#theres also a vault in the train you have to find a key for

[catcafesponsor]

reea's awesome guide to: the perfect break in 2 rating

if you havent heard of break in 2 yet then youve been living under a rock. welcome to roblox power source of imagination!

erm so lets assume youve played break in 2. and made it to the final boss battle.

basically scary mary rates you based on your preparation. theres 5 main things that she'll critique

your training stats (strength and speed)

the amount of food items you have

the weapon youre holding

if youre wearing the golden armor

the amount of npcs you have

and if youre like me (i bet you are) you were VERY sad VERY VERY SO SAD when she LAUGHED!! but LAUGH she will no more because i have made the guide to getting the "perfect" rating

before i give you my MASTERFUL tips make sure youre doing this with a team of slightly experienced players at least. doing this alone is no easy task and i have yet to do that.

enjoy! i guess!

Training

Requirement: Level 5 stat + Level 3 stat

i honestly dont think this is hard to explain. in break in 2 theres a gym and you can train your stats there!

the easiest way to get the max rating on your training stats is a level 5 stat and a level 3 stat, resulting in 8 points total. 4 and 4 will NOT work.

i usually go for strength because treadmill sucks to grind on, but youll want to get 4 strength 3 speed.

you can get a rainbow pizza to boost a stat by 1 via one of those crates you open in the base or the vault kitchen. for the vault kitchen youll want to have 200 bucks to buy the key from the vending machine! DO NOT grab the rainbow pizza. get smoeone else to do it. you cant eat the rainbow pizza if you grab the box, after all!

Food

Requirement: 10 food items

well this one is just easy. make sure to conserve food! i think certain food items (chip bags, golden pizza, stuff like that) counts for 2 or more so dont worry if you only have like. 7. just keep a chip bag or the such handy on you!

a golden apple also counts for like 1 bazillion but i dont think its worth it since you lose a lot of valuable training time by getting the gapple

Weapon

Requirement: The strongest weapon

theres a vending machine in the shop and it dispenses weapons. rare is a golden crowbar (trash), epic is a diamond crowbar (trash), legendary has a few possible "strongest weapons".

theres also a board next to the weaponized vending machine in the shop and if you spam the papers until they all fall off you can see what the strongest weapon is. it could be a bat, a wrench, a rake, just any of the legendary weapons. its a random one.

then you have to gamble until you get it! easy at that. probably the easiest to take care of on this list

Armor

Requirement: Armor lmao

to get armor, you have to go through this 4 step plan

have 150 bucks on you

beat up EVERYONE in the fight zone upstairs (50 people total, can be done with friends to speed up the process by a lot)

open the fight room by hitting the door with level 4+ strength and any weapon

buy the armor from the vending machine in the fight room not the shop

thats all. a little annoying if you arent going for the max level strength route, because youd have to find someone else with 4+ strength but its fine

NPCs

Requirement: Uncle Pete, Twado the Dog, Detective Bradley Beans

ha hahaha HAHAHAHHAHAHA i hate this.

for uncle pete youll have to free him from his cage next to the fight room. you can get the key from inside the kitchen drawer in any spot. DO NOT SWITCH TO A DIFFERENT ITEM OR YOU WILL DROP THE KEY! you can get to the kitchen faster if you craft a parent with a child to make a lockpick

for twado the dog youll.. ugh.. have to go up to the board next to the sign and spam the papers. eventually theyll all fall and reveal the food twado wants! it could be an apple, soda, a pizza or a cookie. if its a pizza or a soda you might as well just restart because those are hell to deal with!

once you find the food he wants go outside of the base and to the left on the "dog trail" where you can retrieve twado and bring him back safely. you only need level 3 speed for it but youll have to be careful with your jumps. DO NOT LET TWADO SLIP ON THE ICE. YOU HAVE TO FEED HIM AGAIN IF SO.

aaaaand detective beaners bones. i hate this guy. so much. but what you need to do is first have 3 speed and a soda (or any means of speeding yuorself up).

you want to complete ALL 3 of uncle pete's tasks (defeat 3 bad guys, then defeat 10, and then beat the pizza boss or clear our the fight room). after he will give you hsi treasured rat!

go upstairs, to the opposite side of the tv where a ladder will be. climb it and make the jump using your speed bonus. if you get the Gym Powerup event the delivery guy brings a ladder which you can place to make the jump much easier but its not necessary really

put the rat on the table and make beans have an allergic reaction and run.

hooray. you did it! you got the perfect rating!

..see why you shouldnt do this solo now?

#break in 2 #roblox #i wasted so much time on this #someone pls use this #donr let it go to waste :'( #reea ramble

[prof-peach]

Do the police know of Murder King's crimes? or is it classified as self defense? Also where does he keep getting the knifes?

