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What do we know about Lie Ren?

Ren does not resent Nora. He is not sadly resigned to her presence in his life.  When Nora went down defending him from an Atlesian Paladin’s punch, he instantly forgot about the battle going on around him and the enemy that just struck her. He rushed to her side, more concerned about her condition than anything. He didn’t even think to try looking after himself.

The two of them have been together their whole lives, “even when all other hope was gone”. Ren cannot stand the thought of losing her.

If Ren is silent as Nora spends their debut scene yammering endlessly into his ears, it’s not because he doesn’t care what she has to say and tunes her out. He just doesn’t have anything he feels is important enough to say in response, and he knows he doesn’t have to say a word for Nora to keep their “conversation” going. He lets Nora share every thought that comes into her head.

He also listens to what she has to say. When he finally speaks up, it’s because Nora was making a mistake about what sloths sounded like. He cared enough about Nora to kindly correct her.

He didn’t tell her to shut up. He didn’t tell her to leave him alone or to stop making plans for the two of them to team up. He didn’t even necessarily point out a flaw in her plan, since it hardly mattered what animal she thought she sounded like as long as he knew what sound she would make. If anything, it’s more like Ren decided to play along when he felt Nora was getting simply too silly.

When Nora appears after he defeats the king taijitu, Ren expresses absolutely no frustration that she either failed to get to him in time to fight the massive Grimm… or may have actually sat back and watched him work. He smiles! His first words to her are teasing. He is playfully mocking when he says, “I still don’t think that’s what sloths sound like.” Why is he wasting time acknowledging Nora’s silliness, instead of scolding her to take the initiation seriously? Because Ren has a sense of humor too, Nora’s presence makes him happy, and her antics brighten his day.

When she pokes him in the nose, he’s still smiling! Even frowning at her impertinence, he’s smiling. They’re playing a game with each other, prodding and joshing each other as close friends do. Even correcting her about her own dream could be taken, not as Ren getting fed up with her antics, but rather Ren taking harmless shots at her for his own amusement.

Watch Ren whenever Nora is talking. He’s watching her. He’s listening to her.

Part of the reason why Ren is so quiet is because he has always had Nora to do most of the talking for both of them. He only pipes up after Nora has wound down, generally to let everyone know that he stands by her position. He doesn’t simply let Nora have the first move, he lets her choose the game.

Because Ren can afford to be so quiet, he’s learned to choose his words carefully. When he speaks, he means every word, speaking with purpose and conviction. This puts a strong spin on how he told Jaune that he also considered him the brother he’d never had. Ren didn’t need to say that – he could have deflected Jaune’s confession with a mumbled “yeah, sure” or something else non-committal. But instead, he expresses loyalty to someone he’s only known for one semester – someone who is vastly his inferior as a huntsman.

That also means something, because Ren is diligent. Nora claimed he was “the perfect student”. No one develops his level of combat skill and Aura manipulation without working hard. One could pass that off as “those born outside the walls must fight to survive”, but I think Ren is pursuing a goal. There’s still that village which was so important to him. I think Ren wants to become a huntsman in order to protect that village or another one like it, and he’s willing to devote his life and risk his death for that cause.

He came to Beacon with pride and purpose and preparation, and the leader assigned to him is Jaune Arc. But despite knowing that Jaune is their weakest link, Ren actually sort of sticks up for him. After Nora nervously kept pointing out how Jaune was the one most likely to bring them down in their Teams Round match, Ren asked Jaune if he was really not going to defend himself, which suggests that Ren thought Jaune wasn’t so bad that he needed to take that kind of bad-mouthing without complaint.

It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but Ren can be really sarcastic in his own laid-back way. He favors a dry, off-hand delivery without any spite; a straightman who delivers the tsukkomi just because he thinks it’s funny to tease the bokke. 

Remember when Jaune warned his team that he might vomit during their match? Ren chided Nora for being disgusting with her suggestion that Jaune aim for the enemy. So we know he doesn’t appreciate crude humor, or at least disrespectful behavior.

But since Nora already made the joke, he sees nothing wrong with taking the opportunity to make one of his own. “Still, if you get the urge.“ Once again, we see Ren playing along with Nora, poking fun at someone else (Jaune and the opposing team), and revealing a sort of positive connection to Jaune (in that he implicitly would applaud Jaune for such a maneuver).

He certainly doesn’t groan, roll his eyes, wonder why he’s stuck with these losers, ignore them, or simply walk away. He engages and participates.

