#yang xiaolong

[aspoonofsugar]

Blake Belladonna's Design

This is a quick appreciation of our Cat Girl's design. Its objective is to offer a short analysis by incorporating elements of other metas. Ideally, the end result will be something similar to Yang's post. Finally, this is the final piece of my mid-summer Blake meta spree :) So, enjoy!

JUST ANOTHER CAT GIRL?

Blake's design plays with the idea of "cat girl". Cat girls are common in anime and mangas, but are often overly sexualized. In particular, cat ears are usually presented as an overly cute trait and sometimes a fetish.

RWBY takes this idea and subverts it in 2 ways.

Blake's ears are initially hidden, so that her affinity with cats gets highlighted through other aesthetical elements:

Gambol Shroud's ribbon resembles a cat's tail and it being a whip may reference the infamous cat o' nine tails

She decorates her eyes with cat eye makeup

She is able to make copies of herself, which get jokingly referred to as copycats

In Mistral she wears leg boots, which bring to mind Puss in Boots

In Atlas she wears a catsuit

Blake's cat trait becomes a core part of her identity, which is explored on a double level:

It represents her faunus heritage, which makes her different from humans and discriminated

It is a symbol of Blake's troubled past and of her involvement with the White Fang

So, Blake covers her cat ears to run from both society and herself. Just like a scaredy cat ;)

As you see, with some limitations and worldbuilding, Blake manages to be a cat girl with much depth to her. Still, there is more to her cat design.

FROM CALICO TO TUXEDO

Let's juxtapose Blake's initial concept art with her final design:

What changes is the cat used as the main inspiration.

In the initial concept art it is the calico cat (tricolor cat):

In the final character design it is the tuxedo cat (bicolor cat):

Why the change? Let's explain it by highlighting one similarity (1) and one difference (2) between the two kitties.

1- Both cats are called after a type of cloth:

Calico is a fabric, which originates in India (the set of the Jungle Book - Blake's secondary allusion) and is famous for its colorful printed patterns. I wouldn't be surprised if Blake's clothes in the concept art were meant to be calico made.

Tuxedo is a formal wear, which consists of a black suit over a white shirt and a bow tie. Well, Blake's final design is a revisitation of the traditional tuxedo with a shorter jacket and a bow worn in the hair, instead than as a tie.

The idea of "cloth" is heavily used in Blake's design, which may be one of the reasons why the tuxedo is eventually chosen. This kitty, thus, offers a pretty poignant metaphor.

It all starts with Gambol Shroud, where shroud means a piece of cloth that conceals or protects:

Here come two thoughts:

Blake's bow is her shroud which is why it resembles her weapon’s ribbon (same color and similar material). The bow is the ears, while the ribbon is the tail. Together they complement Blake’s cat design.

Some tuxedo cats are called tuxedo masks because it is as if a black mask covers their whole faces. It is easy to see how this concept fits Blake, who conceals herself thanks to a little piece of fabric.

Basically, Blakes's bow is her tuxedo tie, which is worn as a mask.

2- The two cats differ when it comes to their color:

The calico is a tricolor cat, which is mostly known as having a white coat with some orange and black patches

The tuxedo is a bicolor cat, which has white and black fur

These two color patterns are another reason why Blake has been characterized as a tuxedo instead than a calico. As a matter of fact the black and white dychotomy fits our beautiful faunus girl more.

WHITE AND BLACK = BEAUTY AND BEAST

In old English, Blake's name means both black and white. As a result, she is linked to both colors, which tie with her light and shadow motif:

Blake is associated to the twilight because it is where light and shadow meet. What's more, her musical theme is built on this duality. She starts in the shadows and climbs her way up towards the light.

Well, Light and Shadow are linked to two Jungian Archetypes:

The Light is the persona, so what is shown to others

The Shadow is what is repressed, so the hidden parts

And these two archetypes are explored in The Beauty and The Beast:

The Beauty is the light - she is beautiful, lovable and accepted

The Beast is the shadow - he is ferocious, scary and misunderstood

So, Blake's own allusion can be read as the integration of beauty and beast, light and shadow, so that a new unit (a new individual) is born. This is also Blake's arc in a nutshell. She starts as a shadow because she hides herself, but with time she steps into the light and shows the world who she is.

