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secret-engima · 3 years

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Wolfcury Thoughts

WHO WANTS TO HEAR MORE ABOUT MY RWBY GREMLIN BUNNIES. NO ONE?

TOO BAD

-Mercury does figure out how to transform out of wolf puppy form eventually, successfully giving Taiyang, Summer, and Qrow all heart attacks because WOLFDOG WE ADOPTED IS ACTUALLY A SMOL CHILD. WHAT.

-Qrow and Summer promptly run to Ozpin to ask if he’s given out magic to a Smol Child recently. Ozpin has not. Ozpin is confused.

-Ozpin comes to visit and is immediately deemed Friend-shaped by three children.

-Ozpin stares down at Mercury and has dim flashbacks to a lifetime LONG ago, likely not long after the Maidens pulled him out of his depressive state, to a friend he granted the ability to transform into a wolf. And he- was kinda new to giving magic like that at the time, so it’s not impossible he blessed his friend’s entire line and then lost track of them over the lifetimes and- oh. oh dear.

-Oz ends up visiting Patch on the regular, both to check on this young shapeshifter and just to ... have a break? Summer welcomes him and Taiyang grins and the kids ADORE him and it’s been so very long since he let himself be bowled over by laughing children, let himself roll in the grass laughing at their games before the littlest of their number sits on his chest and declares him defeated! Give them cookies as their prize! And it’s ... good. It feels so good to experience this again. Just for a little while. It helps him remember what he’s fighting FOR.

-Then Summer dies and Ozpin cannot shake the worry that it is because of her connection with him. He tries to pull away, to retreat, but then he gets a sobbing phone call from Yang that Ruby is sick and Dad is too deep in mourning to take care of them and Mercury is panicking and she *doesn’t know what to do please PLEASE*.

-So he returns one more time. He stays the few weeks/month is takes him to haul Taiyang kicking and screaming back to sobriety and responsibility and while he does that he also cares for the kids, because Yang is a mature little girl, but she shouldn’t have to raise her own siblings. Not now. Not like this.

-After Taiyang is back on his feet he retreats again, no longer comes over for the weekends to play or talk. But the kids remember. That he was there when they needed him most.

-Mercury refuses to go out in public in his human form. At home is fine, but out where people can see he is mortally terrified of his bio dad getting wind of him, so he only goes out if he can be in his wolf form. It becomes his cover story. He’s Ruby’s “wolfdog” and when she signs up to Combat School he gets registered as her “Battle Companion”.

-Mercury’s wolf form is *massive*. Like- Ruby can legit ride him into battle if she wants levels of massive. PONY/SMALL HORSE levels of massive. His shoulder is at Ruby’s chin level when she’s fifteen. People are so confused that he exists, but they don’t question that he’s a “wolfdog”.

-Ruby going to Beacon is going to be very interesting in this AU because she absolutely takes Mercury with her. He’s registered as a Battle Companion. It’s legal. He’s not allowed to participate in the initiation exam, but after that he’ll get to attend all her classes and spars and missions if she wants him to (which she does. This is her Big Bad Wolf Brother thank you).

-Ozpin is silently laughing at Mercury’s misery when Ruby winds up on a team of ALL GIRLS.

-Yang is laughing out loud because she’s a shameless big sister like that.

-Mercury meeting Blake and Weiss. That is all.

-Before anyone asks, the only people outside Ruby, Yang, and Ozpin at Beacon to find out Mercury is actually a human being are Team CFVY.

-Everyone else doesn’t get the reveal until V4 and V5.

-Also Phyrra lives because I say so. And also I have a giant angry wolf-person to yeet at Cinder when she attempts to kill Phyrra.

-Prepare to have your ARM BITTEN OFF WOMAN. YOU DESERVE IT.

-(Mercury may or may not have some burn scars under his fur after the fact, but Ruby’s Silver Eye shenanigans keep him from getting too badly hurt)

#Secret Engima Rambles #Run Wolf Warrior verse #wolfcury #enable this bunny #please #i dare you

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the-kiwi-is-not-a-pewee · 4 years

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The RWBY+ crew fucking sucks at espionage and infiltration.

And yeah, I get it, some of it is supposed to be intentional for story purposes, but looking at them walk their obvious asses around Mantle without even trying to be discreet is killing me.

1. Anticipation

In the first episode of Volume 7, The Greatest Kingdom, the crew is where we left off in V6, flying to Atlas. As they enter Atlas airspace and Weiss realizes that the forces deployed for patrol en masse is unusual, she says this:

“If we land in a stolen ship, there’s no way the security team will let us anywhere near Ironwood.”