They know, The deal is he does not leave the island, and we have to keep an eye on him, make sure no more people go missing. So far, so good...sort of, mostly! We had to go to the courthouse to fight his case, they wanted to put him down, our Island luckily has a representative lawyer, Carl, who handles any and all matters to do with legalities. Him, coupled with our reputation as a rehab facility, meant he got to keep on being a murderous little terror. But he's not done so in a long time now, be that because he's comfortable, entertained, not threatened, or because he's got us making sure he behaves. We give him knives. Hear me out, before you go thinking its a bad idea. He will steal them, we have tried every form of lock and safe, we have child proofed our home, secured them in vaults, hidden them, stashed them with stronger safer pokemon, and still he finds a way to get his hands on them. SO now we have given him his own, with the rule that he only uses them in the training yards, with us for practice, or when requiring one. For example, he uses cutlery sometimes if he's trying to be unassuming or suave, so if he wanted to use a knife, yeah sure whatever go for it. No using them on people or pokemon, if he does, they get taken off him. He likes them a lot, takes great care of them, Grey got a set of two butterfly knives for him special, engraved his name on the handles, he's very proud of them, practices a lot, and so far, has only taken to using them on a handful of pokemon, and from what I've seen, they were quite drastic disagreements, and no one came out seriously hurt. He's clipped me with one, but was very sorry for it after. His name, and his mischievous nature, is somewhat harmless, if you can wrangle him. The staff and visitors are perfectly safe from his antics, unless of course he gets ahold of a staff cart, but we keep the keys locked up, or on staff's person...though he isn't a bad pick pocket. Basically he's awful but we love him and don't want to stifle him too much. Despite his behaviour and reputation, he's defended the island on several occasions, and protects others if need be, i'm pretty sure more because he has an excuse to be a hostile little menace, but still, he's only been like this with invading goons such as Rockets and the likes. For what it's worth, we don't fear blades, handing pokemon weaponry is kind of our deal, the issue is when people or pokemon are unsafe and untrained. For example, Grey fashioned a set of beautiful knives for an Alakazam, who used them instead of spoons. We have a Farfetch'd who's proficient with a rapier, theres an Aggron who lost a lot of her tail, who received a custom bladed tail for battle, and is very good with it. Weaponry is no more or less safe than say the move bullet punch, that can literally put holes in you. Or iron tail? Slice solid rock in half? Man a knife aint that big a deal haha, we train pokemon very carefully, with steady slow progress, highlighting safety above all else. Some do not pass the safety requirements and do not receive dangerous items until they prove they're mature enough for them. The items are obviously not regulation, so no pokemon can partake in gym battles or league fights with them, but many trainers fight for fun, or in adult tournaments where the rules are more lax or broad, so theres plenty of room for it all.

#thats greys thing #finding just the right tool for just the right job #pokemon #prof.peach #murder king

[turtle-steverogers]

I Watched TWS for the Millionth Time So Let’s Over-Analyze This Shit

-TFA theme at the beginning 🥰 (that theme is so fuckin good)

-Sam’s lil jogging route around the Tidal Basin/Mall

-Steve being sassy , just as a general

-Steve’s sadness errands

-Sam relating to Steve on the soldier front and making him feel seen

-Just. Sam Wilson

-The way that Steve’s to-do list in the movie varies from country to country (For instance, the UK list has Sherlock instead of I Love Lucy and The Beatles)

-Also I wanna know Steve’s thai order

-The fact that this whole exchange is happening at 6:39 am

-Natasha drives with all the recklessness of a 16 year old that just got their license

-Stealth Suit Stealth Suit

-Steve deflecting Nat’s date suggestions

-Steve’s aversion for parachutes...reckless endangerment ✨

-Steve speaking/understanding at least a little french

-Tony having designed the Helicarriers to have arc reactor power instead of turbines because “he got a close up look at the turbines” in The Avengers 2012 when he got caught in them

-“This isnt freedom, this is fear” aka the embodiment of Steve’s character

-Steve’s exhibit being in the Air and Space museum even tho he flew a plane once and crashed it

-Bucky’s display having two different birth years (1916 and 1917. the correct one is 1917)

-In the little video of Steve and Bucky, Sebastian Stan was saying “We *are* friends” after the director told them to “act like friends” for that shot

-Steve acknowledging Peggy’s family and therefore acknowledging that their relationship with each other, while still close and special, is not romantic anymore and Peggy telling Steve to move on and start over wtf endgame

-The parallel of Peggy losing her memory as Bucky regains his

-Sam Wilson willing to show vulnerability and not being ashamed of his PTSD and treating Steve like any other attendee and hoping Steve will open up too if he sees that it’s okay to

-Steve’s face after “it was like I was up there just to watch” cuz he gets it and both sam and him had to watch their other half fall

-“What makes you happy?” “I don’t know”

-The Winter Soldier theme is just Bucky’s scream pitched different and made to sound mechanical because Henry Jackman wanted it to sound like a man trapped in a machine

-Why is Steve a lucky bastard that has his own laundry machine

-Steve leaving his apartment building after Sharon points out the music and then SCALING THE SIDE OF HIS OWN BUILDING AND CLIMBING IN THROUGH HIS WINDOW LIKE CAN YOU IMAGINE SEEING CAPTAIN AMERICA JUST CLIMBING INTO HIS APARTMENT THROUGH HIS WINDOW ONE NIGHT

-STEVE’s APARTMENT I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS (i might make a separate post on that)

-The fact that “A Long, Long Time” is playing when he sees Bucky for the first time in the future and the song is about lovers reuniting after the war i’m not saying it’s gay but i am

-He calls Fury “Nick” which really indicates theyre not close in the slightest

-Steve is excellent in adapting under pressure (him immediately catching on and using Fury’s code story: “who else knows about your wife?”)

-Steve is Awful at lying but hes also Excellent at lying

-How tf did Steve get the flash drive in the vending machine without the vending machine dude noticing i-

-“Captain Rogers” “Neighbor >:(“ petty little shit

-Steve’s observation skills are A+++++ as we can see in the elevator scene

-More reckless endangerment like imagine just going through your work day and captain america falls through the ceiling

-Steve stole someones gym clothes after escaping SHIELD. let that sink in

-Natasha has about a billion masks on at all times (“I only act like i know everything, rogers” “the person that programmed this was slightly smarter than me. slightly” “the truth isn’t all things to all people all of the time”) also she’s quite insecure, especially when it comes to being perceived as a good, trustable person

-Meanwhile, Steve’s consistently himself even if it costs him

-Bucky trained Natasha in the Red Room (at least in the comics) so theres a good chance she made the connection between him and Steve and withheld that information

-The honeymoon in New Jersey😭😭

-Steve and Nat both have very different, but entirely valid approaches to situations: Steve’s is that of a tactiction, Nat’s is that of a spy’s. We see this in the scene at Pentagon City Mall

-Steve’s looking for someone with shared life experience and bucky has that

-Bucky killed JFK

-When Zola tells him that his death and life both amount to that of a zero sum, he punches the screen with his bare fist, not his shield, indicating just how much that upset him

-Pierce offers Bucky milk cuz he knows “the asset” can’t refuse or accept offers. He’s taunting him

-Sam drinks orange juice straight from the bottle and also doesnt refrigerate his mustard. There’s also a baseball trophy in his apartment so,,,,, baseball player sam anyone?

