#yeah there relaly was just. no good moment for dude ...

[todayisafridaynight]

moral of the story rgg don’t like seeing their characters happy ESPEICALLY daigo (i can’t recall a single good thing that’s happened to him throughout the series since becoming chairman and even before chairmanship other than meeting mine which we all know how that ended)

daigos just tragedy after tragedy and its honestly really funny. daigos no good very bad week except its every week

[huntsman-ash]

LiveThoughts: RWBY V8E6

Second attempt at this since last time Chrome just DIED for no reason...

Im going to put literally the entire thing with Cinder under one note; Called it.

Its a great set of stuff, sure, but it doesnt relaly tell us anything we didnt already know about Cinder, and I personally feel it doesnt really explain why she turned out the way she did. I feel like we’ve had another weird twist of the situation again...M+K? Coronas fault? Who knows. Either way, this section isnt great by my taste and I kinda skipped most of it. 

Few things to note though; Apperently in Mistral scrubbing by hand is still more viable floor cleaning tech than using Dust.

The wind vane on the roof has the Rooster Teeth symbols rooster on it. 

The hotel Cinder is bought by is named the Glass Unicorn, fittingly enough for...several reasons. 

The coffees behind the stepsisters when we first see them are the animated versions of the real life stuff RT put out just before this season went live. 

No one seems to notice the fact cinder has orange eyes. I wonder if weird eye colors are just a THING in Remnant?

The control collar/shock thing is incredibly inefficient in design, since it doesnt actually hold on to her very well. A more effective brace/choker design would have worked better.

The song that goes on during all of this is...kind of obvious and a little bland? Fitting for younger Cinder I guess. 

Mmm. Random greasy huntsman. 

I guess in Atlas its fine to laugh at struggling teenagers?

Im going to assume there’s a 3+ year gap here where she gets older, cause she stops being smol and gets closer to how we see her now.

Also even here, in Atlas...really? The most effective way to clean these carpeted floors is to have a TEENAGER SCRUB THEM BY HAND?

How do you scrub...I assume its carpet anyway?

And how you tell civilians are lame in Atlas; they are impressed...by a sword.  Just a sword. A boring, half-cut sword. Losers.

I assume this would be Cinder’s semblance manifesting. Also note on the desk; “we do not serve faunus”. Well THAT doesnt surprise me.

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHE. Get fucked Cinder. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

I dont even feel pity for her, this is funny to me.  Also the fact that this kind of shit aCTUALLY EXISTS is...amusing to me. Like, really? So I guess indentured servitude is a thing in Remnant too. 

And this is why Cinder likes to use swords. Really. Wow. LAMEO.

Huh. Dual maces. Interesting. Thats a prety cool weapon.  Looks like they open up too. Bet he could bash some skulls with that.

“Hurting them isnt going to make your life any better”. Um, excuse me? I think hurting them is the very best thing to do in this situation. At least, for the moment anyway. 

Huh. So she’s ten at this point? Even as a child, shes older than she looks. 

And training montage. Huh. Or at least I assume it is. I get the feeling being able to go where you want too and do what you want too is the main reason Hunters exist. There must be crazy tight immigration laws...or, maybe, its just that traveling between kingdoms is stupid dangerous cause of Grimm. I think the latter is most likely considering every form of public transit extra-kingdom we’ve seen (even between cities, see Argus Limited) has some kind of defensive weaponry. Limited and ineffective, for th emost part oddly.

So you can take the exam at 18. Okay cool. Pre-that must be prep school. Wonder what happens if you wash out? Also I like how this dude is just “yeah, 7 years of training, we got this.”

I think this is the first time we’ve seen the other side of the moon. Or at least, the proper other side...bloody hell I STILL dont know how all those piesces are still held in place, the thing looks like it should start yeeting bolides at Remnant. 

Better still we see it MOVE, rotate in time to the passing of years. So it literally does rotate on its own axis, and more importantly, unlike OUR moon, its NOT tidally locked. We only ever see the same side of our moon. REmnants rotates MUCH faster. Also it doesnt seem to have phases like ours does. I’ll check on why that is. 

Well at least we have an explanation for why Cinders so damn good at fighting people. Trained by an Atlas Huntsman.

