#RWBY appreciation post

[walpywalpy]

//WEISS SCHNEE APPRECIATION POST//

I know. It’s not that obvious by my profile picture and my endless need to praise my queen to tell you that Weiss Schnee is my favorite RWBY character and my favorite character in general. But why? You may not have asked that but that’s not my problem because I’m gonna praise my queen to no end here. So kick back, grab your bowl of Pumpkin Petes, and listen to why Weiss Schnee is my favorite character of all time.

1. Growth

I’m going to be honest and say she wasn’t my favorite at first. She was a bratty, entitled bitch. At the time, Blake and Ruby were my favorite. And it would stay like that until halfway of Volume 3. Specifically, the scene of her and Winter. Winter was cold, direct, and militant. Meanwhile, Weiss was goofing around with Ruby by calling her a friend and rooting against her when her uncle Qrow fought Winter. I noticed that Weiss was someone who barely had a chance to grow up normally because she had high expectations thrusted upon her. Beacon was her first time breaking that. She got to get into food fights, go sight seeing with her friends, joke around with her team in battles, etc. She was no longer that entitled bitch we saw in the emerald forest. Instead, we see a girl having her chance to be free from expectations and trying to be the best teammate and friend she could possible be.

After Beacon fell, she was back to those expectations, and we saw a girl trying to survive a cruel man who didn’t care about anything but his own financial gain. However, that’s not all we got to see. We saw a girl who was formerly afraid of confronting her father and telling him what she has always held against him. After losing her title of heiress, she knew the only thing she had left to lose was her family at Beacon, so she left the home many would beg for because it wasn’t home for her. It was a prison, and she was done paying for the time that her corrupt father put on her.

That’s where she became my favorite. I personally have had problems with my parents and what they want from me. I won’t get into the details, but Weiss made me realize that I’m not alone. That I had people who would connect on that experience. She also made me realize that I did have power and control over my future. I didn’t have to follow what my parents want from me because this life is mine.

2. Music

When it comes to RWBY’s stellar soundtrack, there are very few tracks that hit me as hard as the songs written for Weiss. It’s also helped because it is likely that Weiss has sung them in canon. I won’t go into too much in detail because this post will already be as long as Yang’s hair. Just know that the opera style mixed with a somber piano that eventually turned into opera transitioning into hard rock fits Weiss so well, and I love it!

3. Relationships with Her Teammates

In Volume 1, Weiss was presented with a dilemma. She viewed herself as the perfect candidate for a leader, but Ozpin thought otherwise. She thought it was outrageous for Ozpin to think Ruby was a better choice, but Port knew her thinking was preposterous. Weiss wasn’t fit for a leader, and her teachers told her she isn’t. Instead of keeping up the fight to become a leader, she made a choice: be the absolute teammate she could be. Before I get to what that means off the battlefield, which is the kind of support many connect her being the best teammate she could be with, let me talk about her on the battlefield because I feel like that had to be brought up before I get to that. Weiss is the support of the group. Yes, she can fight amazingly on her own, but when the team is fighting as a unit, Weiss is the support. Her dust and semblance, which I believe to potentially be the best in the show, allow her teammates to bring their semblances to another level. Whether by creating space between them and opponents to catch a breath, allowing for diverse movement through her summons and glyphs, or making their position advantageous, Weiss as a support could change the tide of a fight drastically. Before she made the commitment to being the best teammate, her fighting style was very aggressive, which ended up giving her that defining scar. After said commitment, she focused on supporting her teammates on the battlefield.

Later in the show, however, Weiss would become the empathetic one of the group. If you had a problem, Weiss will probably give you a therapy session. The best example is the conversation between her and Yang. Weiss walks into the room and sits on the bed opposite Yang, silent. She lets Yang talk herself out. Even when Yang said she wouldn’t understand, Weiss listened. It’s only when Yang asked Weiss to finally speak is where she says what she wanted to say. She told her the story of her tenth birthday and the rift that was created on her birthday. She expresses her version of loneliness and how Yang’s is different. She may not fully understand Yang’s version of loneliness, but she understands that it’s there and that Blake has her own. Yang snapped back and Weiss was silent again. She then poses a question to Yang and she answers it. She explains to Yang that Blake watched the one thing she expected to happen happen. Yang expresses that she never blamed Blake and that she wanted Blake here for her. Weiss understands and also wants Blake there. Yang doesn’t believe Blake would return, but Weiss reminds her that the team is a family. Blake feels the same. They’re gonna be there for each other when the occasion arises. Then the occasion arose, and Blake wanted to prove that she was there for Yang. Yang let Blake know that although she doesn’t depend entirely on her, they’re there for each other and happy to be back together.

