#yang is the best sister

[earth-unicorn]

I will never understand how people think Yang is a bad sister.

Look at her!!!

She's literally the best sister.

[set-wingedwarrior]

The BEST sisters

[tumblingxelian]

Crossposting from SV:

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/iwiw-rwby.125050/post-32676154

Regarding the expectation of perfection, yeah, I don't think the team expected it. The one who could be arguably said to have put the most "pressure" on Ruby is Blake as we saw in V8, but having faith in someone isn't the same as demanding perfection. & Blake showed she was fine stepping up and trying to help or support Ruby when she needed it.

The others applied even less pressure, at least knowingly, but none of them are aware of how Ruby had internalized Ozpin's lesson (& from what I know of Coco Second Semester does not make his lessons better)

But Ruby definitely took a lot of these things to heart in a way likely never intended. & more to the point that likely wouldn't be nearly as bad if not for the trauma conga-line the last volumes have been.

For instance in V8 Ruby does seem briefly hurt by Yang noting that following her lead hasn't worked out, but Yang's language is still rather casual, this isn't her trying to deliver some cutting barb to wound Ruby's pride. & given their reunion in V8 it didn't have a lasting impact... Up until V9 landed because with everything that went wrong, suddenly those words pack a lot more sting.

In regards to Yang & Ruby in particular, one thing I find interesting is that in early volumes, even after Ozpin's leader talk Ruby was more comfortable showing uncertainty, discomfort, fragility and the like.

Especially around Yang. She was sulking in V2 about Blake not coming to the dance and feeling overtly helpless, she was fine with being uncertain about her decision to reveal the WF's location to Ozpin & co, also in V2.

But more integrally, in Volume 3, after everything had gone to hell what is the first thing Ruby did once she could move under her own power?

Was it go to her dad for comfort? Seek Qrow for advice? nope, those two came to her, with Tai mostly being used for an intel update and Qrow being prodded for info, and only seeing a flash of vulnerability.

The person Ruby went to was Yang, Yang who she was surprised to find wasn't in a good head-space, and who when Ruby asked what to do couldn't answer her, seemingly leaving Ruby unsure of what to do. In essence, there have been periods where Ruby also expected others to be more sturdy than they could otherwise be expected to be. This isn't a jab, just an observation.

More integrally however, in V4 we see Ruby really hit hard on the repressing.

Oh she did it before, the fact she's modelled her entire persona after her missing mother and was raised by a girl two years her senior should already make it clear she's gonna have some issues. But it becomes a lot more overt with her being all smiles around JNPR but sad when unseen until she's hitting a breaking point. One that is... Sort of countered though of questionable help by being told she's inspiring.

The time we really see it break in in Volume 5 when Yang & Ruby reunited, she cries, she fumbles her words, she gets a damn hug.

But then, the next day, she sees that Yang is not nearly as recovered as she's trying to act. When Yang is upset & removes herself from the situation to calm down and mourn silently, its Weiss who has to help her out of it, because Ruby has no idea what to do.

That's not just her sister in there, its the girl who raised her, & this stuff is not Ruby's forte, but more integrally, Yang is the one who has always been 'all right', the one who Ruby could turn to whenever she needed and who she never had to worry about in combat.

But she's not OK the one person Ruby could always rely on is more fragile than Ruby ever realized, and so clearly, Ruby can't go to Yang with her problems either.

& thus closes her final person to really, properly, well and truly reach out to.

& the thing is Yang would have no idea this is happening!

She didn't hear Ozpin's speech, or Ruby re-phrasing it. She wasn't present when Ruby was really building her walls in V4, and any that existed before that will have been interwoven with Yang's own issues and thus be something she deemed as normal the same way Ruby deemed Yang's self sacrificing penchant as normal.

Put simply, Yang isn't aware that Ruby's mental image of her has shifted and so is not aware that Ruby no longer sees her as someone viable to reach out to.

None of which is helped by the fact Yang canonically admires Ruby and so is prone to see the best, strongest, most idealized side of her, and so like Ruby would need to be told Ruby needs help before keying into it.

Both these girls are very traumatized and damaged and they care about each other so god damn much, but also just cannot wholly see one another.

Its agony, I love it.

[bri-bees]

I always see people have Yang be protective over Ruby whenever she dates Weiss, but I hardly see people showing Winter being protective over Weiss whenever she dates Ruby because I could see Winter setting up a whole interview like conversation with Ruby to see if she is qualified to date her sister lol

[yourtypicalhopelessgay]

Them 💛🖤❤️

[lovingdabeessss]

@incredibly-unprofessional HOW DARE YOU THINK ABOUT THINGS I HAVENT EVEN PONDERED ON M Y POST

Also jaune both has an older sister and can definitely relate with this with Ruby and also is an older brother of many younger sisters so is probably happy to be seen like that again

Also he’s definitely used to being called the wrong name because he has a billion siblings

Also poor Ruby is leaving home for what could be YEARS knowing yang CANNOT follow her or be with her or anything and she didn’t even say goodbye and she’s just completely without her sister for the first time ever like they can’t even CALL it’s got to be so devastating for Ruby not to mention she’s doing this after two or more of her close friends have died and she JUST WOKE UP FROM A COMA

Yang has no idea calling other people Yang is a thing Ruby does and is very confused when people start to respond to her name when she gets to them

Yang: my name

All of her friends: o u r name

Yang:????

