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The hypocritical Woobification of Raven Branwen

I dont think it is a secret to anyone who has followed any RWBY discourse, that female characters are treated VERY differently from male ones in the wider fandom, especially in regards to the morality of their actions. I dare anyone who wishes to enter the words like "Raven" "Ironwood" "Adam" "Cinder: and the like into the search bar of websites like twitter and even Reddit to some extent. What you will find more often than not, besides fan-art and porn are discussions about these characters.

After browsing through these discussions one can quickly notice a pattern. Ironwood and Adam are either demonized or have complicated discussions surrounding them. While characters like Raven and Cinder, while having their detractors mostly have discussions focused on shipping or on justifying/excusing their actions.

Raven Branwen is of course, the most iconic example of this.

Raven Branwen in Canon

In the canon of RWBY, Raven Branwen and her brother Qrow both hail from a bandit tribe. They were sent to Beacon to learn how to kill hunters where they learn the values of family and friendship, with team STRQ becoming close. Raven even marries Tai, her teammate and has a kid with him, then ditches him with the child and leaves Summer to come into the picture while Qrow remains an eternal bachelor.

It is revealed to us that Ozpins tendency to keep secrets is what lead Raven to losing trust and leaving the side of good. That, and feat of Salem who she knows is immortal and thus cannot be killed directly.

She returns to her bandit tribe and becomes a bandit queen, killing entire villages for loot and plunder. One of which we can see in the show.

Her becoming a bandit is not something that was thrust upon her, she was not forced to do it or anything of the sort. She chose to do it under her own volition.

Her only "redeeming" point is not being allied to Salem and having a "I will save you once" rule with those she knows and nothing more.

And yet...

Raven Branwen in Fanon

If we were to follow the most common discussions of Fanon then Raven is a tragic lesbian who could never be with Summer, a mother who understood her limits and wanted her daughter to have a better life than with her and who was forced into the position of providing for her tribe and had absolutely no choice but to raid villages for survival of her poor tribe.

If people arent thirsting over Raven herself and or her "romance" with Summer then one can always find many excuses and people calling her a "tragic" and "understandable" figure. They will say that "Shes not perfect" and things like that when in reality, Raven Branwen is just a straight up evil person in the story. Complicated? Yes. Evil? Also yes.

Her only saving grace is that most of the time she is not an antagonist. And she is not related to Salem and in fact would oppose her if she wasnt a coward. And yet, her actions, her being a literal murderous bandit seem to be ignored by a lot of the fandom.

The same fandom that will give shit to Ironwood for bringing 3 airships to Vale and calling it a "military occupation" and Adam wanting to blow up a train (with its crew) will then turn around and pretend that Raven killing innocent villages for shits and giggles on her own volition never happened.

They will cry about how Ironwood and Adam never deserved redemption! How they are deeply evil and have always been deeply evil people, while convincing everyone that Raven is perfect for redemption and was just "forced" to be a bandit queen.

The hypocricy of the RWBY FNDM is staggering, but not news.

What is worse however is how Raven is seemingly receiving the same if not even faster way of redemption that Emerald has. By now most people have probably seen both the RWBY:Beyond first episode and of course the ending animatic. And who else is there in Vacuo if not Raven. Shes just there. Like she just belongs amongst the heroes despite being a literal BANDIT QUEEN.

Despite Ironwood and Adam turning evil they had a good cause at the end of the day. A cause they wanted to fight for.

And instead the people praise and want the redeption of a terrorist who worked for Salem and a literal bandit queen, both of whom did the things they did out of selfish needs? Seriously?

Whats worse is that it seems that CRWBY is more than okay with that. It seems that this is at least currently one of their goals. Which to me is just staggering.

Conclussion i guess

Sorry for the ranty nature of this post. I know that im preaching to the choir but i just needed to get this out of my chest after seeing 10000000000000 posts about Raven and Summer fucking on twitter. Because yeah, THATS Ravens most identifying feature, being a girlkisser. After fucking years of being called a fascist and a bootliker for simply saying that Ironwoods heel turn was shittily done and that SOME of his plans were good it fucking maddens me to see people simp for a literal BANDIT QUEEN without push-back.

#rwby #rwde #rwby discourse #rwby discussion #rwby fandom #rwby fndm

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There is no point in discussing Ironwood/Atlas in the fandom.

Since Volumes 7-8 the way that Ironwood and Atlas were written, their actions, whether they were justified or to what extent they were justified and the like have been discussed to death. There is no stone that has not been overturned, no statement that has not been made, no argument that has not been disected.

Regardless of ones stance on the subject, there is nothing left to discuss, the only thing left at best is sharing ones interpretation and opinions on it with people willing to engage with them. Or it would be, if there were actually such people left.

