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strqyr · 2 years

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the broken moon (and sometimes, the sky) and the act of falling (or just the word "fall" in general) are signs of / used as a metaphor for grimmification (or in one case, the presence of grimm.)

the god of darkness destroying the moon, causing its pieces to fall, is a defining moment when salem is left to roam remnant alone. this eventually leads to salem jumping into a grimm pool – with the broken moon reflected on its surface – which causes her to turn into a more grimm version of herself.

ruby's emblem – thus summer's as well – resembles the broken moon slightly when turned on its side. the scatter effect used on their cloaks also resembles it, especially summer's white cloak. with the hound having silver eyes and the mystery of what happened to summer, this seems pretty deliberate.

cinder chose the last name "fall" – being the fall maiden and what not – and is also the only character currently with grimm parts on salem's side, despite a possibility for others to have them being there as well (tyrian's tail).

the event that left beacon being taken over by the grimm is also known as the fall of beacon.

most of the other stuff comes from the songs. when it falls directly has lines like "the shining light (silver eyes) will sink in darkness" and "swallowed by the darkness / soon the moon is bathed in black / the light of hope is taken / and discontent is the contagion".

sacrifice, a song associated with cinder, also says "the moon will sadly watch the roses die / in vain / lost, no gain / but you're not taking me", perhaps alluding to cinder refusing to be taken over by her grimm arm, eventually leading to her getting rid of it.

i may fall on its own is an interesting case, since it accepts that "falling" may be a possibility, but it "won't be by your hand". in a similar vein to sacrifice, i may fall shows refusal to being turned into a grimm, though it could also be read as someone who has already been turned refusing to be controlled that way, instead finding their strength and courage to fight back again.

the sky aspect of this comes with all things must die ("black out the sky", "it's time to accept to abide / admit that the hours arrived / resign, comply / it's time to be one with the sky" – the latter again reinforcing cinder's refusal to be taken as per sacrifice) and the sky is falling ("better cover up your eyes (silver eyes, perhaps?) my friend / the sky is falling"). the sky is falling especially seems to implicate that it's better to just hide your silver eyes, because otherwise your fate of grimmification is sealed.

now how rising saying they're "rising like the moon" goes along with all of this, i'll let y'all decide.

#rwby #salem #ruby rose #summer rose #cinder fall #interestingly enough both sacrifice and all things must die echo closing your eyes #and death #''close your eyes now time for dreams death is never what it seems''#''just close your eyes don't fear demise black out the sky all things must die''#but then trust love is about opening up your eyes so #there's probably something interesting there too that i'm still trying to figure out #esp when connected to cinder because ''trust love the truth is there but sometimes in disguise'' and the truth is her song so #many thoughts

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