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fancyhats-and-fennelsbuds · 9 months

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A short comic about the AU

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The Golden age

In the early days of house of Mickey entertainment, when the business was still run by a handfull of people, the first chosen characters to be put as the face of the pizzeria were: Bambi, Pinocchio, The Good Fairy, Monstro, Dumbo, The Hippo ballerina, Chernabog, and Snow white. The newly built animatronics were barely a mechanical structure with vinyl external shells, with prerecorded voicelines, sounds and movements that singed from a stage. At the time it was enough to inspire tons of little fans to arrive and join the fun in the pizzeria. It was the 40's.

There was a supposed incident happened around the Snowhite animatronic, but no text or information about that survived to our days.

The Silver Age

Leaving behind the doll-like era of animatronics, the Silver Age desired to create much more durable robots, for the time and fans to come. Resistant to time and usage. The characters were built with lighter metals and hard plastics for the external shells, and the endoskeleton enhanced with steel. These are the heaviest animatronics that house of mickey ever created (after Chernabog ). To balance the huge production costs, some parts were left uncovered by the external shell, leaving out the bare endoskeleton.

The line was sadly famous for the tons of problems it gave to the technicians and whoever adult crossed their space. Although they did not possess advanced technology (like later generations), these animatronics seemed to possess primordial specks of personality , which often hampered the work of anyone who had to repair them. They seemed to favor spite only for adults, while not giving any signs of aggressiveness towards the childrens.

The Bronze Age

Their production was followed by a new creative team that wanted animatronics to reach a new level of realism. Newer endoskeleton technology, enhanced realistic movements and augmented mobility of the facial plate through silicone for upper part of the face capable of more complex emotions. (As always for economy, the parts that would have been covered by the clothing were not made of premium vinyl and weren't textured.) Freshly out, the bronze age line was greeted with enthusiasm by the visitors, with a positive decrease of children getting frightened by them. Barely a month after their debut tho, some parents begun to report complaints for the uncanny-ness brought by characters, one parent in particular said to have accidentally mismatched the Sikes animatronic for a friend till this one fully faced her, scaring the lights out her. These reports, weren't considered in the least by Mickey’s entertainment until the event that caused the animatronics decommissioning in block. One day, during the birthday of a little girl were requested as guest stars some Oliver and company animals characters. In the middle of the party, the girl began to show signs of respiratory distress and minor rashes that quickly alarmed the parents, due the little girl's only allergy were to cat hairs, and inside the establishment were sure to be none. The fact got silenced, and shortly afterwards the Bronze Age characters were put aside, bringing back to the stage the Silver age animatronics. Some independent newspapers tried to spread the incident, with vain results. There were rumors from an anonymous interview of a ex former visitor whom witnessed a fairly morbid event, happened during the re-enactment of the "Black Cauldron" before the models were decommissioned. "(...) that day i noticed that some of the Horned king’s teeth were missing, and i thought it was due to a pure aesthetic choice (...) at the end of the performance when the stage floor cleared, i noticed something strange on the ground. I gave a further look because my eyes fell there and... my god. It were teeth. Actually human molars."

The Renaissance

This was undoubtedly the most advanced line of animatronics in terms of performance and technology for their times. Advanced mobility to the point of being able to almost perfectly emulate the movements of their cartoon counterparts, plus some rather special effect for few of the characters (Ariel and Ursula being water resistant, Quasimodo and Tarzan huge athlete like ability to climb, etc etc).

The enlargement of the company brought more wealth into the pockets of the production, allowing the decrease of the unpainted parts in the body of the animatronics. The only flaw of these models was that to increase the movements, the outer vinyl shell was sacrificed through the partial removal of material nearby the joints making the endoskeleton rather visible. ( To prevent children from squeezing their fingers between the joints, House of Mickey entertainment decided not to allow this lines of robots to attend parties as guest stars but only appear on stage or in meet and greet booths.) . The others most surprising news about this line, was the technological growth of the animatronics ' artificial brains. While the Bronze Age ones had a basic idea of being just copies of cartoon characters that acted in fake environments (sometimes even by forgetting to be robots), from the Renaissance onwards the animatronics were totally aware of their state of being "interpreters" under the command of a company. Some robots have shown signs of sharp increase of cynicism and sarcasm after this update.