Around a week ago, against my own better judgement i once again engaged in an Ironwood discussion, something that i have mostly avoided for nearly a year, and i got just the right reminder as to why exactly there is no point in discussing it with members of the FNDM, and especially the fanatics.

They do not care about the show, how its told, what it told us. What they care about is to show how "moral" and "morally upstanding" they are by repeating the same mantra over and over. "Team RWBY are heroes, Ironwood is a fascist.", its both to show how morally "good" they are and also to protect the writing of a product that they love, because their beloved product possibly being deficient would be seen as a personal attack on their taste.

Lie and Lie again, if that doesnt work, lie once more

One of the most important factors in having any discussion is for both of the people talking to not only be truthful with one another but also agree upon some level of common ground that a disagreement comes from. In the case of RWBY, an Animated show, one has to agree with what is canon, what we can see in the story, from where on we can start arguing about interpretations. The problem however is that many people in the fandom, in regards to Ironwood especially, do not care about canon.

This being one of many examples. Since as far back as Volume 7, when we saw Ironwoods forces, everyone could look back to Volumes 2-3 and see that Ironwood brought 3 airships to Vale, a small detachment for the security of the festival.

Yet time and time again, RWBY fans refer to it as an "army", implying some kind of excessive force, in fact, some people in the past have went as far as saying that Ironwood was MILITARILY OCCUPYING Vale with his forces, i am not kidding.

But the most often directly lied about scene is of course the scene of Ironwood abandoning Mantle. In the show, after seeing the chess piece, he encounters a seer left behind in his office, this seer allows him to talk to Salem who pretty much tells him she is coming, which is then confirmed by the Ace Ops saying that the Grimm sensors have ceased working. That is canon. And yet, many a RWBY fan often pretends that Ironwood takes his decision after seeing the chess piece and "conveniently" ignore the chat that Ironwood has with Salem.

Fans of RWBY will not hesistate to lie about the canon itself to make their point, for people who claim to appreciate the shows writing, they will often directly ignore or even contradict it just so that they could hold true to their moral obligations.

But what happens when lying doesnt work?

Misdirect, Motte and Bailey and bad faith

When direct lying fails, RWBY fans will often take a different stance, instead of directly talking about canon, they will instead make the most bad faith assumptions and arguments imaginable.

This often takes form in Omissions or other less direct types of lies. Many times, it wont even be lies, but the most riddiculous arguments that they dont themselves believe.

For example, saying that soldiers helping to protect an event from terrorists is a stupid move.

In Volume 7, one of the earliest things we see happen is that Ironwoods forces are fighting against Grimm, the Sabyrs when they breach into Mantle, after which Penny shows up to assist in cleaning them up. And yet, fans of RWBY will say that these soldiers were not meant to protect people against Grimm, they were meant to abuse the citizens of Mantle.

The same goes for the curfew that also gets established in that same Volume. It is done explicitly for peoples protection. They instead say that its to control people, implying that the threat of Grimm isnt real? Which is exceedingly funny since COVID lockdowns happend near the same time, which were also curfews that meant to protect people.

Ironwood shooting Oscar is also a key part of such misdirections. Often times when RWBY fans talk about Ironwood shooting Oscar they refer to him as a "child" a "defenseless child", conveniently ignoring the Ozpin shaped hole in his brain.

This is yet another form this takes. Strawmanning and of course, the reference to "Ironwood runs away" argument, which they hold as true despite the show never stating it ever. They take Ironwood statement that Atlas will always stay out of Salems reach as a direct statement that Atlas will just rise and stay away. And not for example become a flying city which is also a possibility.

This is also another example of dishonest arguments. RWBY fans pretend that Ironwood is classist, that he only wanted to save the rich and leave everyone else to die. Despite the fact that Ironwood ordered Mantle to be evacuated into Atlas and only wanted to leave to save as many people as he could regardless of status. And yet, they have to pretend that he only cares about the "rich".

But the most often seen tendency among RWBY fans in regards to argument is something else.

Doulethink

Doublethink is acceptance of two contrary opinions being right at the same time due to ideological reasons. For example, decrying someone as weak when convenient and as strong at the same time.

And RWBY fans love this type of argumentation, especially with Ironwood.

As shown before in a picture, they pretend that Ironwood only cared about the rich. And yet they also argue that as a fascist he hates and controls the rich by how he treats Jacques.

They will both pretend that Ironwood is a sociopath who wants to control the world and at the same time will claim how sorry they feel about his PTSD and how he clearly should have been thrown out of the army due to it.

Ironwoods prosthetics both show how he suffered so much and should have been told to sit out due to his clear mental issues, yet at the same time those prosthetics prove and show how evil he is, how he wants to replace his body with metal because he wants to be an unthinking machine.

