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favourite rwby's allusions?
Hi,
thank you so much for this ask! I love RWBY's allusions and talking about them is always a pleasure! So, I have currently 4 allusions I would call faves. I love many others too, but these 4 are kind of special for me:
Cinder Fall - Cinderella
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Cinder's allusion is at the same time obvious and very layered. The key to understand it is Midnight (best written episode of the series imo). There, Cinder's fairy-tale gets inverted. She is a slave who finds her prince (Rhodes), but is ultimately failed and left in the darkness. At the same time, Cinder's background helps us read her allusion in the main storyline. As a matter of fact Cinder's story is about the cycle of abuse. She is stuck in it, so her fairy tale keeps repeating and won't have a happy ending until she interrupts the cycle. As a result we have:
Salem as a combination between the Evil Stepmother (Madame) and the Fairy Godmother (Rhodes)
Ruby as the Prince (a better version of Rhodes)
Emerald and Mercury as Cinder's slippers (the embodyment of the twin swords of her childhood)
Salem is the Evil Stepmom masked as a powerful Fairy Godmother, who gives Cinder a new pair of shiny slippers (the Maiden Powers). Still, they are only a tool to manipulate our Cinderella. Ruby is instead the Huntress who dances with Cinder and will save her with her personal silver slippers (her silver eyes). Finally, Emerald and Mercury are the two sides of Cinder, her two slippers who will lead the Prince (Ruby and RWBY) to her.
Key to understand the allusion- The episode Midnight (+ the Beacon Dance tbh)
Favourite motif- Emerald and Mercury as the slippers
Why it is a fave- It balances its relevance to the plot with strong imagery and metaphors. So, it is easy to notice, but it leaves much to discover once you start analyzing it
Weiss Schnee - Snowhite
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Weiss's allusion plays with the idea of "royal test":
White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test.
Which is nothing, but a trial to see if Weiss is fit to become Queen. In fairy-tale symbolism, a princess becomes queen when she grows up and self-actualizes. So, Weiss's story is one where she blooms into herself. Initially, she is given two opposite examples of "queens":
Jacques is the Evil Queen of Snowhite
Winter is the Snow Queen of Andersen's story
Weiss's arc is about realizing she is neither. She is instead her own queen:
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She does so through integrating the different characters of her fairy tale within herself. She is Snowhite, as such she is made of all the characters that make her story:
She risks to become an Evil Queen
She is an unsure Huntress
She is the Prince who saves herself
She is Snowhite, who grows into a Queen
All these sides are expressed through her summons:
The Queen Lancer is the Evil Queen who gets dethroned by the Good Queen (Snowhite) in the end
The Boarbatusk is the Hunter who kills a boar to help Snowhite
The Knight is the Prince who saves Snowhite
The Nevermore is the crow turned into dove, which announces Snowhite's final resurrection
So, the summons are different characters of Snowhite. Moreover, each character fits a different Jungian Archetype:
The Queen is the Persona (the mask she wears)
The Hunter is the shadow (what she represses)
The Prince is the animus (the masculine inside the feminine)
Snowhite is the self (the sum of all other archetypes)
In short, Weiss plays all the characters of her story and her semblance is used to metaphorically comment her arc and tie her fairy-tale to the main plot in a symbolic way. It might seem Weiss's story isn't following Snowhite's. Still, if one focuses on Weiss's inner journey it turns out she has already gone through the majority of the Grimms' fairy tale. Only a finale is missing, which I think will crown Weiss's arc with an apple. (I need an apple)
Key to understand the allusion- Weiss's summons are Snowhite's characters
Favourite motif- Snowhite's characters fitting different Jungian Archetypes
Why it is a fave - It is very Jungian and psychological. Weiss's Snowhite loosely follows her journey in Remnant, but really shines when it is applied to Weiss's internal evolution
Yang XiaoLong - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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Yang's allusion is built on the idea of hot, cold and just right, which is declined in three different ways:
Red is hot, blue is cold and purple is just right. These colors comment Yang's arc and semblance. In particular, she is usually the just right (purple eyes), but when she uses her power she becomes too hot (red eyes)
Ruby is red, Weiss is blue and Blake is purple. This makes them Yang's hot, cold and just right. Together, they are the three bears of the fairy - tale, who welcome Yang in their found family
Yang is going through a process to find her just right. Still, before she succeeds she has to go through the too hot and too cold. In particular...