As if them landing a stolen ship on a non-maximum security Atlas would put them less at risk of being detained. They didn’t just steal any old aircraft either, they stole a military ship which is at higher risk of being noticed if it doesn’t land in the designated areas and would probably be landed in some sort of military airport.

That would be crawling with soldiers even in the best of times, and frankly the crew would get noticed immediately. Atlas’s military has a uniform policy, as we’ve seen with Winter, Ironwood, and the soldiers stationed at Argus. None of them are dressed nor own the dress that would allow them to sneak discreetly away after landing the airship.

Yes, yes, I know this “steal an airship” shenanigans was a desperate, last-minute thing. But it was not so last minute that there was no room to consider what happens when they landed. Jaune proposed this plan in the evening, and they enacted it in the day, presumably the morning.

That entire time, no one apparently thought to ask, “How do we not get arrested when we land the ship?” The way Blake goes “So...” after Weiss expresses that they would clearly be arrested when they touched down and Weiss’s tone expresses realization and not premeditated planning when she gets the idea to attempt calling Winter implies such.

They bought themselves some time by stealing a military airship, namely that it was recognized upon entering the airspace and not shot down on sight, but that’s all they did. Delay the inevitable.

If you are infiltrating an area, especially a technological and military-savvy kingdom like Mantle, you have to try and account for what will happen. Sure, predictions aren’t always right, the crew isn’t clairvoyant. But anticipation is key here, it culminates in less of the flying-by-the-seat-of-the-pants the crew has been doing lately.

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Ditching the ship was fine, it means they’re no longer being tracked because of the airship. I do hope they landed it a fair distance away from Pietro’s home, if only to attempt to throw off anyone coming after them of their destination.

2. Disguise

I will be honest, there was not a ton the crew could’ve done to amend this in the state they were in when they initially landed.

But, ah...

Can y’all tell that they don’t belong?

Sure, from a visual perspective it’s good because we can easily pick out our group of brightly colored marshmallows, but for their particular purposes of being discreet, this is horrible. Everyone is too bright and vivid for the color scheme of Mantle, they’re as obvious as the neon signs above the doors.

That they’re such a big group sticking together is made all the worse because of the nearly-empty streets. I know the group is apparently allergic to splitting up, but they should’ve broken up their group here into a couple of smaller groups following at varying distances. At the very least to not follow so close behind each other. Most of the people in Mantle are walking individually, which makes their large group easier to remember along with the clothing.

Speaking of clothing.

As I said initially, not a lot they could do about their clothes initially. But there were some measures they should’ve taken as soon as they touched down, one of the most important being hiding their faces.

Ruby, Jaune, sweeties, pull up those hoods of yours.

Yang and Blake, put that long hair to use and pull it closer so it hides your side profile. You too, Ren.

Weiss, hide the literal family crest you have on the back of your V4-6 outfit somehow. Have someone lend you a jacket or something.

Everyone else, at the very least duck your heads down. There are cameras everywhere, which they realized at the latest when Yang kicked the bot. Don’t make it any easier to identify yourselves than it already is.

3. Attention

This actually might’ve been the one that killed (not literally) them.

The key to most infiltration is blending in with the background. Being faceless, not giving whatever you’re worried about any reason to give you a second look.

The crew fails at least three times.

The first is a couplet. A mobile camera bot takes a picture of Yang and then she kicks it. Big, unintentionally loud and flashy, overall very noticeable. The worst part of this entire thing is that the bot got a picture of Yang, which isn’t her fault. Kicking the bot also isn’t the worst thing, especially due to some dumb luck it got run over, but I’d also be highly worried that the feed that camera had or was transmitting would be missed. And now it has at least once face to pin the damage to.

The second is Weiss chucking a drunk racist in the trash for his comments on Blake being a Faunus.

This is... this is much worse than the bot.

Weiss’s Glyphs are distinct not only because they have her family crest on them. They are also distinct because Winter is a part of the Atlas army and occupies presumably an esteemed position given her quick promotion to Ironwood’s personal inner circle. It’s not exactly a secret or something conveniently unknown by most of the general populace.

Granted, Weiss used a black glyph which was harder to see on the dark ground, but the point still stands that someone recognized her because of her distinct semblance. Drunk Racist’s more sober friend made the connection and he’s still conscious.

So not only on top of a violent racket that would draw attention, Weiss also thoughtlessly gave more of a motive for the group to be tracked down. And she also increased her risks of being sent back to her father which was a concern she expressed on the airship.

Look, watching racists get yeeted by my favorite girl is cathartic, but it was unnecessary short-term gratification in exchange for detriment to their long-term goals. They can be against the racist without drawing more attention to themselves or Weiss outing herself.

And the third and final point that probably was what put the cuffs on their wrists, the fight.

