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hemo--goblins · 4 years

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What is Tyrian's relationships like with the rest of Team WTCH? Feel free to include Emerald and Mercury if you want!

THIS ENDED UP BEING REALLY LONG UHH OOPS

On the whole, he considers anyone who follows Salem to be an ally and is generally amicable towards them, but this does not stop him from being antagonistic for shiggles. He likes to tease and bully casually, but it doesn’t outright mean he dislikes someone.

Cinder is a bit of a mixed bag. She shares Tyrian’s sadistic streak, and the two of them on the same page can be catastrophic, but her arrogance and greed tend to get on Tyrian’s nerves, especially when it comes to her placing those values above Salem’s interest. He sees Cinder as something of a bratty child. She’s quite young, thinks herself a god and believes she deserves everything.

However, her inflated ego makes her all the more fun to taunt, as she’s so quick to explode once she loses control over a conversation. She hates when her superiority is called into question, and gets so fantastically worked up about it.

Tyrian sees a terrible hunger in her; like a burning fury that threatens to consume her whole. At the rate she’s going, he thinks it’s very likely that it will do just that, and he is glad he basically has front-row seats for when she inevitably goes up in flames. She and Tyrian have something of a sibling rivalry dynamic, where they bicker and disagree a lot, tend to do a lot of little things just to fuck with each other’s day. But when it comes down to it, they will still have each other’s backs- although they will likely belittle each other for needing their help.

Hazel is the least responsive to Tyrian’s shenanigans, and it both frustrates and fascinates him. Tyrian could literally bite him and he wouldn’t even blink. Tyrian has pushed his teasing way too far with Hazel numerous times. To the extent of like, stabbing him “as a joke.” He loves how big and strong he is, though; one time they trained together and Hazel knocked Tyrian back through two walls. The faunus has pestered him with requests to do it again ever since. His ability to crush a man’s skull with one hand is one Tyrian finds very admirable.

Hazel is also very blunt in a way that can sometimes yield hilarious results. His straightforward, honest, yet at times brutal reads and roasts are very entertaining. The man can often disappear into the background, but whenever he does speak, it is typically worth listening to.

The most interesting thing about the giant, however, is that he is caring in a way that confuses Tyrian; he doesn’t seem to have an ulterior motive of any sort or expect to be owed anything. It’s weird. He sometimes calms Tyrian with a simple firm hand on the shoulder, or the head, to ground him. It’s surprisingly effective. He makes very large batches of handmade food and shares with everyone. Hazel is a kind soul in a place that kindness forgot, and Tyrian knows the only reason he’s with them is because he’s blinded by hurt. He wishes Hazel would try to take joy in what he does, no amount of directionless anger at what happened to him will change the fact that it happened, he’s wasting his life dwelling on it.

Arthur was the first member of WTCH that Tyrian had to work close with in any capacity. He was responsible for Tyrian’s transition, and as such he was physically close and asked a lot of questions in a medical capacity very early on into knowing each other. At that stage, they were both pretty professional with each other, Tyrian was even more well-behaved than he usually is in order to make the transition as quick and easy as possible. It was during these early meetings that Tyrian first noticed how delicate, yet precise and steady the doctor’s hands were. After making this observation, he found himself less nervous about being operated on.

He continued to have frequent visits with Arthur just on account of getting himself injured a lot. Talking came pretty easy to them, although sometimes Arthur would act a bit annoyed when Tyrian got a little too talkative while getting stitched back together. Tyrian took joy in seeing how far he could push boundaries and pester Arthur before he said anything. Watts was aware that the best course of action was to ignore him and not encourage him, but unfortunately this only made Tyrian want to see what his breaking point was.

Tyrian began to make visits unrelated to medical emergencies. He was curious about his inventions, and once again wanted to see how close Arthur would let him get before snapping. Arthur, trying to get work done, first answered any questions very curtly, before slowly finding the genuine interest somewhat flattering. His medical work with Tyrian became a little more inquisitive than solely damage control, taking more interest in the faunus as a specimen. Although most of his notes detailed the specifics of his tail, there are some rather lengthy passages about scars and their theoretical causes, muscle distribution, and distractingly interestingly luminescent gold eyes.

Tyrian found himself getting close to the doctor for more reasons than just wanting to see him squirm. He realized he simply enjoyed being there, liked the way he smelled, the way his voice sounded when he explained things, liked the way those practiced hands felt on his skin, even if their touch was solely clinical. He felt a certain.. pull. He assumed it meant he wanted to kill him, tried to ignore it because that wasn’t something he could act on with a teammate.

It was Arthur that first initiated anything physical, surprisingly. He propositioned Tyrian as a friend offering to help a friend. A mutually beneficial relationship with absolutely no feelings involved for either party. Both were in denial that it was already too late for “no feelings” on either side. They remained casual, interactions flowing smoothly and easily between them as things flowed from professional to physical as naturally as breathing.

It was the production of the prosthesis that changed a lot.

Tyrian was devastated after losing his stinger. He felt useless, could barely bring himself to do anything save for tear himself apart over his failure, over losing such an important part of what made him such an excellent tool to begin with. When Arthur returned to Evernight to treat him, he found Tyrian a disheveled mess, pulling at his matted hair and clawing himself, reopening his injuries. He saw no reason to scold him, Tyrian was already punishing himself plenty.

No, what Tyrian needed, and what he doubted he had been shown by anyone this entire time, was even the smallest speck of compassion. And what kind of doctor would he be if he didn’t give Tyrian the kind of care he needed? Arthur kept it to logical explanations as to why he worried so much, why he was willing to wash Tyrian’s hair and lay with him when he couldn’t fall asleep. He was just being a good doctor. That’s what Tyrian told himself too, to keep from getting his hopes up.

Still, during his recovery their intimacy undoubtedly grew more tender. It was something Tyrian was so wholly unused to, but found himself really appreciating when he was in such a low place. Arthur swallowed the feeling that bubbled up inside him when he saw how soft Tyrian looks when he sleeps. He refused to acknowledge it. But he didn’t have any logical answer for why he ran his fingers through the hunter’s hair as he slept, either.

Tyrian spent considerably more, nearly all of his time with Arthur while he was constructing the prosthesis. He wanted to see how it was made, wanted to see how close it was to being done, and simply didn’t want to be left alone with his thoughts. Also, he just enjoyed being around the doctor. Found it easier to sleep when he was there, found it harder to feel incomplete with him around.

He wouldn’t have trusted anyone else with a procedure as invasive as installing the prosthesis. The plates had to be grafted directly onto the carapace via metal insertions that pierced each segment. Having Arthur make him feel whole again brought on a whole new appreciation for the man. He couldn’t thank Watts enough for not only building the prosthesis, but taking care of him during his recovery. He’s never been treated with such a gentle touch before. He hadn’t expected to like it so much. But he’s scared; he doesn’t feel like it’s something he can have. Such softness would only be torn apart by a weapon like himself, and he’s terrified of ruining what he already has with Arthur by acting on feelings that he thinks he shouldn’t have.

So he stays where he is, happy to simply have the doctor as close as he does.

