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neopoliitan · 5 years

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You want asks? I'LL GIVE YOU ASKS. Firstly, what do you want to happen in volume 7? no particular order, just things you'd want to see as a watcher of the show. Secondly, hypothetical, but You're given creative freedom to make one change to Volume 6, what do you do?

Hmmm… I did this before volume 6 and I got maybe 3/5s of what I hoped which was nice. No harm in trying it again:

Volume 7 hopes:

Off the back of Volume 6, I desperately want Blake and Yang to backseat for a volume. Recently it feels like they’re the only ones with constant, meaningful development and Ruby and Weiss really need to be back at the front of proceedings, as do JNR and Oscar. Then again I’m very biased because I’ve never been a Blake fan and I’ve super gone off Yang since volume 5. Plus there’s the shipping side of things.

Nora Character Arc. Please. RWBY and Jaune have always been pretty big, Oscar’s at least had some stuff, Ren was more the focus of Kuroyuri than Nora. She really needs to be thrown a bone that isn’t labelled “comic relief”. Maybe she was from Atlas based on her Scandinavian allusion, maybe there’s a one-eyed red-haired Reinhardt lookalike in the Atlas military that she finds strangely familiar.

Oscar’s development happens on screen. No more V6E9 deals; Oscar needs to be more than Ozpin and show his own character. I know they’re kinda at peace right now with Ozpin backseat driving per Oscar’s wishes, but as the merge draws closer Oscar needs to be more unsure of himself. He needs to panic. He’s 14. We also need to see how he feels about leaving Aunt Pine behind. Surely she’s worried? Why hasn’t he shown any interest in that? They seemed to have a good relationship.

Watts and Tyrian are established as real threats on Cinder’s level. Watts was off screen during the events where his virus caused the Fall of Beacon, so it’s easy not to attribute it to him. That’s why he needs to make a big play this volume. Assassinate Jacques. Destroy Atlas’ military from the inside. Anything that gives Watts his own fall of Beacon. The guy is, at this point, Salem’s best performing minion.Same goes for Tyrian. He got jobbed in Volume 4 because the good guys had to survive. If he goes round two with Qrow, he needs to kill him. These villains need to make a name for themselves here and now, because they’re endgame and need to feel it.

Whitley is redeemable. I know what it’s like to be on his end of the deal. If he just turns out to be a boring character who hates Weiss because he can and adores his father then that’s shit. He needs to fear his father and only act the way he does to avoid his wrath. He needs to have disdain for Winter and Weiss because they abandoned him and left him alone with that abuse.

Jaune gets a good fight in. The guy’s been training for two years. Give him an opponent he can actually put up a good showing against. Say Qrow trained him. Oscar’s helped him too. I don’t care how they do it, if they have to explain it away, I’m just tired of Jaune being ‘the guy who can’t fight’ when people have few qualms about Oscar’s rapid skill growth being due to Ozpin in his head. Please, RT. You gave Adam his test footage fight. I wanna see this.

Other small things include

New outfits for RWBYJNR

Amend Neo’s outfit because her old one was way better.

Less B*mblebee unless it’s surrounding shared guilt over murdering that one guy.

The one thing I’d change in Volume 6

That would be the Blake, Yang, Adam stuff from Ep11-13. Sure, I don’t like the ship, but regardless of that I’m not a fan of how the whole ordeal was presented.

Picture the volume 3 fight with Adam. Dark, surrounded by grimm, flames and chaos in the midst of a schoolwide battle. Lots of reds and blacks in the color palette to reflect Adam himself. Now look at the volume 6 confrontation; Sun? a Waterfall? Killing a dude and simultaneously pushing a romance? It’s baffling in my eyes.

What I would have done is have the setting be more dramatic. A red sky at dusk to reflect Adam’s color palette and his seeming omnipresence even before he makes his appearance. Instead of cutting to him mid-attacking Blake, have the reveal occur slowly as she explores the radar tower, eventually stumbling on corpses and stuff until she puts all the pieces together like a horror film.

During the fight, have it in a more characterful location. The waterfall is fine, I guess, but perhaps a dam might’ve served better, with some maintenance buildings dotted around to add more to the set. Throw in some rain, and bam you got yourself a much more dramatic confrontation.

After that I’d nix the cheesy dialogue. No “We’re protecting each other” or “I’m not alone” or “people hurt me” monologue or “WHAT DOES SHE EVEN SEE IN YOU REEEEE” or “i’m smarter >:3c”. In fact I’d take out the romantic aspect all together. If it’s really necessary at all in the plot (I personally don’t care for it), give it its own scene instead of those two finding love through a shared murder.

I’d have Adam’s attack do more than scratch Yang’s arm and have it fully obliterate the damn thing. Because that arm is skeletal and ugly and I cannot stand looking at its bony fingers, and also it’d have more parallels to Beacon - except this time Yang is victorious.

I’d probably change how Adam dies. The canon version is kind of laughable, so I’d maybe have Yang deck Adam so hard he almost falls off the cliff. Blake tries to convince him to take her hand as he’s hanging on for dear life, but with no sword, no shotgun, no aura, no Blake, but Adam grants himself one last victory. He has nothing to live for except to cause Blake pain, now, and he can die knowing she’ll blame herself for his death for a good long while. So he tells her “I want you to live with this” and lets go. Dead. Took himself out of the game, but knew he could fuck Blake up even in defeat.

I dunno, that’s just a ton of ideas I’ve spitballed right now while writing this reply. I have a lot of issues with the back half of Volume 6, and my story-fix would definitely be to fix the Adam plotline. For personal gratification, though, I’d just cut out everything pertaining to b*mblebee because the toxicity it brings both out of shippers and myself affects my enjoyment of the show so much I don’t really want to watch volume 7 if that’s what it’s going to consist of.

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