#rwby v3

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

Qrow drinks, Blake runs away, and I make shitposts. We all have our own ways of coping ok??

#rwby #ruby rose #qrow branwen #neptune vasilias #winter schnee #james ironwood #roman torchwick #professor ozpin #pyrrha nikos #cinder fall #blake belladonna #adam taurus #jaune arc #penny polendina #rwby spoilers #rwby v3 #rwby volume 3

[hiru315]

emotionally still stuck at rwby volume 3.

#rwby fanart #rwby #blake belladonna #rwby v3 #rwby blake #rwby adam

[ahn1zos]

just thought it would be fun sketching the scene that Winter mentions Weiss writing about Ruby lol

#rwby fanart #rwby #fanart #ruby rose #weiss schnee #white rose #green light volume 10 #rwby v3 #rwby art #skecthes #whiterose

[0kamikamisama]

Red Like Roses~ 🌹 Remake of this (2019) 

#hello #im alive but barely breathing #laksd #rwby #ruby rose #my art #rwby ruby #uhh havent watched the new volume cuz.. life ig lmao #rwby fanart #rwby v1 #rwby v2 #rwby v3 #rwby v7

[bumblebybelladonna]

RWBY Art - Theatrical Limited Edition

#rwby #yang xiao long #bumbleby #blake belladonna #weiss schnee #ruby rose #blake x yang #rwby whiterose #rwby bumbleby #rwby art #rwby official art #rwby v1 #rwby v2 #rwby v3 #rwby v4 #team rwby #team jnpr #i miss them so much #rwby yang #rwby blake #rwby weiss #rwby ruby

[rwby-is-the-best]

there are comparisons and parallels to be drawn here

#rwby #rwby v3 #rwby v9 #pyrrha nikos #ruby rose #greenlight volume 10 #greenlight rwby volume 10 #rwby v3 rewatch #ba dum dum dududu dum ba dum dum dududu dum PRESSUREE PUSHING DOWN ON ME PRESSING DOWN ON YOU

[fadedneonzzz]

I got a commission from the artist Nero Watch of Flashback Cinder, i think this turned out beautifully

#rwby #cinder fall #commissioned art #rwby cinder #rwby v3

[invested-in-your-future]

Why do you think RWBY v1-3 worked compared to the rest of it?

Hm.

Honestly a lot of the first three volumes doesn't - the pacing can be awful (and grinds to a halt within arcs dealing with Jaune), the writing decisions leave a lot of to be desired(and are beyond offensive at times).

To say what the first three volumes do well is to talk about what the volumes after dont.

The issue with V4 and onward is simple one:

Too many new redundant characters

I have been hammering on this point again and again - in a weird attempt to expand the world, the showrunners ended up filling it with things that overlap win purpose or outright have no purpose.

Generally if you want to have something happen and want to choose between existing character and new character as initiator, nine times out of ten it's better to go with an existing character.

For example, why did we need Salem's evil council of evil? Why did we need a whole team of villains on Salem's side that essentially fulfill same role and purpose as Cinder's group already did? They don't exactly do anything for the lore or the setting and most of their purpose is one-note - Hazel for example exists just to rage about Ozpin in a poorly executed attempt at making his intentions and role more ambiguous - but there are already plenty of characters who can fill that purpose, so why was Hazel, as a character made? Raven exists, Ironwood exists and is clearly having a crisis, even Haven's headmaster exists (let's say he does) - plenty of ways other characters can fulfill the same purpose as Hazel without Hazel existing. Same extends to the rest of Salem's group - Watts exists solely to "explain" the computer virus (why did we need it explained?) and to have a reason to go against Atlas (but Cinder already has a reason thanks to her backstory in-show???) and Tyrian is the same way.

Too many redundant story beats

The writing attempted to make the setting more complex, but in the end a lot of what's added has no real reason to be there - why do we need Relics when Maidens are already there? Even if we were to go with the same idea of Gods causing doomsday(as dumb as it is) the writing could just as easily have the exact same plotline with collecting Maiden powers, for example. So why have vaults and then relics on top of that?

