#raven brawnwen

[chittychittyyangyang]

Like mother, like daughter

#rwby #rwby9 #raven brawnwen #summer rose #yang xiao long #ccyy edit #raven #summer #yang #birdmom #also yang being like raven by not telling anyone she's the spring maiden #like raven never said what happened to summer #yang is like both her moms and I love her for it #1k

[instantbee]

Summer and Raven both resting their hand on their weapons the same way.

They were partners. I know it in my heart. They were fucking partners

#rwby #summer rose #raven brawnwen #Rosebird #rwby spoilers

[chlothequeen]

I don’t quite understand why people are so excited about the idea of Yang just… getting more mad at Raven? When she learns about her leaving with Summer. For one thing, she left with Summer after she had already left Tai and Yang, these are two very different events. For another, I have a feeling that once Yang gets more insight about why Raven left at all, she’ll be more understanding of her, not less. The last thing their arc is going to end with is a bigger divide between them. It kinda goes against the show’s whole deal.

#rwby #rwby9 #yang xiao long #raven brawnwen #like I get that her initial reaction to Raven and Summer leaving together would be ‘oh great both of my moms left together’ #but in learning that they left for a mission volume 9 and beyond Yang would also recognize that they probably had good reasons to #and she’d recognize that at the very least Summer intended to return #what’s really gonna fuck with Yang and Ruby is learning about whatever actually happened to Summer #because I have a feeling that her disappearance was the result of a choice that she made #the only thing she’d probably be pissed at Raven about is withholding information #which again. has already happened and if it happens again it’ll be different #because Yang will have a better understanding of Raven by then

[starlightsaphron]

People who right raven stays/as a parent fics give me life

#rwby #rosebird #raven brawnwen

[goopyratdaughter]

If Summer was the Spring Maiden and Raven had to take her out in her last moments and now she's the Spring Maiden

are we gonna dee Raven go out as well as a last ditch attempt to protect them because after all she still loves them in this essay I will-

#rwby #rwby spoilers #raven brawnwen #summer rose #I am ill I havent thought about anything else since the finale

[googlyuwu]

HOW BOUT THAT FINALE HUH??!?!!?!?

#rwby #summer rose #raven brawnwen #googy art #srry the quality is a bit shit #rwby fanart

[givemeallyourpenny]

#rwby #rwby spoilers #raven brawnwen #summer rose #maybe they went to see the sunset on Mars?

[rwac96]

Type: Ask

Fandom: RWBY

AU: RWBY AU

Summary: What if Raven was forced to stay with her family due to the Brawnwen tribe turning their back on her?

Meme: What If Meme

Raven: *feeding Baby Yang* "C'mon, kid, eat your slop!"

Baby!Yang: *fussy* "Gaah! Bleh!!"

Raven: *pulls the spoon away* "Ugh, I burped you, we had playtime, Hell, you don't even smell like shit. Overall, you hafta be hungry! Eat!" *pushes the spoon toward her daughter*

Baby!Yang: *on the verge of crying* "Eeeeehhh!"

Taiyang: *deadpan, holding a jar of applesauce* "Raven, you're feeding Yang spicy mustard."

Raven: *turns to her husband* "What? Our parents fed us that and we turned out okay."

Baby!Yang: *reaching out to her father* "Dadah, appah! Dadah appah!!"

#answer #answered #answer post #what if #what if...? meme #rwby #rwby au #yang xiao long #taiyang xiao long #raven branwen #tairaven #raven...don't feed the baby spicy mustard

[dowhatteverer]

An honest critique of FRWBY by someone who actually watched it and was willing to give it a chance

Ok so LF and CS have proven themselves to be disingenuous liars who go out of their way to make rewrites of RWBY look poorly written and bigoted because they have diluted themselves into believing that the show doesn't carry all of the same problems that they accuse these rewrites of having. That being said, Fixing RWBY does happen to carry over a lot of problems from the original show. While I personally believe that Fixing RWBY is a better story structurally from RWBY proper, that doesn't mean that it didn't keep many of the flaws associated with the original show. This is not a defense of FRWBY, nor is it really a bashing because I will come right out and say that I do actively enjoy it and am excited to keep up with its version of volume six. I wouldn't recommend it to any of the people I interact with a lot on Tumblr simply because it's definitely not something they would like very much.

