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etincelleart · 10 months

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So I was able to watch the RWBY Volume 9 epilogue shown at this year RTX, they weren't able to make it for V9 because production stuff happened and it will probably be shown in V10 with some changes according to how V9 actually changed.

First I'd like to say that (SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT) this epilogue is everything ♥ The message of hope and kindness is just there, it's fully there and I'm just so happy to see it on screen. Winter feeling guilty for everyone's death and Penny's death, Qrow being optimistic and changing his perspective, the Schnees helping how they can, the end with the memorial and the reunion..... I just can't I'm freaking crying sdfgdfgf

Just, please be kind, even if life is shitty and complex, kindness is everything and so precious, kindness and love are just so special and I hope everyone can be inspired by that. RWBY might not be perfect, there are a lot of things that could be done in a better way, but I still love this show and story for how much it grows and changes and evolves with the people who're making it and the community watching it.

Also, of course I have to add my little not so delusional Penny moment for this krkrk--

In the epilogue, Winter mentions Penny twice, when she says it should have been her to die, not team RWBY, Jaune, Penny and everyone else. She's feeling guilty she got to survive when Penny's (and team RWBY) the one who believed in people and had hope. Winter mentions Penny again right after by saying "Because of me, Penny's gone, forever", IS IT JUST ME or is that kinda odd there's so much insistence around Penny's death since V9 and again like that ?

I wrote whole threads about it already for why I can see her coming back, but stuff just keep piling up and I might starting to just be sure she'll come back later. Most of the time, when a character is mentioned to be "gone, forever", it just feels like it's strange and this might not be the case. Especially after what we learned in Volume 9, I just think there's something cooking but I'M NOT CRWBY I CAN'T BE SURE BUT THERE'S SOMETHING I CAN FEEL IT----

I talked about it with the friend who made me discover RWBY tonight btw, they haven't even seen V9 yet (only 2 chapters that we started together) but they also think that scenaristically it can totally make sense and they can see Penny coming back, the 3rd time finally being the good time and for it to be permanent and confirmed. And I agree, in a larger view I just think that it is logical, the whole thing about Penny is that everything feels odd and weird and strange and ANYWAY it feels like they're really cooking something

But yeah this "Penny's gone, forever", it's just so strange omg. I know that Winter is feeling guilty, but you know, it's still something they REALLY insist on and they make the viewer know about that, almost as if they wanted to say "SEE, that's what everyone think, everyone think she's gone forever but SURPRISE NOPE SHE'S NOT-"--

ANYWAY I'll stop rambling, I love RWBY omg. I love Ruby and Penny for their hope and kindness, for the perfect ship vibes they share together, I just need them to be reunited whoooaaAAAAH

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emperor-nasch · 1 year

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You! Fellow Jaune fan! Give me your best headcanons!

Thanks for the ask! I've always wanted to talk about the best boi. It took me couple days to think some of these out but I came up with a few that are really meaningful to me. I may have slipped into arkos territory at the end but that's not unusual for me in the slightest.

Ever since my first run-through of the series, I always wondered if he kept Pyrrha's recording from v4 on his scroll...and honestly I believe he does still have it even after upgrading scrolls in v7 (i'm not even trying to cope with v9 yet because, like, does he even have his scroll anymore?)

Bi as fuck

Touch is his love language, as well as keeping physical reminders/items as memories (as we see with pyrrha's sash)

Unless it's already been confirmed (I looked, couldn't find anything official) I see his birthday as being late march/early april (aries season baybee). This is entirely selfish because that's when my birthday is. But also bunny imagery makes me think spring/easter. Idk.

Other people can feel when he's using his semblance on them. It's not painful, more like a tingly feeling. But a good feeling nonetheless.

Even though he's great with kids and came from a large family, he isn't sure he wants his own (human children, anyway). He is, however, absolutely down with being the fun/cool uncle for Ren and Nora's kids (or if anyone on team rwby has kids)

Pyrrha shows up in his dreams sometimes. It happened more frequently right after the fall but has lessened over time. He believes that this is her visiting him/letting him know that she's ok. Sometimes these dreams are so real that he wakes up and the grief hits him as bad as it did right after her death. Usually, though, he takes comfort in these dreams.