The Gods are the same way too. Why have Gods at all when you can already comfortably just go with the idea of Salem getting Maidens powers to her side being just as catastrophic? Salem's backstory doesn't even need them - in fact if one were to remove the Gods and keep the backstory the same, the end result would be exact same story. But the show doesn't do that - instead, come V9, it adds ANOTHER layer of gods and magic trees and gives the god brothers a backstory that ALSO wasn't needed and doesn't do ANYTHING in terms of furthering the narrative.

Generally if there's a plot thread you'd want to do the first question to ask would be "Does this change ANYTHING for any of the characters?" - plot is an excuse to get characters through the story beats after all. In the case of God Brothers, the plot thread invents a new problem and then solves it - nothing changes.

Lost Focus

The show is titled RWBY for a reason.

Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang - that's the core of the show.

The show started with the color trailers focusing on them and their journeys. The Volume 3 ended with them each having their own issues to deal with and plot threads tying to those issues.

What do the Volumes that follow do with that set-up? Nothing.

Volume 4 is absolutely pointless in grand scheme of things.

Volume 5 is absolutely pointless in grand scheme of things.

Volume 6 is absolutely pointless in grand scheme of things.

In fact, I wrote about the story structure issues with V4 years ago

The narrative structure, at the basic level, is a game of Connect-the-Dots - you have specific story beats you want to reach that work in accordance with overall story and character outline - it's up for The Plot(tm) to lead the characters from one beat to the other.

The way RWBY works past V3 is by inventing a new problem that didn't and then resolving it, essentially staying in place. I sort of outlined it in the V4 structure chart in my write up in how nothing in that Volume serves any real purpose nor furthers the characters.

What does the mess at Haven Academy contribute to the story story that Beacon already haven't? Does what happen there affect the story going forward? No.

What does team RWBY and the whole absolutely dumb and boring mess with the mech and leviathan do for the story? Are there any lasting consequences from that happening? Nope.

What does the run-in with the Apathy do for the characterization? Are there any lingering psychological effects? Do we learn something new about how Grimm function or how the Eyes work? Are there any lingering implications or any story holes that the encounter slots in into? Absolutely nothing.

That's three big examples in those Volumes where the writing invents a new issue, resolves it and doesn't further characters or narrative by doing so.

In Connect-the-Dots, you don't stop hopping from dot to dot midway-through, you don't hop back and forth between existing dots. Story beats and character beats are beats for a reason - they move things forward, they affect things, they alter things. If you have something that leads the narrative back at the place it was before in then you might as well delete the entire thing.

Now this is not the same as characters being stuck in loops or the idea of repetition as storytelling device - repetition that the narrative is aware of WOULD be a story beat in on itself and this is not that.

In fact even going into Atlas arc - the endgame has almost nothing to do with the build up to it and would happen anyway even if most of the volumes leading to it were removed.

Anticlimactic Payoff

If the narrative is build up to something, the pay off should generally equal to the amount of time and focus spend on the build up (unless it's used as a contrast).

Yet in RWBY a lot of mysteries end up being more of matter-of-fact answers than revelations.

What happened to the moon? Oh something crashed into it.

Why are Ozpin and Salem the way they are? Gods did it.

Why is Raven angry at Ozpin? He...turned her into a bird?

What has been Raven up to? Nothing.

Is Ozpin shady or not? Eh, not really - he's just sort of there.

What's up with the creatures of Grimm? Gods did it.

All of these were teased and built up going forward and the actual revelations never justified the build up or teasing that came before.

None of those revelations did anything to further the narrative or develop characters.

It was as if the writers were going through a checklist of what needs to be revealed.

So, What about the first three Volumes?

Now, flip everything I wrote about V4 and onward upside down.

That's the first three Volumes.

The only characters that exist are the ones that have an use within the narrative.

The plot threads are revealed when they become relevant - Mt.Glenn comes up when it matters, for example. If anything there's not enough reveals.

One can easily trace the plot threads through the story - how Ruby's introduction to Beacon affects her dynamics with Weiss, how Jaune's and Ruby's struggles with unexpected positions of leadership affect the team formation, how the friction within the teams furthers the plot to crash into villains goals. And what's more - each mini-arc ties to the four leads and their characterization. Things don't just happen - each storyline starts with the character and ends with characters growing or their relationships changing.