It's impressive how much passion is put into this project honestly, seeing all these fans come together to take the time out of their days without payment just to create something they care about. I definitely think the art and animations are some of the best parts of FRWBY. And I think the story does a far better job of utilizing the amount of characters that the show already had without constantly adding new ones that are completely unnecessary. It also makes a lot of changes to the characters interactions and relationships with other characters that I appreciate. I like that Weiss's time in the Brawnwen was changed from being held prisoner and threatened, to being a taste of freedom and potential new life for herself that she eventually had to ditch for the sake of her friends and the mission. And I really liked Changing Vernal to be Yang's secret half sister and having her develop a friendship with Weiss, it did a lot more to make her death feel more impactful by making her a character that the audience has to care about because these other characters care about her, and goes a long way of proving how selfish and short-sighted Raven could be where her own arrogance and desires ultimately ended up getting her own daughter killed and the tribe she chose over her own husband and first daughter to leave her. And I'm actually quite happy with Roman being Ozpin's host, I think it's handled pretty well and in a way that doesn't overshadow Ruby at all. One change that I thought was pretty cool from a story and representation perspective was having Neo use ASL and have Yang also learn it with her during her recovery period (which was actually a recovery period thank God, not just a showcase of her suffering and then just being fine without seeing her journey). And one thing that I like by default is it going out of its way to humanize Ironwood. That's always an A+ in my book as an Ironwood fan.

Now let's get into the bad stuff that is actually worth criticizing and not just sweeping under the rug just because LF and CS are lying liars who lie.

First and foremost, the Faunus plotline.

I don't like it.

There was very little effort put in to change the actual problems with the Faunus plotline in the actual show. The White Fang are still the bad guys, Blake is at the same time, still a rich princess with parents who love her, and Racism in Remnant is explicitly stated to be an individual to individual thing (though in a Livestream Celtic Phoenix said that racism in Atlas is systemic, so I'm holding out a little bit of hope that will at least be treated like a big deal) and still far more fighting against civil rights activists than fighting actual racists.

There's some interesting stuff in the beginning with Cardin starting out pretty racist, but after being forced to do some actual research on the subject and finding that his views have no historical or scientific basis quickly changing his mind about it and growing into a better person, but that's not enough to forgive the rest of it.

Effort is being put in to make Adam a more dynamic character who seems to have an explicit tragic backstory regarding the racism he faced (and not just implied with his nasty hate crime scar) but that actually makes the whole thing kind of worse. Because I kid you not, in the final episodes of the volume 5 rewrite, when the White fang is defeated, Blake tells Adam, "this isn't the world your mother grew up in anymore" and I'm just like, Adam's mom is implied to have been a Slave woman who was abused and possibly killed by her owner! Who is Blake, in her mansion on an ethnostate where she never had to face racism or cruelty or worry for a family member's safety, to tell Adam how he should react to Racism?! And I know that the reason she has to stop him in the rewrite is because the White Fang are trying to stage a cou that would lead to a war that would cost far more faunus lives than do good for them, but that doesn't change the fact that it's extremely tone deaf that it was Blake who is telling him this when her backstory hasn't been changed at all.

Either make the White Fang the good guys, or make Blake an orphan who has had to experience racism and cruelty her whole life, because you can't have both and still have a story that doesn't feel jarring and pro establishment as hell.

