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kitkatopinions · 1 year

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Nitpick Number Twenty Seven for Nitpick November:

I love that RWBY has a new opening theme song and sequence every season, but a lot of what they choose to put in their opening sequences often bugs the life out of me. This is a long one, so I'm gonna put it under a read more.

Volume One opening title sequence:

You see references to the Red, White, Black, and Yellow trailers. Cool, I guess. Then you see a bunch of Grimm, and Roman Torchwick with the goons he got from Junior, which makes sense considering that those were the early enemies. But then you see this.

I'm not mad about 'Cinder in the shadows' because Cinder had at least one real appearance in volume one. But that's... Emerald and Mercury, in the back? As completely in shadow blank people and Emerald looks like she had completely different hair back then? The only appearance they had in volume one was as cardboard cutouts floating behind Cinder for three seconds right at the end. Why are they even sort of in the opening theme song? Especially considering that Sun and Penny don't make any appearance in the opening sequence for volume one despite being in multiple episodes.

Also, for such a dynamic show with a lot of fight choreography as one of the main appeals (in these early seasons that is,) this opening sequence is a lot of 'people standing around looking serious' and not a lot of movement.

Volume Two opening sequence:

This one is much more fast paced with some nice visuals (the clock gears and then Oz is just everything,) and it also happens to have my favorite of all the theme songs. But just-

Tell me why they felt the need to put Junior and those two twins Little Miss Malachite's daughters in this shot at all? Junior barely does anything, he isn't an 'enemy' in season two so much as he's kind of an informant Yang goes to, which I don't like. And the twins only exist for two seconds so Neptune can flirt with them! Why are they in the theme song when again Sun and Penny don't exist in it at all?

They have Pyrrha fighting Team CRDL, which... Okay? I guess they made that part of the opening sequence because the only other important thing anyone in Team JNPR did that season was dance to Shine, but I find it weird. And then they show Team RWBY fighting various people and instead of featuring Yang fighting Neo and Weiss fighting that one guy with the chainsaw, they have Yang fighting Mercury which she won't do until volume three, and Weiss fighting Emerald, which she won't do except maybe technically kind of when they both exist in the same place in volume five even though Weiss mostly fights Vernal. With Yang and Merc I can at least dismiss it as weird forshadowing, but why is Weiss fighting Emerald? Ruby at least encounters and wants to fight Cinder in volume two despite not knowing it's her, and Blake fights Torchwick, so that's fine. But the Weiss vs Emerald thing is really what gets me. Why?

Volume Three opening sequence!

We flash through a few different teams, and who do we see? Team RWBY and Team JNPR, all very important people, aaaand Team SSSN for some reason, and then Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury. Why the flip do we see Team SSSN? I'm gonna acknowledge that for the first time they showed Sun in an opening sequence (still no Penny though :( bummer) but like... They couldn't have done something that didn't include barely-characters Sage and Scarlet? Tbh it would've made more sense to show Team CVFY and then just include Sun and Neptune later. This is especially true because Sage and Scarlet are at the center instead of Sun and Neptune being at the center. (The 'Mirrors will shatter' part is always cool though.)

We see Ruby fighting Cinder (why not Roman?) Yang fighting Mercury, Blake fighting Adam, and... Again, Weiss fighting Emerald. Hmm. They have Winter with Weiss, and Qrow with Ruby and Yang, and then the two having a staredown before the old Team STRQ picture goes by, which is fine or whatever I guess, but I think I would've preferred something else, like seeing Qrow with the inner circle. Also, no Roman at all (which is really weird, since he was currently one of the main villains,) no Neo, and still no Penny. And despite her larger role in volume three, Pyrrha's screentime in the opening sequence was barely more than the screentime for Sage and Scarlet. Riddle me that.

Volume Four opening sequence:

We're reverting back to mostly having a bunch of people shown standing around and making facial expressions. To be fair, this was a volume where there wasn't a lot of big stuff going on, which I do not hate (if it was done better.) It's weird that they showed Blake fighting Adam when she was really fighting Ilia, though, but I'm willing to dismiss that as them wanting to get across how she's haunted by him or something. But I just personally find that opening sequence really boring. Idk what else to say about it. I like the song though.

Volume Five opening sequence:

Same as before except somehow even more boring. Why are these openings mostly just people standing there? Also when you see Raven she has this soft grin on her face and I'm like... Yeah, sorry, she was a smug jerk the whole time, why is she smiling in her opening credits moment? Weird.

Volume Six opening sequence:

Believe it or not, I like the sound of this song (especially the start of it,) but I'm not sure it was the right song for an opening sequence (and some of the lines are just blah annoying.) Also, more people standing around right at the start with JNOR and Qrow. And then there's this?

They're like, playing tag or something while Blake and Yang are sitting together all moodily? It's just like... I'm not sure. It's weird. Am I the only one that feels like if Ruby was playing tag on the train with anyone, it should be Yang who is shown to still have goofy antics with Ruby in this season, or Nora, who is very silly and rambunctious as a rule? Weiss didn't go through as obvious of a character change in this season as Blake did, but I think people stopped writing for Weiss and started writing for 'Ruby's best friend,' and it shows in little moments like this.

Also with Cinder's moments, they tried to be like "Who is this under the hoooood? We don't knoooow!" And then at the same time tried to be like "Ooooh, is Torchwick baaack? Look at his haaaat!" And it's like, just show us Cinder and Neo. Especially because neither of these things was set up as suspenseful in the show. There was no shadowy figure that people speculated on for episodes, it was just Cinder in clothes we watched her murder a person for. Gonna be honest, it was somehow better than the fourth volume opening sequence, but still.

Volume Seven Sequence opening:

I've already talked about hating the Trust Love song, but yeah, it's really not my favorite. It might be my least favorite. Also! Having them turn from their volumes 1-3 looks, into their volumes 4-6 looks, and into their volume 7-8 looks... Really just showcased how bad some of them looked. Also it's funny that they show Ironwood while they say 'your life's a masterpiece.' Like?? Weird placement for the character you hate. Also also, this?

Always makes me laugh. It's so... Disney channel spy cartoon. Like, it feels straight out of some kind of Kim Possible movie. Why did they choose this? And again, a lot of characters just stand there and make facial expressions. I can't tell you how annoying I find that.

Also, again with weird framing around Ironwood, when a Mantle citizen throws something at the image of James and it flickers into Jacques... Almost like they were signifying how Jacques was trying to make James a scapegoat despite the fact that he was the one hurting Mantle... Huh.

Also, they act like Weiss's main color is blue and Blake's main color is purple. It's so annoying that they can't even stick to one rule in this dang show, like 'the main four have a main color they're represented by.'

Last complaint for this theme song sequence, but why is Qrow so far from the group in the last shot?

If this season had featured Qrow kind of isolating himself from the rest of the group, then this would make sense to me. Instead, they had Team RWBY and co supposedly cool with him now that he started letting them do what they want without protest, had him and Ruby have a heart to heart about Summer, had him hug Ironwood, and launched him into a rapid friendship-possible partnership that consumed most of his screen time this season. So I don't get this choice of framing him as apart from the others.

Volume Eight opening sequence:

So! I'll start out by saying that just like with the volume six song, it's not that I hate this one, it's just that I'm not sure it was a good choice for an opening theme. Also, it's kind of just bad that they put the line 'we said goodbye to all the things we loved' right over shots of the RWBY girls now compared to who they were back in volumes 1-3. Aaaand I wish they'd stop being like 'look, look, do you guys remember back then? We're still just like that!' It's giving ''Steven Moffat keeps bringing in things from the Russel T Davies era to Doctor Who seasons five through seven and misusing them." It's giving "Disney keeps referencing Frozen long after the movie came out." It's giving "They brought in the kid of Will and Elizabeth to Pirates of the Caribbean 5 to try to trick people into thinking it's good."