They will pretend to care about how Ironwood holds 2/5 seats on the Atlas council, decrying how UNDEMOCRATIC he is being, yet at the same time, when convenient they will constantly bring up how Ironwood did not ask for Ozpins persmission for his actions in V2-V3. They pretend that he usurped Ozpin despite Ironwood acting directly under Vales council.

As shown in this exchange. The cries for "democracy" quiet down all of a sudden when people take Ozpins side against Ironwood. Suddently, the opinion of the council doesnt matter, only Ozpin does. Oh and this is also an example of how they will change the topic once an argument is lost.

Oh, and of course, their favourite is in regards to team RWBY.

Who are at the same time both small teenagers who know no better and cannot be judged for their actions because they are smoll beans uwu.

And they are also literal jesus.

Because NOTHING says "we are being honest" when the protagonists are amazingly "weak" and "smoll" uwu beans whenever anyone criticizes them for making shit decisions for entire COUNTRIES which they CHOSE to do. And at the same time those protagonists are amazing badass girbossing jesus-like heroes who everyone should worship.

Ending word

I guess what im trying to say is that there is simply no point or hope in arguing about Ironwood, or hell, even arguing with RWBY fans in general unless you are in relatively neutral spaces with people who are willing to listen. They will lie, if they cant lie they will misdirect, and they will never be honest about their beliefs. Because their true beliefs are only "RWBY is good and what it attempts to say is correct". Nothing else matters. RWBY is good. Its messages (no matter how mangled they are) are good.

And to protect those beliefs RWBY fans will do ANYTHING. Because just like religious fanatics, they have faith, a belief, and nothing will stop them. If you oppose them, you are everything they think is evil. If you accept their words uncritically, then you are now a "friend".

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Most of what's happening to RT is their own doing. RWBY was bleeding them dry and it wasn't making a profit. Barb admitted they weren't making as much money as they did in 2011.

It's RT's fault for pouring money into projects that didn't make much of a profit, its RT's fault for mismanaging money, its RT's fault for treating their staff like shit. Them making Bumbleby canon, was literally a last-ditch effort for them to get profit (merch as well) and it backfired on them. And this is coming from someone who ships bumbleby.

As much flak I give WBD, this is the only time where their not at fault. RT played the game of fuck around and find out.

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The fandoms unfathomable arrogance in demanding how RWBY should be revived

As some of you might know Dillon Goo has expressed interest in acquiring and working on reviving RWBY from its current state. He is a very talented animator who has worked with Shane Neville for quite some time now and released animations that were even shared on our subreddit. Even GLITCH animation studio has expressed a passing interest in Dillon Goo talking about RWBY.

Regardless, this has of course received a positive reception for the most part, but it did not take long for detractors to come out of the woodwork and take issue with possible involvement of Shane, and saying things like "If CRWBY isnt a part of this, im not interested" "If CRWBY isnt in this, Montys vision is ruined.

This is a rant against those people, warning, high amounts of sodium ahead

I have seen many people say that if anyone ever aquires the RWBY IP, that CRWBY should then HAVE to be hired or these people will NEVER support the projects in question. They say that its because people like Miles and Kerry know "Montys Vision", that they know what he wanted and thus without them, RWBY would not longer be RWBY.

Let us be very clear here you entitled shits. You dont have much of a choice. RWBY is dead, its laying down on the fucking medical table, its heart is no longer beating. Its clinically a corpse. Who the fuck do you think you are to make demands of any kind of revival the show can get? You are not in a position to choose or demand anything, you either accept any kind of revival of RWBY, even if its not perfect in your eyes (Welcome to the shoes of the critics) or you quit and let RWBY die.

But let us fucking remember that many people in the fandom were gleefuly saying that they will support RT and RWBY when it was revealed how mismanaged RT was and how they abused their workers. I saw multiple people go and say "Yeah, this sucks, but i will still support RT because i want RWBY to continue". We had multiple threads in r/RWBY saying to support RT so that RWBY would continue and even moralizing that people who engage in piracy are just selfish people.

You were willing to kneel before an abusive corporation and open your wallets to it without fucking question to keep RWBY going. But now when there is a possibility that RWBY might continue on and just MIGHT possibly do so without CRWBY (Which is not even a guarantee). You throw in the fucking towel? THIS was your fucking red line? CRWBY not working on the show?

At that point, just be honest and say what you really believe.

You are fucking DICKSUCKING Miles and Kerry as if they were the ONLY ones working on the show alongside Monty and know his "vision". Well, let me ask you then why in the fuck do you put so much effort in shitting on Shane huh!?

Its always "Oh, we need the people who worked with Monty" but EVERY SINGLE FUCKING time i go on twitter right now i see someone whining or being worried about "Well, but what about Shane".

