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taziidcvil · 3 years
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my boy:
-  got a sword pulled on him - is alone in the mansion while his mother locked herself away - let fugitives (that he knew were fugitives) in - got yelled at even tho he could have shut the door on them - not-very-subtly offered to help - got told to go to his room (in a mansion that probably has PLENTY of rooms)
and just went ‘you know what yeah sure not like today was getting any shittier’ and legit just went to his room i gtreudjofrgt
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nights-lament · 3 years
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RWBY Volume 8, Chapter 11
My various thoughts and opinions on Chapter 10 of RWBY Volume 8, “Risk”
SPOILERS BELOW:
I love the way they focus on the same background characters we’ve seen before in the shots with the refugees. Due to how the human mind works, it’s hard to make us care about gigantic nameless crowds, but the father and daughter that, just a few hours ago were enjoying a peaceful picnic? The woman who was amongst the thirsty moms and her racist mom (who is now holding hands with Fiona’s Uncle Gus. Lovely background development there)? We know a bit of their story, We can care about them. Wonderful storytelling, there.
Ironwood made Fiona cry. His fate has officially been sealed.
Ok, since Elm is rationalizing this by thinking it’s a bluff, I’m holding out a shred of hope for her. Vine, on the other hand, can join Harriet in fucking all the way off.
I am torn between rooting for/ loving everything Marrow is saying and wanting nothing more for him to shut the hell up.  He was saying everything that needed to be said, but after what happened with Sleet, he was practically begging for a bullet.
WINTER YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE QUEEN!!!
The fact that anyone bought Winter’s “taking him to the brig” bullshit shows that there is only one brain cell left among the Atlas elites and Winter and Marrow are sharing it.
Oh man, seeing Ruby snapping is really sad, but almost cathartic, in a way, like this has needed to happen for a while.
Man, Ren, Watts, Marrow, and now Nora. These past few episodes have just been a conga line of people calling others out on their shit. Go off, Nora.
Look at Jaune reading the room. God, I love this man.
“When my mom ran from the Grimm and left me behind-” Wow. Um, ok, there’s a lot to unpack there.
Ok, the idea of Renora deciding NOT to become an item should make me sad, but honestly I’m loving this development. As much as I love Renora, Nora’s got a point that they’ve always felt like a linked item. Ren and Nora rarely felt like separate characters, they were always simply Ren and Nora, and realistically it’s not healthy to define yourself by your relationship to another. This is actually an incredibly healthy decision that Nora has come to, and the fact that they’re openly communicating their feelings and properly supporting each other just warms my heart to no end. The fact that they both outright said “I love you” probably helps a lot too.
All right, they’re gonna need to release a proper color chart for these petals. What the hell does “incredibly light pink” mean?
He did the boop. HE DID THE BOOP!
Ok, I feel like it was Winter and Marrow that Qrow and Robyn saw, but a part of me also feels like that would be too obvious. Unless CRWBY thought they were being sneaky with Winter arresting Marrow and next episode will be the big reveal that, to no one’s surprise, Winter is defecting.
Once again, the Summer-Hound theory becomes just a little more canon. God, this conversation is heartbreaking.   Seeing Ruby doubting herself now is just devastating. Fortunately, Yang is here with a great supportive speech. Now all Ruby needs is pick-me-up from Weiss and she’ll have a whole set.
Well, there goes the “Hacked!Penny can’t access her Maiden Powers” theory.
There’s something about seeing everyone working together to hold Penny down that’s almost wholesome in a tragic kind of way. Such a classic bonding activity. See? Even Emerald’s getting involved. Inclusion for everyone.
Ok, Penny, I was trying to make a joke, there. Hard to do when you decide to make it that dark.
On one hand, the Aura boost almost seemed like too easy a solution. On the other hand, it’s very thematically appropriate and didn’t solve the issue permanently, so I’ll allow it.
Emerald’s speech was corny and awkward as hell and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Yeah, sorry Emerald, you said you switched sides! No take backs, you’ve officially been adopted.
Yang’s and Emerald’s relationship is slowly morphing into that of Glimmer and Catra and I have zero complaints about that.
I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting with the heroes properly reuniting with Ozpin, but this level of wholesome was not it. Everyone seems to be on the same page with each other and quite frankly I love it.
And there it is, the stage is set. Ruby and company have “agreed” to hand Penny over (never in the history of “x comes alone” has that ever worked out, no way in hell RWBY would break that tradition), Cinder, Watts and Neo have overheard, and Qrow and Robyn have presumably met up with the newly defected Winter and Marrow. Now we wait for the proper showdown. This volume has been so amazing, can’t wait to see how CRWBY ties it all together.
