#Summer rose

[howlingday]

Raven: What are you doing?

Ruby: Running with scissors~!

Raven: Stupid girl... No self-respecting huntress would be caught dead running around with a pair of scissors. Dishonorable.

Raven: (Hands Omen) Here. Use this instead.

Ruby: Cool~!

Taiyang: Ruby, no!

Summer: WILL YOU STOP GIVING HER WEAPONS?!

#rwby #ruby rose #raven branwen #taiyang xiao long #summer rose #pixelrush

[anthurak]

So I’ve been thinking more about one of the more subtle but striking questions brought up by Ruby’s tree vision:

Namely; to where or rather to who were Raven and Summer portaling to? After all, it’s been established that Raven’s semblance, Kindred Link, allows her to create portals specifically to people she has established a certain bond and connection with.

And this is particularly interesting, because of the people we thus far know have Raven’s ‘Link’, only ONE was otherwise not present in the flashback; Qrow.

And wouldn’t you know it; Qrow also happens to be one of the people we can definitively say DOESN’T know what happened to Summer, going off his talk with Ruby in Volume 7 where he mentions having no idea where Summer went or what she was doing on her mysterious last mission.

Now, as I’m sure some people will bring up, it IS possible that Qrow was actually present and is simply keeping quiet about it to Ruby. However, personally I seriously doubt that. As I simply don’t see the writers cheapening such a personal and important scene between Ruby and Qrow by later revealing that Qrow was actually outright lying to Ruby at the time.

So that seemingly leaves us with seemingly only one other option: That Summer and Raven portaled to someone else.

As to who that someone might be? Well personally, I think it would have to be someone we likely haven’t met yet. I know some people have suggested it could have been Ozpin, but frankly I don’t buy that one bit. Whatever happened to Summer is clearly meant to have MASSIVE implications, impact and general status-quo shattering revelations, all things it would make much more sense that Oz has NO idea to. Not to mention it’s kind of hard to imagine Raven forming a link, clearly a very close connection, with someone she seems to have always distrusted like Ozpin. Meaning that we’re left with a character that we simply haven’t be introduced to yet.

However, after giving it some more thought, I think there may be a THIRD option:

Raven and Summer DIDN’T actually portal to a person.

Remember just how we learned the mechanics of Raven’s semblance?

It was via Yang explaining it, via information she was told by TAI.

Here’s the thing though; Tai certainly knew how Raven’s semblance worked back when they were a team with Summer and Qrow. But it’s also been a LONG time since then. And wouldn’t you know it, these last couple volumes have ALSO introduced us to the concept of SEMBLANCE EVOLUTION.

So what if in the near-twenty-odd years since leaving her team, Raven’s semblance ALSO ‘evolved’? To the point where she can form her ‘Links’ with more than JUST people?

Perhaps now Raven can form a link with objects that have particular significance to her? Or, and this one I find the most compelling, LOCATIONS that are particularly important to her?

It’s funny that we’ve never actually known for sure where or to who Raven has been portalling to all the times we’ve seen her. Sure, in hindsight I think we’ve all been assuming it was Vernal in Volumes 2, 3, and 4, and to Taiyang at the end of Volume 5. But the funny thing is, we DON’T actually hear the characteristic sound of Raven’s portal opening in the V5 post-credits scene with Tai, only the flapping of wings. Implying that Raven may not have actually portalled to Tai directly…

Meaning that throughout the show, perhaps Raven wasn’t actually portalling to Vernal, but rather to the camp, the home which now has great significance and meaning to her. And at the end of Volume 5, she portalled not to Tai, but rather to the home she once had on Patch. Or, for the REAL spicy alternative, to Summer’s grave.

So what if at the start of their world-most-homoerotic-suicide-mission together, Raven and Summer portalled not to a person, but rather to a LOCATION that Raven was able to set up a link to?

(shoutout to @mikey-polo420 for the ask that got me thinking about this :D)

#rwby #rwby theory #rwby analysis #Raven Branwen #Summer Rose #rwby semblances #semblance evolution

[strqyr]

summer falling into a grimm pool and getting the same treatment as salem rather than cinder / the hound really speaks to me. here's a huntress with silver eyes straight from legends. she looks a bit more grimm now. the same power that protected her from the destructive effects of the pool is now useless to her as it hurts her as much as it hurts the grimm.

how much would that change her? to potentially work her whole life towards a single goal to be a huntress, to be a hero, only to look like the monsters she trained to hunt and kill? how much did she value the power she holds; was she like maria where her eyes were only one part of her repertoire, or did she built her entire identity around them and the legends that spoke of them? what was the burden she carried, and did falling into a grimm pool make it impossible to carry?

summer rose. the huntress. the silver-eyed warrior. the best of them all. the super-mom. the hero.

and she failed.

but did she really, or did becoming something akin to a grimm make it seem like she did in her own mind, that she couldn't be that person everyone thought her to be anymore?

