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I still can’t believe that the hiatus is finally over! I even managed to finish this drawing in time for the 100th episode. <3 

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Artist: mtdykxkxzzy

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You can see how everything is just a random rearrangement of particles in a vibrating superposition.

You can see how everything we do gets washed away in a sea of every other possibility.

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It was inspired by one of the eps

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Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

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grom losering

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I may hate everything about them but I can admit that their vibes are immaculate 😔🙏

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There's just something so kind and lovely about WBY ready to wholeheartedly accept Ruby for whatever she chooses to come back as, that no matter what happens Ruby is still their family and they will love her all the same and there is literally no force in the universe that will break them apart like-- they are stuck in the world of dreams and terror and the exit is there but they will protect Ruby with every ounce of their being from the cat, they will give her the time to figure whatever it is out and there is literally no doubt in their minds that they will be there for her like

The situation is fucked, Ruby was pushed to the brink and her team bore the brunt of her frustrations and Ruby is sorry and her team is sorry but there's this unquestionable love that wraps around it all like a blanket and the very essence of their relationship is how much they care about each other and I think that's so special

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It's pretty interesting that the Blacksmith has records of Hunters from Remnant despite being in the Ever After, so I think they might be Alyx reincarnated.

Both Alyx and the Blacksmith are designed with Afro-centric features in mind (for me the hair locs in the Blacksmith were the main giveaway).

Alyx's waistband looks similar to the colours of the locs.

And we can't forget the quote from the latest episode, "Alyx wanted to fix everything she broke in the Ever After." And guess what blacksmiths do.

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Ok but Summer’s design is basically just Volume 1 Ruby and I mean that as a good thing.

Like, the puffy skirt, the belt/corset, the mid length cape, the frilled trim on the boots, the crossed belt holding the emblem.

Ruby was 100% just trying to emulate Summer even in her earliest days, even before she became the protagonist in our eyes and the story. Of course, we know that come Volume 4 and Volume 7, she changed — and many people pointed out that Ruby’s design then shifted to instead include mementos from the many other people she lost.

(I can’t find it, but there was a post with Ruby’s volume 4 design that circled all the components of Pyrrha and Penny’s old designs that it paralleled - the wrap of her cloak and emblem paralleling Pyrrha’s sash, the high socks like Penny’s, etc.)

The point being, Ruby essentially started presenting herself as an amalgamation of all the people she lost. (There’s a reason Penny’s design elements disappeared in Volume 7 when Ruby learned she was alive. So maybe that’ll see a reappearance, now. Pain.) She’s seeing those people as perfect paragons she has to emulate, to honor their sacrifice.

I think Ruby won’t ascend with Summer’s weapon, or at least I hope she won’t. Because I think she needs to decide who she is for herself, without carrying the guilt and legacy of the mother she lost.

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It makes me so emotional knowing Yang finally has someone who she can be vulnerable with and express herself when she’s sad and not feel like she has to put on a brave face and I love how Blake is there the second she stands up and is there for her and comforts her

It’s just so beautiful to see Yang being held and comforted for once

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God. What if when Ruby picks up Summer's weapon and sees bits of Summer's life flash before her eyes. What if the tree doesn't allow her to ascend in that form? What if it's like "here's a taste of being Summer. But that's not what you REALLY want" and Ruby chooses herself after seeing that?? What then?!?

i know i'm hyping myself up way too high and i'm going to crash and burn by the end of it, but when the blacksmith says this:

"the only thing that can happen to you here is what you want to happen. the choice of what you become and where you end up is yours to make."

and then we get ruby reaching for summer's weapon and white light and. well. last time this volume when white light flashed over ruby she got transported elsewhere

so thanks to that "where you end up" part, i'm fairly certain ruby is going to live through summer's life, to actually get to know what her mother was like and what her life was; "she was the best of us." says qrow. "we've been telling ourselves that failing means we're no-good, but i can guarantee even the best huntsmen in history... they've all lost." says weiss. and now everything feels just so heavy to ruby, the feeling of never being enough never going away.