In other words, Blake's Beauty and Beast allusion is referenced in her appearence not only in her nature as a faunus, but in her color scheme too. She is both beauty and beast, light and shadow, white and black.

This is also why these two colors are incorporated in respectively Sun and Ilia.

Sun is white, as he leads Blake towards the light:

Ilia is black, as she forces Blake to face her own shadows:

Through them Blake integrates her shadows and stops hiding:

This is why her design changes in Mistral in two notables ways:

She gives up her bow once and for all

She wears a white jacket over a black top

These two details mirror Blake's inner journey. She learns to show herself more, so her ears get to be out in the open and the light (white) surfaces. In Beacon, instead, the ears are concealed and Blake is wrapped in shadows (black).

Ironically, this means Blake's design loses the core traits of her tuxedo cat inspiration. As a matter of fact she has no bow tie anymore and the color pattern is inverted, which doesn't work. Why this choice? It is because Blake is going from Beast (black + cat) to Beauty (white + individual). Symbolically, this happens as she shows her faunus trait more openly:

She grows more beautiful (human) as she openly embraces her beast side (cat).

GOLD, BLUE AND PURPLE = HOT, COLD AND JUST RIGHT

The shift from calico to tuxedo brings some consequences to Blake and Yang's complementary designs.

Let's compare the bees exploratory ideas:

As people have noticed, Blake and Yang are aesthetically and symbolically linked since early on.

Here, we have:

Blake with one gold eye and one blue eye

Yang with a blue bandana

This chromatic choice ties into Yang's allusion and design. As a matter of fact our Goldilocks uses colors to represent the too hot, too cold and just right. Specifically:

red/orange is the too hot

blue/green is the too cold

purple (blue + red) is the just right

So, in the picture above Yang's looks play with the dychotomy between too hot and too cold. This same duality is mirrored in Blake:

She is both too hot (gold eye) and too cold (blue eye)

She wears much gold in general (Yang's main color)

The idea is clear. Blake is Yang's hot and cold. In particular, she brings some needed blue in Yang's life. She helps Goldilocks cool down and become more balanced. Similarly, Blake proudly wears Yang's golden tones, as she has to grow more like her Golden Beauty.

So, how have these ideas evolved in Blake’s final design?

Blake has gained a strong association with purple, which makes her Yang's just right

Blake's color scheme has ditched gold in favor of silver, which makes her and Yang complementary

Blake's link to purple is interesting because this color calls back to her family and to the surname Belladonna (beautiful woman in Italian). In other words, it is connected to both Ghira's legacy and her Beauty side. So, it is not a surprise that Blake grows more purple in each arc:

She is slowly blooming into Yang's just right by reconciling with her legacy and by becoming a person worthy of our golden girl.

This transformation is highlighted also by Blake integrating some gold into her:

In both her Vale and Atlas's designs Blake is linked to silver, so that she can complete Yang's gold. Still, in Mistral she has some gold details because this is the arc where she integrates her missing parts. This integration ends with Adam's death and Blake's rebirth:

So, Blake's design tells a story of inner growth, which leads her to stand beside Yang as an equal:

Blake: She's not protecting me, Adam. And I'm not protecting her. We're protecting each other.

This theme is important for Blake's Cat Girl archetype. Cat Girls, thus, are often reduced to love interests, but Blake's arc is a deconstruction of this idea. What would happen if the male partner of a Cat Girl is abusive? Blake explores this concept and tells a story of liberation and development, which ends with a reconstruction of the trope. Our Cat Girl ends up in a happy relationship, but not as a shallow prize. Rather as a winner.

BEASTS, LIONS AND WOLVES

In conclusion, Blake's design alludes to the Beauty and Beast on three levels:

Society= Blake is both human (beauty) and animal (beast)

Couple = Blake and Yang are drawn as complementary

Individual = Blake is both white (light) and black (shadow)

Still, this is not the only fairy tale our Cat Girl ties into thanks to her animal features. Here come three examples.

Blake is Bagheera's daughter and a small panther (a cat) in the Jungle Book

Blake is a Scaredy Cat to Lioneheart's Cowardly Lion. Except that of course the cat is braver than the lion

Blake is Ruby's black beast in team RWBY's LRRH team allusion

This last reference is foreshadowed since Red Like Roses:

Black the beast descends from shadows.