There’s a reason why Weiss is called the beekeeper. That conversation in Volume 5 is what propelled Bumblebee forward. As a WhiteRose shipper, I hope the same eventually happens for Weiss and her partner. Even if it doesn’t, we know Weiss will be there for Ruby because she promised to be the best teammate.

4. Design

I’m not an artist or a character designer, so I can’t go into the intricacies of her design. But I am someone with a pair of eyes, and I can tell you Weiss is beautifully designed. Out of all the initial designs, Weiss was probably the riskiest to use. Each member of Team RWBY had a defining feature that stood out. Blake’s ribbon from her weapon, Yang’s golden hair, and Ruby’s red cape. Weiss, however, didn’t have much. If I remember correctly from Ein Lee’s notes in the Mirror Mirror anthology, this allowed him to add intricate designs to Weiss. Her sleeves, for example, have an intricate pattern. Her glyphs change depending on what she’s doing with them. Most importantly, however, she is asymmetrical. She ties her hair to the right instead of the dead center as an act of defiance from her father. Her scar, which is even asymmetrical in her eye, keeps her face symmetrical. You’d think that a character so prim and proper would emphasize being symmetrical, but she is proof that beauty isn’t reliant on symmetry. As the Yellow Trailer states, “Scathing eyes ask that we be symmetrical, one sided, and easily processed. Yet every misshapen spark’s unseen beauty is greater than it would be judgement."

5. Me as a Person

I can praise a character until the end of time, but that won’t prove one thing: why is she my favorite? As stated before, I connect with her struggle, but that can’t be it. I mean, I connect with Mirabel’s struggle in Encanto, yet Rapunzel is my favorite Disney protagonist. Weiss’ struggle is only a fraction of why she is so near and dear to my heart. For that, I have to get into who I am. I am an aspiring writer and RWBY is the reason for that. It is the show that changed the directory of my life, and I don’t think that would be possible if the show didn’t have Weiss.

What Weiss means to me is a second chance. Her life is full of second chances. A second chance to be a better teammate. A second chance to be a better sister. A second chance to prove herself and uphold her family name. I mess up in life. A lot. I have been dealt some of the worst hands and I have to deal with it. My family isn’t kind to my aspirations, my sexuality, or my religious beliefs (or lack thereof). What can I say, some believe in fairy stories and the ghost that they can’t see. Weiss is in many ways who I want to be. She’s confident. She’s determined. She’s always in pursuit of improving herself. She isn’t perfect, but she doesn’t have to be. I’m not perfect, but I don’t have to be.

We’re not perfect, but we don’t have to be. Our lives aren’t over by one misstep. We can pick ourselves up and keep moving forward. We will fail over and over again, but it isn’t the end. We just have to get up and give it 110% the next time.

That’s what Weiss Schnee means to me: a second chance to prove myself and be the best version of myself.

Guys, thank you for reading. I hope you took something from this and that you have a wonderful day. Peace.

#rwby #rwby analysis #RWBY appreciation post #rwby weiss #weiss schnee #weiss appreciation post #web show #character appreciation #she means a lot to me

[misstrashchan]

Looking back, there's actually more symbolic foreshadowing for Whiteknight than I initially realised in the dance arc in V2. When Jaune goes to ask Weiss out, intending to follow Phyrha's advice about cutting out the bravado and just being honest about how he feels, he's holding a white flower to give to her:

But he then sees Weiss asking out Neptune instead, and realising she has someone else she's interested in, he drops the flower and leaves.

Essentially the flower represents his romantic interest in Weiss, but also a potential future of a relationship between the two based on mutual honesty and respect, (following Pyrrha's advice to just be yourself) instead of the false selves they project and initially see the other to be.

After this scene of dropping the flower he stops with his attempts to ask Weiss out altogether. Him dropping the flower is him dropping his romantic interest in Weiss, instead focusing on just being a good friend and looking out for her (convincing Neptune to go talk to Weiss because he knew it would make her happy).

But we see this flower transition into this vase, drooping and wilting at the dance:

...followed by a frustrated Weiss trying to perk the same flower up:

Which seems to foreshadow Weiss later on being the one to take a romantic interest in Jaune in V9, and also being the one to support and reassure Jaune when he's at his lowest:

Which does in turn seemingly cause that potential budding flower of their relationship to grow and bloom again, just as the two of them have been growing into their own true selves over the course of the series.