The Payoff is extremely good - V3 takes every single thing the show did through the three volumes and makes use of it. Everything matters - Mt. Glenn exposition, Roman, WF stuff, Jaune's insecurities, Pyrrha's characterization, Yang's characterization, Blake's conflict, Ruby's growth and position int he story, Weiss growth, etc - everything gets used and everything affects the characters involved.

For all the flaws, for all the absolutely insensitive story decisions and bad jokes - the first three volumes manage to handle those key points well and the end result is far more enjoyable.

The volumes after don't.

While good action sequences helped one of many reasons I hold V1 through V3 dear to my heart is because the show pulled off something that was quite rare back then when those Volumes aired - delivering actual consequences and not being afraid of upsetting the status quo within the story.

#rwby #rwde #rwby v3 #rwby v4 #Ruby Rose #rwby meta #rwby meta stuff mine #rwby critical #rwby criticism

[graveyardhavoc]

Kdksmmsmsmsmamaam kiss kiss kiss…

I drew the wrong v ruby originally she’s still underneath this, I miss them before trauma, let my girls be happy p,ease…

#art #artists on tumblr #ruby rose #rwby #rwby fanart #rwby ruby #rwby v3 #penny polendina #rwby penny #rwby nuts and dolts #nuts and dolts

[nazis-get-punched]

Oh my god I just realised Zwei from RWBY IS A REFERENCE TO FUCKING EIN FROM COWBOY BEBOP

HOW DID I ONLY JUST REALISE

#rwby #greenlight volume 10 #rwby zwei #zwei rwby #ein cowboy bebop #cowboy bebop #rwby volume 10 #taiyang xiao long #rwby v2 #rwby v3 #rwby v4 #rwby v5

[rubyfunkey]

bout that time where im just redrawing old rwby art it seems

(2023, 2020, oct. 2018, and feb. 2018)

#it just keeps getting more purple #rwby #ruby rose #rwby v3 #redraw #rubulart #art progress

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

i'm back on my bullshit

#rwby #ruby rose #oscar pine #weiss schnee #jaune arc #qrow branwen #yang xiao long #sun wukong #blake belladonna #raven branwen #nora valkyrie #lie ren #renora #ilia amitola #rwby volume 3 #rwby v3

[hiru315]

Do you believe in destiny

#rwby v3 #rwby #rwby fanart #pyrrha nikos #jaune arc #jaune x pyrrha #rwby pyrrha #rwby jaune

[ahn1zos]

another drawing of a v3 scene that i found very sweet and sad and 😭😭😭

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also, my creativity is running low, so if y’all have any ideas, i’ll be happy to draw ‘em!

#rwby fanart #rwby #fanart #ruby rose #weiss schnee #green light volume 10 #white rose #sketch #screencaps #rwby v3 #rwby weiss #ruby rose rwby #rwby angst

[kinaesthetiqueer]

POV: you're about to get your ass beat

I wish we'd gotten to see them fight together that one last time before everything went so, so sideways. :')

i do not give permission for my art to be re-uploaded to other websites, used for any sort of AI or used without my permission. reblogs are fine of course. :)

after a long long drawing hiatus, i have been slowly working on this and i'm cautiously happy to share it. things have really changed in the past decade for online artists, since i was actively sharing art last. it's kind of scary looking out here but i would still like to share occasionally.

as a reward for clicking the readmore, here's the original thumbnail for this piece

#rwby #nora valkyrie #pyrrha nikos #rwby fanart #valkos #rwby v3 #rwby nora #rwby pyrrha #team jnpr #jnpr #kina draws

[bumblebybelladonna]

Ruby's sad memories 🥀

#rwby #team ruby #ruby rose #rwby ruby rose #rwby ruby #rwby v1 #rwby v2 #rwby v3 #rwby v4 #rwby yang #rwby pyrrha #rwby penny #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #penny polendina #pyrrha nikos #cinder fall #jaune arc #rwby screenshots #rwby official art