-Sam is also a gem who immediately helps out Steve and Nat with no judgement in his tone so they don’t feel ashamed

-Nat straightened her hair somewhere in Sam’s house

-“Cuz thats really not your style, Rogers” “you’re right, it’s not” *rubs sitwell’s arm* “it’s hers”

-Steve and Nat banter Steve and Nat banter

-Sam is just *clenches fist* so cool

-Nat immediately knows where Bucky’s gonna shoot when he lands on the Sam’s car and later she knows how to affectively fight him best because he trained her so she knows his fighting style

-Steve alone saying “Bucky?” was enough to break Bucky’s conditioning the slightest bit

-Sam met Steve like 36 hours ago and he’s already being arrested and made into a government fugitive with him and it won’t be the last time

-Steve is the only one entirely restrained

-“Even when I had nothing I had Bucky”

-Everyone meets Sam and is just like “aight let’s trust him with the highest clearance security information”

-Steve looks super nauseous all through the scene where Rumlow is handcuffing him and later when he says, “he looked right at me, like he didn’t even know me” he sounds sick and choked up

-Steve carries a lot of weight on his shoulders

-Steve’s “Bucky?” after the highway battle and Steve’s “Bucky?” in Bucky’s memory in the Vault Scene being different (in Bucky’s memory, he looks more heartbroken)

-Sebastian’s acting. Just all of it. And the way Bucky just opens his mouth for the mouth guard before he gets wiped....heartbreaking

-Steve realizes an organization that was meant to protect the people has become its own antithesis so hes like “aight. get rid of it” damn that’s the right mindset right there

-In the memory scene after Sarah’s funeral, Steve is so out of it and distressed, that he can’t find his key but Bucky immediately knows exactly where it is and what he’s lookin for

-Bucky was vain as shit and also had money: tailored suit, hair w shit ton of brylcreem in it

-The big breakfast Steve had was at Sam’s house

-The whole scene on the helicarrier between Steve and Bucky is incredible here are some highlights: Steve never backing down from a fight until it’s Bucky he’s fighting, Steve dropping the shield for him, Steve being ready to die if living means he’s living in a world where Bucky’s alive and doesnt remember him

-Their acting in that scene is so genuine and heartbreaking i can’t- i can’t-

-Steve’s got a comm i’m so chances are Nat, Sam and Maria can hear a portion of what’s going down on the helicarriers

-“I’m with ya to the end of the line” is basically “til death do us part” so the equivalent of wedding vows between Bucky and Steve is what ultimately broke Bucky’s conditioning

-When bucky fell, steve didn’t jump after him but when Steve fell, bucky went after him even tho he’s brainwashed. don’t think about steve’s guilt surrounding that. youll only get sad

-Bucky waited until Steve took a breath to leave him

-Sam waited by Steve’s side in the hospital

-In the end credit scene, Bucky and Steve originally were supposed to make eye contact, but the writers didn’t want it established that Bucky remembered Steve until CW

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Every time I watch it from here on out, I’m gonna add a lil more as I notice hehehe

#ca:tws #captain america #the winter soldier #Steve Rogers #stucky #natasha romanov #Bucky Barnes #sam wilson #marvel #marvel shit

[i-am-the-entertainer]

RevieWBY: Volume 6

This has been stated so many times, but Volume 5 was bad. Okay, it wasn’t terrible, like I don’t feel offended by it being bad (unlike certain folks), but looking back on it I don’t have anything to say to really defend it as something Rooster Teeth should have talked up as much as they did at the time. It had some good things going for it, but the amount of problems it had in terms of animation and writing really put a sour taste in everyone’s mouth. So for Volume 6 to deal with all that fallout, it was going to have to do a lot. And to their credit, CRWBY accepted the criticism in stride, and actively worked to make Volume 6 something that people who despised Volume 5 might enjoy.

Still, one had to go into this season with the understanding that some people were never going to be completely satisfied with whatever CRWBY did. Because at the end of the day, the RWBY that Rooster Teeth currently makes is not Monty Oum’s show anymore. No, this isn’t saying CRWBY is in any way disrespecting his legacy, it’s just Monty Oum had a certain method to running the show that only he could really get away with: epic fight scenes, suddenly throwing giant curveballs into the series’ mythology, taking vital time away from storytelling so the fights looked cool. I mean, there are people who criticize the show for doing that now when they didn’t give two shits when Monty did it, because Monty did it in a manner that somehow worked. I don’t know how he did it, but he did, and, well, he’s not here to do it, and there’s no way even a huge animation team can collectively do things like him. And they shouldn’t: if they can use a better industry standard animation engine than Poser, than the fact that Monty Oum didn’t like animating with Maya shouldn’t stop them.

Blah blah blah...this is all about FNDM reception. What did I think of Volume 6?

Well...

Focus

In my mid-volume review I cited this as Volume 6′s strongest aspect, and as far as I can tell this remains the case. By focusing our hero storyline on one group and for the most part the villain storylines on only a few characters who were paired off, Volume 6 effectively told a story that didn’t force the viewers to juggle multiple things and find some semblance of a continuing story. Everything happened linearly and the whole thing made for a more enjoyable watch overall.

Tone

Building off of that renewed focus, this volume felt like it had more of a consistent tone that lasted from beginning to end. RWBY markets itself as an anime show and uses a lot of that anime-style of humor (slapstick and comedically exaggerated emotions), but honestly it’s always played fast and loose with using that humor in a way that doesn’t feel out of place. In this volume it was more consistently used, and that’s largely thanks to the nailed down focus that allowed character interactions to utilize the humor in a natural way. Ruby and Maria Calavera were especially good sources for humor.

