#Yang raised Ruby

[tumblingxelian]

The Fraught Family Ties of the Rose-Xiao Long Household:

Sorry for the ramble, I wanted to share something born of a discussion I had with someone regarding the canonical relationship on the Rose-Xiao Long sisters & their father figures.

So, I often find Tai (& Qrow) propped up as good father figures who maybe just had some moments of weakness but either got better long before canon or during the show and who are super close with Ruby & Yang with very healthy relationships.

Given possibly my most popular post, (Yang & Ruby's childhood) I don't think this is a universal stance, certainly not these days, and I don't think its well supported in canon either.

This doesn't mean that love isn't there, but love and resentment can live in the same house and the Rose-Xiao Long household is far more complex than I think people give it credit for.

Now, some will probably highlight positive tones and references in the early volumes, but here's the thing. A child growing up around something can get used to a lot. Ruby & Yang are clearly very used to Qrow stumbling home utterly wasted, even carried by strangers and needing to take care of him. This is normal to them and neither show any resentment towards it until on their last nerve.

That is to say, Ruby and Yang are fine with Qrow's drinking and smile through it, riiiight up until they themselves are on the edge of snapping real hard over things such as in V6.

Neither of them express their trauma like say, Jaune does, who tends to be quite open with his resentment and prone to lashing out. The sisters smile through it, they may express frustration or anger at other things, but not their loved one's, which makes it easy to pretend everything is cool and normal.

Hell, keeping things light with humor is explicitly noted to be how Yang copes and Ruby is shown consistently beginning to show sadness before quickly bottling it up up. This is just how they handle negative emotions they cant comfortably express.

Thus, while Ruby expressing frustration at Yang giving Tai like advice in V1 doesn't indicate hostility, nor does her being all smiles around his presence in V3's opening indicate everything is super awesome.

After all, things are good at that moment, but let's take a look at the end of V3.

Tai is clearly worrying and trying to fuss over Ruby. But she is very neutral on the whole thing, mostly just trying to get intel on what the fuck happened from him and not being remotely upset when Qrow makes him leave. She show's a bit more vulnerability around Qrow, but is still very focused on the practical questions of what happened.

Its only when she's alone with Yang, that Ruby really becomes expressive with her emotions and more to the point, shows outright uncertainty in what to do. This leads her to being shocked when Yang is in no fit state t provide her with the guidance and support she clearly craves and expected.

Ruby also specifically addresses her letters to Yang and broadly speaking doesn't really seem to think about Tai all that much. Again I don't think she dislikes him, but given she openly acknowledges Yang as the one who raised her & Yang herself noted she had to keep the family together...

Well, I think that Ruby doesn't really perceive Tai as a parent, strictly speaking. In the sense that I don't believe she views Tai as someone to go to for comfort or advice or guidance.

He's her dad and she loves him, but he's less of an adult to her than Yang was. In that same vein Qrow is a Huntsmen, her mentor and uncle yes, but the former I think inform her behavior with him more than the latter.

Now, let's also compare Tai and Yang's relationship a little.

We know Tai taught her how to fight, but he doesn't show any real understanding of how her Semblance works or her fighting style given she has utilized plenty of blocks, dodges and clever strategies in the first three volumes. What's more him critiquing her for fighting that way and making it her fault when he taught her feels suspect to me.

(I would note it was Yang who realized Ruby needed CQC help before anyone else, so she clearly thought deeply on this stuff.)

But beyond that, we see Yang is heavily isolated, both from how the camera work frames her. But also because she us housed in a guest room and that Tai, while obviously unhappy about what happened overall seems far more focused on Ruby in terms of trying to provide some care. What's more, when she's clearly distressed he walks away and leaves her to stew.

Yang's shown still doing lots of work around the house, despite everything and his efforts to 'help' her are all about getting her back into the fight over worrying for her safety like he did Ruby.

This is a big thing for me, Tai was clearly deeply upset when Qrow wanted to speak to Ruby alone and terrified when she left.

Meanwhile when it comes to 'helping' Yang its all about getting back into the action and going after Ruby. He doesn't seem to mind the idea of sending her into danger.

Then there' show he hypocritically dismisses her trauma and depression while at the same time diminishing her maturity despite him having left her to raise Ruby and keep the family together.