After all, the Beowolves appear when Blake's line comes up.

Moreover, Blake's secondary allusions all come together to strongly link our Black Shadow to wolves. In the Jungle Book, Mowgli is raised by wolves, just like Blake grows up in the White Fang. The name of the group itself calls back to wolves, as it references the title of Jack London's book about a half-dog half-wolf, who fights to be accepted by humans.

Finally, it turns out Blake is not the only Cat, who turns out to be a Wolf:

In short, Blake's design lets her freely move between allusions and references. Not only that, but it is crafted to add depth and thematic resonance to her character and her arc. Not bad for just another Cat Girl, uh?

#rwby #blake belladonna #rwby meta #my meta #yang xiaolong #bumbleby #character design #once upon an allusion

[wuyi1551]

I plan to make a new series of acrylic pendants

This is a comparison with what I did before

#rwby #ruby rose #weiss schnee #yang xiaolong #blake bellodona #cinder fall #raven branwen #penny polendina #winter schnee

[cosmicraelum]

(reuploaded) My piece for Nevermore: A bumblebyzine. @bumbleby-zine

#RWBY #Bumbleby #Blake Belladonna #Yang XiaoLong #RWBY Fanart #cosmic art

[penny-weiss]

Things that broke my heart, RWBY V9C5

CRWBY are coming for my heart in Volume 9.

The memory of Penny is following Ruby everywhere, but Ruby is still insistent she can handle her burdens alone. Then after she insists she is okay, we get a flash with Summer.

Ruby then giving up the broach that carries a mother's promise.

Weiss having flashbacks to the fall of Atlas. At least her team is there for her this time.

Jaune named the rabbit "Juniper." Not to mention the obvious that he is a rusted knight and has clearly been in the Ever After for some time.

And lastly, the team's excitement at meeting the rusted knight disappearing once they realized who it was.

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby v9 #RWBY Volume 9 #rwby vol 9 #rwby v9 spoilers #RWBY Volume 9 spoilers #rwby vol 9 spoilers #ruby rose #iris blake #yang xiaolong #weiss schnee #jaune arc #the white rabbit #the rusted knight #the ever after #crabby is coming for my heart #the writing has drastically improved and I'm out of predictions #I'm crying #it's painful to wait week by week for episodes #I'm ready to continue breaking my heart #but maybe they do it cause the heart can only handle so much at a time #summer rose #penny polendina

[astronnova]

team rwby....................... a

#🧻 sharts #DONT WATCH RWBY GUYS ITS NOT WORTH IT #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiaolong

[starlightshadowsworld]

Thinking of Pride at Beacon

Qrow strutting in a ridiculously long rainbow cape.

Oz making a speech about how love is love, this kingdom was forged in war and if we wish to live in peace we cannot do so without love and kindness.

Blake sharing stories of Faunus tales, how love has always existed in many forms.

It's Weiss's first true pride because Atlas isn't big on the whole, having your own identity and being proud.

Yang and Jaune wearing free big sis/big bro hugs shirt and hugging and comforting those who come from unsupportive families.

Nora taking names to punch homophobes and squeezing Rens hand who squeezes hers back.

Oobleck talking about how burials have been found of two women curled up in each others arms, of letters that spoke of loving a man and diaries of "spinsters."

Port doing safe sex workshops, also giving flirting tips.

Him and Qrow teaching how to tie ties, dress masc, how to apply make up, how to shave.

Glynda and Peach giving tips on how to dress femme, how to walk in heels, changing your name and pronouns on official paperwork, self defence.

Oz guiding students to safe places, both social and for healthcare.

Signing documents there parents won't.

Teachers holding students who come out, who can't go home and finding them places to go after graduation.

Who fight tooth and nail for these kids because they are their kids.

Beacon being illuminated in rainbow lights because it is a Beacon of hope.

#Pride #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia+ #Rwby #beacon academy #ruby rose #Weiss Schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiaolong #jaune arc #lie ren #nora valkyrie #Ozpin #headmaster ozpin #qrow branwen #glynda goodwitch #bartholomew oobleck #peter port

[kzujy03]

#Blake #blake bellodona #yang #yang xiaolong #bumbleby #rwby

[sharkmaker]

 Chapter 6 of my RW-BY-Oh! GX fic has been completed! Please enjoy it! “Blake struggles to save Yang and the missing students in a Shadow Game duel against a mysterious and otherworldly foe.”