Despite his size, he is shit at sports.

You can't convince me he didn't think of Pyrrha during the renora moment in v8. I know it was supposed to be funny because haha Jaune is finally able to read the room and leave but talk about really feeling like a third wheel, especially when your partner's been dead for almost 2 years.

Whenever he takes off the red sash, he handles it with care and sometimes holds it a little too long (not even gonna mention v9 here).

Similarly, when cleaning/polishing his weapons, especially his shield, he lingers on her headpiece and will touch/trace it softly, especially on days when he's really missing her.

So, I suppose these give a little bit of insight into how I characterize Jaune. Some of it is purely me projecting, but a lot of it I feel fits him realistically. Y'know, I've only been into rwby for 2 years but only now I'm feeling brave enough to make content. Hmm, wonder why that might be.

#jaune arc #rwby #rwby spoilers #just in case #pyrrha nikos #arkos #my headcanons #i have so much love for him #thank you for allowing me to do some healing through this #canoncorps

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thelastbraincellofthehive · 1 year

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Soooo as I thought, v9 caught with me before I had a chance to finish my rewatch, but no reason to cut it when we have 7 days in between episodes lol so back for v5!

I gotta admit this was not my favorite volume, the pacing issues really show in this one and some things felt not well expressed/explained, but still the story and character moments are very great and it contains some of my favorite scenes in the whole show.

Also there's lots of Raven and Ilia how can I complain about that??

Anyways, lets get in!

I gotta say that Triumph is definitely my less favorite opening, I never liked it that much, but it's not saying a lot, because it's still a no-skip when I listen to the rwby playlist and it still fucks. Jeff and Casey don't miss. So basically, it's not bad, it's just that all of them are so good that it's hard to compete lol.

The scene where Blake and Sun talk about how Blake sees every person as a word it's one of those things that live rent-free in my mind <3 Blake's love for her friends is so loud in its quietness, it's beautiful <3

Also her saying that Adam is Spite<3 I love it because while watching reactors they almost always think 'Hate' or 'Violence' but as soon as they hear Spite is like...something just clicks into place. Of course he is spite, it's the only thing that make sense!

I gotta admit that much of why I'm happy about this volume is really just the fact that we got so much Raven lol. I seriously enjoy Raven so freaking much I can't believe it! I can't wait until we finally see her again! Please RT???

No but seriously, every scene with Raven is so enjoyable to me because I really feel there is so much hidden meaning behind all of her interactions. She's another of those characters I can see the bravery and love practically trying to claw their wait out from, but damn this woman is so stubborn and traumatized smh. I hope Tai is able to knock some sense into her sometime.

Also while on the topic of Raven... I still believe that Vernal and her were in some kind of relationship??? Like... There was something there! And Vernal has such a big lesbian energy to me

Also while on the topic of Vernal... Vernal can also step on me. Her design is honestly so sexy???? The short hair, the dark skin with light blue eyes, honestly top tier. Why did v5 had to be the volume were sexy women were introduced just to be killed???

Yes that last line Is about Sienna... I'm still so mad we only got five freaking minutes of Sienna Khan, how do you make such an awesome design and interesting character and then just inmediatly kill her off?? Why? 😭

Anyways, leaving my list of rwby crushes aside... This volume was one of Blake's best<3 I still remember how proud I felt when I heard her speech after battling Ilia and the Albains. My girl was born to lead a revolution<3 also, that speech is just amazing, I think we should all remember it along with Ren's advice to 'take action every time'.

And then she goes and tells Adam to his face that he's not that important? That he's not the center of her life and She's not letting him act like it anymore? That moment was top tier! I can't wait for v6 it's my favorite <3

Yang and Weiss' reunion 🥹 and how tiny Weiss looked while they hugged 😭 I love these two so much!!!

And the moment when they meet with Ruby again and Ruby is panicking in guilt and Yang just hugs her and tells her she loves her because last time we saw them together in v3 Ruby told her she loved her and Yang didn't respond 😭😭😭😭

And then they just inmediatly call Weiss to join them because of course you silly touch-starved princess you're family too!!!