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RWBY Volume 8 Chapter 12 Review/Remix: Creation
For only having a couple major set pieces, this was one of the most plot dense chapters we’ve ever seen from this show. Some of those were a lot time coming and satisfying as hell, and some came right out of nowhere to massive speculation and theorizing to follow. But goddamn if I didn’t love every minute of it, so let’s mosey on through to see just why that is.
We open, as many of these chapters have been want to do, with shots of the Grimm causing chaos and destruction, in this case Teryx attacking airships. JNR fly by in a ship of their own, and looking rather concerned as they approach Atlas Academy. Why the shot was framed quite like this I’m not totally sure, because it looks like they’re approaching the city itself from quite far away when really they should have been approaching from the outskirts and flying over the city itself, considering where the Schnee estate is located. Ironwood is waiting for Penny at the landing site at the entrance to the Academy, just as he and Ruby had agreed on, and he’s got a new toy. Both pistols of Due Process have been slotted into the back sides of a larger firearm, a veritable hand cannon that needs both grips just to keep steadily aimed. I think it’s safe to call this the Gun-gun we had been joking would be coming eventually since the early Volumes. The Ace Ops are backing him up, and we see a few Atlesian Knight robots loading the bomb onto an airship so he can nuke Mantle at a moment’s notice just as he warned. The citizens of Mantle are out of the mines and looking very apprehensive about the whole thing, and we are right there with them. Just as the bots have finished loading the bomb and are about to leave they start getting shot down. Ironwood warns the Ace Ops to be ready for any altered state Penny might be in and any trouble her friends might try to cause. Harriet is all to ready to follow through on the general’s terms and put down any brat who tries to interfere, and this whole thing seems to finally give Vine pause. He’s not stopping now, how can he, but he’s reflecting on the path to get here and only now has some amount of remorse about it. Elm winces at the mention of that too, while my MCU fan mind had to stop and chuckle at a pale bald man with energy powers musing on philosophy and ethics so close after the end of WandaVision. Not intentional, obviously, but a great coincidence. Ironwood gets a ping that there are intruders in the hangar, and they all surmise that’s Robyn and Qrow trying to interfere with the bombing. Harriet is ready as hell for a chance to beat them bloody after all this time STILL believing they’re Clover’s killers, but Elm makes a good point that they can’t just leave to do that because Ironwood will need backup here. Lucky for all of them, Winter is here to provide the general just that, so the other three are free to deal with their fugitive problem. With a quiet moment between them, Winter tries to see if Ironwood can be talked down one last time. He doesn’t want to hear it, and she admits she knows it would be impossible to try.
Penny soars in and lands in front of them, surrendering herself to a pair of cuffs and surprising Ironwood a bit in actually coming alone. She says she’s obeying his order because above all she wants to stop further death and she must open the Vault. The virus coming back a little to compel her to this end, or just frequently repeated phrase for the sake of simplicity? Unclear. Ironwood finally lowers the gun-gun he was pointing at her and puts a reassuring hand on her shoulder to tell her she’s done the right thing. In a cadence very much not her own, she agrees she has, and all illusions are dropped. It Was Emerald All Along!~ And JNR as well as Oscar are standing a few yards behind her along with the airship she must have been masking the approach of with the sound of “Penny” flying in. As shocked realization dawns on his face, James is kicked in the chin by a backflipping Emerald. His gun flies out of his grasp and she catches it with a grin before disappearing. Damn she really has been getting good with her Semblance! Down in the hangar, the Ace Ops arrive to see the jailbirds slicing and blasting a ton of robot soldiers. Just as they’re about to join the fray Marrow is heard giving a command and his former teammates are left frozen under the power of a Semblance they never seemed to give its due diligence. The assembled Huntsmen and Huntresses start attacking Ironwood and he counters the first few attacks rather well. I’m sure he must be pretty damn shocked to see Oscar still alive after shooting him into a pit, and for that matter probably Jaune and Ren too with what Harriet told him about their mission into Monstra. That and how little sleep he’s probably gotten recently make it very likely willpower and his Semblance are the only things keeping him going at this point, so who are we to be shocked if he starts losing to their superior numbers? And start losing he does, because Winter is on their side and helps Nora bash him upside the head. Winter and Oscar charge at James on the back of a summoned Manticore, but he grabs it by the horns and stops it dead in its tracks. So they leap off and Winter hits him in the back with some ice while he’s busy destroying the summon. With another glyph she springboards Oscar back at James and he gives him the old rapidfire cane jab. It knocks his Aura pretty low by the looks of the flickers, but he still recovers and stops Oscar on the next swing. Before he can punch the poor boy any more than Hazel already has in the last 12 hours, Winter does the most anime move these series has yet to offer us and darts past her old boss to slice him at lightning fast speed. It’s a badass sight that I cannot describe with enough words so please just watch for yourself. With that, Ironwood’s Aura is broken and he passes out then and there. Qrow and Robyn apologize for freezing the Ace Ops like this, but these times call for hard choices. Emerald reappears to get uncuffed and Winter tells the five of them to move on to Phase 2.
