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Hello again…*check watch*…6 months later.

I think you’re missing the point. Humans are definitely in the wrong here. The Faunus don’t have to be “perfect moral angels” just to get basic respect. That should never be required. But also, if the Faunus just leave humans to their own devices, then what reason do the Humans have to accept them when the White Fang has left such a bad taste in their mouth. They have to be the “bigger man” here, so to speak.

Yeah, it’s fucked up and backwards that the Faunus have to earn some level of dignity, but you don’t defeat hate with hate or even apathy. You have the haters realize they’re pieces of shit for hating in the first place. For letting the actions of the few define the many. You have to make them realize there is good in the Faunus.

In an ideal world, none of this would happen. But, unfortunately, that’s not the case.

Ruby Overthrowing Ironwood was Remnant’s Win Condition

Ok, so not directly. Let’s start with the obvious here. Shit hit the fan at the end of Volume 8. Atlas crashed and destroyed both it and Mantle, Salem got the Staff of Creation, and Penny died.

However, we’ve practically been told what the endgame is. Per the Relics page on the RWBY wiki:

It is said that each contains great power, and if anyone were to wield all four they could change the world. In truth, bringing the four together will summon the God of Light and God of Darkness back to the world where they will pass judgment on Humanity. If the Human race has come to accept one another and learned to live in harmony, the Gods will live among them as before and make them whole with the ability to use magic again. If Humanity remains divided and demanding of them, however, the Gods will destroy Remnant and all its inhabitants.

It honestly doesn’t matter what the Relics can do. Salem’s endgame is to bring them together while keeping the world divided so the world will be destroyed and she will hopefully truly die.

Ironwood’s plan was to take Atlas high in the sky to keep the Staff and Lamp out of Salem’s hands. Now, I firmly don’t believe that would work longterm as she’s shown to be very creative with Grimm and would likely manager her way up there one day. Morally, this is also bad because it pulls Atlas’s military might from the rest of the world, leaving the rest of humanity to fend of themselves. The most immediate fallout is, of course, the people of Mantle being slaughtered as a “necessary sacrifice.” It’s then obvious that the rest of history plays out with Salem razing the rest of Remnant before taking out Atlas and claiming the Staff and Lamp and The Brothers return and destroy what remains of the still fractured Remnant.

Ruby, unknowingly, made the best move for the long term. She undermined Ironwood and put out a message to the rest of the world about Salem. That information alone gave the world a common enemy and a common threat. Ruby also put her money where her mouth was and saved the people of Atlas and Mantle from the immediate threat of Salem’s invasion. And we see at the end of Volume 9 that people of all nations have gone to Vacuo. The atmosphere still isn’t great, but this is humanity’s best chance to unite. Because if humanity learns to live in harmony, Salem’s end goal is a moot point.

And we know this is more than likely how the story ends. RWBY is a fairy tale. There’s no doubt in my mind there will be a happily ever after.

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YORSE?! AND BLORSE?!

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tfw your built-in heart rate monitor works wonders as a gaydar

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Adorables ~~

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I feel Yang didn’t even realize her feelings until Blake showed back up at the end of Volume 5. Yes, she was hurt when Blake left, but I don’t think her feelings themselves were fully realized at that point either and she locked away any feelings she might have had for Blake. But at the end of Volume 5, you can pinpoint the moment she realizes those fledgling feelings right about here when Blake returns.

This is also the moment I realized something was going on myself. This is the moment Yang realizes what Blake means to her and they telegraph that to the audience with this shot.

Blake fell in love first, or at least she realized it before Yang did. Argue with the wall

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RWBY VOLUME 9 SOUNDTRACK BACK ON SPOTIFY!!!!

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Blake's biggest fan! 😍

Nora's on drums, Jaune on guitar and Ren on sax 🎷

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We’re having a snow day.

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Happy Birthday Blake!!! 🖤🖤🖤💜💜💜

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It’s been 84 years but here’ the BLACK Trailer version of my RWBY Slices series!

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Yang enjoying the Christmas time 🎄✨

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Can you swim?

Anon, it’s like 49°F outside. I’d die. But in general, yes.

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Another year with Jeff Williams at the top, even if we didn’t have RWBY songs for half the year.

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I cannot agree that those people had to have deserved being murdered just because Sienna targeted them. We don't know much about those people. And while Jacques was a miserly, racist, and all around piece of shit to the end, others in Schnee family were likely on Sienna's hit list too. You can bet Weiss, Winter, and Whitley were on it. No Schnee Dust Company without and Schnees, ya know? Weiss got lucky and got out from under her father's influence and found a friend in Blake.

I definitely don't think the Faunus should have to prove themselves either, but there's definitely an argument that the White Fang crossed quite a few lines under Sienna's and Adam's commands and the White Fang itself needs to do damage control there. Sienna and Adam wanted to make the White Fang into the monsters humans see them as. That image NEEDS to go away. We can bring real world analogies into this. Muslim extremist groups do NOT represent all Muslims. But they do make the biggest spectacles and so they become the standard for the way people see Muslims in general. I've talked to so many Muslims in my life that hate those groups and the damage they do to the Muslim image. The groups then use that divide that they caused to recruit more people into their ideology. It then becomes a cycle. No one is right here and innocents get hurt in the crossfire between the bigots and the extremists.

