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I voted 2025 because I’m playing 13 sentinels and it would totally track for the planet to get destroyed by kaiju before v10

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And the scene where she ditches the bow (“guess I won’t be needing this anymore”), I know it’s because she’s headed to Menagerie, but I like to imagine she kept it in Vale after everyone found out just because Yang’s first words to her were “I like your bow”

Still doing a RWBY rewatch because I really want to see how different it hits with the Bees being canon and caught Blake watching a couple holding hands on the ship…

It was definitely missing Yang hours.

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Really need someone to draw something explaining what happened in the portal between the Ever After and Vacuo that caused Blake and Yang to flip sides.

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V4/V5 was peak Bumbleby for me. I remember my first time watching V4 I fully expected it to end with Yang going after Blake instead of Ruby.

Still doing a RWBY rewatch because I really want to see how different it hits with the Bees being canon and caught Blake watching a couple holding hands on the ship…

It was definitely missing Yang hours.

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What I wouldn’t give to be able to turn into a tree and work through all my trauma.

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Yeah don't try to tell me Mitsumi's not autistic.

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I’ll certainly play a Persona 3 remake but without Yukari’s angst arc from The Answer it’s an incomplete story.

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Rewatched E4 frustratedly trying to make connections but getting nowhere. Both Herb and Ruby were taken by the tree after receiving a portion of the Cat's heart. Ruby's rainbow aura after drinking the tea also harkened back to the Herbalist after being interrupted by the Cat. So which is it that causes the tree to intervene? If it's direct ingestion of the leaves, what was the point of the Cat giving part of their heart to Herb? And why was the Hatter so insistent on Ruby drinking the tea?

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I’m… pretty sure I’m gonna have to skip these last two eps on rewatches. But at least things can’t get any worse, right?

…right?

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Saw the rainbowiest rainbow I’ve ever seen today, hopefully that means something gay happens tomorrow

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With 3 episodes left here’s a list (in no particular order) of events most likely to happen:

Ruby finds the Blacksmith and retrieves Summer’s weapon (likely in trade for Crescent Rose)

WBY find Lewis in their search for Ruby.

Ruby finds a new purpose with the tree.

Jaune’s fate is probably the hardest to gauge at this point. At the very least he’ll be there when they reunite with Ruby, but I feel like we’re going to find out that Lewis chose to stay in the Ever After to save his sister which also seems like a very Jaune thing to do.

And a few off the wall predictions:

Whatever Ruby’s new purpose is (possibly hyper-focused on destroying Salem) will change her into a callous killing machine. If this happens, it will start with her killing Neo.

We’ll find out that Salem can be trapped in the Ever After/whatever the “Central Location” is. This could explain why besides needing the maidens she can’t retrieve the relics herself.

Blake and Yang get married in a secret 11th episode.

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Ruby's reactions to Crescent Rose in 6 and 7 have all but sealed in my mind that she's going to trade it for Summer's axe.

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stop making “ruby is homophobic” jokes/claims btw ur not funny.

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Important analysis bc I know some people are going to hate Ruby for this scene

As someone who is both an older sister and raised their younger sibling, let me tell you why this scene was so good

It would be so easy to misinterpret Yang’s protectiveness over Blake here, but that’s not what’s happening. We’ve always seen Ruby as happy-go-lucky, follow-your-heart and do-the-right-thing, and it’s easy to forget that Yang raised Ruby, and the implied subtext there is that it *wasn’t* always sunshine and rainbows.

Yes, Yang is protective over her newfound relationship. Yes, she’ll maybe feel a little wounded that her sister is lashing out. But what we see here is Yang shifting ever so subtly into mother-mode. Yang knows this isn’t about Blake, or her and Blake’s relationship, she’s stepping in front of Blake to protect her before Ruby can say or do something she regrets. In essence, protecting both of them and trying to control the situation from escalating. Yang is stepping in front because she can take it, she’s GIVING her someone to yell at, because god knows she’s probably had to, at some point, take some lip in the past while the others have only ever known her as a strong, positive leader. She doesn’t shout at Ruby, she’s calm, lets her get it out and just looks sternly with a simple “Hey!” as in, ‘hey, that’s enough now’. 

Yang has expressed concern, and is concerned, but this is 100% Yang shifting into parent mode. This is brilliant because earlier in the episode and even last episode we’ve seen examples of Yang’s ‘concerned big sister’ side which is soft and supportive. There’s no malice in Yang’s expression, and it’s difficult to catch it because we haven’t had the best representations of ‘good mothers’ in the show, especially not ones that have had to chastise their kids at some point, but you can bet your ass that this is Yang’s parental mode stepping in to bring calm and stability to a chaotic situation. And that doesn’t always present as ‘let’s hug this out’, sometimes it’s stern, tough love and recognising that the younger one isn’t in the space to receive comfort, so the best you can do for them is diffuse the situation and be an authoritative voice of reason because she recognises her sister’s fragile mental state.

This is without going into how amazing Ruby’s portrayal was. Going after your sister’s new relationship is RAW, and personal, but it’s also what siblings do - they lash out sometimes when they’re under stress. The way Ruby says ‘we’re sOoOo happy for you by the way good for you’ - just SMACKS of younger sibling cutting loose and saying something they don’t mean, which makes Yang’s response all the more realistic for me. She recognises the tone, the almost-petulance and steps in before it can go any further.

It’s so subtle, but it SPOKE to me so massive kudos to Miles Luna and the animators for this. And god bless the clowns that use it as some sort of Anti-Bees discourse - the nuance is entirely lost on you.

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Everyone: geez ruby’s mental health must be in serious decline

Jaune: hey guys meet my little village of paper sisyphuses I’ve been torturing with eternal life against their will and btw i named them after everyone I knew in remnant :3

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IT’S ONLY BEEN A WEEK??????