During the 1990s, House of Mickey built a bigger space for the pizzeria, becoming the huge structure known to this day. There are six major themed zones, that become the home of our beloved heroes, henchmen and villains for them to get back to, for whenever they are not busy doing shows on stage or greeting fans around the pizzeria. Have you already tryed Tarzan's jungle of sliding tubes? Esmeralda's mirrors-maze? Bolted climbing with Mulan?

Post-Renaissance

With the arrival of 2000, the new animatronics began to comply with tighter safety laws. The new line of robots was made with safer external shells without openings to the internal endoskeleton parts (safe from the risk that small fingers may remain closed inside), removal of cigarettes, cigars and pipes from some characters (Mrs Packard, Hades, John Silver, Toon patrol etc etc), and the closing of some of the attractions in the themes areas considered dangerous as : Clay pigeon shooting with Clayton, Hide-and-seek in the elephant cemetery with Scar and Hyenas (contrary to popular belief, the attraction was closed because too many children stumbled on the scenery forcing the animatronics present to stop the game to calm down the childrens. ), Archery and javelin throw with Philoctetes, Self defence class with Maggie and Buck , and Jim's Solar flying jumping in the vertical wind tunnel (mourned by many fans and also Jim animatronic). History of first aid class with Dr. Sweet was just upgraded to a formative experience rather than a historical show and tell of the 1900's medical procedures after some parents lamented that watching a dummy's femur being saw in half could be horror inducing in a child. (Alas the kids loved it).

Non-textured parts are practically absent here. The technical department has however decided to save in accessories and partial clothing, deciding to make it part of the aniamtronic's outer shell.

Rumors said that someone in the animatronic programming department was so determined to make animatronics realistic that they filled their artificial brains with terabytes of all the possible notions that character could canon-ly know. Although Milo’s animatronic would gladly help you doing your history and languages homeworks, House of Mickey entertainment would rather wish you didn’t. To anyone that is continuely asking to the Vinny Santorini animatronic to be taught the process of making a bomb, you are warned. Next time you'll be reported to security.

Memo for the reader : Animatronics cannot harm in any way our lovely fans! Each character is equipped with advanced facial recognition, capable of distinguish between invited guests from external subjects. Your kids will rejoice to know to being kept in check by our heroes and villains watchfull eyes! Visitors should't ever be found crossing the private or prohibited areas. In case of incident, injury, death, or burning Mickey's entertainment will be not responsible of such accadiments.

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Weiss’s Forest Animals

Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed she looked up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, "If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame."

White, red and black are Snowhite’s 3 colors, that are referenced in Weiss’s Vale looks:

She is clearly designed to resemble a snowflake, but her outfit is red on the inside and it has a little black just above the heart.

The juxtaposition between white and red is very interesting:

Weiss superficially appears white and cold as snow, but on the inside she is red of passion and warmth.

It is just another way to convey our Snowhite��s duality, which has been there since the White Trailer:

Weiss is both the Heiress and the Huntress, the Queen and the Knight, Snowhite and the Prince.

She must appear white, ladylike, the fairest of them all to complement the finest of them all Schnee Dust Company. She is not just that, though. She is childish, spunky and has an aggressivity that burns within her.

Her challenge lies in reconciling these 2 sides, which can’t be done unless she faces her own version of the forest animals:

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In the Disney movie, Snowhite meets the animals in the forest and befriends them through singing. RWBY takes this moment and declines it in 2 different and complementary ways.

On the one hand the Heiress sings to the Atlesian elites to navigate her society, which is just as insidious and lonely as a forest. On the other hand the Huntress fights the Grimms, kills them and brings them to her side thanks to Glyphs.

It means that Weiss must overcome her society, inspire her people and family to be better and maybe even befriend the Faunus. However, she won’t be able to do that until she fights her own beasts, accepts them and incorporates them into who she is:

Winter: Excellent form! Now think to your fallen foes! The ones who forced you to push past where you were, and become who you are now. Think of them, and watch as they come to your side.

This is how black finds its way in Weiss’s color scheme. She wears a white mask of perfection and coldness, which must be cracked to show the feelings burning inside (the red blood on the pale skin in the trailer). Going under the surface, though, also means to face the shadows in one’s heart (the black Grimms).