He also makes his help for her conditional on her no longer "Moping" while its her teachers who barely know Yang that provide actually useful guidance on healing.

When alone he also frames 'caring for her' IE letting her live in the house and take care of herself, like its this heavy burden that is keeping him from Ruby.

This is despite the fact he ultimately does not go after Ruby.

You can claim its a budget thing the show we have is the show we have. Thus, he sends her off to parent Ruby instead of himself. Also Tai outright compares Yang to Raven despite them being radically different and honestly Ruby being a lot closer to even the positive traits he ascribed to Raven.

Thus I think there's an element of projection that leads to Ruby being preferences between the two but also Tai having come in too late to really be seen as the parent he wants to be perceived as.

Now, let's look at Qrow.

Both sisters are clearly used to him staggering or being carried home drunk and needing to take care of him, meaning they have been doing this since childhood.

This would have a hugely negative impact on their mental wellbeing and impact how they perceive him.

Beyond that, I am unsure how close he even is to Yang outside the superficial. Some of that may indeed be down to time, but there have been periods where they could have shown a deep bond and its not manifested.

When Yang is framed, her team, two of whom have only know her for a few months and have plenty of trauma that would make them rightly suspicious choose to believe her and sympathize with her.

Qrow meanwhile says she is either lying or crazy and does not express much in the way of real empathy or trust.

Rather than showing an interest in maybe trying to resolve the issue or help her through decides that maybe directing her to Raven might help. He obviously cares, but generally never shows much of the same concern or affection for Yang that he does for Ruby.

Granted even then Qrow requires caretaking from both his nieces.

What's more he often tethers Ruby to Summer. So while his mentorship of her does let her be a little more vulnerable with him than Tai its still an unbalanced relationship.

However outside of that, Qrow's generally fairly good with Ruby and her influence on him seemed to be the primary thing that stopped him drinking. He also shows a great deal of faith in her in general, though how much of that is projection likely varies.

But he mentored Ruby so its natural they are maybe a little closer.

Still, I think Ruby & Yang held Qrow in higher regard, at least as a Huntsmen than their father, there's a lot of baggage to the relationship at a minimum.

I also think Ruby & Yang's lack of communication seen in later volumes is sort of reflective of the families unhealthy dynamics evolving between them.

Yang being forced to raise a sister two years younger than her is already a heavy burden on both of them. Yang from having to step up and fill the roll of an adult as a child & Ruby because no matter how hard Yang tried it as never gonna be perfect but she couldn't exactly complain about it either.

So both just sort of smiled through the pain as they grew and came out fairly functional and happy if carrying a lot of baggage beneath the surface. This is why both respond to grief and trauma in a similar manner, pushing the issues down until they explode or collapse. It was how they got by.

They were also extremely close, for all that Yang talked of Ruby maybe trying to branch out onto other teams, she instantly tried to seek her out in the Emerald Forest, saved her a spot in the auditorium and generally tried to assist and advice her along with expressing great pride in her.

Ruby bore with with a mixed degree of playfulness and teen like annoyance, while still wanting to cling to Yang. She was also very comfortable early on with expressing her concerns around Yang, such as with Blake being so stressed and not knowing what to do about it & seemingly had total faith in Yang's ability to resolve things.

As previously outlined, when Ruby was seeking comfort and guidance after the Fall of Beacon she went to Yang and was shocked when Yang couldn't provide her what she needed and quickly began separating herself, clearly deeply impacted.

Yang remained the center of her homeward focus after that fact and when Yang returned she was able to express vulnerability with her.

Briefly.

However, Yang soon showed that her recovery was not as complete as she wanted to project and again Ruby was at a loss for what to do with a Yang who is upset.

Keep in mind she's entirely capable of comforting a drunk, hung over or otherwise very upset Qrow, but the prospect of comforting Yang leaves her shuffling nervously outside the door while Weiss helps her.

Ruby's perception of Yang seemed to have put her on something of a pedestal in the way a lot of children do their parents where its hard to start seeing them as a person.

& When Ruby did start seeing Yang as a person, her complexes regarding leadership caused her to see Yang as someone who needed protection.

This caused her to freeze Yang out of her issues, we see this with her rejecting Yang's efforts to comfort her in V8, responding instead with sullen silences or sharp emotional jabs to try and make Yang go away.