Shane worked with Monty from the very fucking start! When he was eventually booted out of the company and made his open letter, most of the things in that letter were then confirmed MORE AND MORE with each passing year! He cared about Montys vision so much he was willing to call out RT before ANYONE ELSE! And we know for a FACT that MK did not follow the "vision" because the things that Monty and Shane worked on for Volume 3 were not used in Volume 3 and were then reused in later volumes.

I repeat, NONE of you shits cared about Montys "vision" nor do you genuinely care about it now. What you care about is CRWBY. What you care about is the parasocial relationship between you and creators of a show you like when it panders to you.

Because Shane was there from the very fucking start. And now hes the fandoms fucking Satan who the fandom tried so fucking hard to demonize over the years. Didnt care about Montys vision then did you!?

Oh and by the way, didnt we hear for YEARS now that there is a RWBY bible? That everything in RWBY is planned? That we had an outline for like 11-13 seasons!? Well if there exists such a bible, who gives a shit if CRWBY is involved in any kind of Volume continuation. If the bible exists anyone with skill and interest can read it and create what is meant to be created!

Of course unless the bible has always been a crock of shit fed to the fandom to try and pretend that the show wasnt writen by the fucking seat of its pants. (Which it WAS!)

So let me end with this.

Miles and Kerry are not gods. They are not angels. They are not perfect beings and bearers of the "Word of Monty" they are WRITERS! And just like with ANY part of CRWBY, the companies that might want to remake RWBY or write Volume 10 can choose to NOT take them onboard.

And that is FINE!

I do not mind if people wish or prefer that CRWBY were involved with any kind of RWBY continuation. What i fucking hate is this hypocritical DEMAND to keep CRWBY on board or otherwise "Its not real RWBY". Because i will repeat for the third fucking time.

The Fandom seems to not give even a single solitary fuck about RWBY, they seem to only care about CRWBY.

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I think its telling that these people who supposedly "love" RWBY care less about its current state, where its going, or the fandom. And care more about whining about critics.

brace yourselves

Angry, butthurt RWBY fans are coming and they're gonna blame us somehow.

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See, stuff like this is why whenever people try to pretend that they are only "criticizing" rewrites i just laugh out loud and tell them that they are well, full of shite.

This person is literally fighting ghosts, people who do not exist, all because they want to make a point against "rewrites".

Who says that BB happening is a plothole? Who says that Adams handling is a plothole? Who says that there not being fanservice is a plothole? I can go on but seriously. Who says that?

Nobody. But for the sake of being mad at rewrites, people will create ghosts to fight against.

And then they have the gall to go around and say "Well, we are just criticizing rewrites". No you aint. You have not even read them or watched them. Yeah, i know that you havent.

This entire RWBY anti-rewrite movement is full of people who have never actually interacted with rewrites, all you do is regurgitate the same BS that someone originally told you. Thats why you repeat your points ad nauseum.

Basically, how is anyone supposed to take your "criticism" of rewrites seriously, when you literally create ghosts that have never existed to fight against?

#rwby #rwde #rwby fndm #rwby fandom #rwby rewrite

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Not exactly the problem. Pointing out flaws in rewrites is more than fine, many people critical of the show have been critical of projects like FRWBY too and many of its choices, regardless of how small or large they are.

There is however a problem when the "flaws" being pointed out are either not flaws in the first place, or result in actual insults and harassment of related people. Something that i would assume many a RWBY fan would take issue with, if they saw it happening with the shows criticism.

Calxiyn needed to make only a couple of small rewrite videos and by some people she is already marked as part of the HTDM, with people insulting her for daring to even try. It isnt her work thats criticized, its the fact that she even tried rewrites.

FRWBY is full of flaws that can easily be called out, with the fetish bait of Faunus heat cycles being clearly one of the easiest things to call out. But to then proceed to say that people behind the project are sexist homophobes who hate women is over the top.

I would assume that RWBY fans had the concepts of what is criticism and what is just trashing with no substance and differences between them, so it would be nice if you would not pretend that people have problems with actual criticism (Though, admittedly, some do, i have encountered FRWBY fanboys before).

RWBY Rewriters: RWBY fans need to get over themselves and learn to accept criticism of their show! RWBY Fans: *point out flaws in rewrites* Rewriters: HOW DARE YOU!

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Oh, they are. Everyone, meet Xelianthought/Xelwriter, a close associate of Lilith Fairen, Crimson and Canonseeker, and one of the biggest if not the biggest snakes in the fandom.

He pretends to be this "reasonable" person who defends RWBY and its writing, constantly making videos about how every bad thing about RWBY is actually good (Like this video, where he argues that the fridgings of characters were actually subversions of fridgings).

That is his public persona though, when this snake feels like nobody is watching or that he has the "upper hand" in regards to the audience, thats when he starts doing his thing. His main involvement with Lilith, Crimson and Canonseeker is that he often likes and reblogs their horrible takes and insults on various websites.