ALSO: When they're doing that sequence, I get real annoyed at the way they animated Yang.

Some of them are kind of off considering the way the characters behave in volume 8, but Yang's is just bad. Ruby has this cute daring smirk, Weiss is making this serious concentrating face, Blake looks angry and intense, and then Yang - who spends most of her time in volume eight being angry and picking fights with people or being sad as she thinks temporarily leaving on a mission once is going to make Blake think worse of her... Has this like, floaty happy little soft smile and is the only one of the four not portrayed in an action shot? If Isabella from Phineas and Ferb was a RWBY character, this is the kind of pose and face she'd make while staring lovestruck at Phineas. Why is this what they went with?

Again, there's weird framing with James, as they play the line 'gave up our lives' while showing him, like they were acknowledging the sacrifices he made while they speed-run a badly done villain arc. Also 'hope has no place here' while they show Salem set playing chess with the black pieces that all turn into Grimm against James who has all his white pieces dissolve into dust, like they were... Saying he's the only person actually trying to stop her... while the others all left to do other things... In the same season they turn him into an evil bastard. The rest of it is just kind of boring

So yeah, those are my criticisms of the choices for the main sequences of RWBY volumes 1-8. I still consider all of these Nitpicks, because I've enjoyed plenty of shows without liking every choice they make for their opening sequences, but yeah.

#nitpick november #rwde nitpicks #rwde #pro ironwood #pro james ironwood #pro iw

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waheelawhisperer · 11 months

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are you still accepting top 5 asks?

if so: top 5 rwby fight scenes :)

Team RWBY & Team JNPR vs. Death Stalker and Giant Nevermore - the iconic scene that took RWBY from being a bad show I was watching because a friend liked it to a show that I thought had potential to be something special.

Blake and Yang vs. Adam - You will see throughout this list that I love Yang's fights, but this is definitely my favorite of them. Between the shipping moments and the way Yang in particular gives Adam the business during the fight, this one's fantastic. There are a few moments where it stumbles and the way it's spread out so much over like 3 episodes annoys me, but this is definitely an incredible fight for me. Also, the ending is demonstration #123946827 that Yang is smart as hell that the fandom likes to ignore in favor of pigeonholing her into the role of dumb funny party girl who needs simple concepts explained to her for some fucking reason.

Qrow vs. Tyrian (Volume 4) - We got a taste of how top-tier combatants fight with Qrow vs. Winter in Volume 3, but this was the fight that first offered us a look at what happens when two of Remnant's truly elite combatants go all-out in a fight to the death.

Yellow Trailer - This was the fight that showed us just how incredibly good (and smart) Yang is in combat. It established her toolkit, tactics, and technical skill. There is so much going on if you know where to look, and almost everything she does in combat throughout the series is built on the foundation the Yellow Trailer laid.

Pyrrha vs. Cinder - We see how incredibly powerful Pyrrha can be when she's going all-out... and we see that it doesn't fucking matter when a Maiden cuts loose. This fights sets the stakes for the powerscaling for Volumes 4 and onward and presents Cinder as someone the heroes are really going to have to work to defeat.

Honorable mentions:

Yang vs. Mercury - No special gimmicks, no fancy weapons (by the standards of the series), just two badass martial artists throwing down. Love this fight.

Team RWBY vs. the Ace-Ops - We get to see how far Team RWBY has come and just how good they are at tactics within small-scale fights (literally everyone picks the right matchup and comes out ahead because of it)

Qrow vs. Winter - First time we get to see professional Huntsmen and Huntresses fight instead of just students and it was glorious. Also, that fight and its preceding/subsequent interactions almost singlehandedly spawned Qrowin, one of my favorite ships.

Raven vs. Cinder - Maidenbowl Maidenbowl Maidenbowl! This fight was sick as fuck but unfortunately all the budget for Volume 5 that Gray Haddock didn't manage to steal for Gen:Lock or whatever his shitty robot show was called went to it so the gang spent most of the Volume chilling in a house and then we got the shitshow that was the rest of the fight at Haven.

Ironwood vs. Watts - This was a really clever and interesting fight with a ton of good character work involved.

I also have a soft spot for that time Pyrrha shat on Team CRDL in a 4v1 because fuck those losers

#ask game #rwby

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doomalade · 6 months

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Hey doom I wanted to ask: is beacon teaching system even good?

I ask because a training instructor in my discord hated the fight between CRDL and Pyrrha.

When asked about it: “because did we truly learn anything from it? The school is supposed to teach students how to work together, team building, and training. The show effectively ruins that by doing this.

It only shows how Pyrrha is strong but that’s it: heck the teacher didn’t even evaluate the fight between them. It was just a one sided mess that is unacceptable.

Pyrrha vs rwby or any other team would have amounted the same outcome.

This not good teaching: if anything they are destroying confidence.”

Honestly interesting perspective they have because I will admit thinking more about the school makes me think it has too many problems that need fixing.

Honestly? I kinda don’t see much issue with it but I get this point.

Like being able to train students on how to combat other semblance/aura users and especially taking on multiple at once and being able to get out of it would be a pretty good skill to have.

But yeah there was no like, explanation behind it or Glynda being like “thank you Miss Nikos and Team CRDL for displaying blah blah” like actually having a point behind what is going on.

From a narrative stand point it mostly just existed to display how skilled Pyrrha is, which is does quite well I do think. It also sets up the expectation that like “oh man, this person can fight multiple people at once, they’re really strong” like Tyrian or Cinder or Ironwood.

It could have been explored a bit more maybe but ultimately I do think that the scene serves it’s purpose

#rwby #doom.txt #pyrrha nikos

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lunatriense · 6 months

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Purrha defeating Team CRDL’s asses in a 2 vs 4 fight in that Volume 2 scene instead of Pyrrha by herself, fluff

Sorry for the delay, anon. I've been a bit out of it since I got my vaccines the other day, and coordinating a six-person fight takes a bit of thought lol. I hope you like the result!

"You really are an animal lover!"

"What did you say?" Pyrrha's hissed words made everyone in earshot take pause, a soft chorus of released breaths coming from those around when they saw her attention focussed on someone else. Specifically, on Cardin Winchester, whose shit-eating grin revealed his ignorance of just how rare — and how dangerous — it was to hear that tone from her.

"What's wrong? She knows what she is; why else would she hide her ears?" Cardin held out his hand, within which was gripped Blake's bow.

"Give it back." Pyrrha's eyes narrowed and she stood from the bench she was sat on, slowly and intently, never breaking eye contact. "And apologise to her. Now."

"I don't apologise to strays."

Pyrrha was out from behind the table and halfway to Cardin, her clenched fists rising for him, by the time Blake grabbed her arm.

"Don't." Her voice was tense, her golden eyes turning from Pyrrha to Cardin and narrowing.

Pyrrha pulled her gaze from Cardin to look to Blake; her cat ears were back, nearly flat against her head, and her hands trembled against Pyrrha's arm.

"Blake, he-"

"I know." Blake's eyes flicked to the corner of the room, where several of the professors were eating their own lunch. "It's not worth it."