I guess the point I'm trying to get across here is SOMEONE has to be the side that tries to make amends first. Hate begets more hate begets more hate begets more hate. The Faunus have had it horrible, yeah. But if they just stay in Menagerie and let the Humans fall to Salem, they'd be no better morally.

Ruby Overthrowing Ironwood was Remnant’s Win Condition

Ok, so not directly. Let’s start with the obvious here. Shit hit the fan at the end of Volume 8. Atlas crashed and destroyed both it and Mantle, Salem got the Staff of Creation, and Penny died.

However, we’ve practically been told what the endgame is. Per the Relics page on the RWBY wiki:

It is said that each contains great power, and if anyone were to wield all four they could change the world. In truth, bringing the four together will summon the God of Light and God of Darkness back to the world where they will pass judgment on Humanity. If the Human race has come to accept one another and learned to live in harmony, the Gods will live among them as before and make them whole with the ability to use magic again. If Humanity remains divided and demanding of them, however, the Gods will destroy Remnant and all its inhabitants.

It honestly doesn’t matter what the Relics can do. Salem’s endgame is to bring them together while keeping the world divided so the world will be destroyed and she will hopefully truly die.

Ironwood’s plan was to take Atlas high in the sky to keep the Staff and Lamp out of Salem’s hands. Now, I firmly don’t believe that would work longterm as she’s shown to be very creative with Grimm and would likely manager her way up there one day. Morally, this is also bad because it pulls Atlas’s military might from the rest of the world, leaving the rest of humanity to fend of themselves. The most immediate fallout is, of course, the people of Mantle being slaughtered as a “necessary sacrifice.” It’s then obvious that the rest of history plays out with Salem razing the rest of Remnant before taking out Atlas and claiming the Staff and Lamp and The Brothers return and destroy what remains of the still fractured Remnant.

Ruby, unknowingly, made the best move for the long term. She undermined Ironwood and put out a message to the rest of the world about Salem. That information alone gave the world a common enemy and a common threat. Ruby also put her money where her mouth was and saved the people of Atlas and Mantle from the immediate threat of Salem’s invasion. And we see at the end of Volume 9 that people of all nations have gone to Vacuo. The atmosphere still isn’t great, but this is humanity’s best chance to unite. Because if humanity learns to live in harmony, Salem’s end goal is a moot point.

And we know this is more than likely how the story ends. RWBY is a fairy tale. There’s no doubt in my mind there will be a happily ever after.

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Oh yeah. No. Systemic oppression won't just disappear overnight. But you can bet Ghira is going to show up, leading the charge with the new White Fang against Salem. And THAT will do a lot of good for Faunus in the eyes of humans.

Weiss's racism is... more complex. Sienna took over the White Fang five years before the Black Trailer. Weiss would have been 12 at the time and that's when the White Fang became more of an extremist group. Jacques definitely raised her to hate Faunus, but she also quotes seeing family, friends, and board members die at the hands of the White Fang as part of her reasoning for hating them as well as that leading to her father...give her a difficult childhood. Yeah, I was wrong about Adam being the cause but he definitely helped push that agenda, whenever he joined.

Ruby Overthrowing Ironwood was Remnant’s Win Condition

Ok, so not directly. Let’s start with the obvious here. Shit hit the fan at the end of Volume 8. Atlas crashed and destroyed both it and Mantle, Salem got the Staff of Creation, and Penny died.

However, we’ve practically been told what the endgame is. Per the Relics page on the RWBY wiki:

It is said that each contains great power, and if anyone were to wield all four they could change the world. In truth, bringing the four together will summon the God of Light and God of Darkness back to the world where they will pass judgment on Humanity. If the Human race has come to accept one another and learned to live in harmony, the Gods will live among them as before and make them whole with the ability to use magic again. If Humanity remains divided and demanding of them, however, the Gods will destroy Remnant and all its inhabitants.

It honestly doesn’t matter what the Relics can do. Salem’s endgame is to bring them together while keeping the world divided so the world will be destroyed and she will hopefully truly die.

Ironwood’s plan was to take Atlas high in the sky to keep the Staff and Lamp out of Salem’s hands. Now, I firmly don’t believe that would work longterm as she’s shown to be very creative with Grimm and would likely manager her way up there one day. Morally, this is also bad because it pulls Atlas’s military might from the rest of the world, leaving the rest of humanity to fend of themselves. The most immediate fallout is, of course, the people of Mantle being slaughtered as a “necessary sacrifice.” It’s then obvious that the rest of history plays out with Salem razing the rest of Remnant before taking out Atlas and claiming the Staff and Lamp and The Brothers return and destroy what remains of the still fractured Remnant.

Ruby, unknowingly, made the best move for the long term. She undermined Ironwood and put out a message to the rest of the world about Salem. That information alone gave the world a common enemy and a common threat. Ruby also put her money where her mouth was and saved the people of Atlas and Mantle from the immediate threat of Salem’s invasion. And we see at the end of Volume 9 that people of all nations have gone to Vacuo. The atmosphere still isn’t great, but this is humanity’s best chance to unite. Because if humanity learns to live in harmony, Salem’s end goal is a moot point.

And we know this is more than likely how the story ends. RWBY is a fairy tale. There’s no doubt in my mind there will be a happily ever after.