Not only that, but he and Lilith tried to create a lie about me harassing them on Reddit to try and get my account banned. He initiated a lie that i was the one that sent him "self help" messages on Reddit. Lilith of course, could not miss that opportunity and tried to jump on it too.

When confronted over these actions, he engages the snake mode. He starts pretending that he does not know anyone from the previously mentioned people, or that he barely interacts with them. Again, he wants to be seen as the "reasonable" person, so he distances himself away from the crazies while secretly supporting them.

I would respond to his video and the arguments he made. But the last time i did that on youtube and Reddit, it resulted in him and his fans personally insulting me over simple disagreements and him making 2 videos personally trying to "debunk" my claims while strawmaning and lying about the claims that i have made.

There is no point in engaging with this person or their takes. They are a snake and they know it.

See, it's a subversion because the women are stuffing themselves into the fridge for the male character development (or requesting the men to do the stuffing as their one single choice, or having women be the ones doing the stuffing).

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I think what amazes or disgusts me the most is just how vicious the attacks and insults are towards people like Cal, Judgmental Critter, Unicorn etc.

When these people talk about me, the best they can do is the regular "You are racist/fascist/homophobe/misoginist" and things that relate to those claims. Its the tired "I have nothing to say about you, im just going to label you as enemy". Its very impersonal. But then you see how these people write about female or LGBT+ public critics and holy hell. The ammount of viciousness is absurd, creative insults, explitatives and the like.

I have said multiple times that Roosterteeth has cultivated a bad culture of people who feel "righteous" but instead weaponize good causes like progressivism for their own selfish goals of inflating their own egos.

But things like these? They are the perfect proof for that. Holy hell.

Nijisanji and RoosterTeeth are made for each other, don't fucking deny it.

#rwby #rwde #rwby fandom #anti rooster teeth

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Tldr; The biggest piece of evidence for “The Bees was planned from beeginning” was debunked ten years ago by hazleapricot aka Arryn Zach (The VA of Blake) who was simply making a lesbian joke about her character and Pyrrha being a secret relationship.

Don’t blame the Bees fans for not knowing about as this was from ten years ago and the only way to find it is via reblogs since the account is dead or being linked directly link to the post, still sucks that this spread as far as it did because shippers wanted solid proof that their OTP was planned and not the writers just thrown to pander to them.

(Don’t worry, this will be the only time I will use the main RWBY and Bee tags as I want to spread awareness to this even if just to a few people.)

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Volume 9 was (Mostly) filler that did not need the Ever After to exist

When details about Volume 9 being set in a different world entirely emerged, a good amount of people started predicting that Volume 9 would end up being a filler volume. After all, if the characters are all in another world entirely, that means that the main plot of the show is going to be put on hold. While it was a fair assumption to make, it also received push-back in the form of people claiming that the volume could be used for character development, which would not be filler regardless of its interactions with the main plot. Volume 9 came and went, and so, the question remains. Was Volume 9 filler?

In my opinion? Yes. Mostly. While i cannot claim that the entirety of the volume was meaningless fluff, for the most part, the most important aspects of the Volume were centered in only 3 episodes. And i would like to cover why i think so.

What is filler?

Let us first begin with a simple question. What is filler? Its a term that first started when talking about anime adaptations, it described anime episodes/arcs that were made while waiting for the adapted manga to go forward. That however has not remained the ONLY conception of filler. Outside anime the term has been widely used to refer to parts of long-form art such as books, movies and the like, that carry no meaning to the main story line or character progress. That is the same definition of filler that most people, including in this very fandom use. The fact that so many parts of the FNDM decided to do bad faith nonsense and pretend that the Anime definition is the only valid one caught me by surprise, but regardless of their attempts to derail the conversations, the concept of filler has not changed.

Plot progression

So, with the definition of filler out of the way, we have to ask ourselves if Volume 9 fulfills the requirements to not be seen as filler. The first requirement of course, is the interaction with the main plot of the show. Since the very start of the show, defeating Salem has been the main goal, the main plot of the show, even if characters and the audience did not know about Salem in Volumes 1-2. Volume 3 revealed the main overarching plot line of the entire series.

Going to the ever after, as predicted, put a complete stop on the development of the main plot. After all, our main characters are no longer on Remnant. They cant work to unify the people, they cant fight against Salem, they are on a different plane of existence entirely. The only antagonist that came to the Ever After with them was not a representative of Salem, but rather, an antagonist with their own personal goals and desires that were completely detached from Salem.

The only thing that gave us ANY relation to the main plot was the revelation at the END of the Volume, that both the GoD and GoL were from the ever after. Besides that and the revelation of Summers last mission. Nothing more concerning the main plot of the series occurred.

So, as far as plotline progression goes, Volume 9 is.... Mostly a dud. Besides a single episode, there is nothing of substance there.