By going through this process, Weiss stops being the Schnee Heiress and finally becomes “Weiss”, which still stands for white, but not like snow (Schnee), but as a synthesis of all the colors and shades she is made of.

So, let’s run through her Snowhite allusion step by step to discover how Weiss tames the forest animals and what each Grimm means for her development.

MIRROR MIRROR

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,

Who in this land is fairest of all?

Snowhite’s story starts with the Evil Queen asking the magic mirror who is the most beautiful woman in the kingdom. Weiss’s story instead begins with her wondering:

Mirror, tell me something, Tell me who's the loneliest of all?

The Evil Queen is obsessed by her exteriority, while Weiss can’t piece together her interiority. This works because mirrors are symbols of both the outside and the inside. They reflect people as they appear, but they are also linked to self-identity.

In general, exteriority and interiority should not be seen as opposites, but as 2 complementary parts of the same person. The persona adopted to interact with others and the hidden feelings are equally important to build one’s sense of self.

The problem arises when these 2 parts are separated and in conflict with each other:

Everything my mind wants In conflict with my heart Fighting back surrender But every day I'm falling more apart Mirror what's this thing I see? Who is staring back at me? A stranger to my heart has filled my mind Mirror Help me Who am I?

Weiss’s magic mirror does not work well because instead of connecting her 2 sides (the mind and the heart, the Heiress and the Huntress, the white and the red), it separates them becoming a limiting barrier. Its magic turns into a curse.

The only solution lies into destroying the barrier by bringing the inside out. This is not easy and we see Weiss struggling with it throughout the whole story as her coping mechanisms evolve and change.

Initially, she finds balance in the act of singing. As stated above, singing is how the Heiress tames the fierce animals around her. To be more specific, there are 2 beasts Weiss is trying to subdue with her voice:

You were the one Who held me down and told me I was heading nowhere

Mirror mirror Tell me something Can I stop my fall?

Weiss sings to Jacques and to the Mirror, so her songs are meant to pacify both her father and herself.

On the one hand she sings on her father’s orders. She acts as a cute pet he can exhibit and make profit of. On the other hand she uses her songs to convey her feelings. She discusses her loneliness and insecurities in ways she is usually forbidden to do. It is both a performance and self-expression. It is exteriority and interiority combined.

What breaks this initial balance?

Like in the fairy tale, what starts the protagonist’s journey is an unexpected image appearing in the mirror:

You, my queen, are fair; it is true. But Snow-White is a thousand times fairer than you.

I'm the loneliest of all

The Evil Queen sees a Snowhite more beautiful than her, while Weiss sees a Snowhite, who is cold and lonely. Both dislike what they see and arrive to the same conclusion. To make that image disappear, they must “kill” Snowhite:

THE HUNTRESS AND THE BOAR

The Evil Queen tries to kill Snowhite by ordering a Hunstman to finish her off, whereas Weiss heads to Beacon to become a Huntress and shatter her Schnee Heiress persona.

As a result, our Snowhite ends up in a wood full of wild animals :

The poor child was now all alone in the great forest, and she was so afraid that she just looked at all the leaves on the trees and did not know what to do. Then she began to run. She ran over sharp stones and through thorns, and wild animals jumped at her, but they did her no harm.

She finds 7 friends:

And learns what’s like to live as a normal girl instead than as a princess:

The dwarfs said, "If you will keep house for us, and cook, make beds, wash, sew, and knit, and keep everything clean and orderly, then you can stay with us, and you shall have everything that you want."

"Yes," said Snow-White, "with all my heart."

In this new environment, she kills a Boarbatusk:

Just then a young boar came running by. He killed it, cut out its lungs and liver, and took them back to the queen as proof of Snow-White's death. The cook had to boil them with salt, and the wicked woman ate them, supposing that she had eaten Snow-White's lungs and liver.

In the fairy-tale, the Evil Queen tries to assimilate Snowhite’s beauty by eating her, but fails because she actually consumes a boar, which mirrors her inner bestiality. Weiss instead makes the Boarbatusk a part of who she is through her semblance:

It might not be one of her most iconic or even most useful summons, but Weiss’s Boarbatusk is still important:

Port on Weiss killing the Boarbatusk: Bravo! Bra-vo! It appears we are indeed in the presence of a true Huntress-in-training!