"i wanted to be the hero. like the stories my mom read to me." says ruby. "you never were the hero." says summer. the blacksmith offers ruby all these weapons and asks her: "can you feel the woman who might hold it? the weight of who she is?"

like. the thread is there. ruby is going to get to see through summer's eyes and feel the weight and how it's not going to feel any lighter to carry. she's going to learn what happened to her mother and it's going to change everything, but more importantly it's going to make ruby realize that she is enough just the way she is and that trying to live up to summer is impossible bc the summer she's trying to live up to in the first place doesn't exist.

i really do believe the tree is going to offer a taste to ruby, bc like. if you're going to make a choice then that choice needs to be an informed one to actually count, and that requires ruby to actually know what summer was like.

and she's going to come out of it wanting to be herself but also with The Deeds to share.

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Maybe if we make jokes about it, it wont be a nightmare anymore :-) :-) :-)

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I saw an interesting post on Twitter about how Yang and Ruby's perspectives on Summer have diverged over the years, and I kinda wanted to put my own soon on it.

Because like, Summer was this huge mythic hero for Ruby, and Yang was partially responsible for telling Ruby the stories about Summer's heroic feats, which were definitely exaggerated coming from the imagination of a child trying to cheer up and entertain her younger sister. But even though Yang was the one to tell these stories, she herself never held that same idolization of Summer that Ruby did.

And I think a big reason for that is that Yang was forced to take on a role that was incredibly similar to Summer's. She wasn't a huntress out to fight monsters and protect the weak, but she was someone who had to take on a great responsibility and act as an example for others to follow, that being Ruby. She likely did idolize Summer much like Ruby did, but I think having to take on that responsibility at such a young age allowed her to understand easier than Ruby that the idea of a "Super Mom" capable of doing anything and never failing was an illusion created to comfort those who needed her protection.

Even though she still held Summer in her mind as a great mom whom she knew would do anything for her and Ruby, I think she learned fairly quickly over the years that the role of provider and protector just wasn't that simple. But she loved her sister, and she greatly admired Ruby's determination and confidence in who she wanted to be, so of course she'd still encourage her to be like Summer. For as much as Ruby looked up to Yang, I think Yang also looked up to Ruby.

Ruby, on the other hand, didn't have this same experience growing up. Instead her coping mechanisms led her far into her fantasies, sectioning off her own grief and building up this figure of Summer as a way to memorialize a mother she never truly got to know and reassure herself that she could fix what was broken so that no other kids like her and Yang would have to go through that loss.

A common point in Ruby analysis that gets brought up is that she was never naive enough to believe that the world was perfect. She always knew it was broken, and what made her special was her determination to help the world in spite of it. And with the context of the most recent episode, we can see that that mindset was tainted very heavily by her perception of how fixable the world was and how much she could truly handle. Because Ruby Rose is exhausted I'm episode 4. Her past self mocks her ruthlessly with her own prior beliefs, torturing her with the knowledge that she is destined to struggle like this forever and ever until she dies like her mother.

And that's where the schism is. Yang knows her mother was human, can relate to her struggles in a way that Ruby could never understand. And that's why in volume 8 we have her trying to reassure Ruby by saying "mom took a risk the day she left, and I don't think it went the way she wanted it to, but she was still my hero." Yang loves her mother, and Yang idolizes her mother. But she's able to frame that in a context that understands that Summer Rose was human and that whatever she did she did for them. That she tried as much as she was able.

Ruby Rose loves her mother, and she idolizes her mother, but she only knows her in the context that she's created for herself. Summer Rose tried to fix the world and failed. She went up against this unkillable monster and failed. Super Mom Summer Rose always knew what to do, how to save the day, and she failed. So what hope did Ruby Rose have to try the same?

Ruby Rose will never be able to grow until she is able to acknowledge her mother as a person and not a hero. Because until she does that she'll continue to hold herself to the same impossible standard.