Jaune was right about evil cat. Why didn't they listen? Why didn't they believe him?
Because they thought he’d lost his mind and that his judgement was clouded by trauma. Which was fair based on their observations of him in the Ever After. He was erratic, he was clearly traumatized, for fuck’s sake he was twenty years older than the last time they saw him
The Cat also helped RWBY a LOT during their travels. They were curious and a bit annoying, but over all harmless. They “protected” Ruby from Herb (for their own interests, but RWBY didn’t know that), and helped make the grogurt parfait to get WBY back to normal size
So RWBY had reason to doubt him
However, as we’ve seen in the past, even when Jaune’s judgement is clouded by emotions, he simply DOES NOT take actions that will harm any of his friends but himself
Because after waiting for them for twenty years, stewing in trauma of thinking that he’s failed his friends and can’t protect them from getting hurt, the first thing he did when he heard about the Cat was warn them
He didn’t care if it would make him seem untrustworthy, or freak them out, all he cared about was keeping them safe
So when Jaune said that the Cat was dangerous, we should have taken that more seriously
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For those of you who would looooove content that is just straight badass Mando (not that there is something wrong with smut but come on??)
(Re)convene
Time travel, whole gang of Ezra, Din, Boba, Fennec, Omega, Ashoka, we go fuck palp up!
According To Creed
Every chapter is like a new episode of The Mandalorian, kinda awesome ;3
All hail the Mand'alor
Wholesome badassory, where everything is great <3
Now this one is a little tricky with it’s chronological order. I don’t really agree with the authors choice. I might be wrong, but here is how i would read it;
The found
The name (first chapter)
The council
The historian
The legend
The temple
The name (fourth chapter)
The name (second chapter)
The name (third chapter)
The name (sixth chapter)
The leader
The name (fifth chapter)
The son
The name (seventh chapter)
The name (eighth chapter)
All help us survive
Din forces Boba to be part of the mandoade 😆
Aliit ori'shya tal'din
A uncompleted story about a dad failing to not adopt every child he meets.
An Unworthy Hand
Seconds after Grogu was taken away by Luke, what was going on in Din's mind?
All the story's
A ridiculous and comedic story of "what happens after Din leaves with Grogu after Tattoine".
Sadly, the author discontinued the story since the didn’t know how to keep it going...
Back in Beskar
Another hilarious story of what happens after Grogu and Luke takes off in season 2. XD
Mand'alor'ika
DIN IS TINY!!! I REPEAT, DIN IS TINY!!!! (adult mind in tiny body back in time)
Blow in Like a Hurricane (Everyone Will Know my Name)
Nobody seems to realise that the unsuspecting Din is actually Mand'alor. Including Luke and Leia XD
Buir
Everyone’s POV on the Dadalorian and Grogurt.
Clones and Kings
Rex gets a task from Ashoka, "Take care of this dude. He is a magnet for disasters"
Curse and Cure
Din takes (tries) his role as the Mand'alor with some help from Luke, Leia and other members of the universe.
Demons Run When a Good Man Goes to War
Evil people has done something bad to someone (it's Grogu, always is), and Din is royaly pissed off.
Din Djarin and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Time Travel Incident
Time travel, Din meets Anakin and Obi. Anakin is convinced that Din is some oooold Mandalorian.
Filling the Empty Nest
Din figures out what to do with himself after season 2, misses Grogu, and somehow ends up rebuilding Mandalore.
From Foundling to Father
Din is eight. Gets rescued. His dad learns how to be a dad to him.
(I seriously wish the author will continue the story T.T)
Short works
Some sad some interesting.
Honor thy Clan
What would happen if most of the survivors after the purge was children?
General Mudhorn (and the time traveling bush)
Just like the title says, plus som time travel
Grogu's Adventures in Acquiring a Buir
Grogus POV from the beginning to the moment Luke takes him away.
Homebound
Ain’t some teenage angst Ben Solo going to stop the might Grogu!
if love is the answer, you're home
Din is just being a dad, missing his son. And then there is Luke who is really bad at tracking..
In harmony
The ehh.... the armor is alive...