Seriously this volume is just full of character moments that make me all soft 🥹

Listen, I love Nevermore and Bmblb and Armed and ready and Wings and can you beelieve how many songs the ship has already?! as much as every bee shipper...but All that matters Is just my favorite Bee song <3 I love the angsty bees, and I love how undeniably romantic and devoted this song is even if it doesn't mention love a single time.

Cinder really be there insulting Raven's cleverness and inteligence while I'm still 100% sure she doesn't have a single braincell in her head because Neo took it hostage seroously woman, I love you but you're stupid as hell!

Emmerald's little breakdown thinking that Cinder was dead</3 you'll be ok baby

Also Blake asking 'what was that?' after the Salem vision and Oz saying 'that was Salem' and I can just imagine Blake thinking 'that doesn't clarify things at all but ok' because at this point She's not 'in' yet lol.

Ilia, honey... You were right there. Right in the same room as Weiss, at the same time, after the battle ended... Why couldn't you just talk to her???? I'm literally asking for the crumbs of one (1) interaction between them!!

I love how cute and innocent Jinn's statue looks in the school lol once we actually meet Jinn... She's nothing like that lol but we love her anyways.

Jaune's semblance!!! He deserved that moment! He worked so hard and Cinder Is a bitch but she didn't get her way because Jaune is awesome!!!

also that Pyrrha line 😭

While I don't hate Ozpin as part of the FNDM does, that part where he looks at Yang and tells her he's not gonna lie of tell half-truths is one of those that annoy me after v6 lol I get why he is the way he Is .. but still, Yang being angry at him after that was deserved.

Also I've seen that conversation like fifty times already ando the thing that bugs me the most about The volume is that I don't really get why they treat Raven and Qrow turning into birds like it is some kind of abomination lol that's one of the moments I feel didn't translate so well. I get that the actual problem goes way deeper than that, but "why would you do something like that?" Still sounds a little overdramatic lol

Oscar and Ruby training hand to hand has to be one of the cutests scenes this volume lol both these kids are so pure and cute<3

"you can't lose to a girl that wears a skirt" "Ruby you wear a skirt" lol <3 I love the Ruby-Weiss moments<3 also combat skirts FTW!

Again with Yang and Weiss, I couldn't not talk about Alone together <3 again, I really love Weiss taking care of her team with the coffee first and then talking to Yang <3 Weiss reaaaaaally became the best teammate the girls could have.

Also Weiss and Sun being wingman/woman for the bees is my favorite thing<3 they could bond over it maybe lol

Yang crying over Blake 🥹 again, she is the living embodiment of 'I don't care, I say caringly, while I care a lot' and I love that <3

Also Ruby making me cry when she said 'combat ready' and immedialy thought of Penny and just... Lost her light... That was a low blow, still is

And yes I'm still very much angry about Penny 🙂 better move on

Leonardo being an actually cowardly lion and Ironwood an actually heartless tinman make me worried about Vaccuo's headmaster... I gotta buy the CFVY novels to learn a little more about him *puts on birthday list*

The Cinder vs Raven fight is probably my favorite one in the volume though Yang vs the Bandits is hot af and I loved Weiss vs the Lancers but honestly, I can't not laugh when they get out the giant swords lmao what was that? What was the use of that? Lol I love it

The fact that RT didn't make Pilot boy explicitly gay because they were gonna kill him off and then regretted it because the fandom just latched onto him lol that's still one of my favorite v5 funfacts

I gotta say I kinda love how this story is way bigger than any of the characters involved. I remember how many people were mad that they just ended the white fang plot with the quick capture of the Albains and the Faunus army, and then how many more got angry when Adam was finally killed next season, but it makes sense because the end goals are bigger than these villains... And sadly bigger than the heroes too, hence why Nobody is trully safe.

Yang proving again and again that she has gotten smarter while fighting is so sexy of her<3 She's learned to prioritize, to slow down and, as Taiyang told her, find out of there's a way around the fight, which is why her final confrontación with Raven is so rewarding to watch, and why it makes sense.

Again I really want to see Raven again <3 pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!!!

I get they wanted to end the volume on a kind-off cliffhanger/hint of next path, but Oscar, my dear, you really didn't need to try so hard to deliver that message lol I'm sure they could've waited a couple hours for you to say it.

There's probably a lot I'm forgetting but like... I kind of really want to keep going because my favorite volume is next!! So I'm gonna leave here!