Also as a note the device is quite literally just an electrical Dust crystal attached to a necklace. Things the most inefficent torture device Ive ever fucking seen. 

Wonder how often they have to change the crystal.

And there goes the moon rotating again.

I like how NO ONE comment on the blade going missing and that guy never came back for it. I guess he must have just bought a new one.

I get the very distinct feeling they wont just let her go honestly, permission or not. 

AWWW WE DONT EVEN GET TO SEE CINDER MURDER THE SISTERS. Also no blood. Odd.  Good kill on the  stepmother though. Oh, that NECK CRACK.  I like how all the bitch can do is try and shock Cinder, like, uh...adrenaline up? SHE HAS A SWORD? MAYBE FIGHT BACK?

Hah. Weak ass fuckin Atlas people.  Also the clock going off in the back ground twelve times. How fitting. Welcome to midnight. 

Also shes kind of glowing here cause the room is dark, and I find it amusing this is probably the last time she wears white.

And THERES the Cinder we know

Sick ass music, cool. Also THAT is an interesting semblance...I guess he turns himself to metal? Also DAMN his aura broke after THAT? Hes a Huntsman...ah who cares. Again probably in Cinders memory more than anything. Which at this point is probably about as reliable as a coked up hookers.

SHANKED. Sucker. You shoulda seen THAT one coming.

And thats all it took to get the shock collar off. Lol. 

So what happened to the hotel? Did they just...write it off? I mean four people got murdered in there...

And now we’re back on the whale. HOW THE SCREAMING FUCK DID CINDER JUST...

Wow. She just got up after eating that blast. Fucking plot armor.

Merc making the hard calls honestly.  Im actually gonna watch all of this now which is nice because I want to know whats happening in the real world. PITY MORE THAN HALF THE EPISODE WAS THIS FUCKING FILLER.

I like how Cinder just...goes quiet the moment she realizes shes lost Mercury. Not that he was USEFUL mind you but if I had to guess she liked being the boss. But now shes...basically back where she started. 

So the whale is basically a ship. It has a bridge. Probably Salems throne room.

Man, Oscars literally just RTs punching bag this season isnt he? Literally in this case. 

His clothes are still scortched too which I find interesting.  The black eyes also staying. Auras not back up then? Aura repair and regen seems...werid half the time. Like RT does what they want with it.

Ah so someone finally says it...but at the same time what exactly does Salem have to fear? If she cant fight the whole world...what could they do? Maybe overwhelming her? It...Im having a hard time putting the “she cant be stopped” with “shes afraid of fighting all of Remnant”. 

Somethings missing here. I know it.

The sound of the “door” opening reminds me of the Flood doors in High Charity in Halo 3s Cortana. Fleshy twisting.

Mention from Hazel, but AGAIN...no details. I guess if you nail down how she can do stuff its harder to write? 

Glad someone made a comment on the futility of the Hunter academies. 

I really hate how Salems giving us creepy mommy shades. 

Hmm. So yeah the bridge IS the throne room/command deck. I like how Neo doesnt give a fuck is just casually kneeling. 

Ah okay THATS why he grabbed the scroll. 

Heh. Interesting. How exactly does this work I wonder. 

...Why does Salem have a ring. Has she always had that ring?

Neo looking at the Hound like “oh, I could ride this thing”. 

Oh cool the Ace Ops. And they’re arguing, shocker. Sounds like Elm doesnt trust tech either. No shock there.  Idiot.

Atlas elite. Yeah, right.

Huh, is this a Manta with landing gear? I guess they do have them...seems kind of silly to have them so high up though. I guess thats what the thing under the door is for, so they can deploy a ramp. Man, I really dont like Atlas’s airship design.

Hare needs some fuckin suppresants. 

Annnnddd...here we go, things go straight to hell. I was warned of this. I am going to try and not be mad...but from what Ive heard the incomptence of the military in this particular section is astronomical.

Huh. So...Grimm can be convirted into a rock-punching liquid? Interesting. Has that always been a thing or... Also why the fuck are you jsut standing there in awe, go kill the fucking thing! Fucking Specialists.

...that is all it took to get through Atlas’s shield? THAT?

I also love how no one does anything. Ironwoods like “wait what the fuck”. Come on bro. 