The Mand’alor and the Jedi
These stories are by faaaar the best ones out there. I can’t give the author enough love. The writing, the pacing, all the characters that stays.... I can’t recommend it enough! If you love The Mandalorian, then you will DEFINITELY love these works!!!!!!
Lost in time
The clones Rex, Cody and Fives travel forward in time. Din's dad instincts kicks in.
Mandalorian Menace
Time travel, Din adops Anakin. F*** you Jedi
more alike than apart
Din and Sabine doing a heist and become mandosiblings (boba and Din are bros)😎
My Neighbor, My Neighbor, and Me
Modern AU Din and others
No Holy Cities
Around the time when Din is introduced to the mandalorians.
Nowhere King
Time travel. Din has been Mand'alor for a long time, and then... the most horrible happens... he comes from nowhere and plans to fix the galaxy.
Only the Parent You Will Be
Hera Syndulla and Din Djarin's children call to each other and then stuff happens.
Oya Manda'lor!
(15 years and up (cus this ain’t america), warning of smut)
This one is mostly 98% badass buuut... ehh... there is mentioning of smut.. and the other works of the same person... is hella ssmutty 😳 Time travel, Din meets Jaster.
Phoenix Rising: Stronger Together Duology
(15 years and up (cus this ain’t america), warning of smut)
This one... again, mostly badass, around 89% badass. There is smut😑 Din is in pieces after Grogu left with Luke. Ashoka comforts him and Bo-Katan is a bitch.
Ring out the song of the Midnight Blade
Din and the darksaber takes on the empire. Highly recommend that you listen to the song at the same time you read this one.
https://youtu.be/toJD2eJ4zvo
Suddenly, I'm Respectable
AU in which Bail and Breha Organa have a backup plan in place for Leia's rescue.
The Consequences of Wearing a Touchy Mystical Laser Sword
Din (and some others (not gonna tell😉)) shrink to their child sizes and try to fix the galaxy. Some humor, hehe.
The Deserter
Okey... everyone is allowed to pine for Din, but Din is as sexual as a brickwall!!!!
The Pros and Cons of Time Travel and Force Visions
Time travel. Mando being (as usual) a himbo, while senators and Jedi try to understand the situation...
The Way of Conquest
Time travel. Me, the force, Yoda and the author are giggling like maniacs 8D
Truth and Consequences
Okey soooo this one doesn’t really have Din in it... much...
Tor Vizla and Jaster Mereel gets bonked on their heads by their grandchildren.
The Mandalorian and the Rebel Spy
Cassian gets adopted by Din's buir and they, sort of, grews up together.
They're Gonna Give You Hell
This one is by far the funniest shit ever🤣 do NOT read where you need to be quiet!! (i accidentally laughed in a quiet auditorium...)
Time is a social construct
Time travel, Din adopts Satine and Obi.
Trust
Luke travel to Mandalor and training begins.
Vortex
Amnesia for Din, he only remember that Grogu left. Nope. 2 years have gone by!
You Can Worship the Ashes
Time travel. Din saves Fives.
you were only waiting for this moment to arise
Rey gets (sort of) adopted by Din.
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RWBY V9: Unreliable Narrators
Spoilers under the cut (which I’ll remove after at least a week):
Neither Jaune or the Curious Cat saw what happened to Alyx and Louis at the Tree. For that matter, we don’t know that it wasn’t actually Louis (named after Lewis Carrol, the author of Alice In Wonderland) who returned to Remnant and then wrote himself out of the story for whatever reason.
(I’ve heard other fans alluding to “The Boy Who Fell From The Sky” as an alternative to “The Girl Who Fell Through The World”. Perhaps Louis first told his own story orally to other people, before changing his mind and changing the story to write the second version instead.)
Jaune’s operating off of speculation.
The Curious Cat cannot be trying to feed Team RWBY to the Tree if it is not trying to lead them to the Tree in the first place. They asked it to lead them to the Tree and it refused, and they settled for keeping the Cat around by feeding its curiosity in the thin hope that it would eventually meander its way to the Tree.
Instead, the only place the Cat led Team RWBY was to the market where they could get a Grogurt Parfait. Before that, the Cat saved Team RWBY from the Red Prince, warned them not to talk with people like Herb, and then saved them from Herb.
