#rwby silver eyed warriors

[anthurak]

Continuing the discussion of Ruby potentially getting a cult, one factor I imagine would make a particularly interesting influence is how any potential in-universe lore and myths surrounding the Silver Eyed Warriors might come into play.

Like we already know the SEWs are mysterious, legendary figures in Remnant culture, and it's pretty much a given that Ruby's status as one of them would be well known at this point. Certainly her friends and family would have no reason not to share that information, not to mention Ruby's exploits in Argus.

Basically, depending on what kind of lore surrounds the SEWs and how 'mystical' they might be seen, I imagine how much that lore ends up being attached to Ruby is going to be the difference between her being seen as some ideological idol, or a full-on religious figure.

Frankly, I'd say it's a good thing that Ruby and Maria don't seem to have ever bothered sharing their theory that the Silver Eyes probably come from the God of Light with anyone else.

Because if THAT idea was more well known, I think we can all agree that Ruby would be getting full-on deified REAL quickly.

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby theory #rwby rambling #Ruby Rose #rwby silver eyed warriors #ruby cult #oh and if there are any EXISTING sew cults #you BETTER believe they're jumping on the ruby hype cult REAL fast

[howlingday]

Blake: (Gulps)

Yang: What's up, Blakey?

Blake: It's your sister. There's this sinister aura around her and it's really unsettling for me.

Yang: Ah, don't worry about it. She might seem standoffish, but she's just a normal girl, like you and me! She just, y'know, likes to dress up like a goth.

Blake: Oh no, her clothes are fine.

Ruby: (Crawling backwards under bed, Dragging cookie bag with teeth)

Blake: It's the rest of her that scares the shit out of me.

#rwby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #ruby rose #silver eyed warriors are cryptids #a girl called lapin #carlos_webcomic

[tumblezwei]

I NEVER PLANNED THAT I WOULD LEAVE YOU THERE ALONE I WAS SURE THAT I WOULD SEE YOU WHEN I MADE IT BACK HOME IN ALL THE TIMES I SWORE THAT IT WOULD BE OKAY NOW I'M NOTHING BUT A LIAR AND YOU'RE THROWN INTO THE FRAY

#rwby9 #rwby spoilers #silver eyed warriors make me go insane #summer rose #ruby rose

[bestworstcase]

there’s also just. something about how overwhelmingly ruby identifies herself (/has been identified by everyone she knows) with summer—to such an extreme degree that her self-loathing manifests as castigating herself for not being summer—and how little ruby knows about her at the same time, and how ruby fills in the gaps of what she doesn’t know with pieces of herself. the idea of summer as a funhouse mirror alienating ruby from true self-knowledge because she cannot recognize herself except by looking for her mother. and now she’s tearing away at the foundations of that mirror (life isn’t a fairytale and here, take this, it’s the only keepsake she has of her mother’s and by extension it’s the abstracted image of herself) because she wants to escape who she is—& as this happens the narrative draws the truth of summer rose closer to the surface, no longer the flawless (inhuman) paragon of motherly and heroic virtue but the real person who was (is) both good and bad and complicated; a living breathing individual who i increasingly suspect will turn out to be not very much like ruby at all, not in the sense that she was like ruby once and is now jaded and broken but rather that she never was, because the idea of summer rose is so very strongly informed by who ruby is and the implicit pressure ruby has always felt to ‘live up to’ the memory of this fairytale character everyone says is just. like. her.

it’s less about detangling ruby’s sense of self from summer’s legacy than it is ruby discovering that so much of what she thought she received from her mother was actually just her, all along, projected onto the blank (dehumanized) mannequin of someone she couldn’t remember except as the proverbial knight in shining armor. crescent rose stands apart as the one piece of ruby that has no connection to summer, whether real or imagined, because it carries forward something real—qrow was not a mythic paragon in ruby’s life, he was her uncle, for better and worse, the mentor who trained her and supported her but also the unreliable alcoholic she had to take care of, and from the complicated messiness of genuine connection with another person ruby was able to take inspiration and synthesize it with her personal style and personality to arrive at something that is both proud of its heritage and fully and uniquely her—which is why it’s missing now, because it symbolizes the idea of ruby rose that she wants to escape. (but can’t escape, because so much of what she sees as summer is actually ruby.)

