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Keep seeing people talking about how the V9 finale was followed by Rosebird shippers screaming about gay moms going on a super secret mission together before Ruby's character development, but did anyone talk about how after V9E8 the Spicecream shippers went fucking insane over one (1) briefly shown painting made by Neo's Semblance before following up about the psychological trauma, mouse murder, suicide allegory, and demonic cat possession?

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RWBY really said "God is a tree that presents as a tall metal blacksmith with female traits, and the guys who made the human world are just two brothers who got kicked out of the house for fucking things up"

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Okay, so I know the ending of Volume 9 was all triumphant and hopeful, with RWBY + Jaune getting portaled to Vacuo, where they're going to reunite with the friends and family who have presumed them dead...but. BUT. They're arriving when they're needed most, right? So just...imagine the comedic value of Volume 10 starting with their triumphant march towards Vacuo, and then before they even get there, like in the first two minutes of the episode, there's a giant explosion because "when they're needed most" is right as Salem and Cinder arrive to help Mercury, Tyrian, and possibly some Vacuo allies of theirs fuck shit up.

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What color are your eyes?

As we know from Maria's observations, the light of the silver-eyed warriors comes from the God of Light. He's the god known for creation, and the Blacksmith helps people create the next versions of themselves. The silver-eyed warriors can use their light when they want to protect life, and the Blacksmith helps reincarnate people into the lives they want.

I just think that's interesting is all.

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NONONONO YOU CAN'T FUCKING DO THAT TO US YOU CAN'T TEASE US WITH THAT RAVEN AND SUMMER SCENE AND THEN LEAVE US HANGING FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG—

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Not me obsessing over how Weiss has repeatedly ended up positioned a bit apart from the others (most notably when they were talking about Ruby) ever since the Jabberwalker fight in V9E7, and how she was the only one to fumble in battle there, and how she's the one who best understands what Ruby's going through, and how she's there for everyone but no one is quite there for her, and how obvious all of that makes the fact that while Blake and Yang have each other and Jaune has his emotional support...giant white jackalope friend?...Weiss's partner is painfully absent.

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So...whoever had "Lewis wrote the story as an homage to his sister who wanted to stay and fix the things she broke but got probably killed by a magic demon cat" on their bingo card is WINNING this game.

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Who else has been waiting for today since last Saturday and yet is still not ready for today's episode? :)

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Owl House finale end sequence micromoments I've honed in on:

RAINE'S FOX PALISMAN IS ADORABLE!!!

Basilisks just chilling and being free, good for them :)

Vee's shirt is a Demon Realm/Human Realm Exchange Program shirt, also her dress in the dance pic is adorable

Ed being a professor is awesome, his classes would be so fun, AND HE STILL HAS HIS BAT FRIEND

Em leaning into her healing magic is so nice to see, also her haircut is <3

Alador is now getting steady sleep and showers, I'm so happy for him

Boscha's Grudgby ribbon

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Hey fellow Owl House + RWBY fans, how are we feeling today? Ready for both a series finale AND the aftermath of last week's trauma breakdowns? Because I sure as hell am Not. :)

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Got on Tumblr after watching The Episode expecting to be flooded with posts about the Bees and was delightfully, unsurprisingly, overwhemlingly correct

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Yes, yes, Jaune is old, Summer's weapon...but let's talk about Weiss's trauma about losing her homes, plural, surfacing again. Also how when the Rusted Knight tells them to run from Neo's Jabberwalker army, instead of following Yang and Blake, Weiss immediately looks for Ruby to make sure she's safe and able to go with them. (I'm practically making a mental catalogue of all the White Rose moments this season okay?)

On the Jabberwalker note, let's also talk about the fact that things made by Neo's Semblance can now withstand multiple solid hits when they used to shatter at just one. And about how she can make an army of Jabberwalkers. Also about how she probably now knows where Team RWBY is, and either the Jabberwalkers were aware of their surroundings unaided, or she herself was actually there as well.

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"You need better time management skills." Bold of you to assume I possess a single time management skill in the first place.

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Me watching Volume 9: Weiss being way more done with the fairy tale shit than the others is fucking great and hilarious, her attitude is so different from Yang and Blake's nostalgia and Ruby's acceptance and I love it.

Me later, remembering that Weiss "fuck this children's story nonsense" Schnee is the only one on Team RWBY who didn't have at least one loving parent to read her bedtime stories as a kid: Wait a second—

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Oh no, not me obsessing over the end of RWBY 9x03! Not me looking at Neo's Semblance activating unconsciously and the implications of what it does!!! Not me especially obsessing over seven seconds of it becuase shipper brain!!!!!

We know thanks to Roman Holiday that Neo's Semblance sometimes acts outside of her conscious control. (This isn't exclusive to her of course, but the specific precedent still exists.) She's just found herself in a strange land, with the knowledge that Ruby is alive and here somewhere too; she's still very vengeance-oriented towards her, maybe obsessively so, and her Semblance outs her single-minded focus by making her take on Ruby's appearance.

So, strange land. Fueled more by emotion instead of thought. Then an unknown threat shows up, and as soon as she picks up on it, her Semblance turns her into Cinder instead. And let's pick the implications of that apart, shall we?

Neo's not thinking so much as feeling right now. There's an unknown threat, so her fight-or-flight kicks in, and since this is a very pissed-off Neo, she defaults to fight immediately. In a strange place with an unknown danger, you want to make yourself look powerful and intimidating to prove you're a more dangerous threat than the thing coming after you. In other words, while she may not consciously be intimidated by Cinder (see the "You're being stubborn and stupid" looks when Cinder decided to sneak out against Salem's orders, and the fact that she decided to blackmail/threaten her with the lamp), an unconscious part of her knows that Cinder is powerful and intimidating; therefore, when she notices a threat, she takes the appearance of Cinder when she turns to look at it. Out of all the people she's met (Salem, for example), her Semblance picks Cinder. That's just so deeply fascinating to me. (Yes this is the seven particular seconds, and yes I ship these two very hard, fucking sue me.)

And then, when faced with the strange monster that's the Jabberwalker, she turns back into herself to fight, which as a deactivation of her Semblance after she acts, is likely a conscious choice. But that's not all. Her Semblance goes rogue again and makes a small army of herself to overwhelm the thing. She ends up not even deigning to fight it with her real self, but sics her copies on it instead. Now that she's seen it, it turns out it's not even worth her effort. There's only one target down here she wants to put her energy into killing: Ruby.

I honestly fucking love Neo, especially now that her backstory has been revealed, and my brain loves overanalyzing characters I love.

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Anyone else screaming and sobbing and counting the approximate days until the rumored fall final finale? Anyone else having the Feelings™ tonight from the sweet precious vibes and the sad painful vibes and the intense heart-pounding vibes? Because holy shit I am currently unable to function after that roller coaster cliffhanger of an hour. :')

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That feeling when you find out about the RWBY Volume 9 premiere almost a week after it comes out