I wrote this up a little while ago but never actually posted it, and with everything going on right now, I think I probably should anyway.
It's pretty absurd to me how so many people view RWBY as a queer and feminist story and anyone who dislikes the way it writes it's male characters is a misogynist, but when you actually bother to look at it, you see that the male characters it tends to demonize are only the male characters that our real-world society has already othered.
James Ironwood has extensive prosthetics and an atypical body and is often described as literally being "half robot" and Adam Taurus is an in-universe minority who was permanently blinded and disfigured by one of his oppressors and is literally an animal person. Jaune Arc, is a white, blue eyed, blonde haired, heavily coded as straight and cis young man. He is the textbook idea of a young male hero in a coming of age story, and he is essentially the show's real main character.
The male characters in RWBY who tend to be demonized and painted as villains and monsters, are people who are already not accepted by the status quo. Adam and Ironwood are the Other. Jaune is the young Hollywood hero.
In fact, let's do a little bit of lightning round in how much RWBY holds up ideals about how the Other should be treated.
Jacques Schnee is a white capitalist abuser who subjugates faunus and treats his family like shit. Not only is he considered basically not an actual threat in the Atlas Arc, (that would be Arthur Watts, the brown man, and James Ironwood, the disabled PSTD having Asian man) but he's actually a gold digger who married into the family fortune. He is literally the Other to the Schnee family and "doesn't belong there" among the legitimately lebensborn looking German coded Nicholas "colonizer" Schnee and his neglectful drunk daughter. They even gave this man black hair that he dyed white to really rub in how not pure blooded he is.
Arthur Watts and Hazel Reinhart are clearly darker skinned characters and are a part of Salem's cabal. Hazel Reinhart, whether the writers intended this or not, is an idiot who couldn't accept his sister making her own decisions in life and chose to work with her murderer to kill that murderer's abuse victim. Arthur Watts is a remorseless terrorist who has no qualms with rigging elections or taking away the bodily autonomy of young white girls.
Tyrion Callows is clearly some form of mentally ill and is an in-universe minority with a racial trait (that seems like it would be pretty heavily stigmatized if I'm being honest) that gets forcibly amputated by someone who is relatively more privileged than him in his society and later replaced with a prosthetic, making him physically disabled as well.
Mercury Black is an abuse survivor who suffered physical abuse so horrible he had to get his legs amputated.
Clover Ebi is a certified good boy who did nothing wrong and people will hate him for the most hypocritical reasons.
Oh? He’s a fascist? So is Winter by the same logic of following James to the bitter end.
Oh? He’s an idiot for attacking Qrow instead of Tyrian? One of these men attacked the other while he had the serial killer restrained and it wasn’t Clover.
Oh? He’s a bootlicker? Harriet called, she wants her simping rights back.
But you don’t see the first two receive nearly as a much vitriol as Clover does for simply existing.
Strangely enough, Jacques is also another incredibly isolated character despite him having the most power and the biggest reach of the cast
Dude is the CEO of the global company that is basically synonymous with Dust. That kind of business gets you friends in high places. He's got money beyond imagining. He's responsible for unspeakable horrors that harm thousands if not millions of people
So why does he get to speak with like... 3 people the entire show? Weiss and him having dialogue is obvious and necessary, and Ironwood makes sense as a means to establish political going ons within Atlas, but the most he gets with anyone else is the faceless partygoers in V4 and the meeting in V7
god. looking back on rwby just reminds me of how much they fumbled the bag on this show. there's so much i like about it but so much i hate too, i wish we got to see monty's vision instead. rip monty, and fuck rooster teeth
edit: im not gonna delete this just cz i dont want ppl to see my previous post and get confused, but here's my recent post explaining this one.
alright i wasn’t gonna make another post on it but as these dipshits are still playing the victim
someone sent an anon to me this morning pointing out that in that ghoulish xmas collab art, all the Happy Huntresses were represented... except May
now, call me a suspicious man, but there's something incredibly ‘interesting’ that in this collaboration, that for some reason included a lot of NSFW artists (most of them being straight men) who ran past cheesecake into straight up pornographic imagery, and for the most part represented every group of characters in full, the one trans character in the show does not appear
i swear some bitches in the fn//dm do as much research as the writers they bootlick do. that being, zero. bc if they actually did those who agree with the take “the fictional guy who was branded over the eye with the logo of the company that enslaved him during his childhood was wrong for covering that shit up with blindfolds masks and shit” would be one google search away from learning that brands were historically used for identification purposes and so locals could send runaway slaves back to their owners, and realize hey! maybe I’m a fucking ableist and racist piece of shit. maybe I shouldn’t post this. yeah I could totally move on with my life never voicing my cuntiness to the world. oh well
I haven't been drawing much tyrian lately sadly <//3 I've wanted to I've just been busy ugh. Anyways some miscellaneous doodles from the last like week or two + an older doodle I did of Daeran in a dress that I don't think I ever posted.
yesss. tyrian thinking that he might escape punishment just this once; only for salem to utterly debase him in front of everyone. the faunus stripped to his bare body, a gag shoved in his mouth to cease those irritating pleas & a cock ring tight around his length to refuse any orgasms. this is a punishment after all.
the first grimm doesn't bother to wait for his hole to be prepped, the long, thick tentacles of her messenger grimm shoved into that tight heat without a care while tyrian squirms & whines on all fours like a dog. the feeling of everyone's eyes on him quickly overwhelmed by the aphrodisiac the grimm pumps into his guts, his cock practically drooling onto the stone floor. salem barely spreads her legs to lazily pet at her bare cunt while she watches tyrian get thoroughly fucked with the multitude of tentacles inside him, two further ones wrapped around his flushed cock to jerk it.
there was barely any reprieve between the messenger grimm flooding his guts with it's thick, dark cum & the beowulf grimm rushing into the grand hall to mount the faunus & shove all of its thick, angry red length inside that well lubed hole. tyrian's moans garbled as it humps him & pounds that tight ass like he's a bitch in heat, one for the grimm to breed with a violent urgency. salem delights in the way tears run down his cheeks as the beowulf forces it's knot into tyrian's ass, unloading it's hot cum not moments after while licking at the bite & scratch marks left all over his already scarred, pale skin.
by the time the berengel comes in, ripping the beowulf apart to claim tyrian for its own & tossing the faunus around as little more than a fleshlight as it shoves him down onto its thick cock; tyrian is begging behind the gag for salem to save him. his mind delirious from being treated like an animal, a breeding bitch & his poor cock leaking precum with every aching throb making him hurt. salem pays him no mind however, only letting herself smile when the second berengel storms in to rip the gag from his mouth & rape his throat like it were a pussy. hopefully when this punishment is over, tyrian will remember the true consequences to failing his goddess.
I did not forget about making these refs I just spent WAY too long on these ones. Apprentice alts + height chart below the cut <3
Snowsong's and Shadestep's names were pretty hard to pick and I'm not sure I'm fully content with them but oh well :P Please ignore how goofy Shadestep looks scaled up for the height chart, I drew her a bit small and the wider face European wildcats have makes her look young. She probably should be a bit taller but I wanted Sunblaze to be the tallest