We flash back to the end of the last episode where Ruby decides taking Penny to the Vault might be a risk worth taking, and we see Jaune and Ozcar immediately pick up on what she’s thinking. Why not try and use the Staff of Creation and hope it can work a twofold miracle of saving Penny and all the people of these two cities? Just then Weiss gets a text from Winter, and the gears start turning in our minds how this whole plan came together. We see Winter shoving Marrow into an elevator and looking very grumpy about the whole experience. He correctly guesses she’s not arresting him, but damn if he doesn’t get why she had to punch him to get him outta here. She rightfully tells him it was to make it look believable and she just saved his life thank you very much. He notices she’s texting someone and asks whom, and she says getting in touch with Weiss for some help is something she should have done a long time ago. Just then the elevator doors open and we get the payoff to who Robyn and Qrow were so surprised to see last episode: These two. Winter quickly sees this as a chance for even more help, and I think it is the happiest she’s ever been to see Qrow. Shifting back to Schnee manor, Weiss is going over the risks of this plan of theirs to the other 10 teens. Oscar pipes up with another danger, Atlas falling as soon as the Staff is used for anything new. The cover story about Gravity Dust keeping the kingdom afloat was only half wrong, there really is a large amount at the base of the landmass that will slow the descent a bit, but it will still be a cataclysmic landing. Jaune suggests using the Staff to get everyone in the danger areas to somewhere safe, possibly even another Kingdom, but Oscar says it doesn’t just work that easily. Especially not with HIM involved. The Staff has a sentient presence you have to deal with to make anything happen, but he’s a real card this one. He gives you what you ask for and only what you ask for, so you have to be specific and provide details or even blueprints for how to make what you’re asking for. Lucky for them Whitley has access to the layouts of Atlas and Mantle due to preparing for their earlier evacuation plan, so they’re off to a very good start. Oz still worries about Ironwood and the bomb at this point, but Weiss assures him they have a good plan for that. And we just saw what that was and how well it worked.
So now we get to see what Team RWBY is doing while ORNJ is handling Ironwood and whatever else Winter is having them do, flying an airship up to the hole Oscar left in the bottom of the Vault and having Ruby use her new Semblance skill to carry the rest of her team and Penny up through that and into the Vault itself. Klein and the other Schnees are also aboard the airship cuz someone needed to fly it and they weren’t gonna stick around in the mansion after the Kingdom starts falling. Ruby can basically fly now, no big deal it’s totally fine this doesn’t make her OP as hell, WHAT???? Okay I’m done. They get to the Vault door and with a shoulder to lean on and a few supportive words Penny opens it no problem. In the split second before Penny starts self-terminating now that this objective is completed, RWBY zooms into the grassy meadow inside this cold winter Kingdom’s vault on another Rose Express and Ruby grabs the Staff. Time stops as we see Winter escorting James to a cell in the brig right next to her other manipulative father figure Jacques, OJNRE are in front of some sort of computer monitor, and various other shots of what people are up to at this second are shown. In a cloud of blue mist emerges a man every bit as big blue and naked as Jinn was, but while she was thicc he is jacked. I don’t know how to describe his light blue hair but it’s got a ponytail so that’s fun. He seems charismatic af with a voice many assumed was Matt Mercer but is not, and seems he’s still a little steamed over how boring a request making Atlas float was. Ruby gets his attention and we learn his name is Ambrosius. When faced with a request to stop Penny from dying, Ambros informs them a limitation of his powers is resurrecting the dead. So everyone theorizing the Staff could bring back Pyrrha, or Clover, or any other beloved character were disappointed to be proven wrong. But bringing back the dead isn’t what Ruby is after, and once Ambrosius sees for himself just how atypical of a girl Penny is he understands their intention clearly. He lets them know of his rules, he is essentially a monkey’s paw and what you get may be exactly what you asked for but not what you hoped to get. They knew about this technicality problem too, so they brought Penny’s blueprints and ask him word for word to “Make a new version of her using her exact same robotic parts”. The robot parts are what have the virus, and once they use the Staff to make something new that infected robot Penny will cease to exist. But if he only removes the robot parts that will leave behind the life and soul that truly makes her Penny. It’s also not within his power to directly destroy, apparently, but it wouldn’t be killing her because it’s leaving her existing with just her soul. Yang flexes her prosthetic arm to illustrate their point that the mechanical parts are just extra. Ambrosius is enthusiastic to give this a try, but he has no idea what the finished product would be, so Ruby encourages him to get a little creative with it. He’s eager to give it a try but does warn them he can’t guarantee what the results will be, but they insist they have no other options and he does a sort of dance in the air like a full body orchestra conduction. Penny starts floating in swirls of blue mist, and in a flash of white light one becomes two. With his job done, Ambros fades away with a wink.