“Perfect Student” Ren willingly participated in the food fight, and though he didn’t shout or taunt like the others, he applied himself with real effort, first with the watermelons, and then with the leaks. The only time he ever protested any contribution to a fight is when he was ordered to distract a nested sniper. But though he was understandably sour about the idea, he nevertheless threw himself into it.

Later, he tries to push past his injuries (his ribs must have been bruised at least, and possibly cracked or broken) in order to accompany Ruby on a mission to find Jaune and Pyrrha. Mister “Energetic About Almost Nothing” was exhausted and truly hurt, but he was ready to charge into Grimm infested territory to rescue the rest of his team.

He cannot think of losing Nora. He accepted Jaune as a brother. For someone who has so little family to his name, Pyrrha’s death must have hurt Ren as much as everyone else. When Ruby meets JNR for their journey to Mistral, Nora doesn’t say a word. It’s Ren who offers Ruby assurance and asserts their mutual desire for answers and justice. It’s personal for him, too.

Before their match with BRNZ, Ren summarizes his team’s feelings of anxiety to RWBY with his usual soft sarcasm. He doesn’t act aloof, but actually implicates himself as being nervous as well. He’s less dramatic about it than Nora, and less concerned about it, but he’s also worried about how a poor performance would reflect on their team.

Ren has his pride. When Nora blamed Ren for her being hungry (just before Team RWBY left for Mountain Glen), he snubbed her without remorse, clearly convinced that he had done no wrong. Let’s also not forget how badly he took it when Nora thwarted all of his careful training with a simple tag-back.

One of Ren’s little passions is healthy food, and cooking in general. When he’s cooking up a stack of pancakes, he doesn’t hurry. He takes his time with it, humming, smiling, and looking very satisfied and content. However much skill with cooking he has, he’s proud of it.

When pushed too far, Ren is not above taking easy opportunities for silly pranks or petty vengeance, as seen when he’s getting ready to pour the syrup all over Nora’s head.

Observant as he is, Ren doesn’t bother with paying attention to everything going on around him, especially in terms of others’ relationships. Nora is watching Pyrrha try to court Jaune and parrots Pyrrha’s own advice to Jaune back at her; Nora is the one who crows when Jaune takes Pyrrha to the dance floor, while Ren is confused about what is going on – Nora is also the one who pushes Ren away from the moment that Jaune and Pyrrha were having right before the fateful PvP fight.

Also, it’s likely that Ren doesn’t know Nora has a crush on him. If they’ve really known each other their whole lives, then they would have developed blind-spots with each other; expectations about how each will act or feel, based on past experiences and accumulated misunderstandings. Nora is also good at masking her signals within her usual cacophony of noise.

back to my general RWBY index

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She didn’t get a spanking but she did get grounded from pancakes and neither of them could look each other in the eye for the rest of the week

if anyone finds that photoset from criminal minds could you please post a link to it in the comments i thought i had it saved in my drafts but i was a dumb and didn’t UmU;;

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[jumps on the bandwagon]

have some lovely RWBY themed valentines

sorry for the quality is it obvious that i only have paint?

RvB and Freelancers

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Erza does not deserve this

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Alright so I see a bunch of people eye rolling about how Erza stopped the fight. Not gonna lie when I saw spoilers I did too. But now that I’m seeing it, I love it.

It’s symbolic of the times before and you all can complain all you want about how she struggled fighting the Spriggan 12, but here’s the thing; Natsu and Gray aren’t them.

Also, yeah Erza stopped the fight, but here’s the difference, she leaves without a scratch all the time. But not now. One hand is completely charred black the other is cracking like ice. She’s no long invincible against them. It’s not about strength, or ships, it’s about the development of Erza, Gray and Natsu. This is their thing.

Gray actually stopped and thought and Natsu actually looks like Natsu again, no looming shadow around his eyes. Yes Lucy and Juvia are special to them but Erza is such an important person in their lives as well and no other character can change that fact.

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BNHA chap 109

First of all, I gotta say that this entire “provisional hero license arc” is becoming more and more intriguing at every following chapter, but the last week I reached my peak of curiosity and interest with this chapter because I’m really starting to believe that Horikoshi-sensei’s utmost talent lies in his accurate characterisation and in particular in character development.

I’m really happy about this because I think that a manga has to be not only well drawn, but also very well-written and this is exactly what Horikoshi-sensei is doing so far with his story, so really, thank you very much sensei!!

Now, about this chapter in the specific, it goes without saying that what impressed me the most was the completely focus on Ochako’s introspective point:

Needless to say, I LOVE THIS SCENES SO MUCH basically for two motives: first, because they’re so well drawn, second, because they emphasise damn well on Ochako’s internal dialogue and conflict, both with her expressions and thoughts, and I really loved this sooo much!