Next, the cultural appropriation. Taking inspiration from multiple Asian cultures for Mistral is kind of unavoidable since Mistral itself is fundamentally meant to be based on a multitude of Asian cultures. (I personally try to mitigate this problem by having different parts of Mistral be based on different Asian countries, and do the same for the other kingdoms too) but I think we all remember the thing about the Brawnwen tribe from a few months ago. Since the Ainu people are heavily discriminated against in Japan and stereotyped as being bandits and thieves, having the Brawnwen tribe be inspired by them in some aspects is definitely a bad thing. It was especially a problem when that cultural appropriation was also misinterpreted and used without fully understanding the culture of what the traditional bear was. And then the attempt to crack down and defend that was just a bad look altogether.

And to bring up the Shay D Mann and Ren and Roman bathroom scene, these are things that I think the creator just didn't realize could come across as queerphobic or a bad look for the character. The joke about Roman not realizing that Ren is a man and then having a conversation about all of tells that would have tipped him off about Ren being a guy and then having them be rebuttaled (at one point pointing out that Weiss has small boobs and that doesn't make her less of a woman, which while I think was well intentioned was just uncomfortable in general) was just in poor taste. And Shiloh (as he's called in FRWBY) didn't need to still be showcased sexually harassing Yang. He was actively physically and verbally abusing the man at register anyway in the rewrite, Yang could have just done the heroic thing and punched him to protect the civilian, instead of trying to ignore him while he comments on her figure and then saying something incredibly abelist about her prosthetic before being thrown out by Neo and her umbrella. Although It's not necessary to make all of your important characters good people. So I guess this has a lot more to do with how you feel about bad people still being important and sympathetic characters. Though I wouldn't say Shiloh is that important to Volume 5, all he really does is provide some Vernal backstory, serve as some comic relief, and is the one who ultimately decides for the tribe to leave Raven after she gets his daughter killed.

If I were to defend these choices, instead of trying to claim that Shiloh didn't sexually harass Yang (which was honestly far more present in the rewrite, no actual dialogue but he is described as complimenting her figure) and that lesbians are stupid, I would instead say that a character doesn't have to be a good perfectly squeaky clean non problematic person to be a character who isn't necessarily a villain. Or alternatively I could just acknowledge that it was unnecessary to have him actively sexually harass a girl his daughter's age because there was already something else that could have been used to show that he wasn't a good person and end up bouncing right out of the gas station anyway.

I think that's everything I want to talk about, because combing through all of it would be like rewatching an eight hour show and taking notes the whole time and I don't have much time for that.

But all in all, FRWBY isn't above criticism just because it's a rewrite of RWBY and has some aspects that deserve to be criticized, but it's also not the worst most biggoted thing in the world. I like aspects of it, but I honestly like other rewrites better. It honestly just feels like watching the original show if the original show had a more coherent story but didn't change any of the more problematic aspects.

So yeah, there's my review. I'll tell you how I felt about Volume six when it's over.

#rwde #fixing rwby

[sapphic---dragon]

*ahem*

Hello people! This is a list of the fics I am currently working on! I will try to update it as much as possible, but ya know, I have the swiss cheese brain.

This is just going to be the title and a short summary of the story. Some of them will be different than I have on AO3. And the volumes where the story takes place will be there, mostly to that I can keep organized.

Current works:

In For A Penny -- Peitro had a failsafe installed into Penny after the Vytal Festival. In the event she gets destroyed, her soul is uploaded into a nearby robot body. He did not anticipate her getting uploaded into Yang's arm instead. (During Vol. 9)

Scattered -- Ruby tells Yang that Summer isn't her mom. She doesn't mean to, not really, but the damage was already done. And when they finally have the time to talk things out, Yang's memory is gone. (Post vol. 8, written before Vol. 9 came out)

Home Is Where The Hound Is -- Yang lands a lucky hit on the hound before it can take Oscar. But she reveals something much worse than a talking grimm when familiar silver eyes are revealed. (During vol. 8) (This in inspired by another fic I read called Mine by Najio. I recommend it, almost made me cry)

Completed works:

Athazagoraphobia -- A cave-in leads to Yang encountering a strange grimm. One that makes her see, hear, and think things she never would've before. Did Blake just say she wishes Adam were here instead of her? What? (Post Vol 7, Vol 8 didn't happen)

Feathers -- Blake was worried. Yang and the others were running late. That worry did not go away when they did arrive. In fact, it only grew bigger when she realized Yang wasn't there and instead they held a little yellow bird. (During Vol 8, or 7, I'm not quite sure)

Future works:

(aka sneak peeks aka ideas that have been circling in my head for so long I'll probably publish them)

Not Letting Go -- Yang takes a hit for her sister and ends up critically injured. They have a talk about Yang's lack of self-preservation while they wait for help to arrive. (Post Vol. 9)

Hello, Spring -- Raven should have expected this. Of course, she wasn't clear just because she left Haven. Salem knew she was the maiden, and that meant she was a threat. Raven Brawnwen was a fool. Hopefully, her successor won't be. (During vol. 7)

#rwby #rwby fanfiction #Ruby Rose #Weiss Schnee #Blake Belladonna #yang xiao long #Strawberry Sunrise #bumbleby #nuts and dolts

[doomatnight]

I like the idea of Whitley getting corrupted by Cinder, but what if the little boy found his way into the hands of a different mommy…?

The Brawnwen tribe kidnapping the poor boy as Raven quickly grooms him into the perfect little boy toy. Whitley becoming much more cold and ruthless under the Bandit queens guidance.

Oh no doubt about it

Raven needs to produce more Branwens and Whitley has plenty of juice left in him

She makes sure the young Schnee is very loyal to her

He wasn’t kidnapped, he was brought to a better home where Mommy can take care of him

#lwde #rwby smut #rwby lemon #rwby nsft #nsft / #doomlewd.txt #proship #dead dove do not eat / #age gap / #grooming / #whitley schnee #raven branwen #raven branwen smut

[chlothequeen]

I wonder if Raven was spring already. I wonder if part of their mission was asking Jinn a question before confronting Salem, and if so, I wonder if Raven losing hope came after the question or after Summer’s fate.

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby9 #summer rose #raven brawnwen #like obviously some conflict caused them to split up and fail the mission because that’s kinda the show’s whole thing #but I wonder how they got there

[ozpins-halfway-house]

*appears behind raven*

Ah, Raven Brawnwen!, it's nice to finally see the Brawnwen bloodline aside from qrow.

*walks past Raven slipping in a discount coupon for a nice restaurant into her hand without her noticing*

Hopefully we are on good terms, my dear.

*exits through her door*

Raven: [she stares at the coupon in her hand, eye brow raised] What the fuck? Do I know you?

#answers of hope #raven branwen #john (volunteer) #oz's halfway house au

[historyhermann]

RWBY Volume 9 Spoiler-Filled Review [part 2]

Continued from part 1

Blake and Yang are not alone. There are various indications what Weiss may have a crush on Juane, in a ship known as Whiteknight, with Weiss laughing when Juane is surprised by his own voice in the final episode. In addition, some fans saw hints of romantic themes between Weiss and Rose, known as White Rose. Others claimed there was confirmation that Nuts and Dolts, the ship name of Penny Poledina and Ruby, is canon. As the Blacksmith/Tree (voiced by Kimlinh Tran) says in the final episode, real balance comes from love and patience to see things through. That is the case for any of these ships.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and Wayback Machine. This was the thirty-first article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on April 26, 2023.

As it turns out, not only is Zech openly bisexual, as noted earlier, as mentioned at various conventions over the years, but so is Lindsay Jones, who voices Ruby, as she stated in July 2018. Additionally, Tran, who is of Vietnamese descent, identifies as non-binary, asexual, and as a demigirl. Otherwise, it was a bit funny to witness those on social media shipping Summer Rose (mother of Ruby) and Raven Brawnwen (mother of Yang), known as Rosebird, after a scene of them together in the final episode. Some even believed that both characters were in a romantic relationship at some point.