#rwby #yugioh gx #crossover #fanfic #ruby rose #weiss schnee #whiterose #custom yugioh card #yugioh card maker #blake belladonna #yang xiaolong

[palaceofpassion]

I remember awhile back you confirmed penny basically has a rocket punch how did Ruby react to seeing it for the first time

Ruby didn't react, how could she? She was frozen in time and space. her normally pupiless eyes had literal stars forming in the center of her silver iris. She... she couldn't... "ROCKET PUNCH!"

"I think you killed Ruby..." Yang said with all the concern that a sister who just saw her younger sister have what could be described as a nerdgasm, could really muster.

"No! Friend Ruby!" Penny of course, was right by her side, only after her arm retracted backwards.

#Penny Polendina #Ruby Rose #Nuts and Dolts #Yang Xiaolong #tempverse

[silentmagi]

Fairy Tale RWBY: Cait-Sidhe!Blake x Dragon!Yang in "Enjoying The Sunlight."

Dragons and cat creatures seem to know the value of lounging the day away in sunbeams, storing the warmth deep in their bodies.

Humans should pay attention to this chapter to learn.

The chaos compels.

If you want to write one of these, please just link me

#fanfic summaries #RWBY #Cait-Sidhe!Blake #Blake Belladonna #Dragon!Yang #Yang Xiaolong

[aspoonofsugar]

Alyx - The Protagonist

Yang: But she was kind of a mean person, right? She lied and cheated her way through most of the book. Weiss: She was trying to survive. The morals of those old stories are so simplistic.

This exchange is interesting, especially because it is not the first time characters interpret Alyx in opposite ways.

Oscar sees her as a child who goes on an adventure, is changed by it and struggles to go home:

Oscar: I thought the idea of falling through Remnant into a new world was exciting. I never understood why she was so sad when she finally made it back home. But now it makes more sense.

Ozpin sees her as a girl, who runs away from her problems in a fantastical dimension:

Ozpin: I was recently reminded of an old fairy tale. A young girl flees the consequences of a choice, to a magical place. But, having never learned from her initial failure, she only succeeds in spreading it.

All of these characters project parts of themselves on Alyx:

Oscar sees her as lost, because he himself feels lost and away from home.

Ozpin describes her as a coward because he himself has run away into Oscar's subconscious.

Yang criticizes Alyx's tendency to lie and cheat because she sees these 2 attributes as the worst of the worst. She is conveniently ignoring she herself has been omitting information about Raven. Not to count that lie, cheat, survive are ideas that apply to Raven specifically. This means there is a part of Yang she herself is not confronting.

Weiss sympathizes with Alyx and refuses the moral of the story as too childish. Which kind of adult would truly believe that lying and cheating to survive is wrong? Except that Weiss's whole arc revolves around her embracing childishness once again and finding the hope and wonder that was stolen from her as a child.

So, everyone sees Alyx as a part of herself, but who is Alyx really?

ALYX - THE CHARACTER

Alyx is no-one, just a shadow:

Just an empty silhouette that can be filled by anyone:

This is what characters are, especially protagonists that are meant to carry a whole story on their shoulders:

Blake: I've read so many stories... I never thought I'll be the moral of one.

Characters are in stories to teach people morals and to convey messages. Basically, they all have purposes:

Blake: Have you ever heard the namy Alyx? Little: Alyx... Is that a purpose?

Maybe this is the real reason why names equals purposes in the Ever After. It is because characters are their purposes in a story... and yet, people are much more. So, what happens when a person ends up making their sense of identity overlap with their purpose?

Little: And is to Ruby Rose your purpose?

They lose themselves. Like it is happening to Ruby and like it has most likely happened to Alyx.

Weiss: What did Jinxy want from Alyx? Blake: Her saddest memories and her happiest.

Jinxy wanted Alyx's saddest and happiest memories. If a person loses both, they lose their past self. They lose who they are. It is probable Alyx chooses to leave the previous "her" behind, but can't forge any new identity, trapped forever to be a character. A protagonist. A fairy tale.