Not that I’m saying they should’ve just plunked their asses down and watched the Grimm terrorize the streets while Penny made her way over, but it still stands that its hella bad with regards to being discreet.

Very few things are discreet about a big fight scene, and in this case the crew might as well have set off flares revealing their location. Gunshots make a distinct noise that can’t be excused as the Grimm breaking in.

What’s made even worse is that the cameras are picking up all of this. We saw it when Ironwood pulled up that frame of Blake’s broken sword blade. This is a city of eyes, the more attention and interest they draw to themselves the greater chance of them getting arrested.

Here it worked out, sure, but they couldn’t know if it would or not.

4. Discretion

Conversation:

Ren: “So... what do we do?”

Ruby: “I don’t know yet. But we should be careful with what we say.”

Yeah, uh, Ruby, you guys get a hardcore F- in that. If you want anywhere near a passing grade, maybe, I don’t know, NOT TELEGRAPH THAT YOU HAVE A SECRET IN AN ENCLOSED ELEVATOR WHEN TWO GUARDS ARE STANDING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU???

Fucking look at that, the episode goes out of its way to show us that one of them noticed! (hi, Brad)

Blake also whispers, “We’ll follow your lead, Ruby.” Which is touching and all, but guys. Not the place for verbal communication. A shoulder squeeze would’ve sufficed, now you’ve also told the guards who report to Ironwood that the whole group is ready to lie at Ruby’s command.

Good lord next you’re going to tell me they don’t understand need-to-know basis as a security measure at all.

...I’m not opening that can of worms in this post.

#rwby #rwby7 #rwby volume 7 #rwby season 7 #james ironwood #atlas #rwby spoilers #rwby7 spoilers #rwby volume 7 spoilers #ruby rose #blake belladonna #weiss schnee #yang xiao long #qrow branwen

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yoshimickster · 4 years

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Rwby Volume 7 Episode 1 “The Greatest Kingdom”-MICKSTERECAP

Wiggity what, what’s that, its the Micksterecap, wiggity what, what’s that, ITS THE MICKSTERECAP!

HEY everybody, how y’all been? I’ve been good, working a lot, the usual. For anyone who doesn’t know,all Micksterecaps will be aired a WEEK after they air on Rooster Teeth and Vrv to avoid spoilers, and so I don’t have to tag as spoiler as HEY HEY I don’t get as many notes logically. With that-CLICK THAT READ MORE BUTTON AND LET’S LOOK AT SOME SHIPS!

HELL YEAH-aircrafts!

0:41 We then see the first shot of Team RWBYQOMJNR looking ALL sorts of terse about flying into the the occupied as ALL HELL kingdom of Atlas.

Weiss: I’ve never seen our forces deployed so aggressively before.

Ruby: What about at the Vytal festival? Bunch of ships there.

Weiss: Trust me, that was SLIGHTLY less aggressive than how aggressively they’re deployed here, its like coke and pepsi, a SLIGHT differentiation.

The crew then decide to go seek out Winter(the only Schnee besides Weiss still worth a damn) and then get distance from the fleet and THEN WE SEE-

1:31 -one HELL of a cityscape, man I’d love to Batman that shit in a video game, just grapplin’ around like a fool, it’d be SWEET. We ALSO see-

1:54 -JAMES VIA BROADCAST-in all his bearded glory, a beard that I REALLY hope he doesn’t shave off dramatically to signify that he’s getting better or some shit because DAMMIT-beards are not a symbol of depression their just awesome facial hair! You know what movie I’m talking about.

The crew then get told by the radio-lady that they gotta dock their ship, but its okay because Weiss says her sister will TOTALLY let them sneak in-

2:57 Winter: -failure to cooperate with Atlas military personnel is a punishable offense.

Aw man, I wanted to see Winter and have her conspire to murder her and Weiss’s terrible dad. *SIGH* Maybe next episode.

Maria then decides to take them to a totally not important person with relevance to previous characters, docking their ship, and then meeting some of the local flavor of Mantle including:

3:57 Loose exposition about the current political state that wasn’t lazily explained by a main cast member(for ONCE)-

Antles Joe, preparing to play his Banjo-

-random graffiti that the show focuses on for NO foreshadowing reason, none at all so stop talking about it-

-A camera drone whose JUST two weeks from retirement.

Yang: GAH-my visage, it has been stolen!

Yang: YEET!

*SMASH*

Yang: OOH. Maybe we should pick up the pace?

Ruby: Maybe YOU shouldn’t kick surveillance drones!

Weiss: For real, that shit gets uploaded to the cloud IMMEDIATELY.

Yang: I DON’T LIKE SUPRISE PHOTOS OKAY?!