All in all, the story of RWBY Volume 9 could have been significantly improved if the volume had at least four more episodes, the length of Volume 8. Even so, the average run-time of the episodes was only slightly less than those in the previous volume. Possibly due to budgeting, many of the episodes seemed relatively short. Even worse, they have no subtitles because Crunchyroll incorrectly described them as "dubbed". Hopefully the latter is fixed soon and subtitles are added. On the other hand, the show's music remained strong thanks to the talents of vocalist and songwriter Casey Lee Williams, and others such as Martin Gonzalez.

Williams' music, and that of others, meshes well with the show's emphasis on horror. This includes terrifying creatures, actions of Neo, or the antics of the Curious Cat, when he turns on them, takes over Neo for its own ends, and is murdered in the final episode.

There are many possible avenues for RWBY Volume 10, which seems somewhat confirmed. If the volume does come to pass, there will be the return of those who never used the pathways to Vacuo, or fell into the Ever After. This includes Winter, Ren, Oscar, Salem, Cinder, Qrow, Robin, and some of the Ace Ops. As such, there will undoubtedly be reunions between the characters the volume, which may be the final volume of RWBY as a whole.

Although RWBY is not perfect, and could be improved, including with the addition of more Black and Brown characters, it stands out as a strong series for young adults. It comes at a time that many series, especially those produced and aired on Disney channels, are produced to entertain children. Hopefully, other mature animations such as Arcane, Invincible, Helluva Boss, and Hazbin Hotel, to name four prominent series, fill the void left after the end of RWBY's ninth volume.

The series will not be in a hiatus as Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 will be available on various platforms after April 25th. It will be followed by a second part this summer. I look forward to watching both films and highly recommend RWBY for the reasons mentioned in this review.

The ninth volume of RWBY is streaming on Crunchyroll, while previous seasons are on Rooster Teeth and Crunchyroll, and are available for purchase or rent on YouTube Movies.

© 2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

#rwby #shipping #rwby v9 #arryn zech #lgbtq #bisexuals #disney #films #rwby x jl #young adult animation #ya animation #young adult #demigirls #crack ship #pop culture #review #repost #Youtube #casey lee williams #music

[bobauthorman]

Projecting Bird Mom

When Raven Branwen describes Emerald and Mercury as two children who were tricked into following Cinder, I can’t help but feel she is projecting her own feelings on Ozpin onto them.

She’d probably do the same thing for Winter and Marrow, too.

#RWBY #Raven Brawnwen #emerald sustrai #Mercury Black #Cinder Fall #RWBY The Coming Storm #Winter Schnee #Marrow Amin #Ozpin #Projecting #RWBY Meta

[chittychittyyangyang]

Something I'm still hoping for, even though it probably won't happen, is that Raven doesn't get a classic redemption through death (which is up until V7 where I figured her character was going to go).

Ever since we got the conformation the Maiden powers can be transferred willingly I've loved the idea that Raven's "death" would be a WILLING loss of her power (and ideally semblance). She would be left with no extra power and no where to run: not from Oz, not from Salem, and more so from Yang. Have her not only give up her power but stay and fight. She's still a huntress who could take her bandits and defend towns and not destroy them. Make her face what she is most afraid of and not just give her a relatively easy death in probably saving Yang. Make her fight for it and show Yang how much she loves her by overcoming how much of a coward she is and maybe proving to herself she is the strong survivor she claims to be.

#ccyy talks #raven brawnwen #this really boils down to I just don't want her to die #which she is my emotional comfort garbage bird #but I also get being so damn scared of everything you'd pick your own life over anyone else's #I also get being yang and feeling like your never good enough cause your own mom didn't want you #I just want a ruby power of friendship we can do this if we all work together #and if she doesn't die yang will have two people who came back to her #I also just miss her and don't want her to just show up and die #raven