All of Atlas starts shaking, and ORNJE take that as their cue to start their next task: broadcasting to all of Atlas and Mantle a warning that Atlas is falling. Jaune is the one to deliver the message after some troubles figuring out how to get it working, but before he can offer any reassurance that a plan is in motion to save the masses... the broadcast is cut short along with all communications in the Kingdom. My money is on Watts being responsible, but maybe it was Atlas command on a hunch of what Ironwood would want them to do. James himself didn’t tell them to cut it off, cuz he’s still unconscious in a jail cell. Speaking of those cells, Jacques demands answers on what the hell is going on from his eldest daughter. She asserts that they will be getting everyone to safety and leaving the falling rubble to Salem for all the good it’ll do her, but Jacques is still worried he won’t be among those saved. Winter hesitates but tells him that yes he will be evacuated too. He thanks her profusely but she refuses to accept that credit. If he wants to be grateful he has to thank Weiss for deciding to free him, and that news shuts him up right quick. Weiss has been his least favorite child, yet she’s still the one to show him mercy and kindness because that’s the sort of woman she’s always been and he tried to stamp that humanity out of her. What an ass he must feel like.
Back down in the Vault, two Penny’s stand before RWBY. One looks like we’ve always known her, but starts moving and jerking around robotically with red eyes and sparks flying out of it as it collapses to the ground. The other has bare human legs, no gloves, no power sign on her neck ribbon, a natural fabric bow in her hair, and aside from that is every bit the sweet and good girl we’ve come to know. Some people say this was a mistake or a bad move to take away what made her such a unique character but... they really didn’t. She was able to grow outside of the limitations of the body she came into existence with and now lives purely as who she has always felt herself being inside. And that’s pretty cool. She’s naturally very disturbed to see another version of herself collapsing and dying right in front of her, but feels a lot better getting to hug Ruby. Penny never knew a hug could make you feel this warm inside, and gives hugs to the rest of Team RWBY. It’s very very cute and we’re all glad to see she’s doing so well now. 
With this taken care of it’s time to summon Ambrosius for the evacuation creation. He seems to have no concept of time because he doesn’t realize how little time has passed and is surprised to see they’re the ones who summoned him again. And considering how thorough they were with the last request he’s probably bummed he won’t get to pull a fast one on with a request this time either. They try and ask him to make doorways all over Atlas and Mantle that will all become a single doorway in Vacuo, but he requires too much complex metaphysics and space time bending to make that happen so they alter course. Make a central location all the doorways in Atlas and Mantle will open into, and then have a single door in that big new place that will open in Vacuo. He wants to know just what kind of central location they would have in mind, and Yang says he should make one that exists outside of Remnant’s reality just like the Vaults seem to. He commends them for being so smart about it, but acknowledges that could end up being foolishness instead. As a point of reference for the doorway system, or perhaps just for where in Atlas and Mantle they should be opening, Weiss shows him a series of blueprints for the layout of the Snowshoe shipping hub and how it connects to Atlas. Using that basis he makes dozens if not a hundred or two doorways all over the two cities. They’re big gold ovals with pale blue centers, and on the other side is a big empty black void with a series of narrow walkways without and sort of railings connecting all the portals to a single large one at the end of all the converging paths. Very dangerous if anyone ends up tripping or knocking anyone else over. People are very confused to see these things suddenly pop up, but we see Joanna hesitantly step through one and see just what the deal is. Realizing it’s their way out she seems to go back and tell the others. I gotta admit, the look of this large doorway in the midst of a barren rocky place like this gave me serious ending of Kingdom Hearts 1 vibes, and I half expected Mickey Mouse to be on the other side talking about the Door to Darkness. But that’s just me. Satisfied that the job is done, they thank Ambros who tells them they were indeed disappointingly thorough and they can go now. As they head out the broken robo Penny fades away to blue dust and real Penny is rather shaken to bear witness to that. Before he disappears into the Staff for who knows how long now, Ambrosius delivers one last warning about the world of doors and paths they just created. Do Not Fall. With that ominous warning ringing in their minds the five young women head into the doorway before them with the intent to go to Vacuo with everyone else and the hope in their hearts that they’re not forgetting anything important. We see Cinder wearing a hooded cloak in the midst of a crowd about to head into one of these portals, and it becomes very clear what important thing they may not have taken into account.