Yet at the same time, she didn't entirely try to keep the façade up, perhaps in part because she couldn't.

I also think there's a part of her that sort... Expected Yang to know what to do and to say for her even though Ruby has changed as a person and is no longer communicating clearly like she used to.

Which then causes her to resent Yang for not being able to say the right things and provide the right assistance like she did when they were kids. Even though Yang doesn't know how Ruby feels their relationship has changed and can't know with Ruby actively avoiding acting in a manner that would elicit her concern.

Basically, this is an extremely messy family.

It has four actual adults, the most competent of whom martyred herself. One of whom left because she couldn't handle it and two of whom failed when put to the test.

This left the role of grown up in the room to Yang who had to keep the family together and raise her sister. While Ruby had to basically become the least troubled child possible to make this easier on them all.

Raven cutting herself out of their lives and her ties to Yang, while Summer being a beloved martyr seems to have also rippled down to their kids.

With Yang almost being like the black sheep of the family. She's the one they expect to do something immoral or "crazy' and generally expected to take care of herself and Ruby without any kind of acknowledgement or significant assistance.

Meanwhile Ruby is regarded as a sort of proto Summer, this beacon of purity, which leaves Tai over protective but ultimately inactive leaving the task of helping her to Yang. With Qrow expecting the world from her which just applies more pressure.

I do think everyone of them love each other, but I also think there's also a lot of resentment, frustration and projection going on here, with many utter failures of parenting. These ultimately caused the families relationships to never developed into what they should be and are instead leaving them in an odd sort of limbo; with a lot left unsaid and unhealthy.

#RWBY #Ruby Rose #Yang Xiao Long #Tai & Qrow did not do a good job #Do not clown on this post #Family trauma #RWBY Analysis #Yang raised Ruby #Ruby had to be 'OK' all the time

[anthurak]

I think it’s time I address what is by far the BIGGEST assumption much of the fandom has made about Ruby’s and Yang’s parents:

That Raven was just the shitty parent who abandoned her daughters, and that Summer and Tai were the uncomplicated GOOD parents who made the good choices. And Qrow was the well-meaning fuckup who’s been able to improve.

When the reality is that ALL of Team STRQ were in fact well-meaning but  MASSIVE fuckups in each their own way.

Like if nothing else, they all bailed on Ruby and Yang in one way or another (Raven and Summer physically, Tai emotionally/psychologically for several years, Qrow a bit of both)

And I have a good feeling that the Vacuo arc will be when Ruby and Yang will finally have to address that shit.

#rwby #rwby rambling #Team STRQ #Summer Rose #Taiyang Xiao Long #Raven Branwen #Qrow Branwen #Ruby Rose #Yang Xiao Long #team strq were ALL fuckup parents #yang having to effectively raise ruby herself doesn't exactly speak well of tai's or qrow's parenting #the only non-fuckup parents among team rwby are kali and ghira belladonna

[strqyr]

tbh it is kind of funny how on their first day at beacon ruby asked yang "why do i need friends when i have you?" to which yang responds by ditching her to catch up with her own friends like okay, i guess that's one way to get the message clear lol

and then during the fall of beacon, when ruby isn't answering her scroll and everyone yang asks about her whereabouts doesn't know where she is either, you'd expect yang to be super worried and panicking because for all she knows, ruby might be dead in a ditch somewhere

but instead of that happening she tells the barely-standing-on-her-own weiss to look for ruby while she goes to meet up with blake and like

damn. she really meant that. the first and the last day at beacon, full circle moment.

#rwby #ruby rose #yang xiao long #truly a moment for the books #idk if the writers thought this through #or if it was all planned to show that these siblings are drifting apart #but this always comes to my mind when ppl are like “yang is super motherly and raised ruby on her own uwu” like. . . okay. sure. #would love to see it on screen one day bc this surely ain't it LMAO

[min3nc]

[Fighting Salem]

Weiss: Maybe we just back the f—

Ruby: Mom didn’t raise a bitch we keep going!

Blake: Mom did raise a bitch I say let’s go—

Ruby: Mom actually didn’t raise nobody my mom was absent.

