This is next level disrespectful dude like it has been barely a year since The Fall of Beacon and you guys are already making a movie about it??? Damn. Imagine Jaune, Nora and Ren watching that bro. Imagine Pyrrha's mom.
So I’d like to talk about one small part of Volume 9 that was never directly addressed or even noted by the characters, yet feels like it is EXTREMELY significant going forward:
This infuriatingly CURIOUS Blue Butterfly that for SOME reason keeps showing up around RUBY.
As we all know, this butterfly first showed up in Volume 6 during Ruby’s conversation with Maria about the nature of their Silver Eyes. At the time, it seemed like a pretty vague bit of symbolism that we probably didn’t understand the full context for yet.
THEN that Blue Butterfly showed up again in the Ever After. Multiple times, and seemingly CLOSELY associated with Ruby.
First it showed up during prior to Ruby’s game with the Red Prince.
Next, and far more interestingly, the Butterfly shows up flittering around Ruby herself after she runs away from her team and Little. Again clearly establishing some kind of connection with Ruby.
And the funny thing is, this Butterfly is not explained or even acknowledged by the characters this volumes. They’re just... THERE.
Then we get to this Butterfly’s final appearance in Volume 9, which also happens to be massively consequential when you start thinking about it:
They appear in the Blacksmith’s flashback as the first being shown to be ‘awakened’ by the Brothers.
Implying that this Butterfly is not just a denizen of the Ever After, but may well have been one of, if not THE first Afteran to have been created by the Tree after the Brothers.
A Butterfly which again, seems to have a close connection with RUBY and others with Silver Eyes.
At this point, I’m wondering if Maria was actually wrong about the Silver Eyes coming from the God of Light. But rather somehow through this Afteran. Like what if the Brothers weren’t the ONLY denizens of the Ever After to come to Remnant?
Either way, there is clearly SOMETHING important about this Butterfly and how it connects to Ruby and the other Silver Eyed Warriors.
And as a final note, I thought I’d point out that while Volume 6 was the first time we were introduced to a specific Blue Butterfly in relation to Ruby, it wasn’t the first time we had butterfly imagery associated with a character. But it wasn’t Ruby...
RWBY is like...you look at volume 6 and you see Yang and Weiss ready to square up with Qrow in case he was a threat when she was about to summon Jinn. And you see Blake in the background reaching for gambol shroud when Ozpin rushed Ruby for asking what he was hiding from them. And like...they love her that much. So damn much. And you get to volume 9 amd Ruby can't see that through her stress. I can't express how much I love this show and iys writing.
Procrastinating on hw just for RWBY fanart nice. I still cringe at the thought of my time with this show though lols. I’m just practicing with color on this messy screencap redraw