#before the dawn spoilers

[bacchuschucklefuck]

she turns, makes direct eye contact with you, smiles,

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #kristen applebees #kipperlilly copperkettle #buddy dawn #cw: blood #cw: gore #cw: violence #hello this is the first post on this blog. welcome. I need to offload my art somewhere outside of my usual sphere #anyways yeah. yeah #I just think making direct eye contact with the person your murder victim is supposed to mirror before murdering them is kinda vibe #thinking abt kipperlily and kristen and how kipperlily was meant to be riz's foil but #genuinely kristen works so much better as foil for her instead. like how would beardsley ever not have swooped in to steal this off of #murph's plate. order vs chaos. embracing the rules vs rejecting them for having always fallen through the crack by your nature #so my busted ass brain saw this moment of kipperlily KILLING kristen's foil and I went insane like she took him out of the equation #HE is no longer kristen's foil. KIPPERLILY is now. deranged I need to draw this Immediately #kristen seeing kipperlily with true sight... smiling at her..... the interference that now narratively connects them do you see #can anyone hear me. hello

[saingirl101]

I appreciate how it took only one scene with bobby dawn and the entire D20 went kill that christo-fascist

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #bobby dawn #never before has an npc made me want to throw hands so immensely

[anthurak]

Takeaways from the Volume 9 Epilogue:

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One thing I really like about Oscar’s ‘If there was anything I wish I could borrow from you…’ monologue is that it laid out/confirmed something I’ve always felt was a major aspect of Oscar’s dynamic with Ruby that I nonetheless feel a lot of the fandom has missed: That Oscar very much sees Ruby as a mentor and an example to follow, and how their dynamic is specifically a foil to what we saw between Ruby and Ozpin. That Ruby acts as a mentor and example to Oscar in the same way Ozpin was to Ruby, and that Ruby is a far BETTER mentor and example to Oscar than Ozpin ever was to her. Which, as an aside, is a dynamic I can’t help but feel a lot of people have been misinterpreting as ‘ship-teasing’ and is one of the main reasons I’ve simply never been able to see Oscar as any kind of viable love-interest to Ruby. Frankly the dynamic of ‘Ruby is the mentor and example to Oscar that Ozpin couldn’t be for her’ is simply so much more INTERESTING than any kind of romance could ever hope to be.

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Even in animatic form, Winter basically going overdrive on the maiden powers was a sight to behold. And her own monologue had all the self-deprecation we were expecting. Our girl is clearly holding on by a thread and it’s going to be REAL interesting seeing how she reacts and adjusts to her sister not actually being dead. As in, I can imagine a situation where Winter tries to throw herself into a heroic sacrifice with the belief that Weiss would make a better Maiden than her.

Also, Winter’s monologue giving major focus to how Penny is super-super-dead-dead-and-definitely-not-coming-back-for-really-realsies, as she is talking to the sister who she ALSO believes is DEFINITELY also dead? Specifically with the words that Penny is gone, when Penny’s last words to her were that she’d be ‘part of you’?

Yeah, there is no way in hell we’ve seen the last of Penny XD

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The CROWN. Like it was only a few shots, but as someone who read the CFVY Books (which you totally should if you haven’t, they’re great), holy shit I was NOT expecting them to pop up here.

I mean, in hindsight it makes perfect sense that they’d be involved in Volume 10. They’re basically Vacuo’s equivalent to Vale’s criminal element and the White Fang splinter faction as Salem’s co-opted insurgency group, with Jax and Gillian joining Roman, Adam and Jacques as the latest of Salem’s unwitting patsies. It’s definitely going to be real interesting seeing the crew deal with them. Like it’s really fun to imagine Team RWBY in particular being kind of exasperated at seeing Jax’s probably doing a whole ‘With Salem’s help I shall be King!’ shtick after everything they’ve seen with Roman, Adam and Jacques.

Oh and if you don’t know, Jax has a mind-control semblance, so him trying to use that on Yang could actually lead to a sneaky callback to the Justice League crossover, ie; Yang doing a ‘Yeah, I’m not doing THAT shit again.’ XD

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Qrow’s whole vibe through this is fascinating. Like his section may have been the one we already saw, but after seeing the abject depression and growing despair of all the other characters, Qrow actually being OPTIMISTIC hit so much harder.

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Raven showing up at the end is… interesting.