Overall, team rwby is back together and that's how it should be!! Also, bees<3

#bumbleby #rwby #pre volume9 rewatch #rwby v5 #just salem rambling around #now we get into the real deal!!!#bring me those bees!

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negative-speedforce · 9 months

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headcanons for Nora West-Allen, Eddie Thawne, Siv, and Jay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😇👻👽💔👗🔪😬😶

🏳️‍🌈 A sexuality headcanon

Nora is a useless lesbian. The second a girl so much as looks at her she forgets how to speedster and usually crashes full-speed into a telephone pole.

Eddie is an extremely repressed bisexual. He was very much aware of the sexual tension between him and Barry.

Siv's attracted to women and Howl from Howl's Moving Castle.

While Jay is Pansexual and doesn't have a gender preference, he definitely has a type (women who could kill him)

🏳️‍⚧️ A gender headcanon

Nora gives off she/they vibes, and no, I have no idea why.

Eddie is 100% cis, but he's definitely willing to play around with gender. Man+, if you would.

Siv has questioned if she might be a he/they rather than a she/they, but eventually settled on the pronouns that they currently use.

Jay's known he was trans since he was like, 3.

😇 A headcanon about their religion/lack thereof

Nora's agnostic, but she believes in angels.

Eddie was raised Catholic and still goes to mass on the holidays.

Siv was raised secular, and has never really looked into or cared about religion.

Jay was raised Christian, but he's agnostic as an adult.

👻 A headcanon about what scares them

Nora believes in ghosts, and she does not fuck around with places that claim to be haunted.

Eddie, after being rescued from Thawne, still gets anxious when he sees that specific shade of yellow in the corner of his eye.

Siv is terrified of ostriches. Blame her 6th birthday trip to the petting zoo for that.

Jay is arachnophobic, and despite him being extremely brave in the face of dangerous superhuman criminals, the second a spider appears, he's yelling for Cassandra to come and kill it because he's too busy screaming.

👽 A headcanon about a weird quirk of theirs

Nora is constantly jittery, and to keep her excess energy in check, she tends to bounce on the balls of her feet.

Eddie eats fried eggs in a bowl, so he can catch all the yolk.

Siv walks with her hands clasped behind her back as a pressure stim (and because her dad used to do it all the time)

Jay used to nibble on the ends of his glasses when he was nervous.

💔 An angsty headcanon

Nora's speed was extremely hard to control at first, due to it having been suppressed for so long.

Eddie blames himself for the death of the guy who was killed by Hannibal Bates, even though it was a shapeshifter in his form, not him.

Siv almost died after the death of the Speed Force, due to her needing a stable connection in order to live, and developed a severe addiction to V9 because of that.

Jay has trouble with PTSD around Siv, even though he knows they would never hurt him, he just can't be around speedsters after what happened with Zoom.

👗 A headcanon about their clothes

Nora's favorite color is not purple. It's Iris' favorite (the jacket's from "Run, Iris, Run").

Eddie basically lives in his uniform. He owns other clothes, but why bother getting other clothes dirty if you're only going to be wearing them for a few hours before bed?

Siv dresses in all black not for edgelord reasons, but because she can't match clothes for the life of her and they know that black always matches black.

Even after he has top surgery, Jay still wears his "dysphoria hoodie" with Storm from X-Men all the time because he got it just before Gina died.

🔪 A headcanon relating to fighting/violence

Before getting her powers, Nora had never been in a physical fight outside of schoolyard scrapes.

If he has to shoot a person in the line of duty, Eddie is unable to sleep for days after.

Siv's septum piercing is crooked due to the fact that she has a deviated septum (deeeeeeeeeefinitely not from all the fights they got in as a kid).

While Jay is usually a very calm, thoughtful guy, when his berzerk button goes off, he goes absolutely apeshit. Like, full-on bloodlust rampage.

😬 A headcanon about the worst thing they’ve done

The worst thing Nora's done is continue working with Thawne after finding out that he killed her grandma. However, because that felt so long ago and Nora had no real connection to her because both her and Barry were dead by the time Nora was like, 2, she didn't see it as much of a big deal as it should have been.

Eddie feels extremely guilty for attempting to track down and neutralize The Flash, not knowing that it was Barry.