Emerald and Mercury are an interesting case. He actually sees a lot of himself when he was younger in them. Confused, unsure where they fit but afraid of the change that comes with leaving a life behind. It bothers him, a bit, because he hates who he was before he became who he is now. Weak and afraid, forcing himself to fit into a lifestyle that was not made for him.

That being said, he can get inside their heads very easily, and this makes them endlessly entertaining to fuck with. The way he sees it, they are already in too deep to turn back, but he hates to see them so indecisive. He doesn’t pull punches with them because he wants them to fully understand their situation and not sugar coat anything [also he just loves making people uneasy and they respond so well to it] so they can come to their own conclusions.

Either they will stop second-guessing themselves, and understand how their place with Salem can bring them a fulfilling life, so long as they can cast aside silly things like “morals” and realize what’s truly best for someone is just what’s the most fun. Or, they will realize this life is not for them, and try to leave- in which case, he'll be happy they finally are being honest with themselves, but he’s even happier that this means he gets to hunt them down.

#tyrian callows #arthur watts #cinder fall #hazel rainart #u: tell me what he thinks of wtch #me: ok cool [gets to arthur] fuck wait ok #the slow burn is AN IMPORTANT FACTOR #SORRY I COULD NOT SUMMARIZE #IT'S ABOUT THE PINING #even in situations where i dont write full romance n+v #i still think tyrian has at least a bit of a crush on arthur #even if he doesnt want to admit it #bambino-muses #hc #hemo.txt

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helihi · 5 years

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The Good, the Bad and the Dirty: RWBY Vol 6 Ch 4

#SaveEmerald2kGayTeen #HazelDadOfTheYear

This episode might contain one of my favorite scenes of the season.

This episode is also 4 scenes.

Overall rating on the episode: 4/10.

I share my thoughts and opinions after the cut:

The Good:

Branwens are going to be the death of Ozpin. The sheer amount of anger in Qrow and Yang accounts for everyone else in the world and I’m totally here for it.

Clrealy our beloved drunkle Qrow steals the show in the first scene of the episode and confirms what many believed in the last two episodes: he blindly followed Ozpin and believed in his ideal without knowing everything behind the man. It was heartbreaking to watch him in such a vulnerable state, but Vic, you nailed that scene.

If his Semblance wasn’t angsty enough, you have his self hatred amplified after realizing he had been following a man that had lied to him for years, and if you, like me, believe that Summer died because of Ozpin, he saw his team being torn by the influence of this man.

Guess no one can shit on Raven from not following an aimless man anymore.

Good job, Grandma Katara, someone had to take the reins of the group before everyone got mauled by Grimm. Qrow and Yang’s negativity alone is enough to bring a horde their way, but don’t forget Oscar’s desperation because boi, it’s the FNDM’s second favorite boy in pain (the first one is Ren).

I had stopped being interested in Oscar since volume 4 because his character development seemed to be stuck. Finally, it looks like Miles and Kerry bring his struggle to the front: he has a parasite inside his head whose will will eventually take over.

“Don’t like to him, we’re better than that.”

I feel really sorry for Oscar, but hopefully the fact that Ozpin shut himself down will help him regain his independence and to start thinking and action on his own volition.

Emerald, my girl, my baby, my lost ray of sunshine who should have abandoned the bad guys the moment she met Salem. It seems that the second and third scene established her as the audience surrogate in Salem’s place.

I cannot explain how much I don’t care about Tyrian. What I thought was weird is how he can state the obvious “Cinder’s not here to protect you” and laugh about how Hazel’s team is gonna get thrashed, and immediately look scared in the next scene.

Hazel is now Emerald’s legal guardian, and once again he becomes my favorite out of team WTCH (I don’t consider Em and Merc part of the official team).

So, Salem reveals to everyone that Cinder is alive, but that she cannot return until she has redeemed herself. This may set up:

Cinder killing Raven.

Cinder one of Ruby’s eyes.

Cinder getting one of the relics.

If you have any other suggestions of what it may foreshadow, please do share your thoughts.

Her statement and Emeralds overall reaction to her freakout hopefully sets up something I’ve been waiting for years:

Emerald will run away from team Witch, hopefully in a desperate attempt find Cinder.

The last scene was there to set up the next episode, unless we switch to tea JN_R. I miss those kids, but the whole abandoned place to think over what he just saw screams tea and I want it.

give me the angst.

The Bad:

This episode was 4 scenes.

It proves, once again that the only way to enjoy RWBY is by binge watching it, which SHOULDN’T BE A THING SINCE THIS SERIES GETS RELEASED WEEKLY.

Listen for a second: if Netflix releases 1 whole season on 1 go it’s because it acknowledges that the way the shows are written is for it to be bing weatched. Think The Haunting of Hill House as an example. You can, as I did, watch an episode a day, but the way the show is structured with the cliffhangers makes you want to immediately watch the next.

Now think of a show like AtlA. This show aired weekly, and though it was so good you wanted to watch all the episodes in a row. You can watch 1 and be satisfied to wait long enough to watch the next one. RWBY doesn’t have that.

This episode felt like an unfinished product. Like the CRWBY writes and animates everything and chops everything together afterwards. Though the run time of 13 minutes should already be concerning, it’s the content of the episode which make it feel disgruntled and poorly jumbled together.

You can have an 11 minute episode and have the narrative be tied together and well thought out (watch adventure time for that).

Last week’s episode told a whole story, the episode had a sense of completion, of unit. This one didn’t, there’s a poor theme: Ozpin is lost, Salem is pissed. This transition episode was a fart, if it wasn't for the first scene of the episode.

I’d rather have waited 2 weeks and get this episode with next week’s.

The Dirty:

Exposition genie is gone and I’m pissed that Jinn’s character has been relegated to that. The freaking relics are alive and the character the CRWBY was so “proud” to create served as an exposition dump character.

Which proves again my point of last week’s review: SHOW DON’T FUCKING TELL. You didn’t really need Jinn’s narration except for the start. The writers are using basic and bad tools to say something very simply, and it’s kind of frustrating.

Grandma Katara, are u going to tell the other’s who u are or are u literally just an old lady who stumbled with the plot?

Overall rating on the episode: 4/10.

A.N.: Needs more meat.

#rwby #rwby6 #me

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chimchimchoo · 6 years

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Fly Me to the Moon :: Ch 4

Genre: Pure fluff crack

Word Count: 1,506

Pair: Yoongi x Jimin

Collaborated with @tayvengeance

Chapters: 1 2 3 4

“CHEER UP THIS SAD, EMO BOY!”

02-222-3333

Jimin stared at the note on the bathroom wall for a solid 5 minutes before he pulled out his phone and typed in the number.

authors note: we do not own any of the pictures, for better formatting so it’s more comfortable to read, check it out on AO3! AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14944508/chapters/34790039 Twitters: Tae’s Sujin’s <3 - Tae & sujin

Chat With Hobi_wan_kenobi

2015.12.26

12:00

SUGA:

Hey

Hobiiiiiii

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

Hyungg

MY SUGAR

MERRY (belated) CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!

SUGA:

You messaged me merry christmas everyday

from the 20th until yesterday

and even though Christmas is over

you are STILL at it

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

*gASP*

Sugar, every day is christmas until January

why are you like this to me :(

don’t kill my christmas spirit

speaking of christmas

did you have a bANGIN NIGHT?