Pyrrha followed her gaze and reluctantly began to relax, which only spurred Cardin on. "Aww, what's the matter, Pyrrha? Don't tell me you're already pussy-whipped!"

Blake struggled to hold Pyrrha back from laying Cardin out, professors or no.

"Some champion." The bully's grin just broadened and he looked back over his shoulder to the rest of his team. "Tamed by a cat in just a few weeks!" He laughed, and the rest of CRDL with him.

"Tomorrow," Pyrrha half-growled through clenched teeth.

Cardin looked back to her. "Huh?"

Pyrrha took a deep breath to calm herself — it didn't work very well, but she didn't need Blake to physically hold her back now at least — and straightened. "Tomorrow, combat class. You'll eat those words."

Her eyes narrowed, "and your teeth." Her hand flashed out like lightning to snatch the ribbon from Cardin's hand. Without another word she turned on her heel and stormed out, Blake at her side.

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"Pyrrha!" Blake practically ran alongside Pyrrha, who was briskly walking toward the class building across the courtyard from the cafeteria. "Pyrrha, wait!"

Pyrrha huffed, but stopped and turned to face her girlfriend. "I know what you said," she began defensively, "but he called you an animal! He outed you to the whole school!!"

Blake's lips curved up just a hair; she never expected a human to be so upset on her behalf. Then again, Pyrrha wasn't just any human. "That's not what I was going to say, but thanks for standing up for me."

Pyrrha blinked, her brow furrowing under her circlet. "It wasn't?"

Blake shook her head.

"Then…?"

"How are you planning on teaching him a lesson tomorrow?"

"In combat class, like I said. You think he'll put up a real fight?"

The faunus shook her head again. "Against you? No but that's not it."

"Then what's the problem?"

"You forgot? Tomorrow is team sparring."

Pyrrha stood blinking momentarily, her face going red after a few heartbeats. "Damnit! The long weekend must've thrown me off." Her expression grew conflicted. "But I can't just let him get away with that…"

Blake nodded, then slowly grinned and draped her arms around Pyrrha's neck. "I think I might have an idea…"

***

"I was hoping to start class off with teams RWBY and CRDL, but it seems that will have to wait." Professor Goodwitch's lips pressed together tightly and she pushed her glasses up on her nose, tapping at her tablet.

It had been easy to convince Ruby, Yang, Jaune, and Nora to skip their classes with a feigned sickness, and knowing that they weren't sick and we're in fact planning to spend the day in town, Ren went with them to temper Nora's wilder ideas. Weiss of course proved difficult, but she owed Pyrrha a favour and wasn't one to renege on a debt, and so the only members of their respective teams in class today were Blake — wearing her bow on the side of her head now that disguise was pointless — and Pyrrha.

"I suppose CRDL can fight-"

"Ma'am?" Blake stood from her seat.

"Yes, Miss Belladonna?"

"Why don't Pyrrha and I fight them?"

Goodwitch arched a brow. "Two people isn't a team, and besides, you're not even on the same team."

"That's true, but our teams have worked together a lot."

"Besides," Pyrrha chimed in, "we won't get any experience at all otherwise, and who knows how long the others will be away?"

"That's a good point…" Goodwitch considered briefly. "However, while Miss Belladonna's style is similar enough to Mr. Ren's, Miss Nikos' is entirely dissimilar to anyone's on team RWBY, so I'm afraid-"

"I don't mind fighting unarmed, ma'am."

Blake looked to Pyrrha and nodded, then back to Goodwitch. "That would make her a pretty good stand-in for Yang."

Goodwitch frowned and made a sound of clear disapproval. "It would, yes, but there's still the matter of numbers. You'd be half a team, and with one of you handicapped at that."

Blake and Pyrrha shared a look, then the latter responded, "That's alright, ma'am; it's good experience in unfavourable circumstances. We can't always count on our team being at its best, after all." She shot CRDL a look. "Unless team CRDL are afraid of being beaten even with such an advantage." She gave them a too-sweet smile but her eyes gleamed with challenge. Beside her and opposite CRDL, Blake leaned out to look at them as well, wearing an appropriately catlike grin.

Goodwitch's eyes opened just a touch more, and she momentarily held her gaze on Blake and Pyrrha before turning to regard the now-bristling CRDL. "They make a compelling argument. Well, boys? What do you say?"

Practically steaming, Cardin didn't take his eyes off the girls. "If they want to get a beat down that bad, we'll give it to 'em."

Goodwitch nodded. "So be it. To the stage then."

The girls made their way up the stairs, Pyrrha setting her weapons beside before climbing up with Blake. CRDL likewise took the stage, glaring daggers at them as they readied their weapons. Blake followed suit.

"Are you ready?" Goodwitch looked to both sides and, receiving nods and affirmative replies, tapped her tablet. "Begin."

The word had scarcely left Goodwitch's lips before the girls sprang into action. Pyrrha launched herself forward, closing with Sky too fast for him to react. Her fist hit his nose with an audible crack and, with his head still reeling back from the blow, she took hold of his halberd and wrenched him around with it, tossing him directly at the oncoming Cardin.

"Out of my way!!" Cardin snarled, shoving Sky aside and stepping up to swing his mace at Pyrrha, who danced around him to evade a few strong but slow attacks before slipping past him and kicking the back of his knee to deposit him to the ground, following up with a spinning kick to the side of his head that sent him sliding several paces.

Blake meanwhile had quickly engaged Dove, a few potshots from her pistol along the way getting Russell's attention on her as well. She locked blades with the former, driving him back with one blade while parrying with the other, until she was forced to defend against Russel as well. Seeing an opening, Dove stepped in and slashed at her only for Blake – or rather what had been Blake — to explode. Both boys were forced to shield their eyes against the explosion, allowing Blake to land a kick to the back of Russel's head and send him stumbling forward as she leapt away from her shadow clone. She switched her sword into its kusarigama configuration and threw it at Dove, who narrowly managed to get his free arm up in time for the ribbon to wrap around it rather than his throat.

By then, Cardin was up once more, giving ground as he weathered a blistering flurry of punches from Pyrrha; though he couldn't block them all, he was tough enough to take quite a few hits. He nearly took one from Sky, who charged in as soon as he had shaken the dizziness and stabbed at Pyrrha, only for her to dodge and put Cardin in the weapon’s path instead. Cardin growled at him, but between the pair of them they managed to halt Pyrrha's advance, forcing her onto the defensive. Briefly. Experienced as she was, Pyrrha quickly found their rhythm and, ducking a wide horizontal cut from Sky, kicked Cardin's legs out from under him, following up with a vicious blow — aided with the force of her polarity on her vambrace — to the sternum that dented his breastplate and sent him flying, then rolling several times until he came to a stop near Blake.

The faunus was holding her own quite well too, dragging Dove in by his captive arm and parrying his sword with her cleaver as she slammed her knee into his temple. That staggered him long enough for her to land a few quick slashes before Russel broke her assault. Blake hopped back from his flashing daggers, parrying his onslaught while landing a few light slashes of her own at his arms. She once again threw out her kusarigama, this time tripping Russel, but before she could capitalise on the opening Dove was on her once more. Though she knocked aside his blade several times, he managed to nick her aura with a couple of thrusts and reverse cuts while she was throwing her own attacks, all the while pushing her back towards the edge of the stage.

Cardin slammed his fist into the ground before pushing himself up with his mace. "GODDAMMIT! Dove, Sky, switch!" He hadn't even finished the command before Sky went sailing past him, Pyrrha having grabbed hold of his halberd and off-balanced him to spin him around, pinning him between the haft and her back, then used the weapon to lever him forward over her with as much force as her considerable strength allowed. Dove tsked and disengaged to rush Pyrrha alongside Cardin, leaving Russel to Blake's mercy.

