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duality

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Boscha being a firebender

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Obvio tenia que dibujar a mi Boscha 🛐🩷🌸

Con cicatriz

Sin cicatriz

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ozpin gave the branwens shapeshifting powers not only to gather information about salem's plans, but to also search for the maidens when their hosts became unclear. the former we've seen plenty of, but the latter is a thread left hanging. . . unless: "she was scared when we found her!" ("which 'we' are you referring to?")

gretchen lost her life on a training mission; this statement from ozpin is not treated as a lie, but he never says how she lost her life. raven says that no matter what training she put spring through, she never learned. "what i did—['wasn't personal'] it was mercy!"

gretchen was only a child. "she wasn't ready". spring was weak, not "cut out for this world", and would have been hunted her entire life (it was mercy). ozpin letting unprepared kids into beacon wouldn't be new: jaune hadn't unlocked his aura, had no idea what a landing strategy was, and still, yeeted he was.

(not only does aura need to be unlocked, but also trained and engaged; oscar learned it the hard way getting punched by ruby with ozpin only reminding him after that he forgot to engage his aura instead of telling him sooner, because "this method makes you less likely to forget.")

(gretchen wasn't ready. spring was weak and not cut out for this world; which world? the world of huntsmen and huntresses? of maidens? there are plenty of civilians with no aura, but being a huntress or a maiden would be a death sentence without one.)

the tribe send raven and qrow to beacon to learn how to kill huntsmen; another thread left hanging. not that it necessarily needs to be tied into the plot, but... this is how raven was raised. trained, to kill.

was it mercy? perhaps it was frustration bubbling through, when spring, no matter how much training she was put through, wouldn't learn, and raven reverts to the harshness she was raised in, how she was trained. perhaps spring forgot to engage her aura at the worst plausible moment (she wasn't ready). perhaps it was a combination of both.

and that's how gretchen tragically loses her life on a training mission.

and that's why raven leaves; not only because she's now the spring maiden, but because she's terrified, afraid of what she might do to yang if she loses control again, be it due to anger or frustration.

raven shows concern towards yang ("and... uh... what about... you're just going to leave them?"), but she's not there. she left and anyway, summer is better at that life, better than she was.

"all i care about is my tribe—my family. this is a burden, not a honor." it might be vernal who says this, but in the end, these are raven's words.

and just like qrow (you don't want the burden of my name), raven thinks that the best for her family... is to stay away.

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Interesting that Raven was already in Vacuo working with Qrow and everyone else rather than just showing back up with Team RWBY and that other guy.

Definitely lends credence to my theory that Patch wasn't overrun and is actually being used as an outpost/last bastion of resistance in Vale, with Raven shuttling refugees and supplies back and forth using Tai as a portal-anchor. Not to mention it makes it a pretty safe bet that Raven WILL in fact be sticking around as a major presence in V10.

On the other hand, I am just a LITTLE disappointment with Sun and Neptune noting her to be a maiden. No opportunity for some big, fun badass 'I'm actually the Spring Maiden' reveals in the future, sadly.

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Marcille and Falin || Dungeon Meshi 1x12

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Ch. 28 || Episode 12

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chewing through drywall as we speak

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The joy was suddenly overtaken by a primal terror

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comparing masks

felt like taking a look at the pharloomian mask in comparison to the hallownest ancient mask and also the wanderer's crest while we're at it

the difference in shape —sharper both in the whole head (which kinda resembles grimmchild) and in the eyes— aside, the engraving is somewhat simpler and also sharper, but also has way more depth to it, almost looking like it got segments.

If you squint at it hard enough the pattern kinda looks superficially similar to the black egg's door, which would be quite ironic given the sealed siblings ending; there's most likely no correlation though.

the "third eye" motif seems to continue on this mask as well.

the wanderer's crest looks like a pharloomian mask (or rather hornet's face with some qualities of the mask engraving) with a few qualities of the engraving of the ancient mask —or maybe more closely the engraving of a pure nail, particularly towards the base of Pure Vessel's nail "pillars"—; I think its neat how it ends in a nail/needle tip.

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the yuri of all time

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Women.

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They breached containment!