the brooch goes in the other direction; it might be the only thing ruby has that is truly and unambiguously summer’s, so narratively of course she had to give it away. only by sacrificing the one piece of herself that really did belong to summer first can ruby begin to smooth out the funhouse mirror of everything else—she needs to sever the true connection to summer before she can cut through the gordian knot of every illusory connection and discover that she was looking at distortions of herself all along, and only then can she return to the question of summer’s legacy (her real legacy, not the legacy of the paragon) and decide what she wants to carry forward. which is to say, she’s getting the brooch back, but she has to get crescent rose back first—because finding crescent rose means vanquishing the alienation that has made her a stranger to herself, and she can’t truly choose or cherish the things she received from her mother until she really knows herself.

#rwby v9 spoilers #like god she’s so. so fucked up <3 #her whole life she’s just been #inundated with the message that she’s not herself— #she’s summer! she’s just like her mother! #( by the fairytale cult. ) #( is she like summer or are they both the silver-eyed warrior of legend? ) #how do you develop a sense of self #when everyone keeps telling you #that yourself is somebody else? #you can’t! #she is always and only herself #but she thinks herself is her mother #and that she is nothing except her failures #gently pats her head. this 17 year old can fit so much identity disturbance

[hadesisqueer]

I still wonder if being a SEW is a genetic trait that's ALWAYS present (like if your father has silver eyes, you and your siblings are gonna have silver eyes no matter what), or if it works just like normal eyes.

Like I know there are theories that all SEWs descend from Ozma or that if one of his reincarnations has kids they're always gonna be SEWs because of those two kids he had in one flashback (while neither him or his wife had silver eyes) but like 1) the children he had with Salem weren't SEWs 2) as far as we know that reincarnation had those kids before Ozma showed up.

So I feel like it probably works like normal eyes: either that reincarnation or his wife had a parent or a grandparent with silver eyes and the children simply got inherited. Just like neither of my best friends eyes have blue eyes but she does.

#rwby #silver eyed warriors

[nyxlarkyn]

I saw this on Twitter and I don't know if we talked about it here yet:

#rwby spoiler tag #rwby #rwby spoilers #ruby rose #summer rose #maria calavera #the hound #silver eyed warriors #character illusions

[strqyr]

if summer, like the warrior, had her family / town murdered by other people and 'the judge, the jury, and the executioner' has anything to do with her character...

"but then why do you protect others?" / "because i can. because no one else will. and because some people are good, like you. and that gives me hope." <- it's about the benefit of the doubt; some people are good and those people deserve protection BUT

what if it's someone who has killed people? what then? if summer feels strongly about this because of her own personal experience and raven is someone who was taught to kill and did so to survive, would that be something they clashed over? would the circumstances of raven's childhood make a difference, or would the judgment be immediate à la rhodes?

because i can. because no one else will. and because some people are good, like you. vs. i beg your pardon sir, but we did not do these things for you because you were special. we do what we can for everyone, because we are able. <- silver eyed warrior vs the maidens.

something something if this is "let's not repeat the mistakes of the past" with summer & raven / ruby & cinder i will dig a hole for myself to scream in

#rwby #summer rose #raven branwen #ruby rose #cinder fall #SOME people are good so the silver eyed warrior protects others bc she's able #the maidens didn't help the wizard bc he was SPECIAL but bc they're able #the warrior picks a village (worthy?) of protecting #the maidens wander around remnant and help those they come across #wahoo?????