(The Cat also maybe saved Ruby from the Blacksmith, but the Cat may not have realized it.)
If anything was going to convince Ruby to ascend, it would have been Herb’s vision (or the Blacksmith’s), but the Cat put a stop to that, and instead convinced Herb to give up and return to the Tree.
And the moment that Herb agreed, the Tree opened a portal without further involvement from the Curious Cat. “You don’t go to the Tree, the Tree goes to you.”
The Cat not only can’t take them to the Tree, didn’t agree to take them to the tree, wasn’t even trying to take them to the Tree, it raises a valid point when it says they can’t Ascend in the first place because they’re humans, not Everans.
The Cat may only have been helping Team RWBY in order to continue milking them for more interesting stories, but it has never meant to harm them, or tried. It has only ever helped and protected them, including sending another Everan to its certain and final death against the Jabberwalker to protect them.
“...I’ve only seen others as sources of information and entertainment,” the Cat admits. But is the Cat being honest with itself about that? It’s Purpose is to help other Afterans; it didn’t seem to learn anything or gain any amusement from convincing Herb to return to the Tree, or from getting the Hawker to fight the Jabberwalker.
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RWBY v9 e4 Thoughts and Analysis
Genuinely might be my favorite opening of the entire show.
Also, genuinely, screw everyone who ever said Ruby didn’t have a character arc.
RWBY is really, really good at keeping stories going in the background even as the main focus shifts around. So just...stop with that shit, okay? CRWBY are very particular with what they choose to do and when. Not everything's perfect, but if you get hung up on things you didn’t like from the past, you’ll never be able to fully appreciate what’s happening now. It’s always gonna bother you in the back of your mind. Ruby wasn’t always the most important person in the show. Let it go so you can talk about what led us here, to this exceptional story. We good? Good.
“You do not go to the tree, the tree goes to you! Unless of course you’re me, you see?”
Yeah, so the Curious Cat (referred to as CC from here on out) is definitely in some position of authority in the Ever After, but they do not control it or anything like that. I suppose we shall find out their role soon enough.
Regardless, it seems that the Tree decides when you’re ready to leave, not you. CC can bypass that it seems, but i doubt that will work for our heroes.
If the residents of the Ever After exist to facilitate a story, then the Tree will let them out when the story is done.
Maybe the Ever After only rained when Ruby was sad (rather than, for instance, Weiss) because it’s deemed her the protagonist of the story that must reach it’s conclusion before RWBY and co are allowed to leave? Just a thought.
“it’s a matter of perspective” that’s an intriguing line
Also, Little does not have a history with CC like I thought they and the other mice might. However, that’s not to say CC liking to eat mice has no impact on whether the mice know what a cat is, especially since last week Little wasn’t even completely convinced they were a mouse.
It’s been said before, but CC really is a standout character. The design, the performance, the power set, even the dialogue make literally everything about them engaging. As does, of course, the characterization, cuz this Cat is just as impossible as any cat irl. Now i actually like cats, but I’ll be the last one to say they don’t tend towards being completely absurd and impossible in their behavior
CC just takes that to the next level. Honestly though CC is basically just ADHD: the animal
Craving a steady stream of interesting conversations to keep them focused
too real 😅
“Got ‘im! Totally roasted”
From the tone of Yang’s voice, i genuinely think she was just throwing poor Weiss a bone here 😄
Missed a chance to have CC making a cat video tbh, but “Luminous Rectangle” and “why is it printing tiny flat versions of me” is still amazing
CC just briefly giving voice to some of the common complaints about RWBY is kinda nice
its CRWBY saying “We’re listening. We hear you. We are working to address your concerns, but only to the point that it won’t compromise our story.”
Also roasting the gods is fun. Does seem like it’s clear that the Gods have nothing to do with the Ever After then, though, if CC both didn’t know and is super comfortable calling them out this way
More information about Alyx, from a new source. Love how everyone who speaks about her has a different take, it makes her really interesting.
Also rare smiling v9 Ruby Rose sighting
I love that CC is still a cat, with all the usual catlike behaviors. Would've been easy to anthropomorphize them more, I’m happy that didn’t happen.
