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maxiemumdamage · 2 months

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I initially said this in the tags of someone’s fanart, but…

When you watch the RWBY trailers, none of then miss, but Yang’s trailer has a VERY different tone than the others. Partially in how it’s arranged, and partly in how it barely tells you anything about her.

I’m gonna start from the top here — first off, the trailers are clearly a progression. Ruby’s was in some ways just proof of concept for the show, but it also gave us the absolute least information as a result. The Red trailer has Ruby wearing a design that still gets tweaked, the song has four lines and they’re more about the whole team than Ruby herself (and even then more about the allusions than the characters in many ways), the designs for the Beowolves/Grimm aren’t yet crystallized as we know them. The Red trailer told us about RWBY, the show, but not Ruby the character.

Like, Red and White don’t even have speech — the songs are the only dialogue. But Weiss’s obviously tells us more; because the song has more lyrics, because she’s singing it in universe, because of the announcer at the beginning who tells us just a little bit of who she is.

And then things change with Blake’s trailer. It’s got the song and the very informative lyrics, but most of the dialogue is actual dialogue. Blake isn’t the only character present. She’s not fighting faceless monsters, but automated robots that are acting as security, which gives us a much better idea of the technological advances made in-universe. We see a whole cool biome in Forever Fall, and we meet a new character in Adam — even if the relationship is being ended as we watch, we do learn a lot about Blake. Plus, her quote most directly relates to the content of the trailer itself.

In some ways, the amount of info we get per trailer is progressively ramping up, right? So it makes sense that in Yang’s trailer, we get multiple characters with unique names and faces, a cool setting, a good bit of dialogue and even an explicit reason for the conflict.

Except we don’t get the actual reason for conflict fully explained until Volume 2. We know Yang is looking for someone, but we don’t know it’s Raven until far later. And Yang sharing that story wasn’t for her own benefit, but Blake’s! Even when Yang gives information about herself, it’s not for herself.

What do we see Yang do in her trailer? She fakes flirting with a guy, twice, just to beat him up. She orders a drink, demands information, starts a fight when she doesn’t get it, throws down with the DJ and two snotty mean girls. She gets mad about losing her golden hair after fighting the three bears — we get an explicit look at her fairy tale allusion at least. And then, crucially, we learn Yang’s name through Ruby. Her sister. Yang is the main character’s big sister, and that’s the last real bit of information we get. The trailer ends with Yang casually avoiding any meaningful explanations. The song is barely even hers! We get one minute of if I Burn, but the rest of the Yellow trailer is backed by remixes of the other three trailer songs. Yang is being defined by her relationships to other characters, but we don’t actually learn a whole lot about those, either. Because her trailer is Yang against the world, with her sister only there after the battle ends.

Yang is telling us nothing about who she actually is — what motivates her, her friends, her enemies. The conflict behind the fight is opened and shut in five minutes, and we don’t know the greater underlying reason for it at all. Yang only shows us that mask of the dumb party girl that she wears in the early volumes, which some people got fooled into thinking was her real character.

In some ways, though, we learn a lot about her. Because by flirting with Junior just to get him close enough to threaten and hit him — twice — she does tell us that the party girl mask is just that: an illusion. A facade she puts up to trick people dumb enough to underestimate her. Yang embraces her mask of the dumb party girl, then adds on the doting big sister. We see so much, but learn so little.

Yang doesn’t even hold the focus of her trailer at the end. Because the last moments of Yang’s trailer are the first times we hear Ruby speak.

#yang xiao long #rwby analysis #rwby #rwby yellow trailer #rwby trailers #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #rwby1 #max.txt

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blue-cheeseinmyoffwhites · 2 years

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RWBY Malachite Twins REAL Allusion

Ok so I was just randomly watching the Yellow Trailer today and everything just hit me at once so I’m just writing down whatever I came up with during that time.

So Yang is based off of Goldilocks, right. And her Trailer is based on the story. Goldilocks (Yang) gets to the house (club) and breaks everything (nuts/people/club itself/etc) and comes upon the bears (DJ, Junior). It took a while, but people were eventually able to catch onto the storytelling going on in the trailer. The one thing they were having trouble with was where the Malachite Twins fit into the equation. And although there has seem to been an agreed allusion found, I believe it can be driven into something BIGGER.

Basic research will reveal that they are based on Rose Red and Snow White. The pair come across a bear and take care of it, with the bear eventually revealing himself to be a prince. On the surface, this can easily be translated to Melanie and Militia being bodyguards of Junior, the bear manager (prince) of the club. Yeah cool whatever.

But guys, this is Yang’s trailer. This is the Goldilocks story. So where do they fit in?

You guys

YOU GUYS

The Malachite Twins are TOO HOT and TOO COLD

In the Goldilocks story, the young girl tries some of the bear family’s porridge. She complains that the dad’s food is “too hot” and the mom’s is “too cold”. But when she gets to the Baby Bear’s bowl, it’s “just right”. In the Yellow Trailer, Yang fights the twins, too hot (Militia, Red) and too cold (Melanie, White), to get to her real opponent, Baby Bear (Junior).

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matt0044 · 1 year

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Why does the RWDE venerate the Trailers? A single word:

"Projection."

In those days, the personalities of each girl were what you made of them with enough plausible deniability to make it fit until further notice. Yang was a bit more meatier in terms of her personality but mainly one side of it. Otherwise, anything goes.

And then the actual story was underway. Said "notice" was no longer "further." Ruby was a dork, not some silent emo badass. Weiss was a total mean girl, not some shirking violet. To name a few.

Imagine what happened with Adam stans and how they couldn't cope with Volume 3's expansion on him but with others. So many were too invested in what THEY made that they forgot that the source material had the final say whether they liked it or not.

I feel like trailers like that can have a double edged sword. They can provide enough of a preview of one side of the show's vibe but the other, more goofier elements might catch you off guard no matter how well they mesh.

#rwby #rwby9 #anti-rwde #fndm #rwby trailers #red trailer #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiao long

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takeiteasyjoan · 2 years

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All the RWBY pre-season 1 trailers in one vid! Red, White, Black, and Yellow. Only 18 minutes long. Give it a watch!

#rwby #rwby trailers

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nakamatoo · 1 year

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You are enough.

#ruby rose #rwby volume 9 #rwby vol 9 #rwby v9 #rwbyedit #rwby #rwbygifs #rwby gif #dailyanimatedgifs #dailyanime #allanimanga #animeedit #anime #anime gifs #myedits #so much fun making this gifset #love the parallels to the red trailer

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fanstuffrantings · 4 months

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The comedy of Trolls getting its flowers finally and being recognized as a fun series after the most recent movie when the first one has had me in a chokehold for years. When I used to have Netflix I would just watch that whenever I wanted to have fun.

Sometimes adulthood is looking at a jukebox musical based on a kids toy, and just deciding "yeah actually this is a good movie."

#every time a trailer drops for a new movie in the trolls franchise i go “this looks stupid” and im always wrong #yes i have seen trolls band together #and im going again #the only thing stopping me from making fanart of trolls is my rwby obsession #trolls #molten rambles #trolls/porco rosso/king arthur legend of the sword/httyd trilogy/kfp trilogy/lord of the rings trilogy #movie list i love bug never talk about #rip to everyone who finds poppy annoying because i think shes delightful

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yinyangofnevermore · 1 year

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