[dinodogs]

I AM THE ROT AND THE ACHE BENEATH YOUR SKIN

#rwby #characters tagged in order: #Ruby Rose #Summer Rose #the hound #the hound rwby #maria calavera #The god of light #just a quick vid about silver eyed warriors :) #my art #rwby dragon au #I told u it was gonna fuck #blood tw #violence tw

[lil-red-reaper]

RUBY VS NIGHTMARE | RWBY IQ EP 11 “LIGHT IN SHADOWS”

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby spoiler tag #rwby iq #rwby iq spoilers #rwby ice queendom #rwby ice queendom spoilers #rwby gifset #rwby gif set #rwby gifs #ruby rose #rwby ruby rose #ruby rose rwby #rwby silver eyes #silver eyed warriors #nightmare grimm

[short-wooloo]

Thinking about how in every Volume since V5 Ruby has used her eyes' power at least once per Volume and she hasn't done so yet in V9

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby speculation #ruby rose #silver eyed warriors #silver eyes #rwby silver eyes #rwby volume 9 #rwby vol 9 #rwby v9 #rwby9

[bug-the-chicken-nug]

Thinking about how I would rework silver eyes and honestly I think itd be cool and fun to just lean further into the Sharingan comparison and give it actual stages of progression, instead of it being an all-or-nothing thing that in turn mandates that Ruby has to be completely incompetent at using it in 80-90% of situations, or else the conflict would be over.

So in my AU, it has ten stages. (Nine, in general practice. The last is more of a mythical/worldbuilding thing that probably isn't real.)

Each stage both unlocks a new thing it can do, and can improve what you've unlocked in previous stages. (In DnD terms, kind of like getting the choice to perform a basic spell at a powered-up higher level) Each stage is mastered with training, and you cannot unlock the next if your mind and Aura aren't strong enough. But each time, either intense emotion, or a sort of "epiphany" moment of self-actualization, is still needed as the "final trigger" to progress to a new stage.

All of its abilities are a form of "magic", and do not directly use Aura, but still tie into it. Instead, the eye abilities accumulate "Tarnish", a new cost for the ability. Its only remedy is time and rest. Tarnish is lasting strain upon the user's mind and soul, chaotic dissonance in their Aura that causes the user's maximum Aura capacity to progressively weaken the more they use these. Along with this, the user's emotions become increasingly dulled. High Tarnish also causes physical pain, tingling, numbness, and has additional, increasingly worse effects on consciousness, critical thinking, and motor function.

However, the Tarnish generated by lower stages of the eyes is minor, generally dissipating over time faster than it builds up. Still, Tarnish always dissipates much slower than Aura can recharge. Past a critical point, it no longer dissipates at all. If one stops just before this point, it can still take over a month to fully recover, and will leave you effectively unable to do anything Aura-based for several days.

After the critical point, the user becomes an emotionless and powerless husk. Forever.

This in turn is actually perfect for the creation of Salem's Hounds. A fully Tarnished being results in a more powerful Hound than any alternative. The reason why is not well understood. Anyway!

Stages: Part 1: Pre-Beacon Unlocks

Stage 1, Ward: Cannot do harm. Weak Grimm recoil from the light, but the range only extends a few meters from the user.

Awakening Trigger: Ruby learning of her mother's death as a small girl.

Stage 2, Stun: Immobilizes and overwhelms the senses of weaker Grimm for several seconds, and also causes mild burns. The light is also disorienting for normal, non-supernatural reasons against humans at close range.

Awakening Trigger: Bullying at Signal (Cliche, but I really want a better actual reason why Ruby starts out awkward and self-conscious, and of where she picked up the idea that she'd prefer to be "normal".)

Stage Three, Gaze: Any Grimm that should be hidden or obscured can be clearly seen through any obstacle, as if faintly glowing silver. Weak points can be picked out as particularly bright areas on a Grimm.

Awakening Trigger: Bullying Part 2, Electric Boogaloo

Stage Four, Petrify: Can encase one target up to mid-level, such as an Ursa Major, in stone, or fully petrify them. Requires several seconds or more of sustained focus. Ruby herself remarks that it's often impractical, unless she's restrained. This is also the first stage to be able to cause rapid Tarnish buildup.

Awakening Trigger: When she stands up to her bullies at Signal without Yang.

She is at Stage Four when she arrives at Beacon.