Siv shot and killed their universe's Eddie Thawne, effectively committing temporal suicide to erase her father. The guilt for his death still follows her, haunting them just like Gina's death.

When Cassandra was kidnapped and replaced by a shapeshifter, Jay did not hesitate to vaporize said shapeshifter for torturing Cassandra while she was held captive.

😶 A random headcanon!

Nora is green/orange colorblind

Eddie wonders if his influence had anything to do with Eobard being a massive jerk (it didn't)

Siv is extremely lactose intolerant, and is very upset that being a speedster didn't fix that.

Jay 3D printed little spikes to put on the handles of his wheelchair so strangers wouldn't touch it without his consent.

#ask revan #the flash #oc shit #vexic :D

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asinglemindcreates · 2 months

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So we've all heard the news regarding RT shutting down.

I was somewhat gutted the night I heard the news; since then, more news has made the situation sound less dire. Namely, the core people working on RWBY still believe they'll be able to release the BTS and extra content we were promised a month or two ago (the extended V9 epilogue, etc). And there have been groups who have expressed interest in the IP (https://twitter.com/DillonGoo/status/...) with further speculation that Crunchy Roll or another group that has hosted RWBY might buy it.

(I only worry that the IP will be hoarded and not actually used, but I digress.)

Back-up/WIP channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MindsSketchbook

(tl:dr for below: RT might be done but I'm not)

My emotions have mostly settled, but to elaborate (ie, cross-post some edited tweets from the night I got the news):

I. Okay RT had a pretty horrendous history with how it treated its staff so I can't mourn them, but RWBY, a show that makes up the bulk of my creative editing work, was also under their care-

-and-

-V9 was one of the best volumes IMO. RWBY is the closest thing I have as a comfort show. I always come back to editing it...and I won't stop for a long time. I like editing it more than anything else. I've sunk thousands of hours of my life into making my little fucking mv edits with it.

Except these fucking edits are such an important creative outlet for me. Which sounds stupid. Most people just want to see a song paired with scenes they like. You search up AMVs by these song title + media. Which is reasonable! But a lot of my edits are more than that to me...all my most popular beloved stuff has a story or at least a strong thematic through-line. I miss when I felt confident enough to title it vaguely based on whatever emotional thesis I had.

I've tried working with other things. It's never bad but it's also never the same. I have ideas for other media but most will never see the light of day because RWBY almost always takes priority in mind. My heart. When I look at my body of work I always feel like I'm not done. I have more to say and show, and having developed my interpretation of RWBY over the years, I have so much in the show I want to revisit in AMV form.

#misc

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etincelleart · 1 year

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i would like to know...

what exactly in v9 change your opinion about penny?

*cracks my fingers*

So, basically so far the message that I understood from RWBY was kinda always the same, always coming back in different ways but still : the balance of life and death, like in our world. The thing is that in RWBY it always has been THE rule, especially after The Lost Fable in Volume 6 where we saw the "Gods" ideas about it, it was their main rule. The spirits of the Relics also work according to the same rule, just like Ambrosius who can't bring people back from the dead (I think he could do it, but the rule doesn't allow him to do so).

But even at that moment I was a bit conflicted because the "Gods" didn't seem to be on the same page about this rule. The God of Darkness decided to revive Ozma even if he probably knew about the rule, but he still decided to ignore it because his ego was flattered because Salem went to him. Then the God of Light comes, they fight like child, and they break their own rule multiple times while arguing. They acted like children, made Ozma and Salem suffer and then went like "oh you have to understand the balance of life and death", this seems pretty horrible and completely selfish to me aha, but that's another topic-

So we knew the Gods weren't perfect, but they were still the "Gods". I say "Gods" because in Volume 9 we learn they aren't the real Gods of the RWBY universe, but simply Afterans who had more powers than others, who evolved and decided to experiment and create. But they are still Afterans. They aren't perfect and they aren't allowed to talk about balance when they fought each other from the very beginning after creating the Cat and the Jabberwalker.

In fact, the real RWBY God is a Tree represented in a human form as the Blacksmith, who's a sort of avatar I imagine. But even she/they said that her being the Tree was a simplistic view of what is the Tree and what it does. This avatar is gentle, and most importantly, they're from a world where death doesn't exist.