RWBY - THE LEGENDS

Blake: We are doing the same thing Alyx did. We are ruining everything!

Here, Blake is talking about RWBY's predicament in Ever After. She thinks that since they know how the story goes, they should be able to avoid Alyx's mistakes. She is frustrated they can't and overreacts. Why is she so emotional about it?

Because Blake is not talking about the Ever After. She probably means this:

Weiss: Maybe Jaune and Winter were able to get them out. Despite everything. Despite us.

RWBY has seen the adults fail at Beacon, so they strived to be better. They learnt from their mentors' mistakes, grew stronger and chose a different approach. Only to fail in the exact same way.

Blake and Weiss are having opposite reactions to the Ever After, but deep down they are dealing with the same sense of failure.

Blake is filtering it through a fairy tale. They must do everything perfectly here in Ever After, because if they can't, what good are even they?

Weiss is dealing with it by refusing the fairy tale. They messed up so royally in Remnant, that who cares what happens in this bizzarre world, which isn't theirs?

What about Yang and Ruby?

Yang is reacting the same as ever. She is going with the flaw and cracking jokes:

Ren: It's okay to be afraid, you know. You don't always have to hide it with a joke.

Ruby is choosing to push forward:

Ruby: We may not know exactly what's going on, but for whatever reason, this place is putting us on a similar path as a book we all read as kids. I say we follow it and stop pretending we know what we are doing.

She is given the role of Alyx and she is determined to fulfill it. She is stepping once again in the role of a protagonist. And yet, to keep on following an already pre-established script without putting that much mind to it isn't the right answer.

The fairy tale should be a chance for Ruby to face heself: who she was, who she is and who she wants to become.

What if you could leave Ruby Rose behind, shed like an old coat? What might happen, if you don't?

Isn't it interesting that the metaphor of an old coat is used? What is a little red hood if not something similar to a coat? A mantle (similar to that of a superhero for that matter) that Ruby chooses to wear? Who is she outside it? Outside her allusion? Outside her fairy tale?

The same goes for RWBY as a whole. They aren't in training anymore. They are Huntresses and are slowly growing into legends. They saved Haven, protected an ancient Relic, decided the fate of a Kingdom. Ruby is famous worldwide as the young Huntress who is challenging Salem. They are growing into more than just themselves. And yet, this is extremely dangerous, because losing one-self in a bigger tale is rather easy:

Pyrrha: For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all.

This is why they are in a fairy tale they all know deep down, even if they have forgotten. It is so they can reconnect with whom they are. Metaphorically, they are going back to The Girl Who Fell Through The World, so that they can look at it from a different perspective. What teachings would they learn that they missed as kids? What will they discover?

What's sure is that they won't get anything if they keep refusing it (Weiss), not taking it seriously (Yang), being too worried about doing everything perfectly (Blake), following the script without thinking too much about it (Ruby).

ALYX - THE PERSON

RWBY must find themselves again and it would be interesting if they succeed by finding Alyx, as well.

In general, I think Neo, Jaune and Alyx are all characters the protagonists must "find" if they really want to figure out the world and their current situation. It is easy to see how this may work out for Neo, an enemy mad with grief, and Jaune, a friend traumatized and lonely.

What about Alyx?

It is possible she might stay in the background as a symbol. However, some hints suggest there might be more to it:

Weiss: He's adorable! Blake: And a lot older than I remember from the book

The world they are in isn't exactly the same of the fairy tale. Jinxy is much older and Little isn't in the original fairy tale. This is why they have no idea who Alyx is. How can they? They are too little to remember. They are in the Ever After, but in a future version of it. This ties with the idea they are confronting their childhoods as adults. It might also be there is a reason for it plot-wise.

Everyone seems to have their own idea of what happened to Alyx. Maybe the whole point is that they will have listen to Alyx's own version of the story.

THE GODS - THE WRITERS

These meta-themes are important outside this volume and for the story, as a whole. After all, let's not forget the Gods allude to the Brother Grimms. This means they are symbolically "the writers" of the characters. Through this lens, then, the whole conflict between the God of Light especially and Salem can be summarized as a writer not being able to write a character.