I’ll admit that ever since we saw that specific clip a few months back, I’ve been rather conflicts about Raven showing up to deliver RWBY+J to Vacuo, particularly after Ruby’s tree vision. Like for one it felt a bit random and unnecessary. The tree already deposited the Ever After team outside of Vacuo so they didn’t exactly need help getting there. Not to mention that it kind of clotheslines the story-thread set up by Ruby’s vision; that she now has a reason to track Raven down to get the ANSWERS to what happened to Summer. Finally, it’s just kind of… random? Like where did Raven even come from to get the team?

But now having seen the clip with its intended context, I’m definitely more on board with it. Particularly hearing from Kerry and Eddy that the original ending for the penultimate episode had RWBY+J going through the portal to arrive at their memorial stone, and met by a ‘Mysterious Figure’, ie; Raven. Here it feels like were getting more set up to get answers later as to what Raven was doing at the memorial.

And really, now that I’ve thought about it more, this method kind of puts the thread of Ruby going to Raven for answers even MORE into focus. Like the story reintroduces Raven in the present right after Ruby got a vision basically saying ‘hey, Raven is important’. And now going into Volume 10, we’re pretty much perfectly positioned for Ruby to pull Raven aside for those all-important ‘Why were you fucking my mom? What happened to my mom?’ questions.

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Finally… yeah that ending hit me a LOT harder than I was expecting. Like that ending was HOPE in its purest form and it was honestly beautiful to see. Particularly right now with the future of the show seeming so uncertain. I’ve personally been optimistic about RWBY’s future (in a manner not unlike Qrow’s vibes I suppose lol), but damn the hopefulness of that ending hit especially hard, and was something I’ll admit I needed. And I imagine the rest of us could use as well.

We'll be getting Volume 10. And 11, and 12, and however many more it takes to finish this story. At this point, I have no doubt of that.

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby volume 9 #rwby volume 9 epilogue #rwby ramblings #Team RWBY #Ruby Rose #Yang Xiao Long #Winter Schnee #ozpin #oscar pine #Raven Branwen #Qrow Branwen #rwby after the fall #rwby before the dawn #jax asturias #gillian asturias

[amaranthdahlia]

[chapter 408] extended cut - sewer chase scene

#oh yeah you knowwww where this was based from🤧🤧 #im kinda sad how mid this turned out rip i hnstly thought i was cooking with the idea (the execution blew tho</3) #anyways yeah the idea just popped in my head when i was looking at the cover redraw i did #and i was like hm the talk of izukus possessiveness here.....woah this scene would be real good with the dawn of quirks era cast #at first it was gonna be the other way around with kudou taking yoichi and afo going batshit and screaming GIVE HIM BACK #but then i was like wait no THIS is a cleverer idea #cus another thing!!! i always like to think afo-yoichi-kudou-bruce had a confrontation before they all started running and yoichi dying #which would further expand afos angry impulsive choice #cus after this scene yoichi has alot of words to say about his brother after he gets out of his grasp and then runs to kudous side #and boom the chase scene . the handhold was the last straw for him #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #mha manga spoilers #mha #bnha #mha all for one #mha afo #shigaraki yoichi #yoichi shigaraki #mha kudou #mha bruce #second one for all user #third one for all user #dahlia.art #second ofa user

[sailorb00]

Been itching to redraw their fandesigns since their reveal in the V9 epilogue animatic 👀🌟 Bow down to the Crown 👑🙇

#rwby #rwby fanart #gillian asturias #jax asturias #rwby before the dawn #rwby before the dawn spoilers #greenlight volume 10 #save rwby #dont ask me if gill's dress or jax's swirl pattern was harder #bc the answer is both!! fsdf #but worth the effort though! 😤🌟 #asturias twins #the crown #if ya'll haven't read the novels than you better get to it!!!

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

If you’ve read the E. C. Myers books you know that Sun doesn’t really see himself as a leader until the end of Before the Dawn and not many respect him as a leader throughout the book either, including Coco. So this?? This look here?? This growth of him and Coco simultaneously coming to a decision and checking with each other? Likely using Fox’s team speak to formulate a plan?

It’s such a small blink and you’ll miss it detail that I’ve not noticed until now and it’s making me emotional.

It’s about the mutual admiration!! The respect!!

#anyway I’m crying #rwby #rwby9 #rwby spoilers #sun wukong #coco adel #cfvy #sssn #sssnn #neptune vasilias #velvet scarlatina #yatsuhashi daichi #fox alistair #I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AGH #personal #after the fall #before the dawn

[feelingtheaster99]

“What are you trying to forget, Kipperlilly?”