Weiss: Oh god—

#rwby #weiss schnee #ruby rose #blake belladonna #incorrect rwby quotes #yang: mom raised a butch 😎 (deflecting the pain with humor)

[lovingdabeessss]

Baby Yang and Ruby 💕💗❤️✨💖💗for you my beloveds💖❤️💖✨✨💖❤️💖✨💕💞💗😘

Yang has lost many years off her life from small Ruby just shoving things in her mouth

#rwby #yang xiao long #Ruby rose #the sisters #they’re so personal to me #Do I think yang raised Ruby? yes #do i think it was also SUPER hard because Yang was a SMALL CHILD and Ruby is chaos incarnate?!? #also yes

[onceuponalegendbg-rwby]

What’s hilarious to me is that Crwby has been relatively quiet this week compared to their trend of hyping each episode up this volume, and instead of that making us think “oh guess nothing cool happens this week” people are like “it’s too quiet and this makes me nervous.”

Like, Crwby has us trained at this point to be suspicious of everything whether they say anything or not. We just know we’re in for pain regardless.

They don’t even have to lift a finger we’re just psyching ourselves out now.

#rwby #spoilers #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #ruby rose #weiss schnee #there’s only three episodes left #of course I expect pain #especially with how 7 ended? #please mama didn’t raise no fool #an idiot sure #but not a fool

[powertaco]

Transmigration

After a tragic battle Raven goes back to the tribe, but she brings along her daughter Yang who agrees to go to get strong enough to protect her little sister.

A little sister raised by Qrow who she hasn't seen for over a decade.

What will happen when two very different sisters finally meet, and is the world of Remnant ready for the result?

Can they manage to free Remnant from all those who pull the strings?

Art by twitter.com/Hiru3152

#rwby #whiterose #plus young maria #what if raven raised yang #and qrow raised ruby #weird stuff #death's whiterose

[sonofthetrigod]

“This world was created to end.” Ruby has been taught that since her earliest days. Mom and her Grimm were meant to have destroyed this world long ago, and it’s only through the efforts of foolish Hunters that it continues. Oh, it’s not that the Hunters are evil. Mom always told her that good and evil don’t exist. There’s just those dedicated to keeping the world turning long after it was meant to stop, and those dedicated to letting the world end as it was supposed to. The foolish Hunters consider the Grimm evil, but that’s just silly.

So Mom had tasked her with infiltrating Beacon Academy and seizing the relics within. Ruby had been excited. She’d help Mom end the world, just as the Brothers had decreed so long ago. Mom had insisted she couldn’t tell anyone about her mission, but Ruby was sure there was a chance to meet someone who’d be receptive to doing the Brothers’ bidding. It was a holy crusade, after all.

She literally runs into her first friend before Initiation. After they’d crashed into each other and stumbled to the ground, he’d offered her a hand up. “Sorry about that,” he said shyly as he pulled her to her feet. “I really need to pay more attention to where I’m going.”

“No big deal,” Ruby had said, equally shy. It really wasn’t a big deal. When the world ended, such petty concerns as being knocked over would be as naught. Still, he was being so friendly. So much more than Mom’s devotees ever were that Ruby smiled at him. He smiled back, and something danced in Ruby’s chest.

The boy introduced himself as Oscar Pine, and she introduced herself as simply Ruby. Mom had never used a last name, and Ruby had never been given one, so “Ruby” was all she had.

They became fast friends, despite ending up on different teams. She managed to befriend a few other people, too. A fiery young woman with blonde hair, who felt familiar in a way Ruby couldn’t explain, named Yang Xiao Long. An awkward young man named Jaune Arc. Being with them was so bright after a literal lifetime of darkness. As her mission to claim the relic continued over the months Ruby, for the first time in her life, wondered if destroying the world was really necessary when there were kind people like her friends in it. Oh, she understands that the destruction isn’t punishment, merely a necessary part of the cycle, but Ruby is just now realizing Mom never really explained the cycle. Or why the Brothers’ want to destroy the world beyond, “So they said, and so it must be.”

But Mom hadn’t told her that Grimm actually killed people. Mom had never told her about loved ones left behind by those deaths. And, slowly but surely, Ruby starts to question things. Oh, she still reports the movements of Ozma and his inner circle as best she can. Mom needs that information, after all. But... why do they have to die if they’re serving the Brothers’ so faithfully. Why do her friends have to die? Ruby doesn’t understand.

