Okay but, in the intro, after Cinder blows her off?
Emerald is pissed, actually.
That’s not normal sad “senpai didn’t notice me” Emerald, she’s got her fist clenched, she’s got Angry Eyebrows, her whole expression just looks bitter—she’s finally starting to actually resent Cinder.
Once upon a time, Cinder cared enough about keeping Emerald loyal that she would have noticed this and throw Emerald a bone. But right now she’s so far up her own ass she just takes Emerald and her other underlings for granted, and that’s gonna bite her in the ass big time.
Tonights topic of thought: Ruby is really fucking ruthless in the fight with Harriet and Marrow, actually.
Blake and Yang are fighting Elm and Vine—she knows they can handle that just fine, they’ve been through worse together, and frankly there’s no way Blake hasn’t been holding back showing off her full abilities to them just a bit until now. That leaves Harriet and Marrow, and she knows that together they could have given her and Weiss a very hard time.
But she also knows the AceOps all very well at this point—all that training cut both ways. So what’s the first thing she does?
Pricking Harriet’s pride and then rushing off like that wasn’t just her being a cocky little shit for the sake of it, that was calculated.
Hit her where it hurts and then just annoy her constantly throughout the fight, make her get tunnel vision and leave Marrow to fend for himself with Weiss—and she knows Weiss can handle Marrow because Weiss can turn that from a 1v1 into a 2v1 all on their own.
Frankly, in every group fight the AceOps are in Marrow is ENTIRELY carrying the team without any acknowledgement of that fact, so leaving him without support ensured their defeat.
Pretty sure they’ll find a way to blame him for that, though.
This was such a beautiful little moment. She's exhausted. Angry. Disappointed. Worried. Scared.
The Nora Oscar knows, the bubbly, happy-go-lucky one, is too tired to make an appearance. Oscar expects an absolute bombardment of affection, but Nora is drained, physically and emotionally, and is just relieved to see this boy alive.
Because the last time one of her teammates went to face the bad guy alone...
What Ironwood said was “I don’t know what I would do without you” but what Winter heard was “if you leave or betray me I’m going to Get Worse and it’ll be your fault”.