Damn what a DIRECT confrontation Kristen

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy ep 14 #fhjy spoilers #kristen applebees #kipperlilly copperkettle #the bad kids #the rat grinders #ally beardsley #brennan lee mulligan #it IS a good question though #why did she have a reason to use the devil’s honey as EARLY as before spring break last year??? #dawn of justice spoilers #dawn of justice #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high speculation #live reaction

[sir-adamus]

god this has to mean there's concept art of the Asturias's somewhere

i hope we get that in among the concept work we saw in the credits here

#RWBY #RWBY9 #RWBY spoilers #RWBY9 spoilers #i'll be 100% i never expected they'd be relevant outside Before the Dawn

[shallliveoninsong]

|| @maskednihilism kinda cont. .from [X]

In the depths of a secret underground lab tucked away on one of the small, unnamed islands in the sea on the Luofu the Disciples of Scantus Medicus were making strides on their latest project.

The Ravager Phantylia's plan may have fallen through but it wasn't for naught and the Disciples could reap some benefits from the failure. With the Disciples now on the run and their numbers scarce after the failure they needed something to interfere with the Luofu's operations so they could regain their footing. An attack on the Alchemy Commission in the middle of the night was launched with one goal: to capture the man who was the biggest obstacle in their plans; General Jing Yuan. A few healers were harmed in the attack, not that it was of any consequence to the Disciples.

And now they had made much progress with the Cloud Knight General. The power of the Destruction that Phantylia had forced into him fought for control of its host despite the connection being severed. There just needed to be a little something more.

Over the weeks following the General's disappearance they experimented with force-feeding him Mara-inducing medicinal pellets. It made the General temporarily Mara-struck but the Destruction didn't react with the procedure. It wasn't what the Disciples needed.

Gradual liquid injections worked much better. And unlike the pellets the effect interacted with the Destruction in the General in a very unique way. It made the General moldable and easy to condition but not completely Mara-struck and mindless. Yes, they could work with this. _____

Jing Yuan was too weak to speak, nor even take in much of his surroundings. A dimly lit room. Cold. His arms ached and burned.

The General could barely move. He was suspended in the air by chains and shackles on his wrists and ankles. But even his head felt too heavy to hold up. His normally light hair was a dark gray with grime and dust. Dried splotches of blood decorated it, though whether it was his or someone else's was a mystery.

How long had he been here? It was all a blur. But not from falling asleep--no seldom was he granted solace from this mess by sleep. Hazy fits of rage and combat he couldn't quite remember interrupted the times when he was fully conscious of what was going on.

Each breath he took shot pain through his lungs where Cloud Piercer had gone through him. The Fragmentum corrosion had spread across most of his torso from the wound. He couldn't see it under his battered and bloodstained tunic even without his darker-toned armor, but he could feel it. Spreading across him like a plague. But no matter how much he thrashed he couldn't get free. So instead he hung there, taking shallow breaths to lessen the daggers of pain that shot through his lungs with every inhale.

"One more dose and things will be complete," the leader of this crew said.

Another member acknowledged the statement before affixing another liquid dose to the IV hooked into the General's arm. The Disciples had nothing to fear out here in the middle of nowhere. No one would be able to find the underground base and get past all the locked doors and surviving members operating out of it. No one, except for one thief.

#maskednihilism #(this got away from me a bit sorry i was hyped lmao. consider everything before) #(the read more just setup lmao dont match it jfc) #(also sorry not sorry ; ) #(you bully your boi i bully mine uwu) #blood cw #kidnapping cw #human experimentation cw #calculated not lazy; mostly [jing yuan] #spoilers cw #v; lightless dawn [sleeper agent au] #needles cw

[bowenoke]

not to pity the high five club or whatever but it kinda sounds like their cleric died and they reinvented themselves in the individual images of the kids who famously beefed it in the cafeteria day 1 and who's principal committed a murder suicide to resurrect. Like, yeah, WE know the bad kids have paid for that help every day of their high school lives by being called on over and over to save the world, but. What the rat grinders know is that someone they spent a minimum of 3 hours with every day killing rats literally fucking died and aguefort didn't even reprint the yearbook to put them on an actual page. I'd be pissed about favoritism, too

#fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #watch me be made a fool because their old cleric turns out to be secretly alive or smth and its not just that Ivy saw through the disguise #she uses a bow shes gotta have good perception #i also dont trust buddy dawns comparison to the bks abt disparate backgrounds #the bad kids got forced together but we know every other group got to socialoze before choosing #buddy only met the rat grinders after their first cleric died. they seem to be friendly enough with each other too

[designsdefiance]

day 21: lost

it's bad enough being in a new world totally alien to her. to not recognise her sister? agonising. unbearable.

