Maybe look off campus ruby

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New name idea for rosegarden

Rose gold, or Hazel silver

Raven: *turns into a raven*

Qrow: *turns into a crow*

Robyn:

Robyn: hey. Hey Oscar

Glynda, seeing Ruby just standing in the middle of the courtyard, staring at the sky:"…is she…is she okay?"

Ozpin, having seen So Much Shit: "Yeah, she's fine. Give her an hour and make sure nobody touches her."

Glynda:"…why…?"

Ozpin:"She might kill them."

Glynda:"wat-"

I know a lot of heavy stuff is happening right now for you both, but is there anything that makes you both smile?

"They are interesting young men... even if Nora will sometimes chase them off for asking too many questions."

RWBY BEYOND EP2

Do you ever feel life is laughing behind your back

banana boy forever

Spoilers ahead

So, very interesting episode Firstly the lose end,Alex was from vacuo pre war as many suspected.

Then the merge of Oz and Oscar, many people will be scared by how "quickly" Oscar has merged but remember it has been a good few months by the time RWBY&J get back to vacuo and we don't know when this little chat is happening.

I wonder if Jaunes journal will become significant later, perhaps he'll get inspired by it and know how to trap Salem or something

But I am enjoying it, it brought a tear when JNPR where at that campfire and the art style is still amazing.

what ruby says: are we supposed to be mourning jaune’s make-believe friends?

what she means: jaune labeled all the paper pleasers with the names of his friends and then abused them for years, ignoring everything they told him about what they wanted because he decided they needed to be protected from themselves because they were too stupid and crazy to really mean what they said. (<- ruby knows exactly how that feels.) the paper pleasers were not his friends, he didn’t care about them—they were props to make him feel better. they were real people whom jaune treated like toys to play pretend about saving his real friends. the make-believe hero. and ruby’s supposed to feel sorry for him now? because his little toys finally broke free?

what wby+j probably hear: ruby thinks it’s stupid to care about the paper pleasers because afterans aren’t real people.

what salem says: none of that matters anymore! why spend our lives trying to redeem these humans when we could replace them with what they could never be?

what she means: the brothers never had the right to massacre humankind, and now that they have abandoned remnant, abdicated their responsibility as its creators, and sworn not to return until they’re summoned, nothing they say matters at all. these humans did nothing wrong and the gods gave them nothing and deserve nothing in return; trying to ‘redeem’ these humans is a waste of time because there is nothing to redeem. the only person alive who needs redemption before the gods is salem herself, and she doesn’t want it—because to redeem herself is to justify what the brothers did, to say that the slaughter of the whole planet and the millions of years she spent in solitude were good and just and fair, and she knows that isn’t true. the gods want humans to grovel for forgiveness? the gods can burn.

what ozma probably hears: salem wants to kill everybody because she doesn’t think these humans are real people.

Extremely interesting and delicious dynamic I didn't know I needed: Oscar and Ozpin being on good terms but that very bond means they are torturing each other without even MEANING TO.

Also Ren calling them both YOU TWO and being sweet and supportive of the both of them. Best boi after Oscar and Ozpin tbh. Ozpin being a de facto team member of JNPR makes me really happy, even if it's because of unfortunate circumstances.

Oscar getting told stories of Beacon: YOU LAUNCHED THEM OFF A CLIFF???

Oz: And you fell through the bottom of Atlas. You can see that it pays off to know how to land

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Oz watching everyone getting thrown out of a train, Ruby literally falling down a cliff, Oscar getting shot off Atlas--: Getting thrown into the emerald forest via catapult was a good idea and I'm tired of people pretending it wasn't

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Just some Beacon Initiation thoughts

one thing i haven't seen brought up yet re: the Crown is Jax and Gill's claim of being royalty is because of their father's story about how once a generation one person in their family has the crown shaped birthmark (them both having it at their father's insistence is later questioned when Coco notes Gill's looks like a brand, implying she wasn't born with it and her father put it there, or neither of them actually were born with it and it's complete crap) and that they're descended from Vacuo's royal bloodline

well now we have someone in Vacuo who actually knew the last Queen of Vacuo and could confirm/deny the veracity of that claim

Using Fairy Tales to explain RWBY Plots: Leo’s Weapon

Leonardo Lionheart is known for his allusion as the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz. His weapon is a wrist-holstered plate that can extend into a dust-loaded disc. It has a cross design, which leads me to believe that it is based on the Cowardly Lion’s Medal of Courage given to him by the Wizard of Oz.