The God of Light wants Salem to learn an important lesson, so he comes up with a punishment and an obstacle for her to grow. This is how usually a writer approaches a character arc. However, Salem refuses to change, as the God of Light wants. She refuses to learn the theme he desires. If anything, the result is the opposite of what the God of Light expects. Why is that so?

Because the God of Light is dumb and not such a great writer on his own :P To write humans well he needs his brother's help. That is because humans are a mix of light and darkness, of selflessness and selfishness, of logic and emotions, of mind and heart. He approaches Salem as if she were to function exactly like him, but she is much more similar to his brother. Emotional and driven by her personal wishes.

So, the Gods are the writers and RWBY and the others are characters in their hands. When is it that a character overcomes their author? When they end up communicating something their author did not see coming. In this way, they surprise the writers and help them grow. This is probably how RWBY is gonna solve its conflict.

The girls will end up embodying a theme and a teaching the Gods and Salem did not account for. In this way, they will defeat them, symbolically.

At the same time, a meta-reading can very well apply to RWBY's most existentialist themes.

Let's consider these 2 lines:

Weiss: We are not in a book and even if we were we know how it ends, right over there.

Cinder: Oh, come now. Even if you know how the story ends, that doesn't make it any less fun to watch.

Even if all lives end in the same way (death), it doesn't mean they are not beautiful and worthy to be lived. Even if you know how the story ends, it doesn't mean you should not live it fully. You should dive deep into it, embrace wonder and go through it to the very end. Skipping pages means you are just giving up on new opportunities to grow and bloom.

#rwby #rwby volume 9 #rwby spoilers #team rwby #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiaolong #alyx #rwby meta #my meta

[wuyi1551]

Yang wouldn't have thought that the relationship she made with friends in a bar in the new city would be overturned the moment she met her mother

#rwby #cinder fall #rwby cinder #yang xiaolong #yang xiao long #hellbirds #rwby yang

[therealeagal]

RWBY - season 9

SO. A bit of a recap for you. Team RWBY et al - henceforth known as Team Good Guy - and Team Bad Guy fought in Atlas. James turned into a giant bag with which one douches. Stuff happened.

Then Team Good Guy uses the magic staff left by the gods to create a transit network to evacuate Atlas’ citizens. Then Cinder showed up and fought Team Good Guy and most of the them got knocked into an endless void. Except that instead of falling forever in an endless void, they instead ended up in the Ever After, a fairy tale inspired land somewhat analogous to Wonderland of Alice in Wonderland fame.

That was the end of season 8. Or volume 8 or whatever the fuck they call seasons.

Then Rooster Teeth sold out and put RWBY on Crunchyroll. Through uhhh...various means that are definitely legal stop asking questions I’m not on trial here this is a witch hunt! I have managed to procure viewership of the new season. Or volume. Or whatever the fuck.

So anyway, Ruby wakes up in the Ever After and meets a talk mouse named Little. Then I don’t really remember what happened next but Team RWBY is reunited and meet a talking cat called the Curious Cat who offers to guide them.

Also Neo is also in the Ever After, still after Ruby even though she has literally no good reason to be after Ruby.

Anyway, then middle middle middle, they go to the Red Palace and meet the Red Prince and play a board game with him where the rules make quite literally no sense, which is just as well because it’s just an excuse for an action scene.

Anyway, then middle middle middle and Jaune(!) shows up but he’s an old man now. Probably in his 50s or some shit. Why did Jaune get thrown into the past but all of Team RWBY were sent to the same time period?

Anyway, then Team RWBY and Jaune set out to Jaune’s village while Jaune exposits some and then they get caught in a “punderstorm”, a literal representation of their dilemma, viz a viz whether to trust Jaune or their new friend the Curious Cat.

Well, everyone except Blake and Yang, who are caught in their own punderstorm scenario representing their relationship. Any, middle middle middle, and Blake and Yang confess their love for eachother.

ZOMG! RWBY’S GONE WOKE! THESE ARE THE END TIMES! THE GAY AGENDA! WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!1!!!1!!!1!!!!!

Ha. Just kidding. Insofar as I care for any romantic entanglements at all, I have no great objection to... Bumblebee wasn’t it? Shipping. The horror.

