#same goes for the rest of team rwb

[archienamikaze-blog]

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

[superfrostydrawing]

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

[blue-rose-89]

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.