#she still isn't in favor of abandoning mantle

[razzle-zazzle]

do you have a basic timeline of events/plot points for the batb au?

It's sort of barebones in places but here's what I have so far:

Raz runs away, and Dion chases after his trail. Raz gets lost after sending Sugarcube off, and stumbles upon the mansion in the morning. Assuming it's abandoned, he climbs over the wall to poke around and explore.

The Aquatos find out what happened midway through the morning. Augustus and Frazie set out to find Raz & Dion around midday.

Dion arrives at the mansion after noon, and ends up climbing over the gate when Raz doesn't respond to his calls. He finds out that a) the mansion is not abandoned, and b) there is a spider monster who doesn't want to let Raz go "because he trespassed."

Dion manages to convince Gisu to let Raz go in exchange for having Dion stay. Raz is sent off with Sugarcube and enough supplies to make it back to camp.

Augustus and Frazie run into Raz in the late evening, and find out what went down at the mansion. They continue searching, but can't find the mansion by the time night falls. They return to the rest of the family.

Adam brings Dion to an unused room to settle in for the night, and Dion meets Morris through the small radio on the nightstand. He doesn't sleep well.

Gisu disappears into her lab to consume all of the romance media available to her. She is going to break this curse and she is going to do it right. She does not reemerge until late next morning.

Dion decides he's going to channel every inch of pettiness he has and then some, starting with taking the radio and setting it outside the room.

Dion pokes around the mansion a bit, trying to stave off boredom. He walks into a room, the fire crackles to life as Norma comes in to take a look at the new guy. Dion will later vehemently deny screaming like a banshee and throwing the nearest object (a vase) at the fire (he missed and hit the mantle).

The Aquatos go into the town to try and find out more about the mansion in the woods, as well as to see if they can't hire a local guide. They do not find the help they're looking for, and make plans to go into the forest to search on their own.

The Dinner Debacle™ happens. Dion meets Lizzie during this, and finds out that the giant tree in the courtyard is Sam.

The next morning comes, and the weather is ass. The Aquatos are unable to go search in these conditions.

The exact chain of events following this isn't as clear yet, but the general gist involves further shenanigans in the mansion as Gisu and Dion slowly start to become something approaching friends. Key scenes include Dion being invited into her lab and actually going in, Gisu giving Dion an empty room to make into whatever he sees fit and him making a basic trapeze to practice on, etc etc.

The Aquatos' plight catches the attention of the villain, who goes up to them to ask them in further detail what happened. Raz tells him about Gisu, which gives the villain an idea...

Dion and Gisu continue to get closer as time passes. Shenanigans abound. Gisu starts to lose sight of the goal of romancing Dion in favor of just,,, being his friend.

The villain uses their natural charisma to gather up a group of people sympathetic to the Aquatos' plight. But Lucrecia recognizes an angry mob in its infancy and the Aquatos end up refusing the villain's help.

Dion finds out that his family has been staying in the area looking for him, and feels bad about holding them back from moving onto the next town to perform. But he doesn't want to leave Gisu and the others behind—not while there's still a chance he can help them break their curse (and he'd still like an explanation as to how, exactly, they expect him to do that.)

Gisu makes the choice for him, and chases him off, playing up the "monster" part as much as she can. Dion runs off. The other interns yell at Gisu for this, but it's too late to try and bring Dion back—he's already past the outer wall, and Sam's control over the animals doesn't extend further than that.

Dion makes it to the town, only to run into the villain and the building mob. He's immediately detained under the accusation of being "bewitched by the monstress," with the villain using the bracelet that Gisu gifted him as proof.

The villains leads the mob to go storm the mansion, leaving Dion behind at the stake. The Aquatos show up just in time to put out the fire and untie him, and he tells them about what happened at the mansion.

The interns find out about the oncoming mob and prepare to defend the mansion, using every extent of their abilities. Gisu disappears into her lab to finish an invention that could help.

And then I'm still working out the ending so I'm cutting things off here.

#ask zaz #acrobat and the spider au #i started out writing a more in-detail summary but then it got looooong #like ''i haven't even gotten to dion pleading for raz to be let go and i'm already several paragraphs in'' long #so i put it in the docs to use later and boiled the stuff here down into basic points #i still need to work out exactly what the final invention is #bc gisu finishing it and using it on the villain is my current plan #psychonauts

[pinkrangersarah]

I don’t normally analyze lyrics too deeply--or rather I do and I just never make posts about it lmao--but I think about the theme to V8 a lot. 

“Sometimes it’s worth it all to risk the fall, and fight for every life.”

At first I thought this implied that Atlas is (potentially) going to fall. This could still be true by the end of the season, but I thought more about “fight for every life” a bit more and Ruby’s actions the past few episodes. Ruby is learning; the gravity of the situation and their actions that lead to it are hitting her and she’s trying to learn and grow from them.

“Sometimes it’s worth it all to risk the fall” is like saying that failure is necessary for growth; don’t let failure stop you. At the moment, Ruby wants to fight for everyone. Sides and who was right and wrong are no longer important--never were important--while both Mantle and Atlas are in jeopardy. It might be impossible to save Atlas itself, maybe it’s impossible to save everyone, but they can damn well try. The people are what matter; not the kingdom.

#rwby #rwby v8 #rwby v8 spoilers #rwby volume 8 spoilers #rwby 8 spoilers #i don't think this would actually count but #imma tag just in case #in general i'm really liking ruby this volume #she still isn't in favor of abandoning mantle #but she KNOWS they don't stand a chance if they don't work together #she's trying to be the diplomat #which is more than i can say for another character lmaoo