The Vale's arc is Yang's too hot:
Yang: Strawberry Sunrise. No ice. Oh, and one of those little umbrellas.
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Yang goes to look for Raven and orders a hot beverage (no ice). She ends her search by finding Ruby (her hot bear). At the end of the arc she explodes in flames and loses an arm.
The Mistral's arc is Yang's too cold:
Yang: A water. It's hot out.
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Yang goes to look for Raven and orders a cold beverage. She ends her search by finding Weiss (her cold bear). At the end of the arc she keeps it cool while fighting Adam and wins.
After this process, she has found her just right:
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Still, I am sure Vacuo will explore this idea further and lead Yang's to her finale and truest "just right" as a character.
Key to understand the allusion - The Yellow Trailer sets up the metaphor with its different layers
Favourite motif - Red, blue and purple as hot, cold and just right
Why it is a fave - It uses dialogues and lines as motifs much more than other allusions and I find it neat. Especially because Yang is pun-girl and linked to knowledge, so I think this choice fits a lot.
Emerald Sustrai - Aladdin
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Emerald's allusion is one that caught me off guard and now I love it! The key idea is that Emerald is both Aladdin and the Geenie. As a matter of fact Cinder tricks Emerald with the promise to fulfill her wish only to turn her into a slave. In general, the key characters and motif in Em's allusion are:
Cinder and Salem as the 2 geenies that promise to fulfill Emerald's wishes
Cinder and Salem as the 2 Evil Wizards that abuse Emerald
The Cave of Wonders as the cycle of abuse
The Lamp (the Relic of Knowledge) and the Ring (Em's own semblance) as magical tools that help our Aladdin out
In general, Emerald's design and basic idea tie with Disney-Aladdin's famous line:
"Only one may enter here, one whose worth lies far within... the Diamond in the Rough" (Aladdin, 1992)
Emerald is a precious gem covered in dirt, but with time she will find her inner value and discover what she truly wants. As a matter of fact her allusion thematically explores the differences between wants vs needs. Emerald starts by following an illusory wish (Cinder), but is slowly realizing her true wish and need (RWBYJNRO and Mercury). Differently from others' allusions, hers is just at the beginning and needs some kind of climatic conclusion. I am looking forward to ti! (Bonus if it ties with Mercury's headcanon allusion I came up with :P)
Key to understand the allusion - Cinder and Salem playing the parts of the geenies while referencing respectively a ring and a lamp
Favourite motif - Emerald is a gem in the rough
Why it is a fave - I love the potential of how the geenies and the wish imagert can be used in Emerald and Mercury's arcs. It can be very very powerful!
These are my 4 faves, but of course there are other allusions I love! It is just I have analyzed them less, so it is as if I am lacking a full picture. They are:
Ruby's LRRH- I love how it is intertwined with the Alice's one in volume 9. Still, I think there is much more to it.
Penny's Pinocchio- It is one of the most powerful allusions tbh and I would like to analyze it properly one day. Its ending being an inversion of the original fairy-tale is perfect. Here it is Penny (Pinocchio), who creates Winter (The Blue Fairy).
Jaune's Jeanne D'Arc - The Jaunidice's arc sets up this allusion brilliantly. The way it ties Pyrrha with Jaune's inspiration and personal God and how it manifests itself each arc with a miracle Jaune witnesses or performs is very powerful.
I also like Blake's Beauty and Beast's allusion, but I did not have to discover it slowly and it came to me as pretty obvious. So, I like it a little less.
I have yet to think about Ren and Nora's allusions, but I am interested in them.
Finally, I am super interested in Mercury's allusion and I am curious about it. I think its set-up is great and I wanna see how it plays out.
Thank you for the ask!
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As someone who is both an older sister and raised their younger sibling, let me tell you why this scene was so good
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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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