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i love how this week’s rwby beyond episode talks about not just finding the positives in a bad situation, but also about remembering what makes all that suffering worth it. jaune is urged to recall the good times, and the people he’s fighting for, and the love he feels for them.
and this is the EXACT ideology that makes a silver-eyed warrior so powerful. that love and desire to protect and auauhhhhhghhhhh my god the jaune and ruby foils never cease
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Alyx and Lewis being from before the Great War and Huntsmen and Lewis writing the book after returning oddly means Jaune was the inspiration for future huntsmen because they exchanged notes and Jaune told them about how far from the future he was.
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“Hey, uh, Jaune? I, um. This is, uh… I’m sorry for yelling at you back in the Ever After, and I—…I get it if, um. If you don’t think I should know. Is… Penny… is she mad at me, for, um… for not being good enough?”
They’re in Vacuo, it doesn’t feel real. Jaune is setting on an honest to gods mattress for the first time in decades, and it doesn’t feel real. Pyrrha keeps chuckling at his amazed expression, he can feel her over his shoulder.
There’s a knock on the door and Jaune jumps. His hand is on his sword and he’s halfway across the room before Penny floats through the wall beside the door, looking troubled. And Jaune’s heart sinks. He knows who’s going to be on the other side
Ever since Ruby landed in the Ever After, Penny has only briefly left her side, and only to visit her father.
“Jaune? Can…” Ruby’s voice, muffled, trails off. “Can I come in?” He glances at Penny, who nods reassuringly, and opens the door
Gods has Ruby always looked so small?
“Hey Ruby,” he says, sheathing his sword. They stare at each other for a moment before Jaune steps aside and Ruby sidles past him. She’s quiet in a way that reminds him of tea cups and shattered silver eyes, and it scares him.
He sits on the bed and she sits next to him, a careful distance away. “You doing okay?” he asks.
She shrugs. “Are you?” she asks.
He shrugs.
The silence drags on, awkward and stifling, broken only by Penny humming quietly. She didn’t flinch when he drew his weapon, but HE did. Gods, half of it is still sticking out of her chest and she didn’t even flinch.
“Hey, uh, Jaune? I, um. This is, uh…” Ruby’s voice gets more quiet by the word, and she won’t meet his eyes. “I’m sorry for yelling at you back in the Ever After, and I-”
Jaune is spouting apologies of his own before she’s even done talking. Pyrrha has to shush him multiple times before he realizes that he cut Ruby off.
“It’s okay but …I get it if, um. If you don’t think I should know.” Ruby shrinks in on herself. Her hands are tangled in her cape “Is… Penny… is she mad at me, for, um… for not being good enough?”
Penny, of course, immediately starts yelling reassurances, and Jaune winces at the volume of the echoey words. Ruby must take his reaction as confirmation though, because she sniffles and stands. “Right. Right I’m- im sorry, I shouldn’t have asked. I’ll just…”
“Wait! Wait no, Ruby, no she doesn’t!” Jaune says frantically, waving his hands. “Or she’s not! She’s not mad at you. She could never be mad at you.” He’s just passing on Penny’s words, but even if he wasn’t he’d know that they’re true. Even he isn’t stupid enough not to see how much the former-android cares about Ruby
“Ruby, it wasn’t your fault, you did everything you could. You are the most…” Jaune can’t find the words. “You are the most enough anyone could be. Penny isn’t mad at you, because come on, she’s Penny.” Ruby chuckles weakly, and he takes it as a win.
“But mostly she’s not mad because you were MORE than good enough. You got us all to Vacuo, you got EVERYONE to Vacuo. You gave all of us the strength to follow you. She…” Jaune glances up at Penny. “She wants you to know that not only is she not mad, but that she’s so SO proud. Being just you has always been more than enough.”
At this Ruby does actually start crying, and he panics for a second because shit he messed everything up again. Next he’s gonna get slammed into a wall and left to pick up the pieces, he just knows it.
Over her shoulder Penny is trying to hold Ruby’s shaking form, but she can’t make contact, and Jaune has to look away. That’s his fault, he did that. He’s the reason Penny will never be able to hug her friend again, why Ruby will never be able to be comforted by her friend again.
“Stop that…” Pyrrha’s staticky reprimand whispers. “It’s not your fault.”
It is, it is. But since it’s his fault, it’s also his responsibility to make up for it.