Now, things did get a little more screwball when Cordovin came into the mix, but it was interesting seeing CRWBY take that humor to a logical extreme for the first time in a while (not since the Beacon years). It interrupted the tone for a bit, but not in a manner that overall changed the genre this show is going for.

Animation

Beautiful. The improved production pipeline that we’ve heard about really came through. These episodes were the best they’ve ever looked, minus a few errors here and there, showing just how amazing RWBY can look when you give the animators time to add their own touches. There was some really great fight animation to boot: none of the fights this volume felt awkward, and you could tell the animators had a lot of fun.

Worldbuilding/Storytelling

It feels weird saying that Volume 6 did a better job with worldbuilding than Volume 4, which took place on four different continents and traveled across one, and Volume 5, which took place on two different continents and featured the second major skirmish between the villains and the heroes. I think this has to do with just how well it was integrated into the story: insight into the world came at points where the story needed it and when the viewers wanted it. Nothing ever felt like a massive info dump better suited World of Remnant; where there was just too much information delivered that wasn’t relevant to what was happening in the show. Volumes 4 and 5 had this same problem with establishing the world, often telling us too much in a way that just didn’t feel natural to the story. With Volume 6, almost every chapter up until the final Argus arc included some form of that insight:

Chapter 1 showed us how ordinary civilians deal with traveling through Grimm territory––the steps they take to protect themselves

Chapter 2 showed us some aspects of the Mistral criminal underground, not telling us too much about it but suggesting it was much larger than what Cinder encountered.

Chapter 3 showed us...so many things.

Chapter 4 offered a sense of the stakes RWBY faced in relation to all of Remnant.

Chapter 5 and 6 gave us a glimpse at another form of non-city life in Remnant.

Chapter 7 introduced us to Argus, my favorite of all the Remnant cities we’ve seen; plus a glimpse into the life of the silver-eyed warriors; and a more representative depiction of what domestic life is like in Remnant

Chapter 8 told us what Atlas personnel who aren’t Ironwood or Winter are like, plus the long-awaited insight into how the silver eyes work.

Chapter 9 shows something of the effect the Battle of Beacon, and by extension Pyrrha’s death, had outside of our core group.

Things kind of teeter off with the finale arc, but that’s because worldbuilding became a little less important to what was going on. This is kind of a stretch, but the mech fight and the arrival of the Grimm in Argus give us an idea of how large non-capital cities defend themselves without just spelling everything out.

All in all, this volume delivered on some impressive worldbuilding, probably the best the series has had in a while. It wasn’t massive info dumps unless it needed to be (e.g. Chapter 3), and it offered just enough for other important things like the storytelling and the action to still be in the forefront.

Characters

Volume 5, despite the fact it involved the major reunion of Team RWBY after two volumes, felt like it was simply putting the main characters through situations without those situations really doing anything to develop them or define them as anything beyond what we already knew. Some characters fared better on the development front, namely Yang, but others, especially Ruby, just seemed to be along for the ride without us getting any insight into them. This is where the writing issue that came from separating everyone starting with Volume 4 really came to a head: too many different characters with their own story to cover, and sometimes those stories just didn’t do much for the character beyond existing as a situation they were in.

Volume 6 feels like the refutal of that, and that mostly has to do with the fact that we’re not juggling so many storylines anymore. When a major event happens to the heroes, everyone gets affected at the same time. The train crashes? DEVELOPMENT! Jinn’s story? DEVELOPMENT AND INSIGHT! Snowstorm? INSIGHT! The Apathy? DEVELOPMENT! Telling team JNR about Jinn’s story? DEVELOPMENT! Adam ambushes Blake and Yang for the first time since Volume 3? DEVELOPMENT! WITH A HEALTHY DOSAGE OF ANGST!

Surprisingly, the same thing is happening to two of our favorite villains, Mercury and Emerald: even though they only really appeared in three chapters this Volume, we actually got a surprising chance to see how their defeat at the Battle of Haven affected them, and their increasingly strong misgivings about working for Salem. We get more of an idea of them as people rather than Cinder’s blind followers, understanding why they stuck with such an evil person for so long. It’s the most we’ve learned about them since Volume 3, and we didn’t even need lengthy flashbacks.

Even Adam got some more insight. RWBY has been following the path that Adam was an abusive ex-boyfriend for quite a while now, but there was always this underlying thought that he got into the White Fang business for a seemingly noble cause. The problem was the show hadn’t depicted how he got from Point A to Point B. The Adam Character Short offered us some of that much needed insight, putting some of his actions up to this point in a new context, even if it was set-up for clearing up some things so they could get rid of him.

Of course, there are still exceptions to characters getting character development, and honestly they’re kind of glaring ones. Oscar’s development arc, where he came to accept he was his own person, completely happened offscreen (for reasons that I’ve brought up before and will reiterate in the final section), robbing us of really witnessing his growth as a person. I enjoyed some of the stuff Cinder did this volume, especially her escape from the vault and her fight with Neo. But honestly she continues to be a pretty bland villain with little hints at her motivations for being such a terrible person: the Battle of Haven was such an utter defeat for her there needed to be some form of consequence that would’ve affected her character while also telling us more about her. Maybe it would’ve been her strategizing her revenge, which would’ve gotten more insight into how she thinks as a master planner. Instead, we get her leaving the vault, more or less going back to what she used to do but in a more low-key setting, fighting with Neo, plotting with Neo, and leaving with Neo. It felt more like “Hey, she’s alive, and here’s what she’s doing,” which while I appreciate it feels kind of a waste of time if you’re not doing anything with her beyond that. Honestly, a post-credits reveal that she was alive and then a pre-Volume 7 character short detailing how she made it to Atlas that covered her and Neo’s entire storyline this volume would’ve been more helpful.

Before I go on to my most major critique of this volume, I need to address the two Goliaths in the room.