Beacon’s dance comes and Oscar, gently nudged forward by Jaune and Yang, asks if she’d go with him as a date. Ruby... doesn’t know what a date is, but something in the way he asks brings the dancing things back into her stomach. So, she says yes. The dancing things dance harder and Oscar beams at her so she assumes she’s making the right choice.

She talks to Yang about the dancing things afterwards, and Yang gives her a toothy grin. “You’re in love with Oscar,” the blonde tells her. “Don’t worry about it, he feels the same way. You’ll see.”

I... I’m in love with Oscar? Ruby thinks, surprised. But more importantly. Oscar is in love with me? She’s surprised by the idea. But she’s more surprised by how much she likes the idea, or the fact it turns the things dancing in her stomach to a full on dance routine.

And so it came the day of the dance, when Ruby was supposed to further her mother’s plan. But... she didn’t. She couldn’t bring herself to leave Oscar’s side. If this was what being in love felt like, then... How could she ever give this up? Mom had insisted there was no such things as good and evil, but now... This felt good. This felt right. Dancing with Oscar and being around him. Loving him, and apparently being loved right back. How could destroying this be right? Even if the Gods’ wished it so. It just... didn’t make sense.

And in that moment, Ruby decided. She’d never give this up. Not for her mother, not for the Brothers’.

#rwby rosegarden #rwby #rosegarden #ruby rose #oscar pine #yang xiao long #rwby salem #au #salem raises ruby au

[kob131]

So, I want to give a special shout out to this line from Ruby -

“Well, you forgot who raised me.”

Thank you CRWBY for remembering that Yang helped raise Ruby. As much of a Taiyang defender I am- You have been giving him a bit too much credit lately.

#rwby9 #rwby9 spoilers #taiyang xiao long #yang xiao long #ruby rose #now watch as every yang stan takes this to mean that tai did nothing in raising ruby #I unfortunately can name at least two

[hopefadesbutnotdies]

Au where all of teams RWBY and JNPR were raised by individual villains!

Ruby was taken after Summer's death and raised by Cinder as a weapon on Salems orders. And that's how she was raised, being nigh emotionless most of the time and a incredibly effective fighter. Emerald had some very one sided sibling rivalry type feelings towards her at first.

When Winter was still heiress Jaques made a under the table deal for Weiss to be taken as a *apprentice* of Watts. Which in reality was essentially her being sold to be used as a guinea pig for various inhumane experiments. Weiss has multiple artificial limbs and phonological changes but DID end up picking up a good deal of technical knowhow like a real apprentice as a SMALL silver lining.

Yang was taken with her mother and raised as a ruthless bandit. She's almost always red eyed and has frankly worse temper control than any point in canon. Because of the nature of her semblance She's always on the front lines in the tribes fights and raids and has the scars to prove it.

Ghira and Kali both died in a tragic accident thst many more extreme members of the white fang believed to be a well disguised assassination. Adam takes the roll of a adaptive peer parent to Bkake....while still harboring his canon feelings for her in a very creepy way, he throughly radicalized and manipulated her.

The majority of the Arc family died in a attack by infamous Assassin Marcus Black....exept for a very young Jaune who he thought he could get use out of as a sparring partner for Mercury and replacement should his blood kid be a complete disappointment. Jaune was brought up in the same shit environment Mercury was on top of deep seated resentment of knowing what Marcus did to his blood family. The night they killed him Marcus had set up a fight to the death between his kids as a final test, instead he found them ganging up on and killing him. Because of the help Mercury only ends up losing one leg....but Jaune loses as arm.

Phyrra in her very first tournament caught the attention and interest of Tyrian Callows who felt she'd be a delightful new pawn for his goddess and proceeded to kidnap her and spend years mentaly breaking down his new 'daughter' until he felt she was as vicious and devoted as him.

Roman found a wandering Ren and Nora on a international job shortly after he started working with Neo. The two joined his gang and became something of a henchmen trinity with Neo. Nora still has alot of her Nora tendencies but tends to reshape them to mimic Roman's demeanor while Ren comes across as far more cold to most people.