It is proof that she is a warrior that fights Grimms, so it is symbolic of her Huntress side, which she nurtures at Beacon and that becomes stronger with time. This growth is well conveyed through Weiss’s 2 Beacon songs:

Time for you to learn It's my turn I won't be held down any longer I've waited all my life and finally it's here It all begins A chance to win A dream that's been a lifetime An endless vast uphill climb The day I've waited for is drawing near

Some believe in fairy stories And the ghosts that they can't see I know that I could do so much If I could just believe in me Mirror mirror I'll tell you something I think I might change it all

Both It’s My Turn and Mirror Mirror part 2 highlight Weiss getting more active. She starts pursuing the life she wants and she reveals truths to the mirror instead of always waiting for answers. This development goes on until the Fall of Beacon where she receives a setback and is forced to go back to Atlas. However, Weiss has changed too much and can’t return to the person she once was. The boar has already been eaten.

This is shown during the Schnees’ concert, when she initially tries to wear her usual mask of perfection (The Heiress):

Only for her repressed feelings (the Huntress) to violently come out:

By this point, the Heiress is not able to tame the inner beasts anymore, not even with such a powerful song as This Life is Mine, that she performs at the charity event. Weiss needs a new approach to channel her wild side into a positive direction and who better than a Huntress can deal with rebellious animals?

Weiss: The Schnee family legacy isn't yours to leave. It's mine, and I'll do it as a Huntress.

SNOWHITE’S DEATH

The conflict between the Heiress and the Huntress reaches its climax and Weiss is on the brink of a metamorphosis. However, in order to truly transform she must in a sense “die”:

White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony wood! This time the dwarfs cannot awaken you.

At its root, Snowhite is a story of death and rebirth with the protagonist dying and coming back to life 3 times. Snowhite is killed firstly with a corset lace, then with a poisoned comb and finally with the famous apple. The deaths represent a change that involves body (the lace wrapped around the white skin), mind (the comb in the black hair) and heart (the red apple). Only after Snowhite evolves on all 3 levels she is ready for love and happiness.

As for now, Weiss has died twice. Firstly psychologically and then physically. Both times she metaphorically passes away, so that she can be reborn by unlocking a new summon, a symbol of her development and refinement:

A KNIGHT BORN FROM A MURDERED HEIRESS

Jacques: Which is why you are no longer the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company.

Jacques’s answer to Weiss’s wish to become a Huntress is to target her status as Heiress and to take it away.

Being the Schnee Heiress is what Weiss initially builds her self-identity on. She has contradictory feelings over her title, but she still perceives herself in relation to it. Having such a defining part of who she is stolen suddenly is a huge shock, that qualifies as a psychological passing. Weiss’s first death is the death of the Heiress.

After this trauma, Weiss finds herself trapped in her personal glass coffin:

They said, "We cannot bury her in the black earth," and they had a transparent glass coffin made, so she could be seen from all sides.

Jacques: From now on, I'll be giving you the full attention you require, starting by keeping you where I can see you.

Her room becomes a transparent prison where her father can always see and control her. It is a tomb for her to rot in.

However, Jacques understimates his daughter’s strength. Sure, the Heiress might be dead, but inside Weiss the Huntress is still alive:

She has more power and freedom than the Heiress and succeeds where her counterpart fails:

She is able to tame Weiss’s inner tourmoil by giving it a shape more refined than a beast. From an out of control boar to a ready to serve Knight:

Weiss’s Knight is her most famous summon and its meaning is complex and layered. First of all, it is originally an Arma Gigas, so Nicholas Schnee’s armour possessed by a Geist. Secondly, Weiss’s is able to summon its arm for the first time against an Atlesian Paladin-290, a robot overwritten to attack people.

These 2 details bring some thoughts. Weiss’s Knight is important both for her legacy theme (the Heiress) and for the girl’s indepedence (the Huntress). On the one hand Weiss purifying her grandfather’s armour from an Evil Spirit stands for her taking the family back from Jacques. It is a first step into making the Schnee legacy truly her own. On the other hand the juxtaposition between Weiss’s Knight and the Paladin shows that Weiss has no intention to live as a pawn. She is not a robot obeying orders, but a true hero that follows her mind and heart.