Said mercy was in short supply today, and left with but one opponent until Sky managed to join in, she carved up Russel's aura like a new year's ham. Without the additional pressure from Dove, he simply couldn't match Blake's attacks and was pushed back toward centre stage. A quick glance at the screen revealed that none of the CRDL boys were doing well, with Sky and now Russel dangerously close to the red.

With Cardin and Dove on her, Pyrrha was once again forced on the defensive, but the boys' uncoordinated teamwork couldn't keep her there for long. She deflected a slash from Dove with her vambrace and sidestepped a heavy diagonal swing of Cardin's mace, punishing him for the opening with a kick to the ribs that pushed him back a couple steps. Dove kept up his attack, slashing several more times but missing the elusive Pyrrha, then attempting to stab her. Rather than backpedal to avoid the blow, Pyrrha stepped into it, letting it pass just at her side and trapping Dove's arm. With her other hand, she slammed her palm into the back of his head and, sweeping his legs out from under him, drove his face into the ground — which took her below the returned Cardin's wild swing — hard enough to smash a hole in the stage.

The sound of the buzzer announced Dove's defeat a second before Goodwitch's confirmation, bringing a smirk to Blake's face. "That's one down. Who's next?" Russel glared daggers at her and stepped forward with a pair of thrusts, but before she could make him pay for his poor judgement, Sky was coming from the side. His swinging halberd struck a wide arc, but it was slow, and thus had the benefit of forcing Russel into a more cautious approach. Blake deftly stepped in and out of range, cutting at Sky each time she did so. Slowly but surely she chipped away at his aura, a shadow clone here and there keeping the boys from trapping her between them.

The buzzer sounded again, followed by Goodwitch's voice. "Mr. Lark, that's enough; you've been defeated. You may leave the stage now, and please take Mr. Bronzewing with you."

"Aw, man…" Sky visibly deflated but stepped back, hustling over to pick up Dove — who was only groggily coming to, slowly pulling his face out of the stage's new hole — and exit.

"And then there were two," Pyrrha purred, her eyes sparkling all the more as they bored into Cardin's. He growled, which turned into a roar, and came at her in a frenzied rush. She gave ground, dodging aside and back and only occasionally darting in for a quick jab to the face. Even a complete amateur would've seen she was playing with him, every little blow — hardly more than a tap — enraging Cardin further. He threw caution to the wind, putting every ounce of his prodigious muscle into each swing with murder in his eyes.

"Do you remember what I said?" Pyrrha simply held her smile and kept antagonising him with those jabs until with a bellow he brought his mace down vertically, his whole weight following the weapon. Pyrrha's eyes narrowed and her smile faded. "Bon apetit." She dipped low and stepped in under the swing, nearly running directly into Cardin before straightening with whipcord speed. She led with her fist, which struck Cardin's chin with such force his teeth cracked together audibly and, with a shattering of aura and a spray of spittle and blood — and no few tooth fragments — lifted him off the ground, his mace clattering to the stage. The buzzer sounded for him while he was still in midair, and even Goodwitch winced, watching him go up, then back down to land hard in an unceremonious heap, crumpled back with his legs over his head, unmoving. The professor wasn't alone; much of the audience cringed and groaned at the display.

Blake smirked. "Looks like you're it. Why don't you just give up?"

Russel frantically looked from Blake to Pyrrha to Cardin and back, and after a moment's hesitation, stepped back and dropped his daggers. "I-I yield! I yield!!"

Goodwitch tapped her tablet and, after a final buzzer, the lights rose. "Miss Belladonna and Miss Nikos are victorious. Congratulations, ladies."

The audience of their fellow students was silent for a heartbeat, then another, before erupting in applause. Pyrrha and Blake met in the centre of the stage, raising each other's hand before making to leave it, the on-call medics clambering up the opposite stairs to fetch Cardin and tend to his wounds.

The girls moved back to their seats after a quick stop for Pyrrha to pick up her weapons, smiling brightly. Having returned to their places, they absently heard Goodwitch call up the next teams, but the bulk of their attention was on each other. Pyrrha slid an arm around Blake, pulling her closer. "You have the best ideas."

Blake smirked and rested her head on Pyrrha's shoulder, receiving a little kiss atop her head. "I know."

#purrha #pyrrha nikos #blake belladonna #rwby fic #blake x pyrrha #pyrrha x blake #fanfic #my writing

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caterpillarinacave · 2 years

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Late for the RWBY Ask, sorry. 😅 Which fight scenes are your favorite and least favorite?

(Sorry it took so long to answer I was rewatching all the fights 😌)

Kinda obscure, but I really like the Pyrrha vs CRDL in V2! I really like Pyrrhas fighting style, and she’s a lot of fun to watch against multiple opponents. Plus, I really like the sound effects they use in the first couple of seasons.

Least favorite was kinda difficult to pick, but my least favorite is probably Weiss Vs the Lancer Grimm, at the beginning of V5. I generally like Weiss’s fighting (especially with her semblance) and the end of the fight is actually pretty decent, but 3/4ths of it is just boring and it always feels like a super lame way to start V5.

#Thanks for the ask!#I really like the Ruby vs Roman and Neo but that one causes me pain so 🤷‍♀️#Rwby #🐛rambles #pyrrha nikos #Rwby V2 #rwby V5 #weiss schnee

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rwbythroughtheyears · 3 years

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Every Fight Scene - Pyrrha Nikos, Winter Schnee, Tyrian Callows

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shallitickleyournerdbutton · 3 years

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After the heartache of the Volume 8 finale, I would like to return to a happier point in the show and suggest some memes/jokes that I like to think the students at Beacon would have had. More closely inline with the RWBY Chibi-verse, than the actual show - where Nothing Bad Ever Happened.

"Who's child is this?" being used to refer to Ruby - the youngest student at Beacon - when she's left unsupervised and/or doing something odd.

"I'd let Glynda punish/whip me for one corn chip."

Every now and again "Missing - Have you seen this person?" posters for Professor Peach will pop up around campus. No one knows who it is that keeps making them.

Vomit Boy candids being taken and shared any time Jaune is Suffering™️ on some form of transport.

The Great One plush of Pyrrha exists in-universe... and becomes the go-to prize for any stupid competition between the students. There's at least a dozen of these dolls on campus now, owned by various people and won as "spoils of war."

There's a dedicated chalkboard in the combat room for tallying how many times Nora has launched someone into the stratosphere. Notable mentions are listed on the board alongside her of other people who have achieved this feat - including Yang, Yatsuhashi, and Glynda.

(She launched both Port and Oobleck one day when they kept annoying her. Sometimes, their screams can still be heard if you listen closely enough.)

"There's that old guy again..." "Oh, shopkeep? Yea, he's everywhere. Don't think too much about it."

This leads to "Don't think too much about it." becoming something of a slogan for every time anything unusual happens.

"Candy canes, kids! One for Sun Wukong, one for Yang Xiao-Long, ooh four for Coco Adel, you go Coco!"

"I--"

"Andnoneforweissschneebye~"

Team STRQ having something akin to legend status at Beacon, whispered in hushed voices for fear and reverence of their names. There's a war between the students regarding team JNPR as their successors vs. the students who insist JNPR are not anywhere near worthy of such a title.

"How many team CRDLs does it take to beat Pyrrha?"

