#unsure who'd have that sound. yang mmmmmmmmmaybe???

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like rn where rwbydub is at where it sits in the back of my skull is like:

yang is trip-hop inspired when she's young--think portishead, massive attack, sneaker pimps--branching into more varied approaches like bonobo and zero 7 (especially when blake is around with their more eclectic collection of genres) so her style shifts a lot depending on her mood! also think mononome, maybe theo parrish too? she definitely spreads out into house music at SOME point.

and blake is grounded more in jazz and bebop--nothing in particular, just a huge mess of influencing from all over the place--initially before getting into sampling, remixing, and sound experimentation (think more like quantic's incredibly broad range of inspirations) before they start doing DJ stuff in mistral and are introduced into more dance-oriented genres like drum and bass that still has a heavy core of sampling to it, later leading them to broaden their style and incorporate darker, more textured samples to their work in the style of old school dubstep and later burial, vacant, niels binias, etc.

ruby at the moment is most like look mum no computer in the sense of building her own gear and equipment and whilst i do like LMNCs post-punk style (and were this au more oriented towards rwby rock au at this point id probably go for it) i still think ruby would be a very varied musician who plays with a lot of weird and wacky stuff... i'd imagine she'd have her fair share of stuff that's really off-the-wall like flume's later work, but would also be inspired by yang to work in more solid boundaries like perhaps ross from friends, bicep... overmono, maybe? unsure. definitely think she'd make a return to her roots in the style of no mana, though, lmao.

weiss remains an ABSOLUTE mystery to me. initially in the first version of this au she was centred around being The Vocalist but im tempted to have her actually make some stuff of her own in this? for now i'm going to tentatively pop kelly moran here. that is extremely subject to change. but yeah,