Stages Part 2: Beacon/Post-Fall Unlocks

Stage Five, Scour: Any Grimm-produced substance within a few yards is rapidly destroyed and nullified. This includes slime, ooze, toxins, acid, projectile attacks, and even their elemental attacks, but it only works for a few seconds at a time. It can also weaken Grimm defenses and erode their armor, but does not kill outright.

Awakening Trigger: Entrance Exam

Stage Six, Ray: The eyes produce a beam that causes Instant disintegration of one or two small to mid-size Grimm, and causes the skin of larger targets to "boil" like hot tar, doing great harm.

Awakening Trigger: Volume 2

Stage Seven, Luster: The Silver Eyes equivalent of the three-tomoe Sharingan, the furthest you'll normally get. Users briefly gain an altered silver Aura, essentially making all of their attacks and their very touch "super effective" against Grimm. Watch out for all the Tarnish, though...

Awakening Trigger: End of Volume 2

And Now We Get Spicy...

Stages Part Three: Refinement

After this point, the user must be both sufficiently powerful and directly witness a great loss (This need not be death, but often is), to unlock the "Refined" Silver Eyes (basically Mangekyou Sharingan). Unlocking Refinement is very strenuous upon the body and soul. Passing out or going comatose after it is first attained is common, as the user's first time inevitably generates high levels of Tarnish. It is also possible for someone to permanently "fail" their Refinement and get stuck at Stage Seven instead, if they face a great tragedy before they're physically and emotionally prepared for it.

But once Refinement is attained, "Ward" becomes passive, and works on Grimm up to mid-level, such as an Ursa Major or Manticore. However, the default radius is still only a few meters. This would potentially add some logic to why exactly Ruby just walks around with Relics, since she can now cancel out their attractant properties without any significant effort, and it would also help explain her moments of overconfidence and recklessness.

As for active abilities:

Stage Eight, Smite: What Ruby canonically does with her eyes. A powerful area-of-effect blast that can kill or petrify all Grimm in the area.

Awakening Trigger: RIP Pyrrha

Stage Nine, Sanctify: Objects, buildings, and places can become infused long-term with the ability to repel, or at greater levels of investment, actively harm Grimm. Effectiveness can build cumulatively, but scales down in inverse proportion to the total size of what is Sanctified. Handheld weapons, for instance, can become extremely damaging to Grimm for centuries, if sanctified by many at a time, or given many years to be imbued with power. An entire place/area is much harder. Ideally, it is meant to be used by entire groups of SEW. Ruby herself can only safely Sanctify something like a large house for a day or so, but maintains a permanent low-level effect on Crescent Rose. Can briefly "stack" with Luster for some Real Bonkers Finishing Move Shit.

Awakening Trigger: During V6

Stage Ten, Salvation: An ability detailed only in legend. Allegedly, the ability to "purify" a Grimm without killing it, turning it against all of its brethren. In some legends, this even bestows it Aura. What this process would truly entail, or how this stage is actually reached, is unknown. Sources tend to be somewhat contradictory of one another.

Awakening Trigger: N/A

#rwde #ruby rose #silver eyes #silver eyed warriors #rwby AU

[anthurak]

Okay but, something funny to consider: Jax and Gill's Dad was a fairy tale buff. He taught his kids that all stories are true.

Thus, Jax already KNOWS the legend of the Silver-Eyed Warriors, but also probably has a VERY skewed idea of what Ruby's actual abilities are.

Something to consider about this is that it's pretty clear at this point that NOBODY has any real solid idea what exactly Ruby's, or the rest of the Silver Eye Warriors actual abilities are. Even Ruby and Maria, who have more information on the topic than literally ANY Silver Eyed Warrior in history thanks to Jinn, only have a pretty basic theory as to the origins of their eyes, which itself is clearly only a small piece of the story. I've explored this in previous posts already, but I'm positive at this point that there is a LOT more to the Silver Eyes than just 'anti-Grimm lasers' that Ruby will be figuring out going forward.

But going back to your point, yeah it's pretty fun to imagine what Jax's reaction to Ruby might be. Dude's spent most of his life at this point on an ego-trip in his personal hype-train building up that he's got this big, important noble 'destiny' as the 'true king of Vacuo'.

