#ozpin merch situation

[ask-stjerne-and-logan]

Thought I’d post a link to the new collection of Ozpin Merch I made for Zazzle. A fair warning: Some of the products may be unavailable due to manufacturing issues.   

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[kitkatopinions]

I have a couple different theories about how the RWBY writers operate that are impossible to prove because obviously, I’m not a mind reader. And I’m not one hundred percent sure about these theories, but I still have them.

Over the past three seasons, RWBY characters often have huge reactions that might feel like major overreactions, and then they’ll go straight to dry or non-existent underreactions to things that seem like they should be bigger deals. When Yang says Ruby’s leadership has been flawed, Weiss gasps like someone has just been slapped and Ruby acts like Yang has just called her a violent monster. When Penny comes back from the dead, Ruby’s reaction is to not want a big hug and then act tired out. When Ozpin lies to them about Salem, Qrow responds by punching a teenager in the face, Yang yells at Oz, and they’re glad Oz is gone for months after that without making any moves to bridge the gap even when they lie about the same things. When Jacques is getting arrested, it’s played as a casual joke. When Yang falls off the bridge at the end of V8, Blake screams and gets incredibly angry and struggles not to fall apart. Ruby and Weiss don’t even look like they try to help her, and Weiss just comforts Blake while Ruby’s reaction isn’t very big. Etc. etc.

My theory is that the overreactions are because the writers are trying to convince their audience of things, and the small, dry reactions are for the things that the writers either don’t care about, or know their audience already thinks what they want us to think.

Why would they go into how Jacques’ arrest impacts his family and Weiss specifically? Why would they talk about the pain he’s caused the Faunus and how much he purposefully hurt Mantle just to get ahead? The audience already doesn’t like Jacques, and the writers don’t actually care about him. Why would the writers write a big, emotional reaction to Penny’s resurrection? The audience were always going to be happy to see Penny no matter what, they didn’t have to make Ruby actually act emotional about it in order to get the desired reaction. However, when they’re trying to convince their audience that Ozpin is scum who we shouldn’t want around? When they’re trying to get away with hinting that Blake and Yang are a couple without actually confirming it so they can sell Pride merch? When they want us to think that doubting Ruby is something horrible that no one should ever do? When they want us to believe that Ruby really loves and misses Summer and that Summer is really important all of a sudden? When they want to convince their audience that Ironwood is evil and that everyone should hate him and want him dead?

I really don’t think that the writers are looking at ‘how would this character feel in this situation,’ and that the way they write might just be ‘what reaction do we want the audience to have in this situation.’ And if they don’t care, they don’t bother to write even justified big reactions. But if they really want us to think something, they’ll make their characters scream or cry or yell or gasp or argue... And it’s annoying. XD

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