Adam

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: they needed to get rid of Adam. The way things have been going, there was only so much more you could do with his character before he became a nuisance that was overstaying his welcome. I understand people wanted some deeper insight into him, but the fact was he was never introduced to be a major villain to anyone beyond Blake and later Yang. They could’ve had him have a thing against Weiss, but they didn’t, they focused the time that would’ve made him a major villain for everyone else on making people like Roman and Cinder and Salem the big villains. They decided on the path of abusive ex-boyfriend a very long time ago, and if you hadn’t figured that out after the Adam Character Short I honestly think you were being willfully ignorant to what’s been building up.

The best I can say is that Adam and his history is a missed opportunity for some pretty interesting storytelling and worldbuilding, but the fact remains: it is not his story that they want to tell, it is not his show. It may make something interesting to think about, but Adam’s story is supplementary, and works better in supplementary material, a la character shorts and maybe mangas.

Jaune

Y’all need to quit it with the “Hrrr drr Jaune took up time again moan moan Miles Luna is self indulgent” talk, he barely did anything this volume beyond Chapter 9 and having a sister that the whole fandom loved.

Pacing

This...this is where Volume 6 ran into trouble.

Overall, from the season premiere to the finale arc, this was probably the best-paced season of RWBY we’ve ever had. Major story events happened right when we needed them, and for the most part they didn’t drag out story arcs for any longer than they needed to be.

Well...until they reached Argus, that is.

At face value, a lot happened in the final couple of chapters. Chapter 8 gave us Maria explaining the silver eyes, Chapter 9 had the scene with Pyrrha’s statue and the mysterious Red-Haired Woman (I’ll headcanon whatever I want about who she is, Jen Brown) Chapter 10 started the Cordovin fight, Chapter 11 reinforced Blake and Yang’s partnership, Chapter 12 killed Adam, and Chapter 13 had Ruby finally use her silver eye powers to defeat a Grimm and they made it to Atlas. Yeah, it was a pretty eventful set of episodes.

So then why did it feel like it dragged? Here are a couple reasons that I’ve identified.

1. The Cordovin Battle sidelined story arcs for too long

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: the finale arc should not have been split up like that over so many episodes. It afforded us some pretty well-animated fights, some of the best the series has ever had, but the volume hadn’t been relying on that action to keep up the forward momentum, but on actually telling the stories of these characters. I get the need for CRWBY to prove that they can do well-animated fights, but as I’ve come to accept action should never take precedence over storytelling (I know, that’s hard to swallow when parts of the fndm spends hours complaining about how Monty’s not animating the fights anymore). And it’s clear to me in this final arc put emphasis on the action over the momentum of the story, bringing the actually pretty good storytelling the volume had had up to that point to a grinding halt.

Now, historically RWBY fights have delayed telling stories, but it’s never been for too long, at most maybe two chapters? But if you spend three chapters on a single fight, thereby devoting three weeks of your viewers’ time to high-octane action, people are gonna notice that the story is basically going nowhere.

What could’ve made this less of a problem? Well, perhaps establishing Cordovin earlier and making her less of a buffoon would’ve eased my hatred of this arc. Volume 6 lacks a clear antagonist for the story, but the way Cordovin was treated as a big deal in this final battle made it seem like she was taking up that role, except we didn’t even see her until the final half of the volume, and in her debut we couldn’t take her seriously as a villain, much less an antagonist, because of the pure comedy they used in her intro. There needed to be something about her at least a few episodes early––take this with a grain of salt because I think following JNR in Argus would’ve killed the balanced pacing of the first half of the volume (and just made the Jaune haters apoplectic), but maybe a few quick scenes of JNR arriving in Argus and getting rejected by her would’ve been helpful. Or honestly easing off on the comedy of her intro. Such a one-note character who we are primed to not take seriously isn’t interesting as a major force, so identifying her as a more threatening roadblock for the heroes would’ve made the stakes of the final fight a little more...present.

2. Important storylines got trimmed for time’s sake and weren’t addressed properly.

@hypeathon (whose excellent production analyses for this Volume are well worth a read) identified a tweet Miles made back in October, prior to the premiere and most likely when they were finishing storyboards, about “killing your darlings.” For those unaware and who may have severely misinterpreted that comment, “killing your darlings” is when writers have to sacrifice something they love or want to do so that the story works better. The timeliness of this tweet (after they would’ve finished the script but before they’d wrapped on storyboards and voice acting for the final episodes) suggests the writers’ room had to cut a lot of material from Volume 6 (what Miles called a massacre of darlings), most likely due to production limits or not having enough time to cover them.

Think about it: the story from Chapters 1-7 was really good: everything was properly spaced out, the scripts felt polished, there was a balance of action and comedy and legit storytelling, the good pacing lasted longer than it ever has within a single volume.

Then we hit Chapter 8 and suddenly it all changes: storylines don’t get the proper time devoted to them, arcs come to a screeching halt due to the big fight. Unlike previous volumes, where the imbalance was pretty much the entire volume, there’s actually a clear point right in the middle of this volume where things suddenly took a turn for the worse. And the fact is, some of the problems with the story in the final arc suddenly make more sense if you accept that time that would’ve been devoted to it got sidelined in this “purge”: Qrow’s alcoholism suddenly getting brushed aside after Chapter 9 hopefully to be addressed next volume, Oscar disappearing and all his development happening offscreen, Adam’s completely unsubtle return after only a vague hint in Chapter 1 that would’ve been stronger if he’d kept popping up in Argus. I’d even go so far to say the odd pacing of the final few chapters could easily have been the result of the writing team not being able to devote a single chapter to such a grand fight, so they needed to stretch it out so CRWBY could actually animate it within reasonable deadlines, which meant sacrificing time for those arcs that so desperately needed development.

So what overall is gonna fix RWBY’s pacing in the future? Well, I think at the moment the show is too ambitious. If it wants to keep to a reasonable production schedule, they need to control the scale of their finales so that it can be completed without needing to sacrifice other storylines. If it wants to hold onto that ambition and make the finales as grand as they want it to be to do their boy Monty proud, then they absolutely need to delay the actual release of the volume so they can put in the proper amount of time to both the story and animation. And I don’t think anyone would mind waiting a little longer for Volume 7 if it meant this show got the care and attention it needs to tell the story it clearly wants to tell.