Buuuttt, NOW he's found himself 'opposed' by someone who isn't just some rival leader with a local cult of her own, but who is uniting the entire world. A girl who seems to have a background steeped in the greatest legends of Remnant's past. A girl who seems to have a heroic destiny so great it likely makes even Jax's delusions of grandeur seem small and petty by comparison. And that's not even going into what Jax might believe the Silver Eyed Warriors to be capable of.

Basically, I get the feeling that Jax's view of Ruby is probably going to be somewhere between 'seething, obsessive jealousy' and 'abject TERROR'. XD

#rwby #rwby ask #swapauanon ask #Ruby Rose #jax asturias #ruby the LEGEND #ruby is awesome #rwby silver eyed warriors #jax is probably going to be hitting CINDER levels of 'i HATE that ruby rose but i'm also absolutely TERRIFIED of her' #meanwhile ruby doesn't even know who this jax guy is and would really like to focus on helping people/saving the world thank you

[howlingday]

Penny doesn’t really mind all of the Silver Eyed cryptid stuff.

Penny: Oh, pardon me! Was I in your way?

Weiss: No, I was just... (Sighs) Did you see a Faunus running through here?

Penny: I did. (Points) He climbed up that building. Are you pursuing him as a courtship ritual?

Yang: Snrk! Yeah, Weiss, are you?

Weiss: Shut up. No, he's a criminal, and we intend to follow him to ensure he's not running off to join the White Fang.

Blake: Just because he's a Faunus doesn't mean he's going to join the White Fang!

Weiss: You're right. The fact he's a criminal AND a Faunus means he's going to join the White Fang.

Penny: May I ask a question?

Weiss: Yes!

Blake: No!

Yang: Ugh... Sure. What's up?

Penny: Your friend has not blinked for 62.83 seconds. Is she still functional?

Yang: Huh? Oh, yeah, that's just my sister, Ruby. She's like that sometimes. It's weird, but you know how family is, right?

Penny: I do not.

Yang: Oh... Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to-

Penny: Sal-u-tations! My name is Penny Polendina!

Yang: Huh? (Turns) Nonono! Don't shake her hand!

Penny: What is your- Oh... Oh my. It seems you've dismembered my arm. (Smiles) It is no problem. I can simply reattach it. (Takes arm, Reattaches) See?

Weiss: ...

Blake: ...

Yang: ...

Ruby: (Takes hand)

Penny: I noticed you have silver eyes. Those are 99.999 repeating percent genetic rarity. Would you like to discuss?

Ruby: (Lifts hand, Rubs it)

Penny: Oh! Does this mean you want to be friends?

Blake: ...

Weiss: ...Yan-

Yang: I see it. I just refuse to believe it.

#rwby #ruby rose #penny polendina #silver eyed warriors are cryptids #yang xiao long #weiss schnee #blake belladonna

[ryuto12]

Never allow yourself to lose touch with the fact that the entire fucking population of Remnant (except for one bitch who is long past her death date) has access to elemental-based superpowers, and chooses to not learn how to use them.

#rwby #was thinking about the faunus to human huntsmen ratio and then remembered this little fact #we have the same number of faunus huntsmen as silver eyed warriors and i think they should address that at some point #and even salem can use elemental powers except she was born able to do that naturally so we dont talk about it #“but dust is expensive” yeah well superpowers are badass #even for the most mundane shit like floating a plate when your cooking #or like oh shit the waters out good thing i have these water dust crystals just sitting here #plant dust lets you control plants? whole landscaping company idea right there

[diaryofamadsunwukongfan]

Tales of Light Eyes

Before the world's perdition, mankind lived in a golden age under the guidence of Lux. Than, the Devil created a witch to tempt mankind away from the light. The witch taught mankind that love was weakness, that hate was virtue. To undo the witch's wily ways, Lux became a man. That man was named Ozma. Ozma travelled the world, spreading the way of light and life, the virtues of peace and togetherness. Every time a child of man converted, Ozma purified their soul of all darkness, turning their eyes bright like the midday sun. These bright eyed folk, who had accepted Lux's truth, were warriors that defended all of mankind from the forces of shade, whenever they be Grimm or Faunus. Ozma then gathered an army of his warriors, and they made war with the witch. The witch challenged Ozma to a duel, and he accepted. But the witch was a lier, and would never fight fair. She cheated during their duel, and slew Ozma. The Shade had one the battle that day, and threw the world into endless depravity. But soon, a day of judgement will come, Ozma will walk the Earth again and slay all Grimm, all Faunus, and the Witch once and for all! - The Book of Light chapters 66:6, first written in Vale.