And I just think that's pretty neat.

#suprise! a whiteknight post! #this ship doesn't make me feral or speak to my soul the way other rwby ships do but I think it's pretty well written and set up #and that I can appreciate #rwby #weiss schnee #jaune arc #rwby2 #rwby9 #whiteknight #rwby meta #kind of?

[d0d0-b0i]

rwby’s

#rwby #ruby rose #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #weiss schnee #bumbleby #my art #first fandom post for me! hi!! #their clothes r so difficult😩😩…. #love/hate the way these eps r being hyped up ngl! i am too damn excited for a monday #anyway plz appreciate that i tried to learn how to draw women 4 this #i care abt them so much i had to try lol 🙏❤️✨🤣😤

[zeropsworld]

I just want to highlight how much of a loving caring person Blake is and how much she’s there for the people she cares about

#rwby #blake belladonna appreciation post #blake belladonna #weiss schnee #ruby rose #yang xiao long #bumbleby

[lordofwought]

#my post #funny meme #rwby memes #rwby #rwby shitpost #jaune arc #jaune arc appreciation

[azzther]

pspspspssp new Weiss art just dropped, check it out

#i dunno one of the ships name so im just gonna #whiteknight #but like #with pyrrha #frozen steel #rwby #weiss schnee #appreciation post wihihi #nordic winter #penny polendina #ruby rose #im gonna milk this im so proud of this comm #commissions open #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #bees schnees #digital art #lgbt

[iamafanofcartoons]

Things to like about Raven Branwen by Rwbybrainrot

Come on, what’s not to love about a morally ambiguous woman who’s also a walking magical force of destruction?

All those images can be found at  https://twitter.com/rwbybrainrot/status/1649621508074123264

#raven branwen appreciation post #rwby raven #raven branwen #taiyang x summer #taiyang x raven #raven x summer #rwby rosebird #rosebird #bumbleby #yang x blake #Blake Belladonna #weiss schnee #yang xiao long #rwby ruby rose #rwby ruby #ruby rose #qrow #rwby qrow #qrow branwen #rwby blake #rwby yang xiao long #rwby weiss #rwby summer #rwby summer rose #summer rose #taiyang xiao long #rwby #rwbybrainrot

[hamliet]

What do you think about the claim that any relationship Jaune could have with Weiss or anyone else her age is creepy now because of his age? A lot of people are trying to say that it doesn't matter that Jaune has his young body back, he's still a 40 year old in a 20 year old's body. I think that's giving those 20 years of his that he spent on his own and stuck in a cycle too much importance and that it takes his aging process too literally to begin with when it was more of a tool to explore a theme - but I dunno, maybe I'm biased because I DO ship him with Weiss.

I'm not surprised people would say this, but I honestly think people who say that are majorly misreading everything and this is without having anything to do with ships.

The point of Jaune aging is precisely that he did not develop the entire time. All those years, he stayed the same mentally. He went to extreme lengths to make sure everything and everyone around him stayed the same as well.

I think I said it in the anima/animus meta, but regardless of shipping, the point is that Jaune is not a 40 year old in a teen's body now, but that he was, in the Ever After, a teen in a 40 year old's body.

Jaune being young again was him being fixed. Jaune got to return to his true self in a parallel to Ruby--and that means being a teenager.

#rwby volume 9 #jaune arc #white knight #The thing about me is that I feel like with all my posts everyone now assumes I'm White Knight OTP #but the reality is that i came to appreciate it bc the story set it up thematically and alchemically and it adds a lot to the story #it's more appreciation than passion #emercury and rosegarden are the two that i'm full of feels for #idk if you set stuff up in writing the best writing follows it all through #so i think volume 9 made it pretty likely white knight is happening #but regardless the overall point of this answer stands. jaune could end up with anyone or no one and the point is still that he stagnated #in the ever after #he did not actually grow

[neos--neo]

Theodore make his first appearance

Me: Theodore we meet at last

#I just really appreciate his character design 👀 #For real though That goatee #diamond vest #with a cape #and ruby earrings Straight up magnificent #rwby theodore #professor theodore #rwby beyond #rwby spoilers #my post #my meme

[knightfromthecottage]

i love you animated ripples in the ocean, i love you animated waves on the beach, i love you animated light reflected on water at night, i love you animated leaves rustling in the wind, i love you animated sunshine making a lens flare, i love you animated flowers in a meadow, i love you animated stars twinkling in the nightksy, i love you animated rain and snow, i love you animated clouds and thunder, i love you animated rocks, i love you animators

#tdp #anime #cottagecore #ghibli #pokemon #violet evergarden #spy x family #appreciation #appreciation post #the owl house #the dragon prince #rwby #toh #jujutsu kaisen #sxf #animation #the dragon prince season 4 #tdp s4 #tdp season 4

[artsbysmarty]

I would like to request White Rose, But they dyed their hair to match the other, Ruby's hair white with blue tip, and Wiess dyed dark red.