#rwby au #raised by villains au #ruby rose #yang xiao long #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #jaune arc #phyrra nikos #lie ren #nora valkyrie #roman torchwick #neopolitan #cinder fall #tyrian callows #arthur watts #emerald sustrai #mercury black #adam taurus

[rwby-confess]

Send me hot/mildly warm takes on RWBY or things related to it

please

#made this blog because well I'm bored #and I don't think there's other active (?) #waiting for RWBY to raise from the dead n all that #RWBY #Roosterteeth #Ruby Rose #Weiss Schnee #Yang Xiao Long #Blake Belladonna #Bumbleby #team rwby

[tumblingxelian]

Yang & Ruby's Childhood

Oh how I wish, I wish that people would stop ignoring canon and pretending Yang & Ruby had functional adults who were good parents in their lives after Summer died. 

Because the fact of the matter is that they did not and canon has spelled this out again and again for the audience with increasing clarity every single time.

In Volume 2, Yang overtly states that Tai shut down following Summer’s to the point where his neglect became so pronounced a 5 and 3 year old who were grieving were left alone for hours and could disappear into a Grimm inhabited island looking for a different parental figure. 

Its re-established again in volume Five when Yang spells out to Weiss in no uncertain terms that after Summer disappeared, Yang, a five year old, was the one who needed to keep the family together and the trauma this inflicted on her alone is obvious. Let alone Ruby, because she was both being neglected and being raised by someone only two years her senior. Something Ruby fully acknowledges was the cast. 

There’s a multitude of other things I feel Tai has done wrong as both a teacher and a parent, but these one’s are undeniable, openly stated facets of the household. 

And Qrow doesn’t get an out by being the uncle either, oh no. 

Ruby makes it expressly clearly despite how much she loves and admires her Uncle she is very much used to him dropping back into her life shit faced drunk and being carted home by a stranger and needing to be taken care of. 

Again, by children! 

He has his reasons and his problems, but amazingly that doesn’t stop this from being a shitty way to grow up. No matter how much Tai & Qrow might love these two, they were not ‘great parents’, I wouldn’t even call them good. 

These two adults were negligent and damaging to the children under their care despite how much they may have loved them, and the fact that is ignored really burns me up inside. 

#RWBY #RWBY9 #Ruby Rose #Yang Xiao Long #Parentification #People clowning on this post will be blocked #I am not here to debate how much of a chad you think Tai is #Or how much of a sad meow meow you think Qrow is #They failed these kids and they had to raise themselves #Tai Yang Xiao Long & Qrow Branwen #This is canon

[anthurak]

The dichotomy of Raven Branwen and Taiyang Xiao Long is that the latter is a generally good person but a TERRIBLE father, while the former is many bad things but a 'bad mother' is NOT one of them. Or at the very least, she's not any worse than her teammates.

Why?

Well for one, because when Raven left her daughter(s), she made sure they were left in the care of people she trusted to raise and take care of them because she believed she was unfit to raise them ("You're better at that life. Better than I was").

While when Tai effectively checked out of his daughters' lives to the point where BOTH have stated up-front and matter-of-factly that Yang raised Ruby, it's pretty clear that he DID NOT.

(Also please note that I am not saying that Raven is a 'good' mother. NONE of Team STRQ were 'good' parents. They ALL failed Ruby and Yang in one way or another. It's just that some people seem insistent on giving Tai a free pass just because he doesn't fit the typical/generic 'shitty dad' traits and also isn't a woman.)

#rwby #rwby analysis #Raven Branwen #Taiyang Xiao Long #Ruby Rose #Yang Xiao Long #Raven is NOT a bad mother #Tai is NOT a good father #when you effectively check out of your kids' lives to the point where they can BOTH state matter of factly that the older RAISED the young #it doesn't matter WHAT your reasons were or how bad you were grieving #you have unequivocally MASSIVELY fucked up as a parent

[tequiilasunriise]

Alright get in loser we’re going to binge RWBY Chibi to forget everything that happened this episode ahahahahahaaaaa-