SUGA:

why did you crop that pic of all of us

NO ONE IS SAFE FROM BECOMING A MEME

also

We didn’t have sex

why is that your first thought

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

i’m extremely disappointed

i’ve seen the way you two look at each other

did you at least TELL HIM YOUR FEELINGS?

come on, we all know you two are so whipped for each other

come o n

SUGA:

I told him.

He reciprocated

we kissed a few times (a lot)

I held him as we slept

Woke up with him

god, do you know how amazing it is to fall asleep

and wake up with someone you love?

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

Oh?

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH

FUCKING FINALLY

THANK THE MOTHER FUCKING LORD

TOOK YOU TWO LONG ENOUGH

If either of you hadn’t done anything about it anytime soon

i owuld have smashed your heads together mySELF

SUGA:

You all act as if we’ve been in love for years

and have been putting off our engagement.

I’ve literally known Jimin for like a month.

and

AND

SOCIAL ANXIETY PREVENTS ME FROM HAVING

SIMPLE CONVERSATIONS, OKAY

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

yes i understand that sugar

but in all my years knowing you

i’ve never seen you once look at anyone like this

besides a fucking piano

(at least its a human this time)

(thank fucking god)

SUGA:

IT’S NOT LIKE I WAS GONNA FUCK MY PIANO

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

there arE KINKS OUT THERE HYUNG

KINKS YOU COULDN’T POSSIBLY IMAGINE

it’s okay i’ll love and accept you however you are

SUGA:

My only kink is the way Jimin looks at me

when I know he’s thinking about us

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

jesus christ hyung

you’re whipped

SUGA:

I know.

I am.

Help me.

I don’t know what to do.

I can’t ruin this.

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

this is very cliche

but just keep being yourself hyung

chim chim obviously likes you for who you are

SUGA:

But

what if I do something

and he realizes just how messed up I am?

I can’t bring him home to my family.

Will that ever come between us?

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

Hyung

he likes /you/

not your family

I think the description i wrote before,

“sad emo boy”

just about summed up who you are

and he was drawn in just by those words

you don’t have anything to be concerned about hyung

I hear him mutter about you during dance breaks

and worry about whether you’re getting any sleep or not

it’s kind of disgusting how much he worries

SUGA:

He texts me a lot late at night.

checking in on me.

I kind of look forward to those texts.

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

well i mean

he is your /boyfriend/ now

what kind of person would you be

if you didn’t

SUGA:

Holy shit.

He’s my boyfriend.

I have a boyfriend

And his name is Park Jimin

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

damn fucking right you do

now go tell that to the whole world

Chat With YOU MOTHERFUCKERS STOP CHANGING THE CHAT NAME

2015.12.26

12:30

SUGA:

Hey

guys

I’m dating Jimin

can you believe?

My Boyfriend Is Park Jimin

iq.148:

look at him you guys

the emo boy is whipped

Worldwide Handsome:

About time you two got together.

Kookie Monster:

But lik Jimins a whol soft boy

nd ur a whol emo boy

The.V.Zone:

YES. Y E S

I FUCKIF TOLD U GYUS THAT THEY WOULD HIT IT OFF ON CHRISTMAS

Kookie hun bun i kno ur my lovely bf but u owe me $50

Kookie Monster:

they warnd me abt ths in High school musical

i shldv known

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

SUGA:

WAIT YOU BET ON THIS, TAE?

The.V.Zone:

oh cum on

it was 2 easy

evryone was in on it too

rite guise

iq.148:

what

Worldwide Handsome:

I did no such thing.

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

tae what are you on?

Kookie Monster:

Tae, tht was jst u n me

The.V.Zone:

oh damn

well i have $50 now

DRINKS ON ME GUYS

except for kook

Kookie Monster:

u cnt use a minrs money 2 buy drinks

The.V.Zone:

oh shush honey

money iz money

juss give it to me in cash boo

in fact chim chim is going to yoongi’s tonight

just come over

u kno

come over™

SUGA:

ew don’t solicit sex from Jungkook on this chat

iq.148:

jesus christ taehyung

go fold your laundry or something

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

Worldwide Handsome:

You know, sugar free cereal was created to help young boys

to stop masterbating, because people believed the sugar in

their cereal caused impure thoughts.

SO STOP EATING THE SUGAR FREE CEREAL

AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

The.V.Zone:

yes mom™

SUGA:

Speaking of Jimin

where is he?

I thought FOR SURE my boyfriend would have something

to say regarding my initial message

The.V.Zone:

he’s prolly busy eating sugar free cereal

Kookie Monster:

but he dsnt need

wait

WAIT

th cereal stops u frm jackn off

i get it now

The.V.Zone:

oh you innocent boy you

my baby boo

this is why i love you

iq.148:

jesus christ

Worldwide Handsome:

Mochi_Moves:

I woke up to 65 messages

what’s going on

Aww Mint Yoongi

look at you

telling the whole world i’m your boyfriend

i love waking up to sweet things

SUGA:

You went BACK to sleep after I went home?

baby, we could have stayed in bed longer if you

were tired.

Mochi_Moves:

Its hard to sleep when you’re on my mind all night c:

wait WHEN DID TAE MAKE A BET ON US

Worldwide Handsome:

Oh my goD!

They are so domESTIC~

Kookie Monster:

aftr u sent th frst txt to him

Hobi_wan_kenobi:

I’m gonna throw up

they’re so fucking cute

The.V.Zone:

Kook honey why dont u luv me like this

SUGA:

Hoseok I’ll make you rue the day u called me emo

Mochi_Moves:

but honey if he didn’t

he wouldn’t have written your number on the stall

and we would have never met like this :c

Kookie Monster:

ur not a rmantic lik yoongi

SUGA:

Call me emo boy in every universe, so that I know

Jimin will find me in each one.

Mochi_Moves:

Awww Mint Yoongi

you’re making me blush

iq.148

eugh

stop

pls

Worldwide Handsome:

luckily the other one is always in his producing room

so while we do live with him

we like never see him

It’s like living with Batman.

We know The Batman lives with us, but we only ever see Bruce Wayne.

SUGA:

damn I have enough emotional baggage to be compared

to Batman.

Kookie Monster:

Iv nvr seen Yoongi n Batman in th same room

iq.148:

Kook…

The.V.Zone:

oh honey, this is why i luv u

Mochi_Moves:

He’s always in the producing room??

Does he at least come out to eat??

Jin hyung do you feed him?

Does he sleep?

Worldwide Handsome:

You think I slave away making the finest cuisine available

in my price range and DON’T force him to eat it?

Trust me, I get him to eat.

It’s when I have to work late and can’t make dinner that he’s

on his own.

Mochi_Moves:

I’m glad I can count on you hyung c:

iq.148:

why am I never around for Jin’s best meals :(

SUGA:

Try not working the graveyard shift

Then maybe you’d get to eat the delicious meals he makes

Worldwide Handsome:

I mean I label the tupperware with the leftovers.

What more do you want from me?

Is it too much work to open a fucking refrigerator, Namjoon?