And...thats the Atlas navy. Everyone. Two lasers. One of which missed. Remind me again what exactly these things are used to shoot?

Wait, no, that took down part of it, and then the rest is, surprise, hitting the soft rock on the outside. 

THERE goes the shield. 

Hang on a second, how long have those giant squid things been there?

And...what. The whale just approaches, nothing happens? You’ve got 12 fucking ships there, shoot the fucking thing.

Again, WHY IS NO ONE DOING ANYTHING?

Oh, it just beach-headed. Okay fine, whatever. 

Im not really worried.

Lets see how RT makes this WORSE though...

And thats this weeks episode.

[tumblunni]

oreshika: you know who is not the bad guy? the bad guy also oreshika: you know who is actually the secret bad guy? this sweet harmless comic relief man who has done nothing wrong

except like its eight glowing brain levels deeper cos the sweet comic relief man is also a giant obviously evil demon mask that ANYONE could have pinned for “really just possessing this dude” since the very start but then his personality was very non bad and he was all ‘hey buddie why u no smile’ to his host and like I LET MY GUARD DOWN OKAY. I LEARNED TO TRUST AGAIN.

i’m at the final battle and I am so pissed off but also HYPED?? like im relaly mad cos like RIGHT FROM HIS FIRST APPEARANCE I was like ‘dear god please don’t make onigashira the real villain, it would be so fucking obvious’ and then i just got progressively more pissed because he literally did nothing evil in the entire damn plot, he’s just evil because Evil he’s some sort of Magical Evil Mask that was Made To Be Evil and like Unquestionably Is That and no sort of interesting exploration on that plot even though he HASNT ACTED EVIL EVER UNTIL THE LITERAL LAST FIVE MINUTES

and it raises SO MANY questions cos like why was he even cooperating with Seimei then?? why didnt he fully posess seimei at any earlier point?? why didnt he kill nueko at any of the five other mandatory boss fights we had with him?? Seimei at least had an intriguing personality that gave an odd justification for his plot laziness. Cos he’s an anti-villain who weirdly sees you all as friends or a mentor/student thing, and he’s really just pretending to be evil so that you’ll kill him, cos he can’t die and desperately wants to. So it makes sense that he doesnt do any of his evil actions until you arrive, cos the whole damn point was just to taunt you into arriving. And its nicely parodied cos he literally sends you tea party invitations to his latest evil plan and gets pissed off if you miss it XD i’m so sad for seimei plz say (mei) that we adopt him afterwards i wanted to adopt onigashira afterwards back when it looked like he was the not evil one of the pair I AM STILL REALLY SALTY THAT HE’S NOT!!!! HIS DESIGN IS REALLY COOL AND CUTE!!!!! AND HE WAS A COMIC RELIEF OLD MAN DEMON DRAGON DOOD!!! i trusted u

okay but to talk about why i am also HYPE i need to go into some endgame spoilers whoopy doop!

so yeah the twist of ‘evilman is actually just being controlled by his puppet dragon thing’ was WAY OBVIOUS and i was really wishing for it to not happen but they made up for it by having ANOTHER TWIST THAT’S WAY BETTER

random description of something else from the endgame that is cool but i dont really know where to fit it into this conversation lol you actually do get to fight Final Boss Seimei here, its a cool boss rush with him and then Super Onigashira Betrayal Mode but what I really like is that its an OPTIONAL boss rush! the first time you play it you fight seimei with his freaky spider legs superform, and then nueko steals it back cos it was hers first. Can i just say again that I love a sexy mom styled heroine who’s powers are entirely around growing friggin monsters out of her arms and stuff? Seriously way to subvert that fanservice bro! (its still a bit cringey when they show the monster tattoos being drawn on her butt and boobs...) so then you go into the second fight and your health has all been healed and now one party member has a new supermove (I was really pissed cos it didnt restore your MP and TP, so I couldnt use that move!) But then if you lose and come back it actually skips the first fight and has an altered cutscene that’s like ‘oh, you’re back for round two?’ and such. MUCH preferrable to stuff like kingdom hearts where i have to watch a damn ten minute cutscene each time! Tho I do wish there was an option to redo it in boss rush mode, I guess that’s just a reward for people who can get it on the first try. I’m prepared now thooooo... :(