“Ruby can I… Can I hug you?” Jaune asks, his arms held out tentatively. It’s all the invitation his best friend needs, choking out a sob and diving at him with enough force to send them both to the ground.
And that’s what breaks Jaune, and soon enough he’s crying and sobbing into her hair while her cries are muffled against his chest.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t want to, I didn’t mean it, I’m so sorry.” Their apologies melt together, meaningless and meaningful in equal measure.
“It wasn’t your fault, you didn’t mean to, it’s okay, it’s okay, I’m here.” Reassurances from both of them, each the only one who can truly understand what the other is going through
He feels like some kind of poison is being drawn from a wound decades left unattended.
He’s not sure how long they sit there, the literal ghosts of their past whispering and cooing calming words to the broken leaders.
“You are more than enough, Ruby. You’re my best freaking friend, I don’t know what I’d do without you. You are SO much more than enough.” Jaune’s voice is broken, croaky with tears and emotion. He doesn’t know who he’s trying to convince, her or himself. “I can’t lose you again.”
He feels Ruby nod against his chest. “It wasn’t your fault. You’re my best friend, I could never be mad at you. It wasn’t your fault.” Her words are fierce, exhausted, insistent, and he chokes out a sob. Ruby is trying to convince herself as much as him. Gods they really are the same, aren’t they?
“We really are messed up, aren’t we?”
Ruby chuckles, and nods against his chest. “Yeah. Proper Hunters and everything, now.” She sounds bitter, and Jaune’s arms tighten around her.
“Yeah. Yeah I guess we are.”
“Does this… does this get better?”
Decades alone being burned alive by his own guilt, going half-mad with fear. “I’ll let you know when I find out.”
Ruby laughs again, and wipes at her eyes. “I’ll do the same.”
And on the floor of a Vacuo dorm room, two broken leaders begin to heal.
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Pyrrha: Do you think we could ever be more than friends?
Jaune: IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED I can TOTALLY see us as dragons, hang on I drew a picture-
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Having finally seen Volume 9, and I think it's important to point out something: A lot of people have claimed that Ruby's "Isn't that why we're here? To make things better?" is evidence that she was ALWAYS taking personal responsibility for everything that goes wrong in the world...
But I'm going to be frank, that misses the entire point of the scene with the Herbalist.
When Weiss, Blake, and Yang confronted their past selves, they confronted who they were at the start of their arcs, in their respective trailers. Each of them has grown into a stronger, more mature, healthier person since then.
Ruby's character arc began with her chat with Ozpin in "The Badge and the Burden". That's when she started taking on more and more responsibilities, to the detriment of her mental health. You'll notice that her mental health REALLY starts to nosedive when Ozpin, Qrow, and Cordovin all wind up letting her down in Volume 6.
Every time someone she looks up to fails her, Ruby starts taking more and more personal responsibilities on. All the while feeling personally responsible for every failure, both real and perceived.
Ruby Rose at the start of the series was a healthier, happier person than Ruby Rose was when she met the herbalist in Volume 9. If she had ALWAYS been that unhealthy, her past self would've acted VERY differently in that vision.
She started the series as a realist, and slowly became a suicidal cynic as more and more of the adults in her life let her down and betrayed her trust.
Where her friends grew and matured, Ruby chafed and regressed.
She underwent NEGATIVE character development, but not in the sense of becoming a villain protagonist as most other examples of this kind of character arc would, but in going from a functional human being to a broken shell. The rest of her arc will have to be dedicated to picking up the pieces.
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Jaune: I think I’m bi.
Pyrrha: Which one?
Jaune: What do you mean?
Pyrrha: Bisexual? Bilingual? Bipolar?
Nora: I know.
Nora: A bitch.
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snow day!
big ol’ redraw of a something i did a couple years ago that i hate now lol
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Finally finished a drawing I started last year 😂
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RWBYxJSR: Nora Valkyrie
Stylish and fan of everything heart-themed, Nora is one of the most chaotic skaters of all the city, and thanks to her special ability, she can take the electicity from the snacks machines and use it to go faster!
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Some Ren outfits. I have also done outfits for him in the past but the old one were just blobs.. So this is more of a draw this again work. The biggest issue with Ren is that.. he has so many colors yo.. I mean it was fun to experiment here and there but also... difficult ot have a cohesive color palette on him
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