Conclusions

Evaluating Volume 6 is impossible without evaluating what came before it. RWBY was never a perfect show, but when you lose someone who was responsible for the show’s popularity in the first place and have to change how it’s made to make up for his absence, there’s going to be backlash. Backlash from the fans, and, uh, backlash from inside the company. The fact is, people are never going to be satisfied with the RWBY that Rooster Teeth makes today, and Rooster Teeth is never going to push out a RWBY that will make everyone happy. All they can really do is keep moving forward.

And move forward they did. Despite my problems with the finale, Volume 6 was good. I’ve always been sort of ambivalent about the show (I was drawn to it by my brother shortly before Monty’s death and have been watching it out of respect for him and the company as creative artists), and even if I thought some of RWBY’s critics were being too harsh (or seriously needed to find something better to do), I didn’t find Volumes 4 and 5 enjoyable enough that I felt like defending them. But guys, Volume 6 did something amazing: it made RWBY fun to watch again. Focused, consistent, and compelling storytelling plus gradually eased-in worldbuilding made for a story that I could follow along without having to juggle so many different plots. Improvements in the overall animation made things nice to look at and when fights happened they were always entertaining, never making me cringe or grimace, always making me think “Hell yeah, beat the shit out of them!” Just like I felt back in the old days of the show.

I feel as though what’s holding RWBY back at this point, however, is adhering to the production schedule that its old vision called for in making its current vision. And it honestly cannot keep doing that. RWBY is a show trying to reach grand heights, and its rushed production timelines and lost story arcs are keeping it tethered to the ground. Yet I can’t help but say: Volume 6 is RWBY at its finest so far. It can’t fix the problems that previous volumes have had, but it builds on the void those problems left to build a story that makes this show feel like something worth following once more.

So, I can safely say I’ll be following along when RWBY returns for Volume 7...hopefully later rather than sooner (again, it needs a better production schedule).

#rwby #rwby6 #reviewby #crtq

[the-vault-of-souls]

1/2 So basically eragon is remade and waaaay more true to the books than That Movie was. Eldest is condensed so that is doesnt drag as much, maybe pribably a lot of montages bc i love montages. Brisingr.... would also have to be condensed but only bc inheritance would be split into 2 movies: the first called inheritance and the second the vault of souls, like the alternative title. Inheritance ends with eragon and saphira flying to vroengard and the screen goes to black

2/2 but then the screen fades into the ceiling of the hall of the soothsayer, and nasuada wakes up, and she hollers and yells, and it ends with the door clanging open and keys rattling, and the last shot are boots on the stairs at an angle where you can see part of nasuadas face, looking scared. Obviously vault of souls would begin right where we left off and we find out that its not galbatorix, only her jailor and theres the short scene with them and then its eragon and saphira flying

Eragon is remade and is actually true to the book instead of very loosely based on it, like That Movie was. ;)

Eldest should definitely be condensed (although I did love the details about the forest, the Elves and Eragon’s training while reading it as a 13-year-old). May I also add that I would much rather have Eragon not hit on Arya as much as he did in the book, because that was awkward (and annoying) and I think it would come across as even more awkward on screen.

Suprisingly, Brisingr is my favourite book of the series and I think it would make a gorgeous movie, if only they left out some subplots that were dragging on forever.

I’m so here for splitting Inheritance into 2 movies! Honestly there were so many PoV’s and so many things happening in this book. Splitting it into 2 movies and writing the script in a way that explores the lore (Elves, Dragon Riders of old. the conflict between the Order and the Forsworn, Galby’s reign), as well as the characters and their relationships (Murtagh & Nasuada, for example) in more detail than Paolini did in the book would give the story much more depth, imo! It’s been ages since I read it, but I do remember that Paolini rushed through some plot points and skipped quite a few scenes which I would love to see. Anyway, I absolutely love your ideas about the ending and opening scenes -the Hall of the Shoothsayer would be such a great cliffhanger, I’d be so here for that!!! And just imagine how awesome it would be to see Eragon and Saphira fly above Vroengard and explore its ruins in The Vault of Souls! *__*

Thanks for sharing your ideas!

-Ellie

#burnthefirstorder #/ #// #/// #section: the cycle #meta #asks #do you think we'll ever get those movies? #*sighs deeply*

[sucuretcannelle]

Known lore:

🌌- I woke up screaming, panting over a nightmare I had already forgotten. A vast, green field lay around me as I sat up and looked around. Where was I? Who was I? Questions filled my head, and before I could answer any of them, I looked down at myself. My appearance was mostly human, but also resembling a goat with thick fur, save for the black wings weighing down on my back, gently flapping in silent wind. I gave up on finding answers, instead picking a random direction, and taking flight.

🌌- I trudged through the endless blizzard, desperately wrapping my wings around my body to protect it from the harsh temperature. I didn't know where I was, only that I needed to find shelter. The tips of my fingers were turning blue. I spotted a small den, praying that it was empty. The past dens and caves have been occupied by various canines. Taking a step inside, it looked empty. I curled in as small as I could, wrapping my wings around myself, the harsh blizzard fading as I drifted away.

🌌 - Waking from my restless slumber, I look around, confused with the lack of light. Feeling around my small den, rovks must have fallen at the entrance. I curse to myself, feeling around the rest of the den, only being able to pinpoint dirt and rock from all sides. The sounds of the blizzard were muffled by the fallen stones, yet it was enough for me to know it was too cold for me to venture back outside. With no other options, I whimper and curl back into myself, accepting my chilly fate.

🌌 - I regained consciousness once more, wondering how I was still alive. 'I wonder how long it's been..' I question to myself, sitting up in the covered den. The darkness still surrounded me as I felt around it again, as if anything would have changed. This time, as I brought my hand down onto the dirt, it sunk, confusing me. I began to dig, not noticing the soil beginning to crumble beneath me. Before I realise, I'm falling. And I black out before I can notice where the hell I fell to.