Finally, the Knight ties into Weiss’s duality by contrasting and complementing her Princess imagery. She is girly and wears a silver crown, but she is also a strong fighter that fears no opponent. Her initial battle against the Knight is about refusing the helpless little princess label. She is a full fledged individual and not a walking stereotype waiting to be saved. She is Weiss Schnee and needs no Knight in shining armor. As time passes, though, Weiss discovers she herself is a brave Knight and projects this part of who she is out through her semblance. This manifestation of her interiority becomes the Champion, who breaks the coffin and frees the Princess:

RISE OF THE WHITE QUEEN

Once psychologically free, Weiss is ready to physically leave home in order to explore the world as a Huntress. However, this new path is full of dangers:

The Queen Lancer embodies Weiss’s Royal Test and stands as the last obstacle between the girl and her new life. This is why our Snowhite’s fight against it is so important and pushes her to the limit. Throughout it she is asked to sacrifice a fighting style rooted in Dust and privilege (losing the cargo) and to embrace her new-found inner strength (summoning the Knight).

This battle is a physical test to Weiss’s determination to truly change. Will she manage on her own? Will she be fine without her family’s safety net? The whole conflict is really just a representation of the inner struggle between Weiss’s 2 halves:

There's a part of me that's desperate for changes, Tired of being treated like a pawn But there's a part of me that stares back from inside the mirror Part of me that's scared I might be wrong That I can't be strong.

And its resolution is not neat and tidy:

The Huntress defeats the beast, but fails to tame it, so her victory does not lead to integration, but only to mutual destruction. Similarly, The Knight kills the Queen, but does not save the Princess, who is instead kidnapped and threathened to be handed back to another “Evil Queen”:

Weiss: You're going to ransom me back to my father, is that it?

This happens because Weiss needs to prove herself a true Knight in order to escape the Evil Queen inside her once and for all. So, she is challenged over and over to define herself outside the Schnee name:

Vernal: Let's see what the Schnee name really means.

Weiss: I'm more than a name.

Vernal: Hm, prove it.

And she is negated any help from her family:

Weiss: What's going to make this complicated is when my sister finds out I didn't make it to Mistral. You know my sister, don't you? Winter Schnee? Special Operative of the Atlas Military? She's in Mistral now, and when she hears I'm missing, it won't take her long to find me - and you.

Vernal: Oh, I don't know if it's more funny or sad, but you're clearly out of the loop. Your sister isn't in Mistral anymore. No Atlas personnel are in Mistral anymore. General Ironwood closed the borders and recalled all his little troops and tin cans. No one is coming to rescue you.

These trials are to force Weiss to come through as her own person. However, this is not an easy process as it is obvious in Weiss’s fight against Vernal. There Weiss underperforms, can’t really find her rhythm and is mortally wounded by Cinder:

This is Weiss’s second death. Despite her determination and inner strength, the Huntress can’t survive such a cruel world completely alone. Luckily, it turns out this is not necessary for Weiss to truly become her own person. After all, self-identity is built also through the relationships with others. Even the bravest Knights need Princes:

Then the prince said, "Then give it to me, for I cannot live without being able to see Snow-White. I will honor her and respect her as my most cherished one."

As he thus spoke, the good dwarfs felt pity for him and gave him the coffin. The prince had his servants carry it away on their shoulders. But then it happened that one of them stumbled on some brush, and this dislodged from Snow-White's throat the piece of poisoned apple that she had bitten off. Not long afterward she opened her eyes, lifted the lid from her coffin, sat up, and was alive again.

Weiss dies, but Jaune saves her. The girl, who starts as a lonely Princess has now friends who love her for who she is. With their help, she can overcome everything life throws without depending on the Schnee name anymore. In this way, Weiss escapes her family’s control and can finally be crowned on her own terms:

The Queen that the Knight initially fights and the Huntress refuses is now purified of her negative traits and can appear in all her glory. She is not a tyrant or a ruler, but a protector that gains strength from her people and gives back twice as much. Not only that, but she is also a Lancer, a kind of Knight ready to fight side by side with her comrades. The Queen Lancer is then a synthesis between Weiss’s 2 initially conflictual halves. She is the Queen and the Knight, the Heiress and the Huntress, the mind and the heart. Weiss has finally become one:

Now this conversation's finally over, Mirror Mirror, now we're done I've pulled myself together now My mind and heart are one Finally one.

