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i was thinking...do ruby and blake have any songs besides red like roses pt 2 and from shadows? bc weiss has 5 whole songs (mirror mirror, mirror mirror pt 2, its my turn, this life is mine & path to isolation) and yang has i burn, armed and ready & ignite. i literally cant think of another ruby song, and now that i think about it touch the sky is maybe a blake song, but still, she doesnt have any more before vol 7. and from shadows is more of a blake+adam/faunus song anyway

Ruby has Red Like Roses II, Indomitable, Until The End.

Blake has From Shadows, Wings, Like Morning Follows Night, This Time, Nevermore, Touch The Sky(?)

Red Like Roses I is literally just a RWBY song and offers nothing about Ruby as a character, so it can't really be counted as a Ruby-specific song the way Mirror Mirror, From Shadows, and I Burn counts towards the other RWBY girls.

Red Like Roses II is meant to be about Ruby and Summer, but the problem is a common one in RWBY. The song and the show don't match up. RLR2 tells us that Ruby is actually really scarred by Summer disappearing and almost resents her mother for leaving her, especially since she feels like she's thrown into a war that Summer put her in.

But the show shows none of that. Until V7, Ruby only talks about Summer Rose in passing, and none of what we see even hints that Ruby is either traumatised or resentful that Summer died because she chose a mission over staying with her family. You know who that song fits far better?

Yang. Yang has been shown all throughout that she loves Summer but struggles with the abandonment she feels after Summer disappeared. The V5 talk between her and Weiss, for all that I deride for being weird around Yang's relationships with Tai, Summer and Raven, at least showed that Yang inherently sees any form of people leaving as abandonment.

Summer might not have chosen to leave Yang behind, and she most definitely didn't choose to leave her daughter willingly, but that doesn't matter to Yang because emotionally? It hurts all the same.

That fits the tone of resentment and loneliness that's said in Ruby's lines of RLR2. If it wasn't for the obvious rose connections to Ruby, I would've assumed this was a Yang song towards Summer.

Indomitable is really just a Monty song. That's it, it's like Cold but done worse because at least Cold played into the actual show and was meant to be another send off to Monty right after his death. Indomitable didn't do that same way Ruby's forced callout to his famous quote didn't do it in V5.

Until The End was an alright song for Ruby, but after playing in the Volume where she endangered everyone because she refuses to accept losses, it highlights her worst trait; that she refuses to retreat when it's best to do so. To Ruby, it's all or nothing, and the writers had to bend over backwards to make sure their perfect protagonist didn't get everyone killed by making the main villain incompetent and lazy, and outright cheating with their inworld magic.

For Blake, most of her songs are straight up duets.

From Shadows is for her and Adam, and I like that it does delve into how something like the White Fang could be a thing. It made Remnant seem like an unfair place to the Faunus, where both Adam and Blake struggled and were lured into a more violent path because they weren't being treated as equals.

Until the show actively ruined them by making one an obnoxious princess and the other an edgy incel.

Wings is pretty much a Monochrome song, but it's more Weiss singing with Blake as the subject, rather than being an equal in the song and opening up to Weiss. It pretty much foreshadows the unfortunate fate where Blake pretty much is just a prop to show off Weiss' development from being a racist lil' gremlin to the perfect white knight.

I'm not counting Not Falling in Love with You or Bumblb because those are noncanon love songs that are Sun/Yang again singing to Blake, who doesn't have a say in how she feels.

Like Morning Follows Night is another duet, this time with Sun, and I actually liked it. I don't like that Blake assumes Sun doesn't know how she feels because he's not acting like a mopey cunt about it, but I do like that Blake is trying to say that she's terrified of people getting hurt because of her, harbors guilt over all her past mistakes, and Sun simply tells her that she can keep running, but she has to let go of the past and look to the future, while simply being there for her.

He doesn't force her to get over her trauma. He doesn't tell her she's being dumb or overemotional, because he knows how traumatic the FoB was and seeing someone you care about being hurt. He's simply being there for a friend while she sorts herself out. Get yourself a friend like Sun.

This Time is another duet between Blake and Ghira, as confirmed by Jeff. I hate it.

Nevermore is another duet (I'm sensing a theme) where Blake and Yang are singing to Adam. I actually like the sound, it's triumphant and catchy, but I hate the lyrics. I hate that Yang thinks it's her place to tell Adam what he's fighting for and even make a comment about hiding his eyes, when he's doing that to hide his brand you racist bitch.

And Blake's just Blake. Whinging about equality from her McMansion and putting more emphasis on how Adam was abusive towards her, because that's what ended up mattering more to Blake's story and character. The personal abuse she suffered rather than her fight for the equality of her people.

The only song that is actually Blake on her own is Touch The Sky, and I'm gonna be honest. I didn't even know if this was meant to be a Blake song, a Weiss song, or even a Qrow song, and I wasn't the only one.

It sounds so generic with the rest of the V7 soundtrack. The only thing that suggests its specifically a Blake song is the piano common to her songs, and the fact it brings up wings which is specifically a thing for Weiss and Blake.

Until the V8 soundtrack comes out, these are all the important songs that were specifically for Ruby and Blake. As you can see, not very good for our main protagonist, and Blake's just gets worse and worse the longer the show goes on; much like Blake herself.

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