“Each acre is made specifically for it’s inhabitants and their roles”
Intriguing. So...does CC not have an acre to call home? If not, why not? What makes them unique among this world’s rules?
a grogurt parfait, huh? Sounds gross.
“Well I’m sure we’ll cause a lot less trouble once we’re back to normal” oh Weiss, honey, I wouldn’t count on that 😂
Ugh CC Blake’s right, they've got enough problems without you reminding them of what’s happening in remnant
“Oh no, i wasn’t paying attention” Ruby you are one of 5 people and your entire bag of trauma just got poked, it’s not your fault. You gotta work on that self-blaming instinct, he says knowing full well how hard that is from personal experience (seriously, i see so much of myself in Ruby)
The Lonely carpenter and the rusted Knight
one sweet, one handsome
Guessing we’ll meet them soon enough
Also that confirms the Knight in the trailer and intro isn’t Jaune. the Knight was in the original book.
So yeah was wrong about the Chekov's butterfly
Couple interesting lines here
First
”I’m the herbalist. Until I’m not, anyway”
Our first hint that roles are not set in stone.
and second
“Everyone needs help these days. Everyone.” Who else is Herb referring to?
“Huntresses are heroes. We protect those who can’t protect themselves” Blake is really following in Ruby’s stead, this is literally the line Ruby gives her all the way back in volume 1 when they talk about their love of books. Of course, she’s doing it after going through all the healing Ruby hasn’t done yet. It is cool to see this dichotomy of Blake stepping up and embodying what she valued in Ruby while Ruby becomes more like she was in volume 1 and 2
Also, I like that Ruby’s answer to “What does a huntress do” is “fight monsters”. it shows that she’s still thinking about things wrong
“In order to help you become whatever it is you need to become, you really ought to have a better understanding of what you are now”. Great line. Cuts straight to the heart of the issue.
.”This is how a king winds up a prince”
So...the Red Prince used to be the Red King? And he became the Red Prince, perhaps because he didn’t understand who he was, and thus who he wanted to be wasn’t quite right? We’ll see. But clearly there’s a much more complicated transformation process that can happen here than we expected. Perhaps a far more literal one, as well.
“You don’t have to go forward you know. You could go back. Back to before.”
Before she lost her arm. It’s not about her arm though--it’s about everything. It’s about going back to what things were like before beacon fell. Going back to who she was like before beacon fell.
Yang is shocked--but she doesn't immediately reject the idea. Unlike Blake...
“You could just be human. Or just a cat. It’s up to you.”
“Why would i do that?”
“I told you. It’s simple. Much simpler than trying to be a bridge between human and faunus. Why struggle with that responsibility?”
So it’s clear now. The reason Blake wasn’t front and center on injustice during the Atlas arc.
This is what she was struggling with. Well this, and taking the life of an actual living, breathing person
Doesn’t matter that it was Adam, he was still a person.
So for a couple volumes she just...stopped trying to be that bridge. Focused on proving to her loved ones that she had grown, and that she wouldn’t run away again. Showing them--and especially Yang--that she loved them.
“You could be a nobody. Isn’t that what you want? to be free?”
God i’m so proud of these girls. This is such a beautiful scene. It’s so well directed, so well written, and there’s so much we can all learn from it, purely on an emotional growth level..
And then we come to Ruby. And unlike her friends, she doesn’t have it in her to reject the part of herself that appears here. Instead, she gets this brutal face-to-face with all of her worst insecurities, worst impulses, all her imposter syndromes and her habit of putting everything on her own shoulders. honestly this section deserves a deep dive all its own.
“You don’t even have to be Ruby Rose. So. Who are you gonna be?”
Ruby is gonna go through a major transformation this volume. I can only hope it’s the one she needs.
I’m really curious why exactly CC was so angry about what Herb was doing. What exactly did he do wrong? Hopefully we will find out tomorrow.
the “That’s a bit much” lien from herb intrigues me though. Was he affected by the pain the girls--and Ruby in particular--were being forced to confront?
“Take a little bit of my heart”
Really curious about CC’s powers
and little being adorable again. Can’t wait for tomorrow!!
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