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Frankly, RWBY is my go-to example of men who write female characters with little to none of the usual pitfalls. Even when they may, there's one element that keeps its head well over water:

The female cast being so extensive as it is.

DireGentleman put it well here but a too common element of certain stories has been that they'll have a few or one female character amongst their sausage fest of a cast. Few of these cases are active intent on the author's part but it does speak to a "male as default" pitfall that is very much rendered invisible by a sphere of normality.

As such, you'll get female commanders in armies where the troops are all shown as male (@swan2swan made a few posts on the "female Stormtrooper" problem) for one and, for a classic example, one female character amongst an ensemble of boys.

Sometimes she's one of them and other times she's an April O'Neil to their Ninja Turtles, a normie to their extraordinary lives. Either way, there won't be much in the way of gender diversity. Especially if it's based on a toy line that subscribes to the "boys or bust" mentality that would rather kill off a profit that pivot.

But that's been dissected better in other posts...

Thankfully, RWBY was created first and foremost as an animated story project before the thought of merchendising was considered since RT wasn't super-duper confident it'd stick. Now it has firmly supplanted Red Vs. Blue as Rooster Teeth's flagship animation (the latter gearing up for its final season even).

This frees it from the shackles of heavily corporatized media that would prefer a toyetic show have a male prescense in the story or one where the female prescense is... palatable.

No character has to be the token girl who's either super bubbly and awkward or super stand-offish before the right guy comes along or rather reserve until the right guy comes along or one of the boys until the right- okay, I've made my point.

And it goes beyond the main cast as there's a smattering of girls and boys among the ensemble so it never feels like they were tacked on when the writers realizes, "Oh sh*t, forgot the estrogen," by Season Four or something.

If anything, Jaune is the token girl but genderflipped. He has healing powers. He has an arc but it all ultimately comes back to the main girls for the bigger plotlines. He's often the normal one that balks at the eccentricities of the girls and their shenanegins.

I mean... HE GREW UP WITH MANY SISTERS AND NO BROTHERS. Does that cliche not ring a bell.

Basically... Jaune is what I feel is the Sakura Haruno of RWBY if I may be so bold.

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❤️🖤

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“Just don’t.” 

How you guys doing btw? You good? I’m good! 

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As much as I don't like Raven personally, I really liked this scene. It showed that the dynamic between her and Summer was strained but they still cared about each other.

And the fact that Raven accompanied Summer to the mission that killed her . . . "You sound just like your mother" from v5 hits different.

Rosebird angst, I'm not okay.

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On the one hand, no Ruby ascension into new form.

On the other hand, HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL I DON’T CARE!

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“These brothers were the tree’s earliest blossoms. And the first to inhabit the Ever After.”

So uh… turns out we had things a bit reversed when thinking the gods created the Ever After…

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RAVEN YOU BITCH YOU'VE KNOWN WHAT HAPPENED ALL ALONG

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The return of the Team RWBY flowers

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Rwby volume 9 ep1 concept art

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You know what moment to me is so precious in the RWBY finale?

Ruby sees Somewhat and is about to scream and throw herself at them but then she stops. She acknowledges, you are your own person and you don’t know me. I already love you, but please, tell me who you are so I can love you for you.

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i want for the sake of comedic value in v10 to open with winter giving a heart wrenching eulogy for weiss for only 2 seconds later team rwby crashes the party and accidentally burns down the memorial picture whilst weiss is like “yeah nothing changed” as she finds somewhere to have the longest bath in her life

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During the kiss, Sun and Nora both woke up in cold sweat in Remnant like “something Bumbleby just happened” /j

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THE SCRAPPED WHEELIE CAT-NEO CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN FREED FROM THE VAULT

I’m so glad they didn’t go with this because it would have felt SO wacky after such a heavy scene, but god are this hilarious to look at lmao

Look at her go. She’s so cursed. It’s even funnier that one of the animation handles make it look like she has a propeller on her hat

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Hot Wheels Neo isn’t real, she can’t hurt you.

Hot Wheels Neo:

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Okay but this is UNREASONABLY funny to me

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Okay so.

Amity made it there (Pietro and Maria are okay confirmed) and you can see that there's a bunch of Atlesian airships but also Mistral ones. Maybe Vale as well but that's a reach.

It's clearly been at least a bit of time since they fell. Enough for apparently every kingdom to send forces to defend Vacuo, at least. Well, Atlas probably had no choice and those are what's left of their fleet, but Argus is still standing, so maybe they sent forces too. Idk

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Okay, CRAZY thought:

Everyone in the story is ASSUMING that Alyx wrote the story of The Girl Who Fell Through the World, because she was the only character from that story who they KNEW was from Remnant.

But what if Alyx DIDN’T actually write the story?

Because Alyx actually ended up being left in the Ever After while LEWIS was the one who made it back to Remnant. And HE wrote the story.

After all, his name is LEWIS.

As in, Lewis Carroll

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pretending the last ep didn’t happen and staying in bee delusion