Blurry fancam-style videos of the Qrow vs. Winter fight out in the courtyard being traded around like baseball cards with other students. Some try and manufacture a "rematch" of this with the materials they've got - trying to get Ruby and Weiss to fight each other.

That weird sing-song "HellOooOo~" that Yang sometimes does being mimicked by everyone. And I mean everyone.

Any time there's a significant lull in conversations or classes, someone often asks "Why are we here?" which never fails to make everyone in the vicinity groan.

"Ozpin is compensating for something" jokes about his office chair - including at least one popular response being "it's the war crimes", without them knowing just how accurate they actually are.

"On a scale of Ren-Nora, how excited do you want me to be?"

"Ladies Love Lavender" referring to Lisa Lavender having her own in-universe fandom mostly comprised of women. (Lavender being associated with lesbians irl, and I just think this would be funny.)

The sight of Ren just picking up and carrying Nora away from something is so commonplace that other people start doing it to their friends when they Need To Stop.

"Why is Blake's bow so big?" "Because it's full of secrets."

Blake being a closet faunus being such a poorly hidden secret that by the time she finally takes off the bow no one actually even notices.

The betting pool surrounding exactly what it is in Ozpin's cup - coffee being one of the least popular options, and souls being the top choice.

Using Yatsuhasi as a unit of measurement.

Photoshopping adorable images of Velvet onto various "cute" animal memes.

Everyone wanting to be spanked by Coco Adel.

"I'd let Fox blow me up too."

"Why is Weiss' hair so long?" "To reflect the length of her father's crimes."

Everyone mimicking Pyrrha's memetic "I'm sorry!" anytime they apologise for anything. Even going as far to do it while apologising to things that don't require apologies - like inanimate objects.

"Are Port and Oobleck, you know... 💅?"

In fact, just that 💅 being used to refer to a large number of people at Beacon. Actual LGBT students picking this up and using it towards grimm when they're attacked to question the sexuality/homophobia of the grimm targeting them over their peers.

Threatening Neptune with water anytime he flirts with a girl who is clearly Not Interested in him.

No one knowing who, exactly, the other two members of team SSSN are - with wild theories abounding about who they may be. Popular choices include Shopkeep, Zwei, and Professor Peach.

This persists even after their tournament fights where they're shown. Scarlet and Sage are perfectly content with this, and participate.

"Arslan's/Pyrrha's back must be aching from constantly carrying her entire team."

And the respective responses of, "Reese/Nora are alright."

Similar jokes about Glynda also carrying the entire faculty/academy on her back.

"Salutations!"

The war between the "Irondaddy" fanbase, and his haters - who refer to him with various derogatory versions of his name. "Metalpenis", "Coppercock", "Chromeshaft", etc.

Anytime someone is doing something ~questionable~ donning a pair of glasses and/or imitating Oz or Oobleck pushing them back up their nose with accompanying menacing body language. (Kubrick Stare optional.)

Mercury having a foot fetish, courtesy of the people who caught him sniffing shoes at the festival.

"Did <character> just die?" "You know, it was really unclear." any time someone takes some insane damage in a fight and isn't seen for some time afterwards.

Everyone trying to locate and get a pic of the ~mysterious~ fourth member of team CMSN, who has only ever been spotted once - her tournament fight in the first round. Beacon's version of "Where's Wally?"

The Sympathy Fund for Emerald and her one-sided crush on Cinder. "She could honestly do so much better."

People offering themselves up as tribute to spar with Pyrrha/Yang/Coco/Sun just so they can be beaten up by the hottest people on campus.

"I drink milk!" being used as a defensive argument in wildly inappropriate contexts.

Naming grimm really boring names and attempting to keep them as pets.

The innumerous times Port has allowed a "zoo-break" to happen under his watch and everyone having to assist in recovering his prized subjects.

"Where the fuck are all the fourth years?" "Ozpin's soul collection."

Candid shots of Glynda Suffering™️ being shared similarly to the ones of Vomit Boy.

Ranking people based on their Patience Levels - Pyrrha, Ren, Glynda, Emerald, and Fox being frequent top markers based on the bullshit they put up with from their respective teams.

"Saint Pyrrha" being a common nickname for her, and her neverending niceness towards people who absolutely do not not deserve it.

Weiss' "Hey!" being replicated amongst the student body and slowly growing more and more high-pitched in its replication until it eventually just becomes a shrill noise. Even so, everyone still knows what it means - and Weiss is absolutely unamused by all of this.

In fact, a lot of early!Weiss' comments being mercilessly mocked by everyone - "I'm a victim!" being one of them.

Renowned fear permitting amongst the student body regarding Yang's red eyes meaning Serious Business. Morphs into references of "going full Yang" to mean having rage-fuelled temper tantrums.

"Never miss a beat, never miss a beat" becoming a mantra for focusing on a task. This inspires several remixes of Neon saying it, and again with no one knowing who it is making them.

By all means, feel free to add any more that you all think of! I could use a laugh!

Also, check the notes for additions!

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nerdwhowantstobeahero · 2 years

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RWBY Power Levels

One thing I really like about RWBY is how the power levels of each character is pretty realistic and works within the world building.

Many other shows have the protagonists be extremely strong and talented with no real explanation other than they're the protagonists. However, RWBY has the students be clearly weaker than their adult counterparts.

Especially in the earlier volumes, it is clearly evident that the students are not as strong as the adults. Ruby fighting with Torchwick, Yang vs Neopolitan, and many other times, team RWBY is shown to really struggle against their older opponents. Like Qrow and Ironwood are shown to be really good fighters and in a different league than the RWBY and JRN.

Even taking the main cast in comparison to other students, it’s cool to see that they're much more talented than most other teams. Seeing Pyrrha fight against CRDL and Mercury really showcases how she’s on another level. Yang’s hand to hand is so powerful yet can be countered, Ruby’s speed and agility are her best talents yet her fighting style is so niche that she can’t fight without the scythe, Blake’s shadow and agility based fighting is unmatched but still with its limits, and Weiss’s fighting is much better suited for long distance. Like they all have their limits and thats what makes them so much more realistic.

This makes it so much more satisfying when RWBY level up. The progress they show in the later volumes seem much more earned. And yet they show that they're still not invisible and can grow as even greater fighters.

TLDR; the show clearly differentiates the power levels of each of their characters which adds a ton of depth to the world building. Each character is talented and powerful but not so powerful that it detracts from the story. RWBY is a great demonstration of clear power dynamics within fantasy writing.

#rwby #ruby rose #yang xiao long #blake bellodona #weiss schnee #pyrrha nikos #i just want to watch all the fights all the time in slow mo #just my rambling thoughts

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cosmokyrin · 3 years

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Hello there! I absolutely adore your Nuts'N Dolts art and how you portray them! If you don't mind me asking as a fellow fan, what is it you like/enjoy about the ship or thier characters in general?

First and foremost omg thank you so much!! ; A ; I’m glad you enjoy it. I just love them waaaaaay too much rn

For your question though, my brain automatically latched to answer this with a......... LONG POST

sorry i just have so many jsdjfsjfjs feelings for Nuts and Dolts right now, that I’m probably gonna ramble and be incomprehensible as fuck

this is something I’ve said over Discord servers though so bear with me

TL;DR if you don’t wanna check under the cut: Penny and Ruby are highly independent and are in the best positions to understand the struggles of one another. They share similar burdens, both are givers who forget themselves in the process, but they mutually support and love one another (whether as friends or more) which sort of replenishes their self-love and intensifies their relationship. Also I didn’t include, but they’re fucking wholesome and cute upfront.