Okay, but thats not enough to say that the volume was filler, after all, character progression is still something that could exist! Right?

Character progression

Except it didnt.

Weiss - Did not progress as a character. Her entire role in Volume 9 was to serve as the "straight man" in the comedy act that was the Ever After. She was meant to be the serious funless person so that when slapstick situations happened to her, it would be funny.

And thats ALL she was the ENTIRE VOLUME.

Yes, the person whose kingdom and home is now destroyed. Father dead, father surogate (Klein) and the rest of her family fates are also unkown. And she gets NOTHING from it. I think there are 2 scenes in the entire volume of her feeling slightly sad over this, and then NOTHING. There is no progression. Weiss in Volume 9 is there just to serve as a CLOWN.

Marriage - Well, how about Blake and Yang? They did progress forward as characters, after all, Volume 9 is where they finally officially get together. Except that... Its very little actual character progress. Let us be honest with ourselves, Yang and Blake were already "together" by the start of V7. Them killing Adam together cemented them as a couple. They dont talk about their relationship at all and instead in Volumes 7-8 all we get from them is romantic fluff. So, when now in V9 they are forced by the universe to get together. Well....

Was there any character progression involved here? They were already together. Everyone already knew they were together. Making it official does not really matter in this case as much as in any other romance because in other romances, the official confirmation happens while the people in the relationship are still unsure about themselves. But Yang and Blake have been acting as a couple for at least 2 volumes now.

To call this progress is like calling a bar filling from 98% to 99% progress. Is it technically progress? Yeah, but... In the grand scheme of things its so minimal it barely bears mentioning.

Ruby - From the very start of the Volume, it was very clear that Ruby was going to be given a lot of focus as a character, she is now presented as a primary protagonist in the Ever After. The rest of the team are mainly there to be the supportive cast to Rubys experiences.

And for a time, her story was interesting, we could see how with each encounter she was getting more tired and tired. How she was slowly being broken down from her experiences and how she very much did not want to seek help.

The set-up was really good but then.... She drinks the Kool Aid. She commits suicide as the emotional crescendo of the Volume. And what follows after is.... Her returning back to how she was before. All of that build up? The emotional high? Wasted.

Ruby comes back the same as she was. Now, some people have told me that its fine for characters to have these kinds of "flat" arcs, where they go down and then up. And i agree, or i should say. I would agree if this wasnt the THIRD TIME that Ruby has experienced this SAME CHARACTER ARC.

She had this same arc in Volumes 4 AND 6. Something bad happens - Ruby becomes down - Ruby gets worse over the volume - by the end of the volume something encourages her and shes back to normal.

If this was the FIRST time that Ruby experienced this arc, i would be more lenient to it. But this is the THIRD time she has. And instead of it being a subplot as it was in V4-6. It is now the MAIN plot of the volume. What was GAINED in terms of her character from this? Can anyone answer? If her character didnt change, if this was a repeated subplot. WHAT WAS THE POINT!?

Jaune - Jaune is in the SAME boat. Unlike Ruby, he received a lot less time for development, but he also got a recycled subplot. Jaunes arc was a repeat of what happened with Pyrrha and her death. Everything i said about the recycling of Rubys character "development" applies here.

And he ALSO gets reset at the end of the Volume.

The characters that actually received character development

The only characters in V9 that received development were Little, Neo and arguably Alyx.

Little - Has a very coherent and understandable character progression in V9. They start out as a clueless yet also adventurous helper to the main cast. Of course, Little knows little about the world around them, at least not the specifics, so over time their role becomes that of a confidant to Ruby.

Little learns from the humans they are with while journeying forth. After Ruby runs away due to the fight with Jaune, it is Little who attempts to help Ruby. When Ruby is beaten down, it is Little that tries to help Ruby move.

Little is the little mouse that could. They grow from basically nothing to a dependable ally. Not really a storybook hero that saves the day by themselves, but someone who can simply help others. The Smith finishes this arc of Little by reviving the critter, this time in a more heroic form.

Littles entire journey was that of finding purpose, after all, when the protagonists meet them, they dont even have a name. And the arc ends with Little finding that purpose, even if unintentionally.

Neo - Neo also has progress as a character, except hers is a downward spiral rather than her becoming better. She starts the volume angry, suicidal, trying to kill Ruby no matter what. Once she lands in the ever after, she becomes stronger and gains more power to hunt down Ruby. Despite not looking like it, this is the start of the downward spiral, she might seem more "happy", but besides gaining power, all she is doing is descending further onto the path of vengeance, it consumes her.

Literally. Once she believes that she killed Ruby, she just... Shuts down. There is nothing for her to live for. Her revenge is done. What now? Nothing. Well, at least until the cat reverse vored itself into Neo.