The group then continues their leasurely stroll and see NOTHING that bums them out about the city they’re i-

-ooooooooooh right, exploited Faunus workers...’dat not good.

After Blake makes a light comment about the crappyness of the city, they are THEN verbally acosted by-

-DRUNK GORDON FREEMAN! Man, the wait for the final Half-Life game is messing him up to huh?

Seriously, TELL ME this dude don’t look like Gordon’s shitburg little brother, its un-CANNY!

Blake being the nice young lady she is apologizes for insulting his hometown, and then Drunk Gordon fucks up in the worst way possible.

*PTOOIE*

Anytime a character spits after someone talks, you KNOW their gonna start shit.

Gordon: Shtupid faunus like you, wouldn’t understand-

It was at this point Drunk Gordon realized, he fucked up.

Weiss: Ain’t NOBODY shit-talk my girlfriend’s girlfriend.

After giving a drunk racist what for, the group then go to-

6:00 THE HEALING STATION-to replenish the HP and MP! I just hope it works Toad House rules where you don’t gotta pay, at least until the NEXT game where you pay for replenishing, which I GUESS was okay given you can earn more coins but BLEH.

Its here where we meet-

-PIETRO-absentminded genius of Atlas, and adjuster of Maria’s cybereyes and that is all he is, stop asking if he’s related to someone important SO THERE!

Pietro then gives them the straight shit telling them that after the fall of Beacon, James got SUPER paranoid given that whoever hacked Atlas’s codes was either a genius...or one of their own. And I just can’t even IMAGINE who it could be-Watts, its gonna be Dr.Watts, the trailer pretty much proved it.

Its at this point, where Pietro FINALLY realizes that he’s talking to Team RWBY, and given his absentmindedness he’s the ONLY person I’ll allow for not recognizing said celebrities right away. And when Yang tries asking him about Mantle he goes all-

Pietro:...you PAINTED it...and added bad ass scratch marks!

Yang: Well the scratch marks were an accident, but I’m not sure why you’d care abou-HOOBAZAWAH?!

The team is surprised he knows them(for some reason despite celebrity status) due to his daughter telling him about them, said daughter baring...NO meaning...to...the plot(KEEP IT TOGETHER MICK). Right before Rubalubes asks about his daughter-RANDOM GRIMM ENCOUNTER TIME-to which EVERYONE is fully armed fo-

10:07 Blake: DAMMIT-my blade is still symbolically broken, guess its bullets only.

And then Team RWBYQOMJNR just kics EVERY Grimm’s ass, Ren goes that way, Ruby goes the other, just a BILLION awesome attacks I’m not even gonna BOTHER clipping because this is just a still recap blog post and their all really fast and the next episode is 20 minutes after I’m finishing this so don’t call me lazy.

HOWEVER-I will show ONE awesome clip, LASER TIME BABY!

11:45 NICE cuh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeean cut!

Then lasers here, lasers there, LASERS EVERYWHERE! WHO-is the bad ass laser lady? Like I EVEN need to FUCKING say it!

12:15 Ruby:...Penny?!

Jaune: Oh so YOUR almost-girlfriend gets to come back to life, that’s fair.

SHE’S ALIVE MOTHER FUCKERS! Brought back to life by sacrificing a Maximal protoform, ALSO giving her flight capabilities! And yes I’m comparing Penny to Optimus and you can’t stop me.

And the next scene is JUST adorable.

Penny: Sal-

Ruby:...huh?

Penny: UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Ruby:(...OH SHIT-)

Penny: -TATIONS!

*PFFT* Paused at the RIGHT moment yo!

Ruby: AAAAAAAAAAAAH-INCOMING GIRLFRIEND!

Ruby: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

Precious.

13:04 Pietro(who is also her dad if you weren’t paying attention) than reveals that after the fall of Beacon, they were able to recover her Spark Chamber, I MEAN Core from the arena and fixed her RIGHT up! Even gave her flight abilities that look NOTHING like in the manga, but that’s loose canon at best so whatevs.

After Penny flies off to fight the rest of the Grimm, Nora then channels the ENTIRE Rwby fandom in one sentence:

13:46 Nora: I can’t tell if I completely understand what is going on, or have like a MILLION questions!

After that craziness, the team then follows Professor Polendina to his house where nothing else bad happe-

SHIT-anime streaks, BRACE FOR IMPACT!

14:15

DAMN-critical Dexterity fail all around.

Close it out with the team being arrested for saving the day because television, and that’s EP ONE yo! Really fun, glad Penny’s back, and can’t wait to see Ironwood either apologize or shittalk the team for doing their jobs because as said, TELEVISION! EITHER WEITHER-see you next week on MICKSTERECAP!

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