#ffxiv #miqomarch #seeker of the sun #gpose #miqo'te #shadowbringers spoilers #oc: m'seyli #oc: m'kipfhi #i've been thinking a loooot about the two of them in the first it causes me physical pain #bc kipfhi went shortly after/around the same time as thancred #and she was like. 12/13ish #teenagers change a LOT in 5 years! #to have this initial moment of. someone is calling your name (and dropping the tribal letter! which she doesn't let a lot of people do!) an #running towards you at mach speed and clearly knows who you are and you have this brief moment #of 'who the hell is this person' before it dawns on you that it's /your sister/ who you have never been apart from for more than a few week #at most since she was born #and like it's not just that she's grown up physically. she's an entirely different person to the girl she was like. a month ago to you. #bc again!!! teenagers change a lot!!!! and she's grown up in the fuckin apocalypse #and like kipfhi too. she's been DESPERATE for seyli to get here and has been standing there just like. vibrating in excitement over finally #getting to see her again. and seyli's not very good at hiding when she's feeling off about something and everything is /so/ off. #their bond is strong enough that they can get through it but it's rough for a hot second. #anyway im very normal about shadowbringers

[raventrigonsdaughter]

Anyway look at my lesbian daughter and Seyka aka her girlfriend

#aloy #seyka #seyloy #cause i saw SOMEONE *side eye* going to hell and back trying to say aloy is not a lesbian just now just to fuel the straight ships #specially by trying to say aloy was CLEARY into all the boys in zero dawn #i know i also didnt knew about it #anyway as i said before until the next game its ok to ship her with whoever u want #but if u dare to try to shoot down Lesbian Aloy BECAUSE OF SOMETHING U FUCKING MADE UP ON YOUR HEAD #im coming for you #horizon burning shores #horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #burning shores spoiler

[moonpaw]

thinking about how the island where luffy was raised is called Dawn Island and how he embarks from it and 2 years later we’re at Wano where people have been waiting for the Dawn for a very long time and Luffy is here to bring it

#one piece #one piece spoilers #in the tags!!! >> 1044+ #also something something about luffy eating his sun related fruit on an island called dawn #anyway with this im expecting where ever blackbeard is from to be named something night related #or some kind of word play like mihawks little island #OH also there's ace and sabo who were raised on dawn and eat the flame fruit #which ace directly calls the sun with one of his attacks when battling blackbeard #so all three are connected through dawn island and the sun #frothing at the mouth with how many times the sun comes into play and i never noticed #the fishman tattoos in arlong park from the sun pirates #shandians worshiping the god of the sun #the giants doing the same but with the sun's cycle and rebirth(?) #enis lobby being an island that is always daylight and this is totally a theory but i think that's where that one lost island from 800 years #ago used to be #blasted apart by an ancient weapon or whatever the fuck imu has going on before slapping his own island down there in victory #but that island is ALWAYS DAYTIME #it's juicy #what else is there #god i need to rewatch one piece and pick everything apart and string cheese it until i have every thread of information #oh luffy clearing the skies after enel darkened them with his stormclouds #probably not REALLY related but considering the sun shines down on him soooo clearly and brilliantly that it shows his shadow down #to the blue sea? i'll take it #skypeia is totally the first nika hint anyway with the sun god being mentioned (in the past) and luffy's shadow during the campfire AND #the drums after enel is defeated #so yeah i'll fucking take it #GOD i love one piece im going to devour the entire series from the ground up

[sailorb00]

Decided to do my other two favs from RWBY: Before The Dawn 🌟

Theodore and Rumpole truly give off platonic life partner vibes 🤭🧡

#carareedart #rwby #rwby fanart #rwby theodore #rwby headmaster theodore #rwby xanthe rumpole #xanthe rumpole #rwby before the dawn #rwby before the dawn spoilers #im so sorry rumpole i was running out of steam and did ya dirty 😔

[science-lings]

I think we can agree that Twi dragged Time and Wild out into the woods to train bc there’s no way they would’ve let him go alone after the last night, they would be the last people that would let him go off on his own into the local forest to chop up trees

#there was probably an argument about it before twi threatened to go anyway #linked universe #lu update #lu spoilers #dawn pt. 5

[thedeafprophet]

The text for bringing the dawn machines reflection into Parabola I'm still so normal about.....do androids dream of electric sheep?

#prophet's fl nonsense #fl spoilers #the dawn machine #ive had some champagne before we leabe for the party so its blorbo hours