SUGA:

holy shit take this to the roomie chat

Kookie Monster:

Tae my mum said I cn com ovr tonite btw

The.V.Zone:

ahh yes

come over™

Hobi_wan_kenobi

jfc tae keep it in your pants

Worldwide Handsome:

HE ASKED HIS MOTHER PERMISSION TO COME OVER TO

YOUR PLACE

NOT CUM ALL OVER YOUR PLACE

JFC

The.V.Zone:

yes mom™

Mochi_Moves:

Honey I don’t think I should come over tonight

someone needs to babysit these two

SUGA:

Mochi_Moves:

you can come babysit with me

The.V.Zone:

no plz

i dont want to see u 2 droolin over each other

SUGA:

okay, but like weren’t you two literally together

the entire week of christmas?

why the rush to have Kookie over, Tae?

The.V.Zone:

iq.148:

that smile concerns me

Kookie Monster:

Tae, u said wed wtch all th Iron Man mvies

SUGA:

This is so innocent

Worldwide Handsome:

I don’t think Jungkook knows how to even kiss with

a lil bit of tongue.

The.V.Zone:

you clearly don’t know him :)

Mochi_Moves:

tae please keep this to yourself thx

Kookie Monster:

Taeeee wat lies r u feedn

SUGA:

Jungkook… ISN’T innocent?

Is that what I’m getting?

Kookie Monster:

>.<

dnt lisn to Tae

The.V.Zone:

he’s full of surprises I tell u

iq.148 left this chat

Worldwide Handsome left this chat

Mochi_Moves left this chat

Hobi_wan_kenobi left this chat

SUGA left this chat

The.V.Zone:

it’s just u n me bby

Kookie Monster:

ur tearin ths famly aprt

The.V.Zone:

i only need u in my life <3

Kookie Monster:

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rwby-fan-theories · 6 years

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jaune is from a family of assassins

felix from red vs. blue was killed by tucker who led the blue team and junipers can be blue which is the name of jaunes team while rubys are red.

in red vs. blue (the show monty had his hands in before rwby) felix( a mercenary/assasin) was killed by tucker Felix is a sociopath who just can’t wait for the killing to start so he can get some fun and he fights a redhead with green eyes at some point in the story. Then he gets killed by a butt monkey (tucker ) who wields a sword and proves to be an actually good leader too of a team thats themed off of blue . juniper (the name of the team jaune leads ) is blue tucker has many parallels with jaune. also another reference to red vs. blue is the fact that rubys are obviously red so the two main teams of rwby names are the colors of the two teams of red vs. blue (ones red and ones blue) so the food fight that team rwby and team jnpr could be called red vs. blue another shoutout. (he is a sadist who deceived the reds and blues and mocked them for it saying his role was a performance of a lifetime saying killing is better than anything money can buy) tucker was forced into a leadership role and had grown over the seasons of red vs. blue his sill had grown ( like how jaunes sill had grown over the volumes has shown a desire to pass it off leadership due to being afraid his decisions will doom others like jaune had issues with self worth and his abilities plus tucker pretended to be a ldies man lie how jaune pretended to be one with that line that ladies love his name so I think jaune will kill mercury ( son of an assassin/mercenary)mercury outright killed people on screen and from what I see enjoys the thought of it and was the person who committed the first two kills in the series

“Felix is a sociopath who just can’t wait for the killing to start so he can get some fun and he fights a fiery redhead with green eyes at some point in the story. Then he gets killed by a butt monkey who wields a sword and proves to be an actually good leader too. . “

felix was outlines with orange while he had a partner outlined with green

https://68.media.tumblr.com/c8f58d57e82aa998b677f7db0548219d/tumblr_inline_on34h2sjwB1sg3o5d_400.png

so their outfits make you think of felix and loc ust who were partners though locust was more moral.

and if jaune is from a family of assasins well this would serve as a foil to mercury who was abused by his assasin father since he was cared for by his assasin family

plus miles luna is and monty oum was a hunter x hunter fan https://twitter.com/themilesluna/status/375800879183450112?lang=en

and one of the main characters had an assassin family (his father tried to manipulate him by gettingh him to promise that if he didnt keep it he would come back when the father believed that things were rigged to his favor and ensure that he would come back to the home but it failed(vague) and didnt know about nen the equivalent to semblances and aura of rwby in hunter x hunter until the hunters exam like what jaune did except a bit different in circumstances like how killua only found out about it in the tower when he was younger he was tasked to get to a certain level where the ne users are and he could have been crippled by it

http://ofdustandpotions.tumblr.com/search/jaune%20mistral

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my first point was getting around the technicality that jaune was from the same kingdom as pyrrha. qrow actually said it himself- this kingdom is huge. extremely varying climates, extremely varying cultures. jaune and pyrrha could’ve easily both been from there, and jaune never mentions where he’s from.

secondly, one of my weaker points is that mistral was a hub for the arts, and jaune is one of the only people in the show (bar weiss and possibly ren) who has an interest in the arts- namely, dancing. if he were to pick that up anywhere, the best bet would be mistral

thirdly, mistral is supposed to have a black market and is a huge criminal hub. jaune “got his hands” on transcripts, and so far we don’t know how (bc why explain that when u can have hell prom) but the black market there is the perfect explanation. jaune managed to scrape up the lien, either because his family were well off (which i HIGHLY doubt), he worked for it (note he said “he got his hands on” instead of “someone gave me them”) or he got the money illegally too. “

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Consider: Jaune is shady, Tyrian said he was interesting, Jaune looked absolutely terrified at that… We know that Jaune’s family has a /history/ of Hunters but that doesn’t tell us anything about the current state of his family. What if his WHOLE family is involved with the Mistral black market?

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it would be interesting if jaunes father was responsible for summer roses death. and one of the team WTch or salem hired him to kill summer rose.

also

https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/1r7h2i/jaune_symbol_a_rainbow/ Monty, Kerry, and Miles said that Jaune’s symbol is not two moons but actually a rainbow. image

that symbol is the symbol that was on crocea mors so it would be his great grandfather/familys symbol since weiss showed it was possible for a family to havea symbol that they each have I mean weiss and winter both have a snowflake as a symbol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_in_mythology

In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow and a messenger linking the gods to humanity. Iris is frequently mentioned as a divine messenger in the Iliad. She carries a caduceus or winged staff. Iris’s messages often concerned war and retribution

so iris the goddess of rainbows is sometimes portrayed as a messenger. and mercurys inspiration is the god of messengers mercury/hermes. and mercury is aan assassin

and jaunes partner was pyrrha nikos who was based on achilles from GReek mythology. and it would fit for that as a reference there will be a connection to greek mythology

so it would fit for jaunes family to be assassins given that fact

Arc family not being that known, but supposedly did great acts…

Tyrian interested in Jaune…

Arc criminal family theory intensifies, after all some great acts are truly terrible.