This still seems pretty wild to me to discover in the RWBY universe a place where people just don't die. They change, they evolve, they are reborn but they don't die. Their soul isn't lost like in Remnant. They go back to the very original place, where everything started, and come back different. It can be understood as some form of death, but it's still a different process than on Remnant.

So, about Penny, I'm not saying she'll definitely have a revival but a lot of things start to make me believe this could be the case, maybe in the near future, OR at the end of the series, because I imagine the Brothers/"Gods" will return to Remnant and the Tree might play its part too.

Knowing all of this BIG part of RWBY's lore now just makes me think that we just discovered such a big thing. The Brothers are so stricts about the life and death rule (that they don't even respect), and I never thought what we learned in V9 would truly be a thing. So RWBY's universe is so much more now, it's not just about it, it's about other worlds and about the Ever After that is this origin, the center of everything. It feels almost like if I had blinkers and suddenly woah, a whole new part of the story we didn't know or expected is here, and now I have like a million questions aha.

For Penny specifically, before Volume 9 I was kinda okay with the fact that she died, and was expecting her death to be announced and to be a big thing for Ruby. But we really got SO MUCH hints and references, almost every chapter except 4, 9 and 10. In a world where death doesn't exist, I think it's kinda odd we have so much references (even if it's mostly for Ruby's pain). Like, when you take a step back and look at the overall arcs and story : Penny' always been in terrible situations that ended by death. Even in V8 her "choice" in the finale doesn't really feel like one to me. Penny's never been near any of her goal and she never had the time or opportunity to do so. She was always too busy to fight for people she cared about, or just fighting to survive, to have her chance, but never truly succeeded. It just feel like her arc isn't done, and again when you watch it with an overall view, we see V7-9 being a big arc for her that only led to tragedies (got framed at the election, got the powers she didn't want, got hacked, and then got stabbed and killed).

After seeing Little being killed and come back as Somewhat, even without their memories but still remembering deep down, I have more faith about the fact that character's death don't undo any suffering or trauma the characters went through, or don't change anything for the viewer. We got some weird parts in V9 (I talked about it more in details in another post) that are a bit unclear, and I think deliberately open to the viewer for interpretation. At least this is how it feels to me. I'm thinking about the Blacksmith saying to Ruby about Penny's sword : "nothing, no one, is ever truly lost". This could mean so much things omg. And knowing how much CRWBY loves details and foreshadowing, maybe it means something for later.

Anyway, there's also the fact that at the end of Volume 9, we see Vacuo and Amity Collosseum is there. Which means that Pietro and Maria probably made it to Vacuo. But Pietro without Penny, it feels weird and so sad to me. I talked about it in other posts as well but he's already the kind of man to sacrifice parts of himself to create Penny, and remake her a second time after losing her. Would he really be able to resist to try to remake her a 3rd time ? Would he really not do that ? Pietro is also important in the series because of his connexion and bond to Penny. And I really don't think he wouldn't at least try to remake her, even if that would mean sacrificing himself...

In general, this is the RWBY lore expension and all the hints that we got that kinda made me change my mind. We had V8 that ended in a tragic way with Penny's death, and we go back with a whole volume about rebirth ? This is kinda odd to me aha

Also, I thought again about some lines from Volume 8, and again knowing how much CRWBY like to foreshadow things and add little details here and there, I'm thinking that Pietro might meet Ambrosius some day at some point. Ambrosius said that he'd love to meet him, so idk maybe, that would be really great-

There's also the fact that Ruby said to Ambrosius "We kinda want to keep her longer than that", and we saw in the finale how much Ambrosius took everything that is said to him literally. Who knows if he didn't do something with Penny to help her to remain resistant ? And this line as well, "we go to Vacuo, all of us", and it's again odd that Penny can't go in the end. Idk maybe I'm biased but I just would love that aha.

Ruby and Penny's journey together are also very important in both of their arc, and as much as I think Nuts and Dolts is endgame, both being together despite everything would be a really beautiful message, a light of hope, and they would both have a really great influence on each other.

I could continue for a long time aha but I'm tired, there are just so much things in V9 that helped me to think this might not be just over yet for her. Hope you enjoyed the reading !

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