I just really find their relationship so perfect. I mean, I’ve never seen such a pair that fits just damn right. It may be that I’m also a friends-to-lovers trope trash, but honestly it’s just that, when you look at the whole story, there’s so much backing for their relationship whether you like them platonic or romantic.

I took very long to actually ship Nuts and Dolts because they really gave off platonic vibes in the beginning, like the “I’ll support you as my best friend” vibes all the way. (Though I have to admit, looking back at the V3 talk between Penny and Ruby (after Penny vs CRDL fight), that seems to imply something else now lol) And also I personally haven’t found their differences in V1-V3, that is, until, RWBY Chibi (yes, the Fireflies episode lmfao). Then it was accentuated by V7. Suddenly Ruby and Penny’s mannerisms are far from each other. Idk how to explain it, but it’s there. They’re similar in many ways (both give me introverted vibes, both are thoughtful), but diverge in several ways, too (Ruby is more suppressed with emotion and Penny is more open about it). If these two were going to talk more about the same issue as V8E3 (regarding what Penny should do), I could actually see them arguing about it.

The other thing is their positions in each other’s life is pretty remarkable. Alexkablob (here on Tumblr) already said this before but yes, Penny seems like an outlier in her relationship with Ruby, and so is Ruby in regards to who surrounds Penny.

Just this evening I literally had a shower thought on why their relationship works -- it’s because I could perceive them as equal in many ways. Both of them have large responsibilities that I think only they are in the position to understand each other. Ruby is the leader of this group of Huntspeople whose actions could affect the fate of Remnant itself. That’s heavy. Penny, on the other hand, is this girl who simply wanted to become the Protector of Mantle but now her decisions and her responsibility could either save or destroy Atlas / Mantle and much more than that, if she fails at her current mission. They’re both lonely heroes who bear the weight of the world, I believe, much more than anyone else really.

A fellow server member said it: Ruby and Penny are both givers; they barely have any left for themselves.

Ruby is a leader. If anything, being a leader is lonely. Because everyone actually depends on you, whether that’s implicit or explicit. Being a leader means a lot of people look up to you to be at your best. And Ruby, we know Ruby. She gives love to everyone; she cares about everyone. She’s literally the shining beacon of Remnant. But what happens when her confidence is not enough? What happens when she begins to doubt herself?

Story-wise, there’s that one person outside her team, outside her family, who shares the same burdens as she does, and is not in any way connected to her other than a strong friendship bond -- Penny. Ruby is not Penny’s leader. Penny leads herself, even dangerously at times because that’s what she thinks is right. In a way, both Ruby and Penny are leaders.

Both are highly independent of one another, yet, they could become interdependent if they need to.

Penny is in the best position to understand what Ruby is going through. She’s in the right position to give Ruby the same thing they both can’t give themselves -- love. Or care, if you want a lighter term. But it isn’t just any kind of love / care -- it’s that love they need so badly -- love for themselves, but when they’re with one another, that’s something they could actually bring out easy. They spend all their love giving it to the world, they hardly have any left for them -- but then, their relationship with each other replenishes that. It’s mutual. The way they want to protect and support each other -- it’s splayed across V7 and condensed in the first three episodes of V8.

It’s also interesting to note that Penny is the first person to return to Ruby after losing her (compared to Pyrrha and Summer). Looking at Ruby’s history, that’s like some miraculous ray of hope that comes during dark times (and it doesn’t help that I’ve overanalyzed that in the V7 opening, the lyrics in Penny’s appearance is “Through love your power just shines” and the way Penny turns like she’s someone you wanted to meet again after a long time???). She becomes this hope for Ruby that everything can be better, that Penny won’t leave again. And the way V8 is playing on this just outright makes me both excited and anxious lmao. No doubt Ruby and Penny’s arcs are heavily tied to the plot, especially their relationship.

AND YEA LOL THAT WAS A LOOONG POST BUT I JUST HAD TO GET IT OUT THERE

#that-one-gundam-guy #penny polendina #ruby rose #nuts and dolts #mechanical rose #rwby #askbox #see this is my nuts and dolts brainrot coming out #i must be having withdrawals from the lack of canon N&D interactions #jfsjdfjsdjf #but i just really love them so much i can't explain #the positioning of their characters is what makes me ship them so hard

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hadesisqueer · 1 year

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Alright, I'm gonna be doing a Best RWBY Fight Poll (I'll probably start tomorrow though). I chose 32 fights for the bracket to work. These are the fights:

1) Pyrrha vs CRDL.

2) Yang vs Mercury.

3) Blake and Sun vs Sea Feilong.

4) RNJR vs Nuckelavee.

5) Neo vs María.

6) Qrow vs Winter.

7) Blake and Yang vs Adam.

8) Qrow vs Tyrian.

9) Cinder vs Raven.

10) Food Fight.

11) Penny and Winter vs Cinder.

12) RWBY vs FNKI.

13) RWBY vs Nevermore.

14) Penny vs Cinder (Amity Arena).

15) RWBY vs Roman (Atlesian Paladin).

16) Velvet (and Weiss) vs Atlesian Paladins.

17) RWBY vs Ace Ops.

18) Yang vs Neo.

19) Winter vs Ironwood.

20) Cinder vs Rhodes.

21) Yang vs Bandits.

22) Weiss vs Queen Lancer.

23) Salem vs JOYR and Hazel.

24) Emerald and Mercury vs Coco and Yatsuhashi.

25) JNPR vs Death Stalker.

26) Pyrrha vs Penny.

27) Ruby, Harriet and Penny vs Megoliath.

28) María vs Tock.

29) Winter vs Cinder.

30) Qrow, Robyn and Clover vs Tyrian.

31) Ironwood vs JNR, Oscar, Emerald and Winter.

32) RWBY vs the Red Prince's pieces.

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kingdom-of-vale · 3 years

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Top 5 favorite RWBY fight scenes?

Oh, damn, hard to pick just five....

Okay I got this, in no particular order (because there's no way I can do that):

Pyrrha vs Team CRDL

Yang vs The Malachite Twins & Junior

Blake & Sun vs Roman Torchwick

Team RWBY vs Roman in the paladin

Weiss vs the Arma Gigas

And because I already said it'd be difficult to pick five... I picked some honorary ones:

Team RWBY vs Team ARBN, RWBY vs the Evermore, JNPR vs the Deathstalker, Yang vs the bandits, Ruby vs Neo in vol.3 while on top of the ship

There's... so many.

#Obviously special shout out to monty bc his fighting scenes were *chef kiss*#thanks for the message #👍 ♥#asks #Thebunnyremix #Rwby

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kitkatopinions · 3 years

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Greek Fire is SO underrated. I have so many headcanons about this ship but my favorite is that while Pyrrha was a champion in the public eye, Yang was more of an "underground champion" where she got her name more on the streets (in the Miwa manga it's implied Junior knew her by an alias and she was kind of feared by criminals for her strength). So they immediately caught each others' eyes in regards to pushing each other in combat class, and kind of get into a playful rivalry with each other that the others (minus people like Merc hiding their powerlevels) can't really keep up with.

Like imagine instead of Pyrrha vs CRDL, it was Pyrrha vs Yang where Pyrrha narrowly beats her and just looks down at her, out of breath, and just cockily says something like "Better luck next time, Yang" as she helps her up, and Yang just returns the smirk. I imagine they'd have this dynamic where Yang kind of brings out her competitive side that the others don't really see (especially not people like Jaune).