According to Genesis, after Noah saved the animals from the Great Flood, a rainbow appeared. As the flood had killed all other living beings, the rainbow came to symbolise God’s promise that he would never send another flood to destroy all of the earth and that never again would all living things be killed in the waters of a flood.

and this is from the bible and jaunes inspiration is a catholic saint

fun fact joan of arcs real name as in the real way you pronounce it is jeanne D'arc which is the “Apostrophes were never used in fifteenth-century French surnames, which sometimes leads to confusion between place names and other names that begin with the letter D. Based on Latin records, which do reflect a difference, her father’s name was more likely Darc.” “To further complicate matters, surnames were not universal in the fifteenth century and surname inheritance did not necessarily follow modern patterns. ” https://rwby-fan-theories.tumblr.com/post/154771163345/jaune-arc-isnt-jaunes-real-name-its-jaune-darc-or

It fits with Joan of Arc’s story too

“Joan of Arc did not come from a place called Arc, but was born and raised in the village of Domrémy in what was then the northeastern frontier of the Kingdom of France.”

“Apostrophes were never used in fifteenth-century French surnames, which sometimes leads to confusion between place names and other names that begin with the letter D. Based on Latin records, which do reflect a difference, her father’s name was more likely Darc.”

“To further complicate matters, surnames were not universal in the fifteenth century and surname inheritance did not necessarily follow modern patterns. Joan of Arc testified at her trial that the local custom in her native region was for girls to use their mothers’ surname. Joan’s mother was known both as Isabelle Romée and Isabelle de Vouthon. No surviving record from Joan’s lifetime shows that she used either her mother’s or her father’s surname, but she often referred to herself as la Pucelle, which roughly translates as the Maiden.”

With this info on Joan, it could very well be that Jaune also does not have Arc as his true last name.

jaunes real last name could possibly jaune darc and it would explain why no one mentioned how jaune came from a line of heroes other than jaune

#rwby #rwby meta #rwby theory #rwby theories #jaune arc #mercury black #submission

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How to Fix RWBY Volume 4

I can’t bring myself to say I hate this volume. But I can’t bring myself to say it was fantastic either. After the drama of V3, it felt good to relax a little bit on the plot and attempt to balance world-building and character development to set up for later, bigger events in the story. However, as it much as it seems like I’m playing a broken record by saying this, the idea of segmenting all of Team RWBY’s individual subplots in a relatively short show like RWBY may work on paper, but it requires very fast pacing and extremely powerful scenes, something which this volume seemed to lack. Thus, I will talk about how V4 could have been improved to give it much better character development and an overall more exciting narrative.

Disclaimers: I will be structuring my arguments into individual sections in the following order: Team RNJR, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Oscar, Team WTCH, and Other Improvements. You can scroll down to whichever one you’d like, or you could read the whole thing. I will be talking about everything, including the finale, so if you haven’t finished the volume, you might want to do that. Spoilers will be flying. I won’t be touching World of Remnant, because that isn’t really part of the story as it is exposition (personally, I think it’s stupid that Miles and Kerry need to resort to exposition episodes rather than working the exposition directly into the plot, but whatever). Also, I won’t be addressing ship concerns. I mean, Renora is canon this volume, what more do you want?

Thus, without further ado, let’s begin this shitpost!

Team RNJR:

Explain why the team walked rather than taking trains. It’s great that all of Team RWBY will reunite at Mistral, and I will praise the volume for its pacing in this regard. However, the fact remains that RNJR could have gotten there much faster had they taken a train like Oscar did. Would it cut out a lot of RNJR’s tension this volume? Yes, unless you have Tyrian hijack the train, forcing RNJR to flee (maybe jump off the train, I don’t know) and walk the rest of the way. This would not account for 6 to 8 months’ worth of travel, but that flaw hurts the entire volume more than RNJR itself.

Ren talks too much. I’m a writer. It is very hard to write character development for a silent character, but it can be done. It just takes skill and delicate dialogue crafting. I don’t think Miles and Kerry understand this, and I have a few reasons why In Volume 3, Ren was relevant in the first couple episodes, where he would make constant remarks about Nora’s vomit comment in Episode 1, take an active part in JNPR’s strategies before their Episode 2 fight, and make sarcastic remarks when Jaune was strategizing (Jaune: “Ren, take out the sniper!”, Ren: “Sure, why not?”) All of this feels out of character. Fast forward to V4, where Ren becomes relevant, and they constantly have him give commentary on fights, argues with Nora about the team name, talks to a dying villager, etc. I’m not saying that silent characters don’t interact with people (I’m an introvert, so I know this for a fact), but Ren’s place in the story felt extremely deviant from the first to volumes. At the end of the day, once Kuroyuri comes, the sudden care and outbursts that Ren has towards the Nuckelavee and his home village should have been a drastic character change that the audience would have noticed and praised, but Ren’s overbearing role in the volume just ruins the impact of the character change.

Making Jaune the strategist is fine. Stealing time away from Ruby is not. Many people have already commented on this, so I’ll be brief. Jaune is on a good path to becoming the paladin of this show: the Lawful Good character that starts off shit-tier, but grows through his many experiences to become one of the show’s greatest characters. Think Donnel from Fire Emblem: Awakening. I’m excited for this change, and I’m even fine with his skepticism towards Qrow and how Pyrrha had to choose her role as a maiden. However, Ruby takes a back seat to all this development. Miles and Kerry keep her optimistic, naïve attitude for the sake of consistency, but at the expense of giving her development. Had she not read aloud her letter to Yang, I think Jaune would have had more lines than Ruby. And if there is anything that any story should NEVER do, it is keep attention away from the hero of the story. If Ruby is the main character, make her act like it. Have her learn new battle strategies. Make her use her new electricity and fire bullets more. Rewrite the fights to force Ruby to fight alone at times. Have her give feedback on what she thought of Tyrian, or Salem. Have her give feedback on Kuroyuri. ANYTHING to give Ruby more relevance this volume than just dragging her along for the ride. I hope that V5 goes better for giving Ruby screen time, because this volume did not.

Don’t drop Pyrrha’s attempt at communicating. Episode 2 felt strong in the regard that Pyrrha was attempting to communicate with Ruby (somehow), and I felt that this would come in handy in the finale fight. Guess what? It didn’t. Not once was it ever relevant again. And all it did was wake Ruby up to see Jaune training, which felt like a much better way to put Pyrrha in the volume. I like to think that Pyrrha turning into dust reflects how Ul in Fairy Tail became water, and communicated with Ultear on Tenrou Island by showing her memories (sorry to all who haven’t watched Fairy Tail because you won’t get this at all). Pyrrha’s soul is still alive somewhere in a dust form, and is attempting to tell Ruby something. If you want to use this, save it for a later volume. I guarantee that because RWBY has such a large gap between seasons, only hardcore fans will remember any of Pyrrha’s communication come V5.

Give the Bandits a role. I never saw one bandit this entire volume (no, I don’t count Raven). This would have been a PERFECT time to introduce them, especially since they were mentioned in Episode 2 after they attacked Shion Village. Nope. However, I do have a good way on how to introduce them in a later point (see Yang).

Give us Jaune’s semblance. Seriously. The new sword felt extremely underwhelming. I would rather see his semblance than a sword sheath that gives his sword a little extra cutting power (which never even proved that relevant in the Nuckelavee fight).

Explain why Tyrian is interested in Jaune. Is it because of Pyrrha? Is it because of his character? Is it because he could be the paladin that kills Salem at the end of the show, only for Raven to be revealed as the show’s final antagonist (look, that’s just my theory)? Beats me, because Jaune nor Tyrian (when he’s crying like a bitch to Salem) never bring it up again.