OKAY BACK ON TOPIC

Now for this final arc of the story we’ve been investigating the mystery of the Nameless God, some dude in the past who was apparantly super great and then got erased from history. There’s also the mystery of who exactly was Nueko’s husband and what happened to separate her from Seimei and make him turn evil, tho i mean its PRETTY OBVIOUS his dad was this mystery god lol And even though its not really very much of a twist about his identity, its still really interesting how the whole thing is handled. Him being erased from history means that none of the characters can remember his name or face, but NEITHER CAN THE PLAYER! He appears in the interfaces long before the plot actually talks about him, as a silhouette and a name smudged out by ink.

Now the actually cool twist about him is that like.. we’ve been hearing for AGES about how great he was, and how someone must have put out a hit on him or something. And him being in the interface seems like a spoiler that he’s gonna be unlockable later as a godly husband candidate for your protagonists. And even when we see npc optional boss battle gods hating on him, it’s always the jerkass gods who have some sort of reason to be biased. Or (in retrospect) they’re hating him for entirely the wrong reasons based on other people’s flawed gossip about him. “He was too kind and if he made equality then I wouldn’t be rich!” says genericman mc gee, who is probably eighty times less evil than this man

COS THATS THE TWIST

He was an evil fucker and erased himself from history with essentially an alchemy equivelant of a mad science experiment gone wrong. And what happened with Nueko and Seimei was that evilbad mc trashdad tried to use his damn four year old child as raw materials for this experiment, and she tried and failed to save him. And then she was desperate and her only option left was to kill the kid so he couldnt be tortured like that, and then killed herself too from grief. But it all went horribly wrong because she didn’t know that the reason Seimei was a candidate for this experiment is because he had immortality powers as a half human half god. So the poor kid survived watching his mom stab him and then slit her own throat, and he had no clue it was because his dad was gonna kill him anyway, so he grows up hating her and missing her and being this big ol sad mess that’s easily manipulated by a fucko father...

COS THATS ALSO THE TWIST

ONIGASHIRA WAS DADS

WHAT HOW

DADS

And like if they were gonna reveal his entire funny cute sidekick personality to be completely false then I’m glad at least his real personality was Twisty Wow and Immensely Punchable like i still feel like i could never punch a cute puppet pal but i can surely punch an abusive father pretending to be his own son’s imaginary friend for twenty years and whispering bullshit in his ear just to drive him into his own grave and like POOR SEIMEI WANTED TO DIE JUST NOT LIKE THIS NOT LIKE THIIIIIIIISSSS

i still think that ‘hey i was made to be an evil superweapon demon dragon mask thing but i became sentient and decided to be a happy hugs jokeman’ would have been a really amazing character concept too either that or ‘hey it really is a harmless normal mask and i’m just super seriously angsty seimei doing ventriloquism as a hugs jokeman character because i’m lonely as fuck and please be my friend’ either of those would have been better than this but like if this is what we get then I’m at least glad they gave me good enough reason to feel ‘GAHH I WANNA STAB HIM AND SAVE MY NEW SON’ rather than just ‘oh blah this ending ruined my fave character, and i feel nothing towards anything now’

also his boss fight is really damn fuckin coolio wow like it was a HUGE WHOA MOMENT when the fight starts and his name is blanked out and you just instantly know who he was this whole time and your mind explodes that this guy was evil and then he’s like a giant buddha-esque multi armed dude doing sutra poses with a big ol spoopy demon head and then really fun classic gameplay of ‘him summon the many hands and u has to destroy the hands to get 2 him and then they regenerate after a short amount of time’ but he’s also got super hellish simultaneous buff and debuff powers and all sorts of other nasty tricks AND IM ON THE LOWEST DIFFICULTY GEEZ and like for some reason it really stabbed my heart seeing how just one of the many hands is still human, its like seimei’s still in there and maybe he might still be alive if we defeat this guy fast enough... and then the music is SO FUCKING GOOD and it has like three remixes for all his increasingly frantic stages. like he doenst actually have boss transformations for them, its just moveset changes and stat boosts as his health drops. but also the colours of the battlefield change and you get funky remix time so its still cool!

and then I was SO CLOSE, i had him down to 5% HP before he killed me T_T such a marathon boss and I was almost there... I’m really excited to try again tho! i finally got that damn curse off my inherited weapon from the first generation, and now i’m on generation 87, and now im ready to FUCK SOME SHIT UP! also my current party is all named after types of olives because i ran out of inspiration around character number 300 i am so fucking addicted to this grindy ass game!