There'd also be lots of time for them to open up to each other about stuff like at the dance. Pyrrha wants to be seen for just her, not her titles or anything, and I think despite their rivalry Yang would be able to do just that.

Sorry for dumping this in your inbox I just really fucking love this pairing lmao.

They’re a pretty good pairing. I personally don’t see them as competitive, but that scene would be cute as heck.

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thuskindlyshescatters · 7 years

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all offense but physics aside the scene where blake is falling through the air and runs down the wyrm's wing yelling in v4 is the best scene in rwby

#another high contender is Pyrrha vs crdl but #I could watch that one moment over and over and over again #(I have)#(I recommend it)#blake belladonna #of runaways and stowaways #rwby4 #rwby

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warsmith-38 · 3 years

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How I would do RWBY pt. 2

Season Two

Emerald and Mercury go to book store.

Try intimidating ex-White Fang owner.

He’s tense, but not impressed.

Adam walks in.

He shits himself.

Tries fighting.

Dies. Painfully might I add.

Emerald and Mercury banter. Adam just seems bored.

Cinder (teenaged, not adult) scolds them for 86ing the guy in such a public and possibly trackable way.

Adam assures them that they weren’t seen. He has practice in that sort of thing.

Torchwick is annoyed at working with these people but at least he’s getting paid a mint.

Cinder says that, with all of the stolen dust, phase two of plan can to be started soon.

Neo give her a look of ‘get over yourself, you chuunibyou.’

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.

More guests arrive.

Ironwood talks with Ozpin about world affairs.

Grimm populations and attacks are getting worse, but are still manageable.

Says that he has brought plenty of extra security in the form of Penny and a big amount of security robots and mechs.

More bonding scenes because reasons.

RWBY + JNPR have food fight because funny.

Velvet and Blake are closer than earlier and give little ‘anti-racism’ classes for Weiss.

Blake is friendlier with everyone now that she knows they wouldn’t kill her since she’s a faunus.

Ruby has taken on the role of mechanic for everyone’s weapons.

Jaune dominates wargaming night.

Ren and Fox try to help Ruby with her hand-to-hand skills (Yang is not a great teacher of such things)

Scene of properly meeting team SSSN.

Nice guys, but a little too uncoordinated in style.

Ruby ends up having a frustrated breakdown.

Gives WBY speech of how they have to get involved and screw the people telling them to sit down and let them handle the problem instead.

Blake is the first to go along with what she’s saying.

Yang and Weiss argue that this is not a good idea, saying that this sounds like Ruby just wants to go play vigilante again.

Blake says that Ruby has a point, nothing will get accomplished if they sit around doing nothing.

Weiss is the one that cracks next. Agrees that the authorities aren’t exactly inspiring confidence since the run in with Torchwick.

Yang finally gives in, if only to make sure Ruby doesn’t get herself murdered.

Ruby, in her excitement to actually be doing something, rushes out the door to get snacks and runs into someone.

That someone is Cinder.

Cinder, Emerald, Mercury, and disguised Neo (Team CEMN (Cinnamon (work with me here))) keep up the façade of Haven guests from canon.

Ruby almost immediately starts gushing over their cool weapons before being reined in by WBY.

Emerald pickpocket’s Weiss’ wallet and snags rich girl’s cash before putting it back.

Mercury and Yang have a very clear stare-down of ‘punching vs kicking, who will win?’

Neo and Blake…stare at each other (Adam is Blake’s Rival/Foil. Blake v. Neo is just pair the spares).

RWBY has made new friends. (The poor dears)

RWBY start their investigation.

Team SSSN turns up to help at the last minute.

Okay, sure, free help.

Blake and Sun try to find local White Fang schmucks.

Scarlet and Sage go off to do random shit.

Yang drags Neptune to Junior’s club to check the pulse of the criminal element of the city.

Ruby and Weiss dig up information at library place-thing.

They encounter Penny on the way.

Penny acts weird(er) and tries to bolt off.

Weiss agrees that Penny is suspicious as hell and, with all the happenings, that means that she could be a potential lead.

She lets Ruby go after her while she about her investigating alone.

Penny reveals to Ruby that she’s a mechanical maiden (Persona 3 is best Persona).

Ruby is VERY interested now.

Ruby already liked her as a person and now she knows that Penny is a person who is also a weapon.

Zero downsides.

Penny, happy to be accepted, let’s slip that she knows some crazy stuff is happening in the world.

Says that that’s why she was allowed to come to the tournament, as extra back up just in case.

Says that the communications tower is the most obvious target but might not be the actual target.

Can’t elaborate further because of Ciel and her bodyguards showing up.

Ciel gives Ruby the third degree on encouraging Penny’s truant behavior.

Ruby gives her the finger.

Ciel takes Penny away and Ruby gets back to work.

Weiss gets whatever information about the White Fang and Torchwick that isn’t classified, and a little that is, transferred to her.

Her older sister is a high ranker in the military and her father bankrolled a good chunk of said military.

Ain’t nepotism a bitch?

Yang and Neptune come up empty handed, but Yang got to pick another fight at the club before the cops showed up so she’s all good.

Neptune thinks that that’s all Yang went there to do in the first place.

Scarlet and Sage get captured by the White Fang. (They said they had fresh cookies, what were S + S going to do, say no?)

Blake leads Sun along a trail of breadcrumbs to a White Fang hideout.

Sees a recruitment rally going on.

Blake has a heart attack seeing who’s giving a speech.

It’s Adam.

Speech is an emotional call to arms against the cruelty of humanity.

Crowd is skeptical but still listening.

Reveals his brand.

Crowd is now enthusiastic to sign up for the White Fang.

Adam reveals newly stolen war-mech.

Says that they’ll test its power by executing Scarlet and Sage.

Blake spoils his moment by covertly revealing that Roman is the pilot of said mech (Neo is co-pilot).

Crowd turns against Adam for his hypocrisy.

Adam cheeses it.

Roman takes it on himself to attack Blake and Sun.

Scarlet and Sage are freed and take on the rowdy crowd.

While running, Blake and Sun encounter RWY and Neptune.

Sun and Neptune get good hits in but are btfo’d.

Scarlet and Sage find them and all is good for team SSSN.

RWBY has quasi-rematch against Roman + Neo.

Fight goes well.

Team CFVY shows up and stomps the mech.

Looks like Team Rocket’s blasting off again!

RWBY celebrates a fight well won.

CFVY are pissed that RWBY would do something so dangerous and make them promise not to do things like this again.

RWBY lies through their collective teeth about not doing it again.

Get put on probation anyway.

Pyrrha and Jaune are having a moment together before Jaune ruins it.

Jaune admits that he lied and cheated his way into school due to impatience and lack of immediate combat skills.

He confesses all of this out of guilt and plans to turn himself in.

Pyrrha is actually rather angry at him.

1. for cheating to get what everyone else fought tooth and nail to earn the right to and 2. Putting the rest of his team at risk due to his inability to keep up with them in a fight and for associating them with a cheater/liar.

Not to mention lying to her face.

Says good riddance.

Cardin overhears and blackmails him into doing what he says or else he’ll narc on him and say that NPR knew and thus were complicit in the crime.

Jaune goes along with it while creating plan to oust Cardin and get him kicked from school.

Has conversation with Ren and Nora, both of whom are pissed at him.

Of course Pyrrha told them.

Jaune tells them that he knows he’s a piece of shit but also has Cardin to deal with.

