s emergence as a superstar arriving sooner than expected. He still turns the ball over too often, and fantasy owners will continue to have to deal with the occasional DNP-CD during back-to-backs, but Embiid has the upside to be this generation’s most dominant big man. The only thing surprising with Embiid at this point is if he’s not a first round fantasy pick next year.

2. Biggest Disappointments

Russell Westbrook’s insane Usage Rate last year was sure to regress, especially after the Thunder acquired Carmelo Anthony and Paul George during the offseason, but the reigning MVP has barely been a top-50 player so far. He’ll improve, but RWB has been a huge letdown for those who spent a top pick on him during drafts.

Other disappointments include Jimmy Butler, whose fantasy value has taken a major hit after leaving Chicago for Minnesota. In fact, Enes Kanter has been the more valuable fantasy player in 2017/18. And while parts of Dwight Howard’s game look rejuvenated in Charlotte, he’s shooting a career-low 45.9 percent from the line, resulting in him being the No. 444 ranked player in standard 9-cat leagues. And finally, there��s Jusuf Nurkic, who was a popular breakout candidate after he had a strong final stretch last season after getting traded to Portland. He hasn’t been a top-225 player this year, but shrewd fantasy owners should be looking to buy low.

3. The Year of the Rookie

Markelle Fultz has gotten off to a slow (and injury-riddled) start to his NBA career, and Lonzo Ball is shooting 30.9 percent from the floor, but rookies have otherwise made a big fantasy impact so far this season. Ben Simmons has returned top-50 value and looks like he’s going to one day be one of the 5-10 best players in the league, while Jayson Tatum, Lauri Markkanen, John Collins and Donovan Mitchell have all been top-100 fantasy players. Kyle Kuzma hasn’t been far behind and looks like a steal at the end of round one, while Dennis Smith Jr. and Jonathan Isaac have shown a ton of promise. Ball and Simmons have a combined four triple-doubles, which is the same total as LeBron James and James Harden have together. This rookie class has the potential to go down as one of the better ones in recent memory and has made an immediate impact in fantasy leagues.

4. All The Injuries

Blake Griffin was just lost for two months with a sprained MCL, as he joins a long list of wounded players early on. Chris Paul has missed time, while Kawhi Leonard has yet to step on the floor while slowly recovering from a thigh injury he suffered last season. It wasn’t more than five minutes into the NBA’s first game in 2017/18 that Gordon Hayward was lost for the year. Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley, Paul Millsap and D’Angelo Russell are other big names who’ve missed significant time. And now John Wall is out for the next two weeks with a knee injury that could linger. We’re still waiting for Isaiah Thomas to return. Every year brings its own set of injury problems, but this season’s has been especially brutal.

5. Players To Target

There’s still plenty of time left in the season, so don’t be discouraged if your team is off to a slow start. You can improve your outlook trading for guys about to go off, like the aforementioned Nurkic or Lou Williams, who’s primed to be a top-flight fantasy option now that Blake Griffin is sidelined (teammates Austin Rivers and DeAndre Jordan also get a significant boost, especially with Patrick Beverley lost for the season as well).

Attacking your waiver wire is another method, and there are plenty of valuable assets still readily available, including Courtney Lee (just 59% owned in Yahoo leagues despite quietly ranking as the No. 55 player), Jonathan Simmons (41% owned and now starting for Orlando), Alex Len (37% owned, has averaged 13.8 rebounds over his last five games and should get a bunch of run from here on out on the rebuilding Suns) and Willie Cauley-Stein, who was dropped in many leagues after a sluggish start to the season yet has gotten 16.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 2.8 apg, 1.3 spg and 1.3 bpg over the last four contests.

It’s been an exciting first quarter of the 2017/18 season with plenty more action to come. Good luck the rest of the way.

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