Long ago, in the days when the twin devils ruled the Earth, humanity lived lives of full of fear for their creators. The Hidden One, that devil that stole the life away from all living creatures while unseen. The Burning One, that devil that demanded absolute loyalty as he endlessly created created dangerous creatures like lions, tigers, and bears. Oh my! Humanity lived in fear in deed! But then one day, everything changed when a single women challenged the Devils authority. She taught mankind how to hide from the Hidden One, so that death would never find their families. She taught mankind how to create fire, so that mankind needn't rely on the Burning One for warmth. This angered the twin devils. The Hidden One shattered the moon, a reminder that no matter how much mankind prayed, he would never answer. The Burning One shattered the woman, who had turned mankind away from him. He then created the last thing he would ever make, the demons with silver eyes. These demons look like mankind, but they are apart from mankind. Just like wild beasts, the demons with silver eyes only have a blinding light for a soul, no balance of light and shade like real men. Just like wild beasts, the demons with silver eyes hate all children of man, attacking at us blindly and disappearing as soon as they strike. Death! Death for all the demons with silver eyes, the last punishment of the Burning One! - A myth recovered from a rural cult in Anima.

Everyday, humankind harasses faunuskind. Humankind is jealous of faunuskind because humans are born incomplete, lacking animal traits that help us survive the wild. Humankind is jealous of faunuskind because the faunus were born first, which makes us older and wiser. Humankind is jealous of faunuskind because we have a god that cares for us, and humankind has none. One day, tired from the persecution, the god of Animals broke the moon that the humans ignorantly prayed to. As the moon shattered into pieces, it's tears fell down to earth and became humans with moonlight eyes. The humans with moonlight were the only friends of the faunus, and they used their eyes to scare away the Grimm that were always scared of the light. Faunuskind loved the humans with moonlight eyes, but they were childish and always caused a mess playing pranks on people. Faunuskind shooed the moonlight eyes away from their home, hoping to teach them manners. But oh God!!! Mankind killed every last one that had moonlight eyes for daring to make friends with the faunus! Now, whenever a faunus child cries and no one knows why, their mother says they are crying because they can't play with the humans with moonlight eyes. - Faunus fairytale, origin unknown.

#I needed to elaborate on silver eyes for my au but then I realized I didn't want to spoil until v3 #so have this I guess #rwby fix it fic #rwby rewrite #rwby au #rwde #silver eyed warriors #silver eyes #ozpin is not beating the lucifer allegations in my au #“which one of these is the real story” #yes

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Yeah, if that was true i wouldn't get to whine about how Cinder is a bad villain and should be killed off and that is unacceptable!

Yup. Honestly I think 90% of the Cinder hate is that she was introduced as Femme Fatale No.3 and people hated it when she got an actual character and depth rather than just being sexy.

Cinder isn't a Femme Fatale, she's a Feral Bastard Child with a fucked up view of maturity and femininity that led her to put on the mask of a Femme Fatale. Because evil isn't sexy or cool or freeing, it's painful and petty and scared. And the whole of Cinder's character hinges upon that lie, that truth, and whether she'll ever be strong enough to accept that.

#rwby analysis #cinder fall #in rwby power is often negatively proportional to agency #salem is the most powerful and the most trapped with oz not far behind #the maidens and the silver eyed warriors have power but also their duties and burdens overruling their own wants #the stronger cinder becomes the less autonomy she has and the grimm arm is just the pinnacle of that #and every step she takes towards power just puts more shackles on her