This is especially evident in the concept art, which better shows the details of his weapon. The designs appear fairly similar to medallions or badges.

His weapon’s name is Stalwart, meaning loyal, trustworthy, dedicated. Obviously Leo is very much not that, which is why the lion’s medal of courage is stripped from him in his final moments.

“Coward”, Salem.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I want to bring it out into the open. Each of Oz’s main lieutenants are deconstructions of character archetypes. Well, everyone in RWBY is a deconstruction, but no one wants to talk about Oz’s circle.

Oz, as has been established, turns the fantasy mentor archetype on its head. Not only is he a bad mentor, whose reckless manipulations never pan out, but the protags are far less forgiving of his string-pulling, and have every right to be. Unforgiving, that is.

Ironwood, similarly, deconstructs the ‘Anti-authority authority figure’; like Captain Kirk (Star Trek) or Nick Fury (Marvel), they are military leaders who frequently chaff under their more politically-minded peers and superiors, who undercut those peers whenever they can. Unlike Kirk/Fury, this is not a sign of open-mindedness, but arrogance and stuborness, the childish belief that the rules don’t apply to him.

Qrow is much like Wolverine (X-Men), a ‘Bad Boy with a Gold Heart’ who is kept in line by his loyalty to the mentor figure. In this case, Qrow’s Too Cool For School ‘tude is coping mechanism and mask for the massive chip on his shoulder, and because his self-worth was tied so deeply to serving Oz, when Oz is exposed as the fraud he is, Qrow has a full-on breakdown.

Lionheart was much harder to figure out, given that he only has one volume’s worth of screen time, and even we don’t get much of Lionheart’s personality. I theorize that Lionheart was intended to be a dig at the ‘Token Minority’ archetype. For many series in the old days, there are these characters who supposed to represent different races. (For example, Haji from Johnny Quest). Unfortunately, these characters are rarely given any personality outside of ‘Guy from foreign culture’, often becoming a deliverer of stereotypical views showrunners have. CRWBY has stated that Lionheart was made headmaster by Oz as a token for Faunus (The series allegory for minorities), but we hear nothing of whether that did any good (Blake even accuses Oz of not doing more for the Faunus). It’s possible that because of this Lionheart lacked the strength of self to stop Salem from forcing his compliance with the attacks on Vale and Haven.

Theodore hasn’t appeared in the series proper, but from the book Before The Dawn I could make a case that he encompasses the stock shonen hero; destructive strength and a destructive temper. The problem is, he’s a moron, but lacks that ‘Deeper wisdom’ even himbos like Son Goku and Monkey D Luffy have to compensate. And his dependence on the smarter but weaker female lead (In this case, Rumpole) to handle the more organizational aspects of his position means that when Rumpole is compromised, Theodore’s shoddy management nearly causes Shade Academy to implode.

I'm happy so happy we got some art of oscar

https://x.com/MZschiegnerVO/status/1766604501333471497?s=20

the epilogue has inadvertently made me realize that most of my crown of choice related theories involve team strq somehow.

summer? searching for it at beacon.

tai? in some way guarding it.

raven & qrow? extra keys to the vault.

maybe the real crown of choice was the reunification of team strq, after all.

i need to watch rwby volume 6 for the first time again that was such a fucking cultural reset for me

Do you expect to be called Oscar, Ozpin or something else at the end… if worst comes to worst?

"Especially from those who have a hard time… coming to terms with how much we have changed from the person they once knew."

Got to draw Ozma for the RWBY 10th Anniversary art collab! #GREENLIGHTVOLUME10