[we-are-richmond]

What Could’ve Been E4 C5

I kinda like it. Kinda hate it. Kinda my favorite, kinda wanna cry

"You know, when we first met Clem, I swear you would trust none of us. And yet here we are, like family." Mitch chuckled, watching AJ play on the floor. "Yeah, I guess so." I replied. "He's cute and all, but he pukes on my floor, that's all you." Conrad exclaimed, cleaning some glasses. "Conrad." Francine chuckled out. "Oh come now, that's just how he gets." Tripp hiccuped, putting down his shoot glass. "I think you've had to much to drink." Eleanor chuckled. "Come Ellie, let the man have some fun." Eli said. I smiled at them, pushing a ball back to AJ. He smiled, pushing it back. "Child laughter, something I used to think I'd never hear again." Mitch claimed. "Or laughter in general." Francine added. "Oh come now ya heavy hearters, come drink your sorrow away." Tripp chuckled. "Tripp man, you are on what. Your 10th shoot?" Mitch snickered. "Alchol poisoning would not be an ideal way to die now." Eleanor commented, smiling at her friends. "Good to know." Tripp knocked back another shoot. "5 rations says he passes out before 15." I called out from my spot. "Oh your on lil missy." Tripp exclaimed, "Conrad, give another glass right here!". Conrad chuckled at their leaders drunk behavior, and obeyed. "You are going to pass out, and land with a hard thud." Eli remarked. "When will that ever stop him?" I asked. "Fair point." Eleanor added. "Shame your not one of those extremly embarrassing drunks. Oh man." Mitch chuckled. "Any good stories?" Conrad asked from his spot. Everyone turned their attention to the man, and Mitch let out a soft chuckle. "I may have a few interesting stories." Mitch took a sip of his shoot. "Tell us some, who knows how bad they are?" Eli questioned. Mitch let out a soft sigh, smirking at us all. "So back in college, I lived with two roommates. One day we go to this frat party, and oh man, he got wasted.", "Sounds like any drunk story." Eli interuppted. "Ignore him Mitch." I said, putting AJ onto my lap. Mitch smirked at the two of us, and looked back at the group. "So my buddy gets hammered. He ends up getting so drunk, he agrees to go the rest of the party wearing some chicks lace underwear for a 20 buck deal." He chuckled. "Is this really appropriate for them?" Eleanor asked, looking at me and AJ. "Ellie, stop being such a mama hen." Eli teased. "Don't call me Ellie." Eleanor groaned. "There's more ain't there?" Tripp asked. "There's always more." Francine added. "Of course. So bout half way through, the thing breaks. Instead of giving up twenty bucks, he pokes a hole in the side of a cup, and tying to broken front of it cover his mandhood in the cup." "Oh my god." Tripp belowed out loudly with laughter. "I pray no one used that cup after him." Francine snickered. "Oh man, that dude wanted those 20 bucks." Mitch chuckled. "No kidding." Eli stated. "This is nice, where we aren't just surviving. Where we're living." Eleanor said suddenly. "What do you mean?" Tripp asked. Eleanor smiled at him, then to the rest of us. I stood up holding AJ, walking over by them. "Where we can just...sit down an take a breathe. All of us together." Eleanor explained. "She's right." Francine smiled at us. "Well then, cheers to us all." Conrad put down a tray in front of us. "There's an extra glass." Mitch pointed out. "No shit." Eli scoffed. "It's for Clem. She's a big member of this group. I think she should be allowed to celebrate to." Conrad explained. I flashed a smile at him, looking at the glass. Holding AJ in my other arm, I took the glass. Conrad smiled at me, taking him. Eleanor was sceptical on me drinking, but took her glass. Francine and Eli did the same as well. Mitch grinned at me and AJ, before taking his. "A toast, to living." Conrad said. "To living." I said smiling, clinking glasses with him. Me and Gabe looked at each other surprised. "What?!" Gabe exclaimed. "Get to the center now!" Ava shouted over walkie-talkie. "Go, I'll stay with the jeep!" Sophia stated. "But-" "Come on!" I shouted, taking Gabe's hand. The two of us ran through Richmond. It finally made sense on