MIRROR MIRROR PART 2 - SNOWHITE’S QUEENDOM

Weiss leaves Atlas as a dead Heiress and comes back as a reborn Queen. This is why her new outfit looks so much like royalty:

It is like in the original fairy tale, where Snowhite becomes queen and meets her evil stepmother again:

Snow-White's godless stepmother was also invited to the feast. After putting on her beautiful clothes she stepped before her mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who in this land is fairest of all?

The mirror answered:

You, my queen, are fair; it is true. But the young queen is a thousand times fairer than you.

The Evil Queen stays a prisoner of the mirror until the end and fails to change. Weiss instead transforms and breaks the mirror in the process:

But I don't intend to suffer any longer Here's where your dominion falls apart I'm shattering the mirror that kept me split in pieces That stood between my mind and my heart This is where I'll start

Shattering the mirror is Weiss symbolically “killing” that side of her she initially despises. What’s surprising, though, is that this part is not really one of Weiss’s halves. Snowhite should not get rid of the Prince. The Knight should not murder the Queen. The Huntress should not cancel the Heiress. The point of Weiss’s story is to unify these contrasting facets of her personality. What really has to go is the barrier between them, so the mirror itself. But what does the mirror really stand for?

The mirror is a metaphor for abuse. It is the psychological prison Jacques has locked Weiss in since childhood, so that she would slowly grow into his reflection. Through this perspective, then, the mirror becomes the embodyment of Jacques himself and the image Weiss initially sees and doesn’t recognize is that of her father. As time passes, though, the Huntress faces her own shadows and integrates with them, while the Heiress slowly learns those undesirable parts of herself are actually Jacques. This is why in This Life is Mine she sings both to Jacques and to the Mirror, as if they were interchangeable. It is because she now sees they are actually the same.

Weiss pushes her father into the mirror, breaks it and finally exorcises him from who she is:

Weiss: Since Beacon, I haven't really had a choice. Father's view of the world no longer matches with mine.

In this way, the initially ad odds Huntress and Heiress discover themselves as one and defeat Jacques, not just psychologically, but physically too:

The Knight and the Queen work together and take their Kingdom back:

Robyn: What do you think a Kingdom is? The people, or just the chunk of land they live on?

Weiss’s Queendom is not the SDC, but rather her family, who was in pain because of the “Evil Queen”. Snowhite frees it and Willow, Whitley and Winter can now all start a path of forgiveness and reconciliation.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER

By the Atlas Arc, Weiss has fully grown into a powerful Queen ready to fight for her family and people:

Weiss: This is my home. And I'm not giving it up without a fight.

However, she is defeated by an Evil Stepmother even more powerful than Jacques (Salem) and by an older woman, who is envious of her (Cinder). Snowhite’s Queendom falls, Weiss’s family is left broken and she herself symbolically dies a third time:

It is still too soon to say if this is meant to be Snowhite’s third and final death or if we are gonna get some other reference to the fairy tale (like the famous and still missing apple). What’s sure is that our young Snowhite still has at least one more beast to tame:

The Nevermore is once again a representation of both the Heiress and the Huntress. On the one hand the Heiress is able to summon it because of her semblance (her legacy). On the other hand the Huntress has defeated it thanks to her team (her family).

In general, the Nevermore is an important symbol for team RWBY. It is the first Grimm they kill together and it keeps appearing in the girls’ respective arcs as a recurring motif. This has probably to do with the ideas and images associated to this specific Grimm. “Nevermore” is the opposite of “Happily Ever After”. It figuratively means “the end of all hopes” or a loss from which it is impossible to recover. This, coupled with the Grimm resembling a giant raven (an omen of bad luck), makes the beast a perfect metaphor for a bad ending. RWBY taking it on becomes then symbolic of the impossible odds they are trying to conquer.

Considering this, Weiss purifying the monster and turning it into an ally has the potential to be an extremely meaningful moment for her personal journey, RWBY and the story.

No matter how dark the situation might seem, the Nevermore will be changed into a Happily Ever After, the black will transform into white and Snowhite will be reborn once again:

The animals too came and mourned for Snow-white, first an owl, then a raven, and finally a dove.

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