Just so long as we keep Sun far far FAR away, because the last thing we need is a damn love triangle. At least Adam had the good graces to die after he made a point of considering Yang a romantic rival, but he had an out; villains die easier than heroes and Adam’s story had pretty much run its course anyway.

Unless Sun has a climactic duel with like, Tyrian or Cinder (although probably not Cinder because she was the one who had a climactic duel with Pyrrha and that would just be a rehash) I don’t foresee him ever dying.

So anyway, Bumblebee. I’m sure someone is happy, so I’m happy for them.

Then Team RWBY and Jaune go to a village where a bunch of paper starfish are trying to kill themselves so that they can go back to the Great Tree, which is something that the denizens of Ever After do naturally apparently, but Jaune’s gone crazy and won’t let them.

Then a bunch of monsters created by Neo show up and there’s an action scene and then Ruby has PTSD and then the fight’s over and a dam breaks and floods the village and kills all the paper starfishes (but that’s a good thing, so yay?). Then Ruby has a freakout.

Then Jaune freaks out too. Then Ruby bails and end of episode. And now we’re all caught up.

Interesting stuff. I truly hope Neo dies before this season is over, because she stopped being relevant back in like, season 3. When Roman died. Now she’s just stealing screen time from more relevant villains. I mean, maybe not Cinder, because Cinder is overexposed and kinda annoying. On the other hand, she’s overdue for her own climactic death in a mano e mano with Ruby. And there’s still Tyrian. Maybe Jaun goes down in a heroic sacrifice, taking Tyrian with him. I don’t know, just throwing out ideas.

#rwby #rwby season 9 #bumblebee #shipping the horror #ruby rose #yang xiaolong #blake belladonna #curious cat rwby #red prince rwby #jaune arc #neopolitian (rwby) #cinder fall #tyrian callows

[yourtypicalhopelessgay]

Them 💛🖤❤️

#not to exclude Weiss or anything but bumbleby and the xiao long rose sisters are very important to me and I love seeing them together #because soon it’ll be the belladonna xiaolong rose family and I love how Blake is like a big sis to Ruby as well as one of her best friends #bumbleby #xiaolong rose sisters #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #ruby rose #rwby spoilers #rwby x justice league spoilers

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

At Shade Academy

Blake: Yang, wake up, Sunshine.

Yang: Noooooooo.... 10 more minutes

Blake: Come on, Sunshine. We have work to do.

Yang: (grabs Blake around the waist and hauls her into bed) Suffering from...vitamin B deficiency.... Can't function until I receive Blake snuggles....

Blake: (blushes) Okay....10 more minutes.

#bumbleby #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #greenlight rwby volume 10 #thanks for helping come up with the idea! #shen-xiaolong

[starlightshadowsworld]

The way I need Qrow walking, no running to hug Yang and Ruby.

Hugging them with all that he has.

Because he almost lost two of the last shreds of family he had.

And them hugging him back.

Their taller but he's still able to tuck them away in his arms just like he always had.

No words just looking at them, as if looking away would make them vanish.

With a small tearful smile on his lips.

Kissing both of their foreheads and just feeling a part of his soul return.

Him looking up like "bring it in kid" to Weiss and she feels like when they all reunited so long ago.

She's in their arms before anyone can say another word.

And he's laughing, and tears are falling down his cheeks and he looks at Blake with a mischievous but genuine smile.

"In this family we do a lot of group hugs."

Blake blinking in suprise and smiling back, sniffling and nodding and joining into the hug.

Her hand findings Yangs and Qrow just softens.

Nora finds a place in their embrace, with Ren and Qrow nods at Jaune and Emerald like "well?"

And than they slotting in their too.

And Qrow, Qrow looks years younger, before the pain, before the alcohol.

Holding these kids, his kids.

Even if they aren't kids anymore their his.

And than their slowly backing away still in reach and he sees him.

Oscar, because it's a Oscar because he knows it's Oscar and he hadn't left but he might as well have.

Oscar who's watching them all worth a soft smile, before Qrow pulls him in and hugs him.

But he's not just hugging him and they all know it.

"Found him" says Qrow almost a whisper, eyes only on Oscar. "Found him" he says softly, a new trail of tears.

Oscar feels a laugh bubble up, a reminder of their first meeting.

"Found him", says Oscar, only it's not Oscar now.

Qrow rests his head on his.

"Found him."

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