why no one was here! They were all there to watch the execution! We ran as fast as we could, eventually making our way to the center of town. "Oh god." Gabe gasped, seeing Javi stationed on a platform. He stood silently, four men behind him, guns pointed at him. The people of Richmond booed and jeered, screaming at Javi. "Your uncle has a record here..." I whispered as we slowly weaved through the crowd. "Mason made him out as a murderer and thief when he took over Richmond." Gabe muttered. "He's that special?" I asked. "No, it's just that no ones ever escaped the New Frontier." Gabe stated. Except Lilly and Jesus... Javi spotted us in crowd, silently mouthing us to go back. I shook my head, looking at the stage. Ava stood at her spot, head hung low. AJ wasn't with her though. I bit my lip nervously as we kept walking forward. "I was wondering when you two would show up." I gasped as Mason turned to face us. "W-What?" Gabe questioned. The crowd turned their attention to us, causing me to gulp. "Did you relaly think you could shut down my gates without noticing?" Mason questioned. Shocked murmuring erupted through the crowd, everyone looking at us with fear. Javi appeared surprised by this, and I felt my fist clench up. How could Ava do this? We trusted her? But as I looked at her, she appeared as surprised as we did. "This girl is the accomplice of Javier Garcia in Max's murder. And I have recently been informed, that the boy helping her shove Lonnie, another one of my men off the wall, and into the horde below!" Mason exclaimed. "Oh my god!" A woma yelled. "Can't even trust children." A man growled. Me and Gabe looked at each other concerned, tensing as Badger aimed his gun at us. "They wanted to open our gates, and run as they unleashed the horde onto our streets! And they were not alone!" Mason called out, turning back to Ava. "How do you know all of this?" I growled out. Gabe was surprised by this, looking at me wide eyed. Mason smirked at this, enjoying messing with the crowds views on us. "Their were more people involved to!" Mason shouted, removing a pair of walkies from his pockets. Me and Gabe looked wide eyed. Ava looked at Mason surprised, before looking behind her. "Let's bring in our other players!" Mason turned around, letting out a whistle. My heart stopped a moment seeing two figures being walked onto the stage, bags over their heads. Gabe looked absouletely frightened, watching as they were kicked on their knees. Javi stood, looking at the two people besides them. "Unbag them." Two guards pulled the bags off the figures, and I gasped looking at the man and woman. "Dad!" "Eleanor!". Eleanor and David sat on their knees, blindfolded still. Damn you Mason, covering them with bags and still keepign them blind. "C-Clem is that you?!" Eleanor whimpered, blood running from a cut on her cheek. "You sick fucker!" David shouted. "These two, were stealing from us as well. Helping to get this thief out! Well, I say it's time for someone to be punished." "NOOO!" Me and Gabe screamed as Mason pulled out his gun. "Mason don't you dare touch them!" Javi shouted. "You're going to far with this Mason! Just lock us up again, no one has to die!" Ava exclaimed. "Lock you up for what? To escape again?" Mason faced me. "Clementine, how about we gamble a little." Mason opened his revolver, pulling out five of the six bullets, before closing it again. He rolled the barrel multiple times, smiling at our expressions. "You pick who goes first. From there, i'll shoot one at a time. Who knows when it'll go off though?" I stood there shaking, looking at the two blinded figures. "Your best friend", "Please stop this!" Eleanor pleaded, "Or your boyfriends father.", "Look away Gabriel!" My heart pounded violently, as I looked them both over. "Clem..." Gabe begged. Javi and Ava stared at me as well, waiting with worry. "I choose Eleanor." I said quickly. "Alright then." Mason gave the gun one last spin, before pointing it at Eleanor's head. "NOOOOO!" Eleanor cried out, feeling the metal against her head. The gun let out small clink, causing my heart to nearly stop. Mason smirked, pointing at David. Clink, Clink, BANG!