#WELP. WELP S H I T. #I REMEMBER TELLING MY FRIEND I HOPE RUBY GETS WORSE I HOPE SHE ABSOLUTELY SHATTERS BC GIRL DEF NEEDS TO GET ALL HER SHIT AIRED OUT #BUT UM. LOOKING HER SUSTER WHO RAISED HER IN THE EYE AND THEN COMMITING BASICALLY SUICIDE AFTER GETTING VISCOUSLY RIPPED APART UMMM #physically emotional mentally UUUMMMMM #i am so. wow. uh. JESUS. damn summer rose next ep at the tree please #my comfort show needs its own damn comfort show #we got pyrrha back BUT AT WHAT COST??? AT WHAT COST UR HONOR??? #gods. curling up and WEEPING now. #rwby #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #weiss schnee #ruby rose #rwby v9 #rwby spoilers

[constantvariations]

gimme your top 5 hot takes about rwby

I'm afraid I don’t have an accurate gauge of what qualifies as a “hot take” (or even what it actually is. Is it merely a controversial opinion?) so if any of these are ice cold I apologize

Adam and the Rose family should be connected in some way. Visual cues are important and there's so much spicy potential, especially if the dynamic originated with Summer

For Roman, the best and longest standing villain of the show, to be one of the few on-screen Grimm deaths is borderline parody. Personally, I think Ruby should’ve had a more active role in his death, even if by accident or setting up circumstances like she did Neo

Ozma’s situation is far more horrifying and sympathetic than Salem’s. The gods proved that they could bring Ozma back to life in his own body, but instead he’s forced to be a body snatcher? That’s fucked up in so many ways. She may be able to die again and again, but I think it’s way worse to die knowing you’re dooming several people at once

May Marigold isn’t that great of trans rep. She’s so unmemorable and inconsequential to the plot that the only reason I remember her at all is because she’s The Trans One. Like, glad they made her trans, and the reveal was respectful and clear and not even plot-relevant!, but maybe make her a good character first?

If we’re going by the show’s queer golden rule of blushing = romantic feelings, then Ruby had a crush on Emerald in V3 and it should have been explored way more for angst purposes

#rwde #thanks for asking #i will never shut up abt adam/rose family connections and theres nothing you can do abt it #blake or weiss being the one to take down roman would also be interesting but i think the most effective dynamic is ruby and roman #honestly you could make a sitcom w those two and id watch the shit out of it #'my roommate is a mob boss' #(depending on how old Roman actually is. RWBY isnt great at depicting ages unless youre on an extreme end) #(idk age them up for college lmao) #also i 100% hc ruby as a trans lesbian #qrow took her to get her first dose of E #trans solidarity babeyyyyy #this is a completely different topic but yangs existence in canon makes way more sense if both tai and raven are trans as well #canon raven does Not seem the type to allow herself to be in a long term relationship much less get pregnant #or if she did she'd take the child to raise as a protege. a true heir to the branwen name #not leave the kid behind for... reasons #why did raven run again? i think the show ended on 'she was scared' or smth. or didnt trust oz bc... bird #idk the show was dumb abt the whole thing #anyway i'll happily explain if anyone wants more elaboration ^w^

[benevolentslut]

crying over weiss throwing her arms around yang in the camp

#no you don't get it that's her SISTER #team rwby was SO much more of a family to weiss than her actual family #like she grew up in a mansion where. her father was abusive. her brother always took his side and helped him to stay out of trouble himself #her mother shut down and was entirely absent from her life due to her father's behaviour. #and her sister was hardly ever home bc of her military career and she counted each of her visits as a blessing #she idolized the shit out of winter but she was still never there. weiss grew up almost entirely alone. klein was her only present family. #and then she joined team rwby and she suddenly had 3 sisters she got to spend everyday with and she loved them all so much #and she even fucking says as much when she confronts jacques and says '[these aren't] friends. [they're] family.' #god everyone in team rwby has family trauma #yang grew up with no active parent for a long time since tai shutdown after summer's death and qrow was an alcoholic #(like yeah both of them loved her but neither was a good parent) #(if she can at 5 years old disappear into the woods for several hours with a toddler in a wagon behind her without any supervision #while said woods are filled with monsters then im sorry the parents aren't parenting) #and after the loss of her mother ruby was raised by yang who was literally only two years older than her #blake got the best deal but she got fucking groomed into hating and abandoning her parents by That Fucker #and we know how much his actions fucked her up for nearly her whole life #team rwby is a family and i would die on this hill i am crying as i write this #(the best deal parent-wise her parents are amazing. not saying she got a better deal overall)