They dyed each other’s hair at a slumber party! (Yang took the picture)

#rwby #rwby fanart #Ruby rose #weiss schnee #whiterose #request #my art #(also my posts aren’t showing up in tags anymore so reblogs are appreciated ;w;)

[walpywalpy]

I will always enjoy stories about how taking a leap of faith and becoming who you are is the first major step in life or a story about how the fact that life will end is what makes the things in your life precious. However, there’s something so earnest about RWBY in that it’s a story about loving yourself and that no matter the hardships, you are always enough. It’s a story about being a good person and that’s really all it needs. It’s simple, which allows the cast of characters show it in different ways.

Yang losing her arm and realizing that it will only affect as much as she allows it to because she is strong enough to go beyond it.

Blake believing that she has hurt too many people but Sun reminds her that her team will always love her because she is enough.

Ruby realizing that she doesn’t have to hold herself to an impossible standard and that failures will happen, but it’s not the end.

Weiss understanding that her upbringing wasn’t okay and that she has lost so much, but that her name and origin doesn’t define her, she is the one that defines it.

I will always love stories with a direct and specific theme, but RWBY is my favorite show and property of all time. One of the reason is because of how it’s simple theme is expressed amazingly through its cast.

#rwby #rwby appreciation post #rwby volume 9 #rwby ruby #rwby weiss #rwby blake #rwby yang #I love this show #greenlight volume 10

[madmanwonder]

Saphron: And this was Jaune Arc when he was 9 years old. He was so excited for Halloween.

Everyone: Aaaaaaawwwwwww~!

Jaune: *Crying in the corner* Kill me….

#rwby #rwby shitpost #jaune arc #jaune arc appreciation #saphron cotta arc #halloween post #halloween prompt

[unofficialadamtaurus]

The-only-recently-canon Bumblebee: 🧀🧀🧀🌽🌽🌽 🎣🎣🎣💰💰

HP Bumblebee: mutual respect, appreciation, and patience, with clear communication and a healthy dose of angsty hopelessness

The-only-recently-canon Bumblebee: 🤡 you’re not intimidated by me, Blake 🤡 you never give up 🤡

HP Bumblebee: acknowledges their flaws and make genuine promises to improve as people

The-only-recently-canon Bumblebee: 💩Bees confess and kiss because the fucking island forced them to 💩

HP Bumblebee: Bees confess and kiss because they fucking want to

The-only-recently-canon Bumblebee: 🤢made by RT🤢

HP Bumblebee: made by a Chad Adam fan

Can! They! Please! Have! A! Single! Fucking! Conversation! About! Their! Problems! Please!

A confession scene that's literally the environment conspiring to force them to confess, made up of them saying platitudes about each other with little to no evidence behind them to back them up. Don't shows usually have brief flashbacks to specific moments being talked about during scenes like these?

This would all be so much easier to stomach if they spent even a two-minute scene just having them talk about the ways in which they've hurt each other. Blake, by leaving Yang and the rest of the team without warning or explanation, and then later by infantilizing Yang because of her injury. Yang, by being quick to temper and displaying behavior very similar to Adam, and also by othering Blake as a faunus. Even how their relationship fits with the apocalypse happening around them.

God, I'd forgotten about that one line of Yang's in the confession. "I think your ears are cute" what the fuck.

#anon #unofficial adam answers #hollow people reviews #rwde #rwby spoilers #i appreciate using hp to dunk on canon but canon is such a low bar that just about every fanfic is clearing it without noticing #long post

[derpyslurpy-da-derp-master]

hi yes i love her

#RWBY Ice Queendom #Ice Queendom Spoilers #Weiss RWBY #RWBY Memes #RWBY Shitpost #Weiss Appreciation Hour #Original Post

[yangfanbb]

Still love that she learned from her Volume 3 mistake

#rwby #rwby volume 6 #yang xiao long #rwby yang #rwby yang xiao long #yang xiao long appreciation post