Shame how a stupid reaction shot allowed Qrow to be poisoned. When I was watching the Qrow vs. Tyrian fight, I had very little problems with it. Right up until Qrow cut the wooden board that was going to crush Ruby (a clever instance of his bad luck semblance). Let me explain my reaction:

Qrow: *cuts board*

Me: K.

Ruby: *smiles at Qrow*

Me: You realize that there’s a psychotic scorpion Faunus that could literally poison any of you since you’re both low on aura, right? Maybe you ought to turn back to hi-

Qrow: *smiles at Ruby*

Me: DUDE WTF YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE FIGHTI-

Qrow: Aaah! *gets stung*

Me: *insert Michael Rage Quit dialogue here*

Explain how Ruby was able to cut off Tyrian’s stinger. So, Tyrian’s stinger could block Nora’s fully-charged hammer, Ruby’s scope bullets (even without him seeing their trajectory), and various other attacks, but all Ruby has to do is shoot him while his guard is down? Is this that “don’t let your guard down” BS that Goku suffered from in Resurrection F? Is Aura like Nen in Hunter x Hunter, and you have to force it to a specific point to block, else your limb is coming off? It makes no sense, even if Tyrian screaming “You BITCH!” is hilarious.

Tyrian should have been captured. I’ll talk later about how Monty warned against team fighting, and how RT refuses to follow his advice by choreographing bad teamwork fights, but why didn’t Ren and Nora, maybe even Ruby, go after him? He was low on aura. He could have been captured and questioned. Hell, some RWDE critics preferred that the Tyrian fight occur in a forest so Tyrian could have legitimately gotten away. Why not that?

The Relics are DUMB. D. U. M. B. Welp, Miles and Kerry just retconned Torchwick stealing all the dust again in V2, didn’t they? I was 100% sure at the end of V3 that Salem’s plan was to amount enough dust to infuse it into her body and become some sort of Dust God (which falls in line with the dust exposition in Volumes 1 and 2), and terror through attacking the schools was the only way to eliminate any threats in her way. Nope. Now we have out-of-place Relic bullshit that I’m certain Miles and Kerry just pulled out of their asses after Monty died and the holes in the story he planned began to surface. Shane’s letter suggested to me that RT wanted to take RWBY in their own direction, and retconning even the basic exposition of the OPENING EPISODE of the series just feels desperate. Stop taking our attention away from Dust, Aura, Semblance, and any of the other unique elements that make up the story. If you want to make a mythology, put in in place either at the beginning of the story, or in line with the past exposition. Miles and Kerry did neither. What’s next? By the end of the summer, a comet will arrive and give the Maidens unbelievable strength, and Salem plans to manipulate them to finish the war once and for all?

Explain why Qrow is a teacher. Qrow’s semblance is fine…except for the fact that V1, E1 stated that Qrow was a teacher. Why would Qrow be a teacher if he instigates bad luck onto his students? Wouldn’t he get like a 1.0 on RateMyProfessor? Or is this just another retcon?

“Don’t you know, you never split the party?” I don’t have too much of an argument for this, for RNJR splitting up to both Kuroyuri and Mistral sounds okay, but doesn’t that make both parties extremely vulnerable to large-scale Grimm attacks? Thank the two gods the Nuckelavee needed to wait for the plot to bring RNJR back together before it attacked, else we could be having one or two more Pyrrha’s on our hands.

Everything about Kuroyuri is fine, but it’s in the wrong volume. I like the Kuroyuri mini-arc, as well as Ren and Nora’s development, but let’s be honest. This volume is supposed about Team RWBY’s development. Cut Kuroyuri from this volume and give more screen time to Weiss, Yang, Blake, or literally anyone else. Kuroyuri isn’t far from Mistral, so it might’ve worked better as a mid-season finale for V5. Maybe. Eh.

Mistral airships giving RNJR a lift is just plot-convenient BS. “Lol bro we saw da smoke n we thot someone wus smoking weed and we wnted to buy a few grams”. At least that would have been kind of funny. But no. Mistral helicopters should not have been able to see the Grimm smoke, and immediately drop everything to show up at Kuroyuri, where they rescue COMPLETE STRANGERS to invite them to the kingdom. BS.

Weiss:

Explain Whitley and Weiss’ mother. Contrary to popular opinion, I like Jacques. He is certainly the “Rich Asshole Type A: the Overprotective/Abusive Father” character, but at least his devotion to maintain his rich and comfortable lifestyle falls in line with the absolute power dynamic that Atlas was established to have (I could even talk about how this reflects real-world politics right now, but I won’t). Whitley never felt necessary to introduce to the plot: all he did was go down on Jacques or criticize Weiss. I have a good way on how to make him relevant on a later point. Also, Weiss’ mother was mentioned once, “drinking in the garden”. You know what the powerful girl vs. refrained mother conflict reminds me of? Kallen from Code Geass. Did that show handle the conflict well? Yes. Could RWBY handle it well? Probably. Did it even try? No.

Explain Klein. Not a big issue, but what is up with Klein’s different personalities? Is this a reference to Launch from Dragon Ball with his sneezing, or does he have legitimate dissociative identity disorder? Considering that Klein probably won’t ever be relevant again, I don’t think we’ll get the answer, even though I wish we could. If J. Michael Tatum was hired to play a butler, his most famous role in his career (Sebastian from Black Butler), make him interesting.

Weiss’ song was beautiful, but I still have a couple issues. First, Casey Lee singing as Weiss just looks and sounds off. I know they didn’t have much choice, but maybe they could have had Kara Eberle sing it and heavily edit her vocals. Or maybe she has a naturally beautiful singing voice, I don’t know. Also, this song tends to have even less subtle lyrics than most of the RWBY songs so far. This is entirely a “daddy issue” song. Make it a bit more powerful by showing some of Weiss’ positive personality traits in the lyrics.

Henry Marigold’s role in the story is just too unclear. When you give a character a first and last name, HE/SHE SHOULD BE RELEVANT. Miles and Kerry did not follow through on this with the minor characters of Volume 3, and I doubt they will ever mention Henry again. Then again, that’s fine, even though he could’ve represented the youthful perception of Atlas’ place in the world that reflects the ego of Atlas’ parental and corporate figures which Weiss is precisely trying to fight in her character arc. But hey, what do I know?

This whole “rich people are snobs” shtick is just cliché. It makes logical sense for Atlas to have this mindset (absolute power corrupts absolutely), but it’s too cliché to consider interesting. Give it a twist. Maybe they want to gain control of the kingdom defenses in the rest of Remnant by using Veil and the Fall of Beacon as an excuse to supply better defenses.

Weiss’ rebellion feels weak, as well as her anticlimactic Summoning. Weiss summons a boar about to murder Rich Asshole Type B: the Complete Bitch? Ironwood ex machina, and Weiss never mentions her feelings about her uncontrollable summoning. Jacques locks her in her room and strips her of her heiress title? Cry for 5 seconds, and rebel by messing up the room. Weiss training to regain her skills as a Huntress and protect the friends she holds dear? Master her summoning by creating the knight in the White Trailer on a much smaller scale, and have it accomplish absolutely nothing except break a window (which was a result of the summoning, not the knight breaking the window itself). Some of my friends wanted her to summon a Nevermore, which would’ve been cool. But no.

