"You know, I never thought I cared so much about looks," Kurogane said, catching Fai off guard with his sudden change in topic.
"What do you mean?" Fai asked, his confusion evident. “What do I look like, Kuro-tan? A starry sky? A diamond in the rough?”
A small talk about nothing leads to an off-guard heart-to-heart conversation while they were drinking into the night and how whipped they are for each other's happiness.
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That.... was an episode. Technically.
Volume 9 Episode 9 discussion below the cut
Tw: mentions and discussions of suicide and how the show and characters were framing it
I may make another post or rb this to discuss the rest of the episode, but this mainly deals with the whole Tea thing
I'm-- I just-- what in the whole entire fuck was that?? Yes I saw somewhere it's supposed to be like a part 1 or 2 but.... Jeepers crappers, man.
So not only does WBY&J not react at all to what happened to Ruby last episode, tea or otherwise, but they just kinda run off, stop and... be sad??
They talk about how shit happens sometimes, then the crystal people show up and it's suddenly hugs and smiles??? Guys?!?!
Yang only reacts to Ruby being gone after she finds the wooden cocoon thing, and even then the others are quick to "It's not that bad. It's what she wanted." Like they haven't been ignoring/not noticing Ruby's severe depression and state of mind for the past few days now and that she didn't just barely blow up at them.
And something I want to address, is the show writers, and characters, and everything framed in the last episode made it quite clear that the tea was suicide. I saw a few takes saying "the tea clearly wasn't supposed to be about suicide. They wouldn't kill her off" etc. Etc.
And I want to say, no. Just, no.
The suicide thing fucking sucks, yes. But the show last episode and this one made it clear that Ruby drinking the tea was her choosing to commit suicide.
Do I think that this should've happened at all? Fuck no. This company has no goddamn clue how to write and talk about sensitive topics such as this, and they need to stop immediately.
But I cannot wrap my head around how anyone could've looked at what happened last episode and think: its just healing tea!
The show has done a terrible job of using an "unreliable narrator" or other such to convey information to the audience.
Ascension is like death, but not, but is! Jaune said its bad, but the Stars say it's good! The Cat said it's normal, but the girls think it's wrong or unnatural. The Stars dying is ok! Then it's even better than ok, because they're "better" now! Herb is new and better! Ruby will be... ?
The show doesn't properly or clearly make any information given to us make sense, and even with the knowledge that the Cat is supposed to be bad, we still don't actually know what's ok and what isn't when we look back.
Yes, Ruby is clearly going to be ok from what we saw this episode. But she still very clearly was not ok mentally, and was actually literally pushed towards taking her own life.
She said "I just don't want to be me, anymore." And then drank the tea, knowing at the very least, that she'd be remade and lose her memories, at best. At worst, it would outright kill her.
Even Neo, who likely knew less about Ascension than the rest of them, still was framing it to Ruby as suicide.
Then, when Ruby did it, Neo was distraught. Regardless of what happens to Ruby next, she's gone. And Neo now has nothing. To Neo, one way or another, Ruby is dead.
But that's the thing.
Regardless of what happens to Ruby, she viewed it as dying or not being herself anymore.
Doesn't matter if the audience knows better or thinks they know better. CRWBY, the show, the characters, everything, framed this as Ruby Rose taking her own life.
And what happens immediately after such a thing? Her friends and family run back to safety, in which I assume they're trying to head for the tree perhaps, and then they just stop and Jaune is sad.
Not even Yang or Weiss or Blake seem to really have a reaction, only until after they hug it out and see Ruby encased in wood at the tree. Suddenly it's real now. Suddenly it's different. And Yang does have a good reaction! She's panicked, crying, angry, desperate. That's her sister in there! Dunno where this reaction was before but ok, at least we got there!
But the others are quick to tell her that it's not that bad and it's up to Ruby now. Which, if they had conveyed Ascension to us in any other way, could be fun and interesting! But because it's this world's closest equivalent to death that we as an audience and the characters can compare it to, it makes it seem like suicide is a good thing.
Like it's just a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
No matter what happens next episode, and what becomes of Ruby, the framing was still that for her and the Paper Stars, suicide is good and gives you the power up/strength you need, and your loved ones just have to accept that and move on.
And that's disgusting.
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omg omg could u elaborate on bkdk being annoying talking shit about you?
LMFAOOO based on that post, I was just thinking like...
You can't spend every waking moment as a group of three, right? So everything you do they're reporting to each other, whether it's just what you had for lunch, if you kissed both of them good morning before you left... and (most importantly) if + when you start bratting around with them.
It's not so much like, talking shit as it is just them... discussing what it all meant. I feel like poly!bkdk is veryyy much about communication and kindness, so when you're sassy, rude, needy, or ANYTHING really... they're gonna talk about it with each other like a two person football team in a huddle.
It's just:
"Did you hear that? They told me to shut up?" + "To shut up??? Wtf, didn't you buy them a coffee and shit earlier?" + "YEAH and they didn't even finish it. What's going on???"
Or,
"did y/n kiss u earlier?" + "no why?" + "k good." + "why?" "WHY?" "WHY??????"
OR EVEN,
"why was y/n in a Red Riot sweatshirt?" + "THEY WERE? WHEN???"
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But anyway, this probably happens ALL the time. It's all really well meaning because if it's just steam you're looking to expel (and you just like... want attention), they're really understanding and absolutely the right guys to help... but at the same time, you also can't get away with a lot without them figuring out what it all means before you even get a chance to explain.
You get home from a long and hard day and before you can even put down your bag, they're ON you like flies and you just know they had a lil gossip session about your attitude from earlier... but LOL pros and cons, you know?
(And they definitely gossip to you when they have shit to say about the other, too. You are NOT left out of the fun even if it does mean listening to a 15 minute rant about how Deku ate all the ice cream Bakugo was saving LOOOL)
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