After the cat is defeated, Neo is back. But now, with the same realization. She has nothing. And unlike before, she no longer wants or has the strength to pretend that Roman is still with her, he isnt. And so she... Commits suicide. Both literally and metaphorically.

Even if she comes out of her cocoon, it is doubtful she will be the same person.

Alyx - Alyx might seem like a strange inclusion, but despite her not really being an active character in the story we are watching, over time we learn of what she did/experienced in the past. She is portrayed as a person who went through the ever after through trickery and force, not a likeable character at all, especially considering what she does to Jaune. And yet, we also learn that at the end of the line, when it was time to leave the Ever After, she chose to stay, because she changed, she understood that the actions she did were bad.

Of course, its not exactly a detailed journey. Its very basic for what it is. Yet there is an actual result for the character that is presented.

So its mostly filler...

Therein lies the problem. The characters that received character progression were all side-characters. 1 of whom is dead, another in limbo and the third one is an afteran who most likely cant leave unless RWBY pulls an Avengers Endgame on us.

And thats the issue. Thats why i cant do anything else but call V9 mostly filler. As far as the most important information is concerned, only 3 episodes in this entire volume truly matter. The BB episode and the last 2. To get the world-building and the BB confession.

But besides that, what exactly does this Volume set-up? Weiss had nothing going for her. BB was confirmed but that relationship was already developed beforehand. Ruby and Jaune got reset. Neo was a side-character that never really mattered.

So.... What was the point of the Ever After?

Because as far as i can see the only thing it achieved is a time-skip so that CRWBY could skip the whole refugee crisis situation that team RWBY caused in Vacuo.

Let us remember that RWBY is not in good financial straits now. And yet in Volume 9 they decided to make it all happen on a DIFFERENT WORLD where they would need to create massive ammounts of new assets that they most likely wont be able to reuse. Why does this Volume exist? Why wasnt Volume 9 set in Vacuo and all of its "main" developments happening there?

Its just.... The entire volume is a genuine waste of time.

#rwby #rwde #rwby volume 9

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Baffled.

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@Unfiltered-X

Pal, i do not care about your or anti-rwde obsession with RWDE. Half of you people constantly make posts like "Hah, RWDE sucks" while having us under a block. Its pathetic. Genuinely, you can all avoid the RWDE tag, instead you block people in that tag, and then reblog their stuff, to what, shittalk that stuff? You have nothing better to do?

Its all projection. And its sad. Genuinely, maybe you are not obsessed with RWBY, but a lot of your anti-RWDE friends are, to the extent that they will, once again, go to RWDE blogs, take stuff from them, and then privately reblog them to gloat or something.

Yet we in the RWDE are always accused of complete and utter nonsense, just because at the end of the day, you dont care about what we actually think or do. All you want is to project your own insecurities and obsessions upon us.

I made a single blogpost comparing LGBT+ representation in a single game, Hades to RWBY. What, is that a problem? Does that make me obsessed? A single post saying that a games narrative did something better?

I have played a lot more games, read a lot more books and done a lot more things than that, and never associated them with RWBY.

Because at the end of the day, all of this, is a hobby.

Something you people should really learn, because half of your anti-rwde buddies cant discern reality from fiction half of the time.

Oh, and can you also tell them that Tumblr is not the only social media website in existance? I use my Tumblr mostly for RWBY. For everything else i have multitudes of discord servers, because, if i may be so crass.

Nobody gives a shit about Tumblr, it sucks for fandom interaction. Reddit and Discord are better, genuinely.

Can i be frank with you? Do you ever tire of doing this? I have not interacted with any of you anti-RWDE people in ages now, besides that troll whos now posting "Oh, im sad for RWDE" blogposts daily as bait.

Genuinely, the RWDE side is mostly happy to leave you alone, we dont really want to care about you. Yet you seem to constantly barge in RWDE spaces, for what? Just to have a fight? Prove you are somehow superior?

Like, genuinely, half of the reason i have not done much on my tumblr these pasts months is because i am genuinely tired of you people. Hell, the only reason i am on this site is because your side, anti-rwde constantly posted my reddit posts here and then sent people after me on Reddit. Just because i dared to have an opinion.

Genuinely, and this comes from the heart. Grow up, because at this point, i have little need or want to interact with you people, you are just tiring.

We dont want to interact with you. You clearly dont want to interact with us. So, why are you constantly coming after us? You can mute the tag, instead you created an anti tag. Why?

Sigh....

Im writing this knowing that you wont give a fuck about any of this, and you will just use this as another "Bash on RWDE" session or some shit. But genuinely, grow up, and go do something else.

#rwby #rwde #rwby fndm

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Honey, what did i say about projection? Ask any person in RWDE about their hobbies and they will tell you that they do other things besides RWBY.

