Been feeling kinda shitty lately as I devolve into my monthly depression, so I decided to finally drill into my cabinets and install the new bee pulls I bought
Watching the latest Critical Role (Campaign 3, episode 61) and I want a counterpart to the Jester "Hello, bees!" that's Laudna : Hell o' bees.
(something like this drawing, but good)
[ID: A rough digital drawing of the undead-ish Laudna skittering on hands and knees, head tipped back, branches extending from her face and arms where veins would be, jaw distended, and a swarm of bees rising out of her gaping maw. /end ID]
Bees. She hates bees. She’s always hated bees. Candyman, of course, Daniel, is all bees and yet his touch stills her as the bees whizz by, buzzing intensely. She’s shuddering, her eyes watering even as she stays still. She can’t help crying, nervous even now. Verna may have forgiven her but she had been stupid enough to call to Daniel, to the Candyman. His lips find her ear as she sobs and she feels his words still her mind once and for all.
“Not my victim.”
It's a promise. She realises. She’s safe. He likes her, somehow.
“Rest, my bees will protect your sleep.”
Later, much later, Tamerlane lies staring at the ceiling. Sleep is still far away, of course, it always is, but she is finally resting, letting herself think of sleep with ease. Her eyes close, a bee lands on her forehead and she finally finds peace.
Racism is a lot more complicated then just “people don’t like the Faunus” like marrow said in volume 7 it’s a deeply embedded systemic issue, as an example o highly doubt Jacques could be convinced the Faunus “aren’t that bad” because he directly profits from those systems of oppression. And the majority of humans ignore it because they also benefit.
Dismantling those systems is a difficult process that requires some level of direct action, it takes a lot more then just convincing humans to like you with some speech.
It’s true we haven’t seen any official human/Faunus relationships, except technically a mention of velvets parents, but so far I doubt it will play a major plot role
In fact, I doubt one can realistically “unite all, of humanity” in the amount of time the show has left, quite frankly I think the gods demands of ozpin are vague and unfair as is,
A story where Blake and yang convince the huma and Faunus refuges to “get along”would honestly feel kinda insulting. This isn’t a problem that can be solved by people “just being nicer to each other”, honestly being the “bridge between humans and Faunus” to me implies the issue is some self existing chasm, and not a cage human society has purposefully put the Faunus in.
All good points. But, with respect, that's not the central conflict of the show. It is most definitely a very important aspect that I hope they address further and that they learned stuff in the past from. It's also possible they took a step back from it cuz they realized they weren't equipped to write such a story and do it WELL so they want to figure it out and get it RIGHT. But, obviously, Salem and all of that is the central plot. Of course that's what's going to take most of the screen time, along with things directly affecting Team RWBY themselves at whatever moment it is in time. Like the shit in the Ever After rn and their personal fallout from what happened in Atlas.
Also, they don't necessarily have to "unite all of humanity." People are gonna people. And all that, that entails. They just have to either somehow stop Salem or make her understand. "So long as this world turns, you shall walk its face. You must learn the importance of life and death. Only then may you rest." Pretty sure THAT is the key. She latched onto that first part and may have skipped over the second.
Again though, this is all just speculation at this point. The simple truth is that we have NO IDEA how the story will go. Only CRWBY does at this point. If there's one thing I've learned while watching this show for so many years, it's that I'm actually very bad at predicting shit for it. Normally I'm great at that. But not with this show. Doesn't stop me from trying though 😂
Regardless, I still think Yang would be involved with the efforts of Blake, the Belladonnas and the White Fang. She would have anyways, I feel like. But especially now that they're together. We may not get to directly see it in the show but..... yeah.