Ren and Nora begrudgingly agree to help him get rid of Cardin.

Tells them his plan.

Plan proceeds to fail and Jaune ends up fighting all of CRDL alone.

Loses.

Grimm outside of their power-level shows up.

Jaune’s quick thinking and tactics get it killed.

Cardin is grateful and promises to keep quiet about blackmail. Even means it too.

CRDL is never a real issue again due to them actually realizing that it’s a very cuntish thing to bully the guy and/or the friends of the guy who actively saved their lives.

Jaune plans to give one last apology to his team before he turns himself in.

NPR say that they deliberated amongst themselves.

They have decided that Jaune doesn’t get to take the easy way out.

His penance is to train his ass off, night and day, to catch up to them on the physical level.

Jaune’s role is to be the strategist and that it’s his job to make plans that keep them all alive.

If he fucks up, they work his ass harder until he doesn’t fuck up.

They haven’t fully forgiven him, but they’re giving him a chance because they genuinely like him.

Jaune is touched by their compassion and promises make up for his mistakes.

Sparring day in class.

Jaune has match against disguised Neo.

Neo wins but Jaune starts to have suspicions.

Pyrrha and Mercury spar.

Pyrrha wins but Mercury now has valuable data on her overall fighting style and semblance usage.

Cinder and Ruby are last match of the class.

Cinder has fire powers as a semblance.

Has second semblance giving her bullet time.

Bullet time doesn’t work all that well against Ruby because of her super-speed.

Ruby gets some pretty good hits in. Kinda kicking Cinder’s ass.

Cinder then decides she’s done playing nice and goes on full offensive. Even starts to scare the crowd.

Times up!

Due to technicality, Ruby won the fight.

Aura cohesion (health bars) Cinder:48% Ruby:51%

Emerald and Mercury are blue in the face with fear of what Cinder might do, having officially lost a fight.

Cinder helps Ruby up, apologizes for going overboard, and offers to buy Ruby lunch the next day.

Ruby happily agrees to hang out with her newest friend.

Cinder later explodes at her hideout and incinerates a White Fang member that got a little too close.

Adam pretends to care. Doesn’t actually.

Ruby and Cinder become shockingly good friends (as far as Ruby is concerned).

Cinder explains the concept of a second semblance, confirming to Ruby that she’s a ten-percenter.

It’s somewhat rare, but it’s common enough that people know how it works and why it unlocks.

Great emotional duress.

She was raised in an orphanage that REALLY sucked.

She awakened both semblances pretty quickly and was snatched up by the authorities as soon as possible to be a huntress.

She’s mostly lying about the details but there is still the base truth.

Ruby tells her that she lost one of her parents too.

Summer just didn’t come home one day, being told she was killed in the line of duty by a lucky grimm.

She’s always thought that there’s more to this story, but doesn’t have the means to follow up just yet.

It’s part of why Ruby wants to be a huntress, to do her best to make sure that some other kid never experiences that kind of loss because of the grimm.

Cinder tells her that that’s not the worst motivation. (she means it more than she thinks)

Since Blake saw Adam at the rally she has become obsessed with analyzing all the data gotten during investigation.

RWY is worried.

Yang talks to her about it, giving the speech about her mother and the problems with obsession.

Blake talks about how dangerous she knows Adam to be. Is vastly terrified of him.

Yang reassures her that the team can handle that punkass.

4 on 1, let him try it. They’ll put the boots to him. Medium style.

Blake reluctantly snaps out of her funk.

Dance comes.

Everyone’s having a good time.

Pyrrha decides to properly forgive Jaune.

They kiss and, after a wacky JNPR argument because funny, so do Ren and Nora.

Insert the cool JNPR dance scene here.

Ruby is happy for her friends but notices some bullshit going on near the comm. tower.

Cinder is infiltrating it wearing something that actually makes it difficult to tell who it is.

Makes a big show of knocking the guards unconscious.

Places real obvious hacking device onto console.

Ruby comes in and shoots at her.

Cinder pops smoke and disappears.

Authorities arrive and (as far as they can tell) disable the hacking device.

Ruby is given a commendation for her actions and her team is taken off probation from earlier.

Upper echelon is pleased that enemy plot was foiled.

Exactly as the bad guys wanted.

Ozpin presses the doubt button.

Teams gets chaperone assignments.

JNPR requested a special Grimm bounty mission.

RWBY gets put on simple observation mission.

JNPR spends time tracking and eventually fighting nuckelavee grimm with Prof. Port.

Ren comes to terms with fighting the grimm that killed his parents.

Y’know, sub-plot stuff to relieve some main plot tension.

RWBY is sent with Dr. Oobleck into ruins to observe and document the growth rate of the non-hostile presence of the local *loud snoring*.

Actually sent near suspected White Fang supply depot with hope that they uncover it and fix problems.

Find it fairly easily after a little bonding moment or two with everyone.

Torchwick and Adam are in charge of train depot. (Torchwick gets the train, Adam gets the depot)

Ruby goes in on her own because she was told not to do things like that.

Ruby gets double-teamed by Roman and Adam. Neo watches like a little shithead.

Ruby fights like a demon but still gets bested.

Adam says that he is now bored and leaves Roman to finish up.

Oobleck and WBY show up.

Roman starts the train, tries to cheese it.

RWBY + Oobleck board the train.

Yang fights Neo.

Weiss fights masked White Fang member (later revealed to be Ilia).

Ruby and Blake fight Torchwick.

Oobleck fights the stormtroopers.

Neo, the crafty, dodgy, dexterity style, sly-bitch, kicks Yang, the brutish and blunt boxer, in the ass.

Raven pops up through a portal.

Neo am-scrays after almost getting her shit pushed in.

Raven says a scant few things to Yang and leaves her a trinket and a map, telling her to follow it when she can before leaving.

Weiss wins her fight.

Blake and Ruby kick Roman’s ass.

Discover train is full of dust explosives to blow up a chunk of Vale and let the grimm through in droves.

Was originally intended to be deployed before explosion but Roman decides ‘fuck it’ and tries to turn it into a kamikaze run at the last minute out of spite.

Oobleck disconnects the explosive cars.

Train still rams hole into central Vale.

Grimm incursion.

RWBY fights as best they can.

Almost get overrun when Teams CFVY, SSSN, and CEMN show up to help.

CEMN only involved because evil plan failed and they want to try and clean up any possible evidence.

Neo (in disguise) tries not to be obvious that she’s still tired from earlier.

Horde battle with large hydra (or something) grimm being final boss of season.

They kill it, of course.

After the battle RWBY thinks that the problem is more or less solved.

Adam is still loose but his plan is foiled and his co-conspirator, Roman, is in prison.

All they have to do is hunt him down.

If he’s going to try something, it’ll be at the tournament. RWBY will have an extra eye open during.

JNPR returns triumphant from their mission and wonders what the hell happened while they were gone.

Cinder is livid that plan-A failed and they lost their best chance to kill Ozpin.

Yeah, their plan is to fuck up Vale and get and chance to kill Ozpin.

Is reassured by the mysterious figure she’s talking to (Salem) that plans can change and still succeed.

Adam is looking through security footage taken from depot.

Sees Blake.

He smiles.

Season two done.

#RWBY #Ruby Rose #Weiss Schnee #Blake Belladonna #Yang Xiao Long #Cinder Fall #Emerald Sustrai #Mercury Black #Adam Taurus #Neopolitan #RWDE I guess #I regret nothing #How I would do...#Team CFVY

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