Writing about RWBY takes at most 10-20 minutes. I am writing these messages to you while im on the shitter, because quite frankly, thats the only time you deserve my attention.

Stop projecting. Now if you excuse me, i have to finish my shit and then go back to playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

No one’s going to miss rwby quite like the rwde because complaining about the show was their only purpose. Now they’ll have nothing because those people never move on to other shows. So I guess they’ll forever be stuck spending the rest of their lives complaining about the same topics on rwby

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Honey, your projection is showing. Just because you are obsessed with RWBY as if its the only thing in the universe, does not mean others are.

Multiple RWDE people cover other games and fandoms, like Baldurs Gate 3. I am very immersed in Baldurs Gate 3, Warhammer 40k and many other hobbies including cross-stiching.

People talk about RWBY because they want to, when they get bored of it, they will just move on, because at the end of the day, RWBY is just a hobby.

You have made these statements about multiple Youtubers and almost all of them have gone to other media already lol. Because they never needed RWBY.

So again, reign in the projection honey. Because its so obvious you are trying to project your own feelings that at some point, it just feels sad.

No one’s going to miss rwby quite like the rwde because complaining about the show was their only purpose. Now they’ll have nothing because those people never move on to other shows. So I guess they’ll forever be stuck spending the rest of their lives complaining about the same topics on rwby

#rwde #rwby

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The hypocricy and the lack of self-awareness is staggering (NSFW)

#rwby #rwde #rwby artist collab

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On Conventions, and why it is good that Roosterteeth is getting rid of RTX.

So, many people have probably already noticed and have been made aware that RTX is not happening this year. I have seen many reactions to these news, anger, joy, satisfaction, dismay etc. What i have also seen is people asking some good questions and making some bad conclussions too, like for example the person talking about how RTX made RT money and the like, so i wanted to put my two cents in.

Do be aware that im not an expert, nor an event organizer myself, the information i will share here has been gathered mostly from the comments and statements made by organizers and those who have participated in these events.

Conventions arent profitable

First things first, everyone should keep this in their minds moving forward. CONVENTIONS ARE NOT PROFITABLE. There are exceptions of course, but at large, most conventions operate at a loss, especially those that occur in the United States.

It all comes down to cost versus earnings ratio, which more often than not, does not fall to the side of earnings. To make a convention, one has to organize a venue, staff, events, security, decorations, catering and many such associated details. Venues alone cost a LOT of money, this is not like me, a random Eastern European dude renting out a specially prepared cottage for a party with friends, Venues are specifically made and built for conventions, they are extremelly sought after and they KNOW it, as such their costs are often jacked up to high heavens, especially since things like location matter to them extremelly. The problem is even worse in the United States where many venues jack up the prices to, quite frankly, criminal ammounts.

Earnings for such events are also, not amazing. Lets remember, most of these conventions are fan-events. So if a convention isnt sponsored by a corporation, most of its earnings will be things like ticket sales, people renting out space for vendors etc, sometimes signatures and even auctions.

As such, most "profitable" conventions are the low-key ones. The ones that are small-scale, that can get cheaper venues, and thus save on the costs while being able to profit.

Big companies can afford to make big conventions at a loss because to them, its partially a flex and partially an advertisement for the company. Think of things like Blizzcon.

RT however is in a shit position of NOT being a big enough company to spend money willy nilly, but also, their conventions are not small enough, to turn in a profit either.

Cutting Fat is good

RT is not in a good state. Those critical of the show and the company in general have known that for a long time now, despite the crying and bleating of some of the biggest of fanatics that "RT IS DOING GREAT GUYS!" and other such nonsense. We know RT is in a shit state, they know that they are in a shit state, everyone with open eyes knows they are in a shit state.

As such, cutting costs is actually good.

For a long time RT has acted as a "big" company due to the success of RWBY. When RWBY blew up, so did RT, they expanded into other animated projects, started high-profile conventions, started hiring TOP class VA's etc. The thing is, the golden years dont always last.

Many a Youtuber has said as much over the years, many of them have shared that they know that they wont be popular forever, and those smart among them build up nest-eggs from the money they earn on Youtube and streaming in general.

If a youtuber refuses to accept that they are becoming less popular, well, their ending can be less than pretty. The same applies to companies like RT. After RWBY became less popular, RT did not have the golden goose anymore. They could not afford to make stupid financial decisions anymore.

So now, they are trimming the fat.

Which is good.

Possible brighter future

Hope for the best, but expect the worst, that is my current opinion on this. Trimming the fat and tightening up that belt might result in RT being able to squeeze out some smaller profile shows and earn enough money to possibly come back to RWBY, or at least make a movie to end it.

It might help the company, and as far as im aware, this is the right step to take. At the same time, this can also just... Not be enough.

#rwby #rwde #roosterteeth