streamed drawing rwbies to friends 2day ^___^ of course it goes without saying that i am hopelessly dependent on the ingot (weird traumatized codependent antagonists)
apparently i can't add videos in rbs of posts so. here's today wip. im actually having so much fun animating but i should probably break bc my wrist is starting to hurt (;-_-)
for it is in passing we achieve immortality; through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death. i release your soul and by my shoulder protect thee.
we could be the gods of this world; our powers surpass all others. our souls transcend death. we could […] create the paradise the old gods could not.
when we break or wear out or simply finish what we were made to do, we’re called back. […] he’ll be fixed up nice, and made into the herb he wanted to be when he was still herb. then he’ll come back and find his purpose […] i know, i know, where you’re from things…die…but we’re just not like you at all. we ascend.
DO YOU SEE?
i'm... cursed. for thousands of years, i've walked the surface of remnant, living, dying, and reincarnating [in the body of a like-minded soul] […] i am the combination of [countless men who've spent their lives] trying to protect the people of remnant. with every rebirth, my soul is eventually [merged with another and i am changed], but my memories stay with me. this curse was bestowed upon me by the gods, because i failed to stop salem in the past, but we must stop her now.
DO YOU SEE??
ozma had been ready to give his life for justice countless times, but now he saw a woman worth saving it for / i’m sorry, but that world just isn’t as dear to me without her; if i may, i’d rather return to the afterlife to see salem.
ascension is a tripartite concept: death is transcendental, the process of becoming the ideal self through the continual refinement and active pursuit of one’s chosen purpose. both salem and pyrrha articulate this idea in full and the cat defines it explicitly.
when ozma describes his curse, he touches on all three parts but all of them are corrupted: death binds him over and over again to someone else; instead of becoming more and more himself his sense of ‘himself’ is continually eroded by fusion with someone else; his identity and sense of purpose have been ground down to almost nothing under the wheel of countless other people whose purpose was to ‘protect the people of remnant,’ with the last vestige of ozma’s self and chosen purpose being the pretense that he’s cursed because he must stop salem. but the uncorrupted form of ozma’s ideal self is that he was a hero searching for a just cause to die for until he found in salem a reason to live and the uncorrupted form of his chosen purpose is that he would forsake the world to be with salem; the final tragedy of the lost fable is that the corrupted nature of ozma’s false-ascension made the desecration of his identity and purpose inevitable.
and of course whole narrative flows from the tragedy of the lost fable and the story is very much about setting it right—healing the broken fairytale—which means, obviously, that ozma’s curse must be broken; meaning the cruel and twisted facsimile of ascension inflicted on him by the god of light needs to be undone, and simply liberating him from oscar is not enough; his self-identity and chosen purpose have to be restored too, because the false-ascension must be repaired in entirety. <- ozlem endgame
conversely salem is going to win. not in the sense of winning the war per se or even accomplishing her current goals necessarily (<- that depends on what, exactly, she’s planning), but in the lost fable she articulates (several times!) an ambition to liberate humanity from divine tyranny and, frankly, after V9 i think anyone who doesn’t think that salem is and has always been entirely earnest in that ambition is either not paying attention period or just not interested in engaging seriously with the text. so salem is going to win because what she wants is for all of remnant to be free from the god who wants to blow it up and torture her for eternity. lol.
hi if you ever do more rwby textposts you should do more with oscar in them...thats my little guy i need him on my dash...i can supply screenshots if need be
not forced tho of course ahsfsj i just think hes neat
okay thanks love you (/p) drink some water goodbye
HELL yea that’s my boy!! rwby textpost memes pt44, oscar pine edition. somebody give him some therapy and a snackie snack
Artwork I commissioned of Ruby Rose from @iwonn-arts that turned out really good.
After the news of RT shutting down soon and the show's future being in limbo at the moment, I figured that people would want to see some positive RWBY art, and this is what came to mind.
I believe that we'll get some sort of continuation and ending; the CRWBY don't want it to end without a proper conclusion, either, and are doing what they can.
ozpin gifted the branwens shapeshifting, powers and responsibilities they both chose to accept... until raven chose to abandon her duties in favor of her own self-interest.
what were those duties, then?
well, as ozpin puts it: gathering information on salem's plans, as well as searching for maidens when their hosts became unclear.
that's information on salem's plan, not salem herself. except that raven, after being told the truth by ozpin, needed to know more, and went looking for it, presumably coming out with much more information about salem herself and not her plans than ozpin ever wanted her to, to the point that she could confidently say she knows all about salem.
does that count as abandoning her duties in favor of her own self-interest? and if so, what does that say about the other half of her duties—searching for maidens when their hosts became unclear—she apparently abandoned according to ozpin?