🌌 - I wake up once more, questioning how many times I've fallen unconscious. I rub my aching forehead, flicking my tail in annoyance. I take in my surroundings. I'm in a cave.. Not the best source of food around here but if I'm lucky I might find water. I humor myself and scream "FUCK!" into the cave, amused by the echo. I look around, realizing I could only go forward. I huff, standing slowly and looking at the pathway in front of me. Having no more options yet again, I begin walking forward.

[Cinna] I look down at myself, then look around the room. Blood covered my clothing, the walls, the floor, and especially the dead bodies "...I finally did it. They're gone. My parents are..." Then realization struck, "Oh no, they're gone— what do I do?"My eyes dark around the room in panic, looking for an easy way out. "Shit. Shitshitshitshitshitshitshit—" I get up and run across the room and grab the vault key. I open it up, grab 9 million dollars and head towards my room. Bloodied footprints followed behind me as I stepped. "Okay, so the plan," I pause, "the plan is to take the money, get some clothes, take some jewelry, and go..." "But what do I do with the bodies? Uhm...Fuck it, I'll just leave them there." And I do just that. I walk into my room, take off the blood-covered gloves and stuff my clothes in a large suitcase. Then I walk back into the room I was first in—my parents room and walk into their closet. A specific outfit caught my attention. It was a pretty blue dress. The dress that my mother wore to go to work. She wasn't here all the time, but I've always liked that dress. I remember telling her that I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. "I guess it's still true," I say as I take the piece of clothing off the hanger and walk out. Blue and red lights flashed through the window. I stopped moving for a moment trying to figure out what they were. "Welp...that isn't good, now is it?"

(A link to the second part cuz theres a shit ton) https://fandomclutterr.tumblr.com/post/653762329525321728/im-just-gonna-compile-a-shit-ton-of-lore

"[stabby anon] I groaned as I rubbed my head. I pushed myself into a sitting position and looked around. I frowned, seeing myself in a room I didn't recognize. Papers and books were scattered around the room. I shakily stood up and picked up a paper nearby by. On it, there was a name, age, and gender. I narrowed my eyes. "My name is Stabby.." I mumbled. I turned my head to the window and noted the raging blizzard outside. I could also swear I saw a figure in the raging snow. Or was there three?"

"[stabby anon] I tore my gaze away from the window and looked down at myself. Grey tank top, black leggings, and white running shoes. What caught my attention was the belt around my waist. I gingerly grabbed the handle of one objected sheathed into it and pulled it out. My breath caught in my throat. It was a dagger. It didn't look like it was made out of any metal I knew of. It was a deep ruby red. I dropped the dagger, my hand trembling. "Where am I..?" I finally asked. But no one answered me."

"[stabby anon] I stumbled until I was backed up against the wall. My hands flew up to my hair and gripped it. I didn't understand what was happening. Where was I? What was this place? Why did I have so many weapons on me? My eyes looked to the floor and spotted a newspaper. Nervously, I bent down and picked it up before standing again. Taking a deep breath, I looked at the front page and froze at the words; "WANTED - STABBY THE ASSASSIN. DEAD OR ALIVE. REWARD $1,000,000". Next to it, my picture."

"[stabby anon] I slid down the wall as the newspaper fell out of my hands. I sat on the floor, my back against the wall. I was speechless. I couldn't even find words. 'I was an assassin? I.. was wanted?' I hung my head and closed my eyes. 'But I don't remember that! I don't remember being an assassin. I don't understand.' I opened my eyes again and rubbed my temples. I spotted the strange dagger again and reached out, grabbing it carefully. I held it up to my face and frowned. "What is my past?""

"[stabby anon] I balanced the dagger on the tip of my finger as a way to entertain myself. I hadn't let the building ever since I woke there. I was surviving off of the rations given. But at the same time, I knew I needed to leave soon. I was running low on food. I tossed the dagger aside. "Woah!" I lent against the wall as, just for a moment, the ground trembled. I frowned and looked out the window. A raging blizzard. "What was THAT? It couldn't have been an earthquake during a blizzard, right?""

"|Prompt Anon| I looked up at the cracks of the caverns. I frowned, still hearing the raging winds of the blizzard. 'Again?' I questioned silently. 'Why do we always have blizzards in winter?' I shook my head before walking into Writer's and I's cave home. I saw her sitting on the carpet, reading a book. I smiled before a thought struck me. 'A blizzard.. A blizzard happened on the day I found her. One happened one the day I went to see Cinna. Could these be connected somehow?'"

"|Prompt Anon| "What's Starlight Mayhem?" I heard Writer asked. I looked up from tending from some vines and turned my head to her, seeing she was reading a book. I chuckled softly. "It's.. another world, in a sense. Do you see the illustrations of the people there?" I smiled at her nod. "Those are what those people look like." "... CJ looks hot." I bursted out laughing at her response, closing my eyes and shaking my head. 'Oh my goodness.'"

"|Prompt Anon| I walked around the library. It wasn't the one Writer knew of in our home. Instead, it was located deeper in the caverns. She would know of it when she was older. As now, however, I needed to do research. "Where could it be?" I whispered. My claw skimmed over the binds of the books before finding the one I needed. I carefully took it out and opened it. It wasn't long before I found the passage I wanted. I sighed and closed it after a minute. "So, we have new people here...""

“|Prompt Anon| I let my claws lightly scratch the rock walls as I walked down the ledges. My eyes stayed trained on the faint lights below. The lights to the library. Whoever that was, they must have fallen in through the roof of it. Grabbing a vine, I jumped off of the ledge and slid down the vine. My eyes still stayed trained on the library. I felt the claws on my other hand grow larger from instinct. "Just who are you?" I muttered to myself.“

"|Prompt Anon| I slid off of the vine and landed on the floor of the library, the wooden planks creaking beneath my weight. I looked around before spotting the falling anon. They were a blank, grey-skinned human-like figure with only a question mark and a mouth on their face. I hummed faintly and flicked my newly-appeared tail, which has barbs on the end of it. I narrowed my eyes before walking towards the person. "Who are you, and how did you even get here?" I hissed, brandishing my claws."