Time to wait 7 days to see what could possibly go wrong now!
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shadows-twilight · 3 years
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RWBY Volume 8 Chapter 11
My various thoughts and opinions on Chapter 11 of RWBY Volume 8, “Risk”
SPOILERS BELOW:
I love the way they focus on the same background characters we’ve seen before in the shots with the refugees. Due to how the human mind works, it’s hard to make us care about gigantic nameless crowds, but the father and daughter that, just a few hours ago were enjoying a peaceful picnic? The woman who was amongst the thirsty moms and her racist mom (who is now holding hands with Fiona’s Uncle Gus. Lovely background development there)? We know a bit of their story, We can care about them. Wonderful storytelling, there.
Ironwood made Fiona cry. His fate has officially been sealed.
Ok, since Elm is rationalizing this by thinking it’s a bluff, I’m holding out a shred of hope for her. Vine, on the other hand, can join Harriet in fucking all the way off.
I am torn between rooting for/ loving everything Marrow is saying and wanting nothing more for him to shut the hell up.  He was saying everything that needed to be said, but after what happened with Sleet, he was practically begging for a bullet.
WINTER YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE QUEEN!!!
The fact that anyone bought Winter’s “taking him to the brig” bullshit shows that there is only one brain cell left among the Atlas elites and Winter and Marrow are sharing it.
Oh man, seeing Ruby snapping is really sad, but almost cathartic, in a way, like this has needed to happen for a while.
Man, Ren, Watts, Marrow, and now Nora. These past few episodes have just been a conga line of people calling others out on their shit. Go off, Nora.
Look at Jaune reading the room. God, I love this man.
“When my mom ran from the Grimm and left me behind-” Wow. Um, ok, there’s a lot to unpack there.
Ok, the idea of Renora deciding NOT to become an item should make me sad, but honestly I’m loving this development. As much as I love Renora, Nora’s got a point that they’ve always felt like a linked item. Ren and Nora rarely felt like separate characters, they were always simply Ren and Nora, and realistically it’s not healthy to define yourself by your relationship to another. This is actually an incredibly healthy decision that Nora has come to, and the fact that they’re openly communicating their feelings and properly supporting each other just warms my heart to no end. The fact that they both outright said “I love you” probably helps a lot too.
All right, they’re gonna need to release a proper color chart for these petals. What the hell does “incredibly light pink” mean?
He did the boop. HE DID THE BOOP!
Ok, I feel like it was Winter and Marrow that Qrow and Robyn saw, but a part of me also feels like that would be too obvious. Unless CRWBY thought they were being sneaky with Winter arresting Marrow and next episode will be the big reveal that, to no one’s surprise, Winter is defecting.
Once again, the Summer-Hound theory becomes just a little more canon. God, this conversation is heartbreaking.  Seeing Ruby doubting herself now is just devastating. Fortunately, Yang is here with a great supportive speech. Now all Ruby needs is pick-me-up from Weiss and she’ll have a whole set.
Well, there goes the “Hacked!Penny can’t access her Maiden Powers” theory.
There’s something about seeing everyone working together to hold Penny down that’s almost wholesome in a tragic kind of way. Such a classic bonding activity. See? Even Emerald’s getting involved. Inclusion for everyone.
Ok, Penny, I was trying to make a joke, there. Hard to do when you decide to make it that dark.
On one hand, the Aura boost almost seemed like too easy a solution. On the other hand, it’s very thematically appropriate and didn’t solve the issue permanently, so I’ll allow it.
Emerald’s speech was corny and awkward as hell and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Yeah, sorry Emerald, you said you switched sides! No take backs, you’ve officially been adopted.
Yang’s and Emerald’s relationship is slowly morphing into that of Glimmer and Catra and I have zero complaints about that.
I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting with the heroes properly reuniting with Ozpin, but this level of wholesome was not it. Everyone seems to be on the same page with each other and quite frankly I love it.
And there it is, the stage is set. Ruby and company have “agreed” to hand Penny over (never in the history of “x comes alone” has that ever worked out, no way in hell RWBY would break that tradition), Cinder, Watts and Neo have overheard, and Qrow and Robyn have presumably met up with the newly defected Winter and Marrow. Now we wait for the proper showdown. This volume has been so amazing, can’t wait to see how CRWBY ties it all together.
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