Jacques should have noticed, or heard about, Weiss breaking the window. Surely someone from the garden must have seen or heard the window breaking, and informed Jacques about it. Wouldn’t that have actually given Jacques a role in preventing Weiss’ escape? Wouldn’t Klein be one of the last people to see or hear the window breaking?

Weiss fleeing Atlas should have been completely rewritten. Weiss should have just ridden the Knight, smash through the garden, grab her mother (yes, more Code Geass references), and hop on a ship to Mistral, while using her rapier to summon and prevent any attacks by the Atlas military. But if this isn’t plausible, this is another option. Flee with Klein as usual, but after she locks Ironwood and Jacques in, Ironwood should break the door down (he’s a freaking metal man, he should be able to do it), and Jacques should alert the entire estate to find the sabotager. He should find Weiss’s room empty, and alert Whitley. Then, in the library, reveal that Whitley is a Hunter. Have him incapacitate Klein and fight Weiss, with her fleeing on the airship. Let me explain why this is good in the next point.

Give us foreshadowing into whether Jacques or Whitley will be relevant in V5, for they’re on a time limit. Ironwood has basically given Atlas an ultimatum: Atlas borders will be closing at the start of next week. This means that if any character from Atlas in V4 is to be relevant in a later volume, they need to leave. NOW. Jacques probably won’t so he can run the company, but Whitley, who could now be revealed to be a Hunter, can legitimately go after and stop Weiss at Mistral. Or have Whitley inherit the company immediately and have Jacques go after Weiss. Make someone important.

Blake:

Explain what Blake was doing for the last 6-8 months. So, six to eight months after the Fall of Beacon, Blake just NOW decides to go to Menagerie? What was she doing throughout all that time? Hiding? Contemplating? Getting her new outfit? Explain.

Sun following Blake is really OOC. Alright, let me get this out of the way right now. The FNDM is blowing this way out of proportion, especially once you factor in Black Sun and Bumblebee shippers. It is certainly out of character for Sun to follow Blake silently, and he should have just been open about it to find out why she fled Ruby and Yang in the first place, but it isn’t THAT big of a deal. End of story.

COMPLETELY change Blake’s family arc. Volume 2 convinced me that Blake was born into the White Fang, grew up in the streets, and had little actual freedom until she ran away from Adam in the Black Trailer. Therefore, giving Blake a family who is practically royalty in Menagerie is retconning at its finest. Plus, what does it prove? That Blake regrets her time in the White Fang after leaving her family like a child? Says more about her than it does the morality, or immorality, of the White Fang, which is exactly what Blake wants to challenge in V5. Have her find that her family is dead. Find some old friends of hers that left the White Fang. Put the good side of the White Fang front and center to make me care more about her fighting Adam. She has two grudges against Adam now: ruining the White Fang’s moral high ground, and disARMing Yang. Give me a better reason to see her fighting these grudges instead of “it sounds okay to the audience”. Blake proving that the Faunus are equal citizens is one of the show’s strongest potential plot points, so capitalize on it.

This Sun comic relief isn’t comical. Not much else you can do except avoid the cringy writing. Sun’s “just hanging around” pun and breaking in to Blake’s conversation with her dad are two good examples.

I get that Adam is too far away from Menagerie to be relevant in this volume, but Ilia is pointless. Who is Ilia? Why do I care? Why can’t we give Adam some screen time to see him going to Menagerie or Mistral? Is Ilia even that important? Was she an old friend of Blake that used to support the morally good White Fang? If so, why did she stop? If not, why is she relevant? Miles and Kerry, please make us care if you are introducing her so late in the volume.

Sun’s heart wound was dropped too quickly. Seriously, is Aura like Nen in Hunter x Hunter? Sun should not have run out of Aura, unless his multiple copies consumed all of it, which didn’t seem clear. Besides, even if I accepted the wound, Blake’s reaction to Sun’s potential death was honestly too good to waste on a wound that doesn’t even seem that bad in the long run. Unless Sun’s wound hurts his fighting in V5, it seems pointless.

Yang:

Yang’s PTSD is very underdeveloped. I was fine with Yang’s broken glass and nightmare-induced PTSD right up until the show dropped it entirely once she put the arm on. That is not how PTSD works. It should continue to haunt her for years, maybe even until she dies (hopefully not during the show, I love Yang too much). Keep her having PTSD symptoms with the arm on. Hell, especially with the arm constantly reminding her of Adam.

If Port and Oobleck are in this volume, we should learn more about the other teams. Do…none of the other characters in V3 matter? If Port and Oobleck matter to Taiyang, and Glenda is shown to be constantly working, then what about Team CFVY? Or the rest of Team SSSN? Or Team CRDL? Or, literally anyone else? Show us what they are doing, albeit briefly. The more they continue to not be relevant in the show, the more I believe that the tournament was a waste of time.

Yang gets used to the robot arm too quickly. Qrow is voiced by this random guy named Vic Mignogna, who, I don’t know, just happened to voice this character called Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist and Brotherhood, one of the greatest anime franchises of all time. And, not that this is related or anything, Edward just happened to have his arm lost and got a mechanical arm that took him a year to master, which was far shorter than the expected length for a normal person. It involves sensitive nerve connections to allow alchemy to be performed. So, how can Yang master it in a matter of weeks, if that? I know that they are two different universes, and I am not educated on robotic arms in the real world, but it should take more than a few weeks to master.

Stop beating around the bush with Raven. So, Raven leads the bandits. Cool. She has family issues. Fine. So, why doesn’t the show capitalize on this? If Yang finds Raven, then what? What does that mean for both if they interact? I feel like the only reason that Yang chose Ruby over Raven was because she realized that her immediate family matters more, which invalidates Raven’s role in the show completely. And before you say “but she is against Salem”, there is nothing that she has physically done to perform this goal, besides forcing Neo to flee. If you want to give Raven a role, give her a more concrete role independent of her mommy issues with Yang.

The show needs to earn “Armed and Ready” with a climactic Yang fight with some Grimm or bandits or rogue White Fang members. “Armed and Ready” is easily the best song that the Williams family has ever done (that opening guitar is downright orgasmic), but Yang has done nothing to fight her PTSD besides training with Taiyang. That does not convince me that she is ready to kick Adam’s ass. Give her a fight towards the end of the volume and have it be the finale fight rather than RNJR vs. the Nuckelavee. Fight some Grimm as a metaphor for overcoming her negative emotions while simultaneously still harboring her PTSD. Have her fight some bandits to introduce them to the story. Have her fight some White Fang members to prove her change in strength since Volume 2. Bonus points if you have her drive on her motorcycle while fighting (just so I can make an AMV with some Initial D themes, probably Running in the 90s).

Oscar:

Cut out his scene in Episode 1. That scene communicates to the audience that Oscar is related to Salem’s antics (by waking up from a nightmare after the opening scene) and he works on a farm. You want to know what does that? The very next scene he is in a few episodes later. Save some money and cut his first scene.