“|Prompt Anon| I blinked as I examined Remington, or as they preferred, Noodles. I slowly let my claws shrink back to their normal size, but still kept my tail out. I lowered it to a non-threatening level before standing up straight. "I assume you don't even know where you are, Noodles?" I asked, looking down at them. Sometimes I forget how tall I am.”

“|Prompt Anon| I hummed as I sat down in front of Noodles. I willed my tail to disappear, despite me still having doubts about this person. "We are entirely underground, Noodles," I began. "This entire cave system is hidden to the Fandom Grounds. Only my adopted and I know of this place." I continued before letting a small smile break through.“

“|Prompt Anon| I shifted my hold on the young girl in my arms as I trudged through the blizzard. I knew my current form wouldn't be enough to keep this child alive. I flicked my tail in annoyance. 'When I get my hands on whoever did this..' I sighed and shook my head before looking around. I frowned. I could have sworn I saw a house before the blizzard hit. But now, everything seemed so foggy. I couldn't even remember where the caverns were. I cursed and held the child closer before sprinting.“

"Writer anon - I curled up in the snow, my body shivering. I didn't need to open my eyes to know my skin was turning a light blue. I didn't know how I got here, or when. All I knew was that I was going to die. I nearly sat up at the sound of a voice in the distance. But I couldn't. Everything felt frozen. Too frozen. I let out a shaky breath and curled up more. I gave a small squeak when someone picked me up. "It's okay, small one," I heard them say. "You're going to be okay. I swear on it.""

[noodle anon] "I slammed the front door open and quickly tried to make a break for it, only to get grabbed by a vine and have it hoist me into the air. "GOD DAMNIT GABRIEL, LET ME GO, HE'S GOING TO KILL ME IF HE FINDS ME", I shout as I turn to look back at the door. My friend who I've known my whole life was standing there, tears steaming down his face as he looked up at me; the vine that was holding me up was coming out of his palm. "I-I c-can't let you go out into a blizzard and d-die! There h-h-has to be somewhere we can take y-you", Gabe stutters out between sobs, he gently lowers the vine until my feet are on the ground, he lets me go. "You know there's nothing we can do! I fucked up Gabe...I have to go somewhere, I would rather die from the blizzard than by the hands of that fucking monster!", I say as I look at Gabe. Gabe nods after a moment, grabbing my arm, he drags me back inside, locking the door behind us. Gabe aggresivly calls out for Sam and after a second the black haired cat hybrid rushes into the room. "I need you to make a tunnel that goes somewhere far from here, I don't care where just get her to safety", Gabe says to Sam, the hybrid nods in response. Sam slams his foot on the ground and the floor next to him caves in as a huge hole appears in the ground. I look down into the hole, not being able to see the bottom wasn't a concern of mine right now. I turn to Gabe and hug him as tightly as I can, not knowing if I'll see him again. Gabe returns the hug with no hesitation, he was violently trembling and I do my best to calm him down. "I'll see you again, don't worry about me, when this all blows over I'll come back...I promise", I whisper to Gabe. Gabe nods slightly as he lets me go, before he can say anything though the front door slams open. I don't even have time to react before Gabe pushes me into the hole, the darkness swallows me within seconds."

"[noodle anon] I felt dizzy as hell and my back hurt a shit ton, it took me a moment to process where I even was...I...was in a library? I sit up after moment, hissing in pain as I do so; the more I look around I start to realize that this must be in a cave of some kind...where in the fresh hell did Sam send me? I don't see anyone yet but I quickly turn into my other form, a blank, grey skinned human like figure with only a question mark and a mouth on it's face."

"[noodle anon] I jump and look over at the source of the voice, even though I don't have a normal face anyone could tell I was straight up fucking terrified from what little expression I could show. "M-my name's Remington but most p-people just call me Noodles. L-long story short I got here by a portal like tunnel a friend m-made to get me o-out of a d-dangerous situation", I say quickly, stumbling over half my words. I scoot away from the new person, I don't stand up out of fear it would be seen as a threat and also I don't know if I can even walk at the moment.“

"[noodle anon] "I have no clue if I'm being honest, I'm pretty sure my friend didn't even know where the tunnel was gonna take me either", I say and I relax a small bit. I take a marker out of my pocket and start to draw something on my arm. "So, is this entire place underground or is it just some kind of illusion?", I ask while drawing."

“I stop drawing and glance up at the...person? I don't think they're even a human at this point. "Please tell me this isn't one of those situations where someone stumbles across a place they shouldn't have and they get killed for it...I've already been attacked several times today and I just fell from god knows how high up so can't attack you even if I wanted to", I say, trying to keep my voice steady.“

“🕳️- Cold. That's all I feel as I float in who knows where. My eyes were sealed shut, my breath shallow, and my body peaceful. I couldn't think about anything. It was like I was at peace. It wasn't until my face scrunched up at the feeling of something hot land at the tip of my nose. The heat spread throughout my body as I flinched in retaliation. Opening my eyes I stared at a light, it gave me a warm feeling. The light wasn't blinding, but comforting. The heat subsided as I reached out to the light. But just as I did I felt something pull me down. And just like popping a bubble, suddenly I couldn't breath. A liquid like substance swallowed my frame whole. The thing pulling me down only tightened it's hold on me as I struggled. I tried to breath but all I got was the disgusting muck. I reached out to the light, getting farther and farther away.I let out a scream. I didn't want to leave the light, I didn't want to succumb to darkness again. I tried calling out to whoever or whatever the light was. But nothing came. Everything was muffled and distorted as I sank deeper. But just as I was on the verge of passing out, a hand suddenly emerged and grabbed a hold of my cape. The hand then pulled me up. But everything went blank as I lost consciousness.”

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