Also I can’t draw jaune I’m not ashamed of this but it is true

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

yi city arc 🤝 black water arc

they literally didn't happen i have no idea what yall are talking about

[jj-lives]

omg that last episode was crazy! I'm still processing but I've been following your analysis here and I wanted to ask what you thought of Yang reacting to Ruby running off. It seemed like she blamed her for it kind of.

Ugh, I've been trying to wrap my head around this for hours. There is a reason most of my analysis are posted days after the show airs and I might have to expand on this later but here's how I see it.

I see people with a similar mindset, that Yang exploded and blamed Ruby, while Weiss was the one that understood and Yang is a bad sister because of it.

As the sister that had to look after everyone growing up, I want to say something on this.

Yang is not a bad sister. She just knows Ruby in a different light than the rest of them. It's easy for Weiss to see how they have put Ruby in a position of isolating herself, especially considering she played a major role in how Ruby feels responsible as a leader from volume 1 when she said she didn't deserve the title. And everyone except Yang has only witnessed Ruby in said leadership role.

Before Beacon Ruby and Yang were close, very close. We see that in many interactions between the two, in how Yang was worried, leaving Ruby behind and how happy they both were to be on the same team. When pre-team leader Ruby was scared or upset or didn't know what to do, she went to Yang. Evidence of her seeking Yang out in the forest for partners.

And though they have grown together and apart in some sense over time, it's only been like 2 years. And a large part of one year they weren't together. Yang still sees Ruby, not as the all-knowing powerful leader Weiss, Blake, and Jaune look up to, but simply as her little sister. The one that ran to her when she scraped her knee or had a bad day. The little girl that she read stories to and stayed up late at night to tell each other their dreams and worst nightmares.

And Yang has been trying to ask if Ruby was alright this whole time. Many times and either Ruby brushed her off, or they were interrupted. But now, almost unexpectedly, Yang is realizing Ruby isn't that girl anymore. She isn't going to run to her when she needs someone. She isn't Ruby's strength or her protector anymore, and it frightens her.

Yang is scared. She's trying to figure out where their crossroads split along the way. Was it her fault? Did she miss the signs?

"Why didn't she come to me like she always used to?" Most likely running through her head.

Then Blake says Ruby was just upset, and Yang loses it for a second because she's seen Ruby upset. She's seen her in far worse emotional turmoil than any of them, and this is something different. She knows it is.

She wasn't blaming Ruby for running, she's terrified because she practically raised Ruby. She knows her better than anyone and she's never seen her like this and even if she couldn't fathom Ruby choosing what she did, she knows something way worse is going on than any of the rest.

[wehearthewildernessandithearsus]

Do you ever just think about Red Like Roses part 2 and about how Summer didn't want her daughter to follow in her footseps cause she didn't want her to suffer the same pain as her?

Yeah I've been thinking about this a lot lately...

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

I. I just. Okay.

Wow.

I just . . . Geez Louise

[onceuponalegendbg-rwby]

“I’m not Mom. And I’m not Raven.”

Man, I knew it was coming and it still hurt.

[tidewavesqt]

Not going to lie some of you are a little weird when it comes to Ruby and Yang’s relationship. Yang moved in front of Blake and some people are acting like she shot somebody. It wasn’t like Ruby was crying and breaking down, Ruby was coming at everyone’s neck and lashing out. Ruby needed to get all her feelings that she’s been holding in out and Yang stepped in front of Blake to have that directed at her. That’s really all that was. Don’t know why some of you are acting like it isn’t and that it somehow makes Yang only care about Blake, which is ridiculous. It also doesn’t make her a bad sister either. Some of you don’t know what a bad sister is because Yang’s been trying to comfort Ruby all volume and got shut down multiple times and right after Ruby’s outburst and when she left, Yang had a look of concern 

Plus Ruby told someone to shut up for trying to lift her spirits. I doubt in that very moment Ruby wanted Yang to come over and console her. Just give Ruby time, when she’s ready she’ll let them in. Right now she’s not in the right headspace to to be consoled or have her spirits raised

[set-wingedwarrior]

Fuck everything else and happy birthday Yang Xiao Long!

[tumblingxelian]

Hello again!

Sorry it took me so long to cover these but they are here now, my reviews and analysis for RWBY Beyond!

[yourtypicalhopelessgay]

Them 😭😭❤️