#rwby #summer rose #falls of grace are never elegant

[lovingdabeessss]

summer hugging blake : break my little girl's heart again and the grimm will be the least of your problems

Yeah she gon get her

#rwby #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #summer rose

[theshinymagpies]

So.many.unresolved.FEELINGS...

#Rosebird #summer rose #raven branwen #rwby #yang xiao long

[pmpknsoup]

imagine your ex turning into a bird so she doesnt have to pay child support for her daughter that you adopted

#rwby fanart #rwby #summer rose #raven branwen #rosebird #rwby summer rose #rwby raven #rwby volume 9 #rwby spoilers #sort of

[catalyswitch]

Some quick sketches cause I was having feelings after the episode yesterday....

#Morgana Arts #RWBY #Summer Rose #yang xiao long #Ruby Rose #Xiao Long Rose family #Can't believe I'm here doing rwby fanart in the year 2023 #but here we are #sometimes the inspiration is just there and you gotta roll with it

[bloodraven55]

SUMMER AND RAVEN INTERACTING? ON MY SCREEN?? IN 2023??? I'M GOING FERAL—

#rwby #rwby9 #rosebird #summer rose #raven branwen #rwby summer #rwby raven #rwby spoilers #rwby9 spoilers

[cosmokyrin]

my contribution to the RWBYtwt selfie trend rn LMAO

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Artwork powered by Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS): Linux Mint MATE 21.1 and Krita 5.1.5

#rwby #rwby9 #summer rose #ruby rose #rwby fanart #kyrin's art #this is like the stupidest shit i've done this year but anyway #LMAO #i will die on any summer rose content #anyway i wanna add context here lmao - it's just summer and ruby talking theY'RE NOT DEAD- LMAO

[hadesisqueer]

They're both so Yang it's so funny

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby volume 9 #raven branwen #summer rose #yang xiao long #rosebird #i guess

[sir-adamus]

like mothers like daughter i guess

#RWBY #RWBY9 #RWBY spoilers #RWBY9 spoilers #Raven Branwen #Yang Xiao Long #Summer Rose #i knew I'd seen Yang make that expression somewhere

[sunnyteea]

SUMMER ROSE’S ENTIRE FUCKING SELF OH MY GOD

#rwby #rwby9 #rwby spoilers #summer rose #I HAVE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR THIS DAY OH MY GOD I CAN'T #I'M DYING I'M CRYING I'M #SUMMER!!! SUMMER ROSE!!!!!

[soul-siren]

Summer didn't get into my RWBY favorites simply because we don't see much of her, but I absolutely loved her design.

So here is a little appreciation art dump I started a while ago before BG3 stole all my attention upon it's release.

I haven't gone back and finished my WIPs from before BG3, and I kind of kept running into the issue that something else would catch my interest and I'd make even more WIPS, and repeat before I could go back to any of the WIPs.

And so despite my Mass Effect obsession's returning, I AM trying to get some WIPs done. Not all will be finished, as some pieces were stopped at unideal points, but I will try for some.

#rwby #rwby fanart #summer rose #rwby ruby rose #yang xiao long #digital art

[strqyr]

thinking about these—

and the context within and like. the obscuring of summer's face when she says "if i do this right, then there's nothing to worry about. trust me." is suspicious, to say the least, but the way she's upset and angry with raven... it feels like it goes beyond just raven leaving, ya know? if summer's hidden face and raven's current view of her is anything to go by, something went south real quick, and i wouldn't be surprised to find it was summer who betrayed raven, and doing so simply because she left once upon a time seems like an overkill.

and that gets me to the scene in V5 and what actually led to the shoulder bump back then, and. well. yang's opinion of raven may have not been the greatest at any point of time, but it was heavily influence with not knowing anything and wanting answers—why did she leave?

it only takes a hard downturn when yang figures out what happened to the spring maiden. that is at the core of everything that follows; including the shoulder bump.

and when the question of when exactly raven became the spring maiden is treated as a spoiler question—even when canon, allegedly, provides a time frame for it—, it really makes me wonder if summer figured it out on her own, and it's that that explains her view of raven in the flashback.

it would also be a really interesting difference between yang and summer; yang taking the target off of raven's back while summer's like WELP. somebody's gotta go!!

#rwby #raven branwen #summer rose #yang xiao long #raven: i'm sorry :'( #yang: yeah... me too :'( #summer: I'M NOT

[lovingdabeessss]

Raven and summer were totally a thing right

In my head? Yeah, for sure, all three were together it just makes the most sense to me

I’m not even a rosebird shipper really I just watched the episode where we saw them together and that was the only explanation for that

+like it makes sense with their relationship with tai and all it’s just the only explanation

#rwby #summer rose #raven branwen

[chantaldraw]

#rwby #digital art #drawing #sketch #rwbyfanart #rwby volume 9 #rwby spoilers #summer rose #ruby rose #yang xiao long