Give us some of Oscar’s own backstory, or individual character. If you introduce a character only for the sake of keeping a previous character relevant, it doesn’t make me sympathize with the new character. The ending scene with Oscar receiving Ozpin’s cane from Qrow sounds promising to give Oscar some development, but not giving him a backstory or why he works on a farm, or even why he just leaves so easily to head to Mistral. He is obviously the Dorothy character in the show (to keep the Wizard of Oz character metaphors going), and Dorothy had a backstory, however brief it was. Give Oscar one.

Ozpin/Oscar is driving the plot now. None of that. When Qrow is asked what Team RNJR should do now that they know about the relics, he literally responds with “I don’t know”. If that doesn’t sum up how irrelevant Ruby is, I don’t know what will. To put icing on the cake, Qrow says that they should put their faith in Ozpin to make up a plan. That means that even if Ruby dies, the only disadvantage that the characters have is that they lose the silver-eyed Super Saiyan (sorry Yang, but Ruby fits that bill better). I’ll talk about the Silver Eyes later, but my point is that Ozpin, regardless if he is the elder, should not drive the plot now. Otherwise, Oscar should be the main character. If he is the Dorothy of this show, that possibility is not too far off, unfortunately.

Team WTCH:

Give Mercury and Emerald more screentime. They were the ENTIRE REASON that Cinder could execute the Fall of Beacon. Now, Miles and Kerry have introduced new villains so fast that there is no time to give Emerald and Mercury any relevance. Emerald is merely a translator, and Mercury does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Have them go out and fight Team RWBY or RNJR. Hell, maybe even have them fight Yang in that hypothetical finale I talked about earlier. After all, Yang does have a grudge against both, even if she doesn’t know it yet.

Flesh out the other villains beside Tyrian and Cinder. They’re obviously being saved for later volumes, which is fine, by introducing them in Episode 1 only for each to have one or two more appearances in the rest of the volume feels out of place.

Make Tyrian cold rather than crazy. He’s a scorpion. Not a monkey (that’s Sun’s specialty). People pointed out that he sits like L from Death Note in his opening scene in the dining room (I think that’s what it is), and L was extremely cold and calculating. Make him like that. I’ll take intimidating cold villain over batshit crazy villain any day.

Explain about what happened at Beacon when Ruby unleashed the Silver Eyes. I have many questions. First, how did Cinder get out of there? Did Salem rescue her after she was frozen, or was she never frozen at all and just lost her eye? If not, why did the Grimm Dragon freeze (or is this just some sort of Portal talk in Fullmetal Alchemist where he takes something precious from each person, Cinder her eye that sees her future, and the dragon its ability to fly)? Why has Ruby never mentioned her silver eyes in the ENTIRE volume? Can she induce it under extreme pressure like the Avatar State, but it comes with a horrible cost? Or are Miles and Kerry just retconning all of it until a later volume, when whatever is relevant will just show up? I was looking forward to finding out exactly what happened to Cinder and Beacon, as well as Ruby wrestling with her new abilities. The former was only half developed, and the latter was never mentioned.

Explain why Team WTCH is only now acting 6-8 months after the Fall of Beacon. Tyrian has been looking for the Spring Maiden, and Cinder is undergoing treatment, but what has everyone else been doing? Reading Ninjas in Love alone in their rooms?

Is Cinder…afraid of Tyrian? If so, go into it more. Seeing Tyrian going insane against the Beowulf just felt satisfying to watch (albeit terrifying and stupid since the Beowulf should have disintegrated into dust after the first few stabs). However, Cinder being terrified by Tyrian’s reaction felt even more interesting to see. Maybe Cinder should have had a short PTSD-like flashback to an event from her past.

General Improvements:

Stop hiring so many professional voice actors. Look, I love Funimation. I love Team Four Star. But hiring so many professional voice actors to voice both one-shot and major characters just comes across as corporate money-hogging. RT should have more confidence in its own voice cast, not to mention that the voice acting feels wildly inconsistent, putting professionals on the same level as amateurs. I was fine when they nabbed Vic for Qrow, but this is just pandering.

Improve the fight scenes with Monty’s advice. Remember when Monty said that “you should utilize motion in a way that doesn’t waste movement?” Tell that to the animators that love to swing Crescent Rose around pointlessly during Ruby’s fight scenes. Don’t believe me? Check Episode 7 when she climbs to the rooftop to set up her scope against Tyrian. Also, remember when Monty said that “in team fights, get rid of as many people as quickly as possible?” RT should’ve taken his advice, for Team RNJR vs. Tyrian in Episode 6 was complete garbage, where everyone was standing around too much while Tyrian was fighting 1v1 or 1v2 instead of 1v4. Don’t believe me? Nora got hit with Ruby’s bullet, and stood there for 20 SECONDS while no one did anything else to distract Tyrian from Nora’s charging. I’m not saying that the fight scenes were overall bad in this volume (Qrow vs. Tyrian is my favorite fight in Volume 4 just how Qrow vs. Winter was in Volume 3), but they still need work. No one will be able to animate like Monty, but flash animation can always improve, and “keep moving forward”.

Give the Williams family more songs. The RWBY V4 soundtrack will be good. I guarantee it. I just wish we could have a couple more songs.

Keeping Pyrrha and Glynda in Poser but the rest of the show in Maya just looks awkward. I know it would cost more money to convert both Pyrrha’s recording and Glynda fixing the building on Yang’s TV from Poser Pro to Maya, but it would just look better. Plus, I really want to see Pyrrha’s new model in Maya. Maybe they’re just keeping it once Pyrrha comes back in a later volume (a man can dream, right?).

The show needs to make up its mind about religion. Qrow in V3: “Not many people are super religious these days.”

Captain in V4 E3: “By the gods!” (nice foreshadowing btw)

Qrow: *proceeds to talk about an entire religious mythology that will take the forefront of RWBY’s main conflict*

Me: wut

The sexual references are starting. And I hate them. Blake’s dad calling her clothing too revealing, and Nora telling Ren not to look up her skirt. Unless you’re Evangelion and subverting common fan-service tropes, you don’t have the right to being them into RWBY, especially since Monty was very avid in Volume 1 interviews about shying away from showing the girls in upskirt/sexual scenarios.

Talk about the moon. Qrow looked up at the moon during his talk with RNJR about the relics. Might want to explain why after four volumes of complete silence about it.

Where’s Neo? Is she alive? Dead? Relevant? Irrelevant? Why didn’t she fight Yang in my hypothetical finale? Has she been looking for Torchwick, not knowing that he’s dead? A mute character like her just has too many interesting scenarios for her to be completely dropped.

And that’s it. Thank you to all those who have sat through this 5,400-word post. In the end, there were many things I liked about Volume 4, like how the Nuckelavee was terrifying, and how Qrow’s poisoning was handled, with everyone on the edge of their seats on whether Qrow would die. I just wish it lived up to all the hype that we gave it. Oh well. Cheers to a good Volume 5 in Mistral, the most Omashu-looking city I’ve ever seen (when will this show stop ripping off of Avatar).

#rwby #rwby4 #rwby volume 4 #rwde #slight rwde #not really sure what to call this mess

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