Essentially, Ochako has admitted to herself her own feelings for Deku (and this already made me so excited, because I didn’t expect this now, but later in the story) but at the same time, she knows that she can’t think about them right now because, in order for her to achieve her own goal to become a great heroine, she needs to “shut them down” and focus on what she needs to do. She acknowledged that what made her fall in love with Deku was his own determination and effort to become a great hero, because he never gives up and always gives it everything to reach his future goal, and Ochako admires him for this very much; for her, Deku has practically become a very important (if not even the most important) inspiring figure of what kind of hero she’d like to become in the future, and so she intends to “follow” him by giving her best from now on.

At first, Ochako’s decision made me a bit sad, because when you know that you’re in love with someone, “shutting your own feelings down” it’s a very painful and difficult thing to do, but I have to admit that in her shoes, probably I’d have done the same exact thing. This because I understand a bit what her line of thoughts is, because very often it happens that when you start to admire someone very much for who he/she is or/and for what he/she does, you (subconsciously) start to think that you want to become like them or that you want to become a better person like them (i.e. wishing to become more mature, more responsible, stronger, nicer, friendlier, etc) and this very likely turns just into falling in love with that person, and I think this is exactly what is happened to Ochako.

She started with meeting Deku and knowing him better and better along the story, then she started to really admire him for his own great efforts for his objective and, at the same time, she was becoming (unknowingly) attracted to him, to the point of feeling jealous for him when other girls (Mei, the Shiketsu girl) and this confused her very much, because she (probably) never felt like this before for anyone. After all, she’s really a teenager girl with her first love experience, so it’s very understandable her behaviour so far.

However, what she also understands very well is that she’s not a regular teenager in some way, because she’s aspiring to become a heroine and the path to pursue this goal is very arduous and hard, so she cannot let it happen to distract herself even more from achieving it, so (at least for now) she only needs to put aside all of these “distractions” because, in order for her to become a great hero like (her beloved) Deku, she hasn’t other choice and I think that this is really very admirable from her.

Now I don’t know how Horikoshi-sensei is gonna handle this development on the future, but I think (and wish) that sooner or later, she’s gonna “let her feelings out” in some way, because I’m pretty sure that however her feelings are gonna be very important not only for her own growth, but also for the progression of the story (and Deku).

However, what I wish the most to happen is that vice versa Deku will face something really similar about Ochako, starting with observing her more focused behaviour on her own goal, her efforts and accomplishments, acknowledging that he’s fallen in love with her even way before, when she was the first one to ever help Deku as a real friend (also to be the very first person of his age being very nice to him) and that she has always been a very special person for him, having given to him even his hero name and being her the one having his back many times since the very beginning:

I really really wish for this to happen very much, but this is just my (fervent IzuOcha shipper) desire, because that would be so much sweet and interesting too for their development!

For now I end with this, we’ll see what will happen in the future BNHA chapters!

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Who’s face came into your mind?  [insp.]

For @chitogekirasaki ★

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This was requested a lot and it was a pleasure colouring it^^

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Requested by lizzy-momoi-phantomhive

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high school au requests from heartfiilia & gatachalada: “lucy wearing natsu’s jersey during gym class” & “gajeel being the typical brat that teases their crush”.

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Totally the bottom one Fairy tail *∆*

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aww 

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Okay, this has been on my mind lately and I just need to say this:

Any Christians out there, please, remember your actions reflect on your whole religion. I don’t just mean “I gotta pray more” and “I need to overcome these temptations,” not that they aren’t important too, but please, live your faith.

First off, never, ever, hand out cards or pamphlets that look like money but actually preach about how money is the root of all evil and we shouldn’t care about riches. That’s a lesson for people who have disposable income and extra money lying around, not people struggling to get by. I know there were saints who lived ascetic lifestyles and deprived themselves, but that was a willing sacrifice. You don’t impose a penance on a complete stranger, you have no idea what that person is going through.

Second, be considerate of things like mental illness. I’m hearing a lot of people say that their parishes chock up their depression to “not having enough faith” and “giving into temptations of despair.” I’ve even experienced it firsthand - they shun you and judge you and label you as sinful or lesser because of your illness. Don’t just assume someone’s disability is some kind of divine punishment or their own fault.

Please, you’re making atheists faster than ever because of things like this, you really need to be careful.

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Kakeru Naruse ★ Sept. 14th

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✻════════ ●♛● ════════✻ Manga : Nisekoi. ❤ ——————————————————— ❤ Mangaka : Komi Naoshi. ✻════════ ●♛● ════════✻

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