#Nuts and dolts

[desib717]

This random messy doodle brought to you by me seeing a post abt comfy pajama season coming up, and then being reminded of the idea that charging her battery is Penny's equivalent of sleeping, and her therefore having that groggy morning wake-up time after she finishes charging up.

Anyway, Penny in comfy pajamas for your dashboard

[mentalmeles]

Well. While the brain rot has me, I wanna talk about some lines in ‘Trust Love’ that have been bothering me lately. Mostly how they blatantly reference Penny and how she just might return once more.

Yes, it’s that kind of Penny posting. If you don’t subscribe to the Penny 3.0 theory or think she should stay dead, please carry on and let me have my silly little thoughts in peace. Also this is 100% Nuts and Dolts propaganda. I will not apologize.

ANYWAY! Onto the lyrics!

Right now, your hopes are shattered / Just pointless ever after

This line obviously talks about the loss of hope. Penny, time and again, has been the character to symbolize hope. The most obvious time this has been done was during Jinxy’s auction in Volume 9.

Ruby is inexplicably drawn to the jade marionette, which we all know turns out to be one of Penny’s swords. (And ofc let’s not forget that weapons are considered an extension of their owners in this world.)

Without knowing why, Ruby wants it and tries to wager for it. But Jinxy asks for something in particular—something Ruby has lost.

“Enough hope to fill [a] jar.”

I also want to point out that the pov making it look like the jade marionette is fitting inside the jar as well as the star charm tied around the top are not at all coincidences. This is the show telling us point blank that Penny is the personification of hope. Or at least Ruby’s hope.

But Ruby just lost her. She has no hope left.

But in time, you'll find / Through love, your power just shines

(I felt the need to put this gif here since it is exactly what plays during these lines in the Volume 7 intro, so let’s just sit and think about the implications of that for a moment. Cool? Cool.)

When you don't know where to turn to / And you're sure all hope is gone / When the day you waited for won't come / And dark won't yield to dawn / Trust love and open up your eyes

Now these lines are what get me. They talk about Ruby losing hope and direction, caught in darkness. Now, while this is the intro song for Volume 7, it’s clear that Ruby has not lost her hope yet. If anything, she just got a big chunk of it back.

And I’d argue that even In Volume 8 when shit has hit the fan and it just keeps coming and coming, Ruby hasn’t lost her resolve yet. There are definitely moments when she comes very, very close to it and she falters, but she does end up maintaining it for the most part.

(I can't find it, but imagine the gif where Ruby is looking down at Penny's unconscious body and is tearing up while saying "It's all...too much." Wow. Such a pretty gif.)

(It's also funny how these moments where Ruby's doubts are the strongest are taking place when Penny is seriously wounded and incapacitated, now isn't it? Surely that's just a funny coincidence...)

But then she and the rest of team RWBY fall into the Ever After and, after learning about Penny's second death, Ruby's mental state just falls deeper and deeper.

But then the lyrics tell Ruby that all she has to do during this dark and harrowing moment is to 'trust love.' Who's love is she supposed to trust? The song has been relating to keeping hope up till now, so it's not a stretch to say that she's supposed to trust the love she had for Penny, platonic or otherwise.

Trust love, the truth is there, but sometimes in disguise

These lines are certainly interesting when put into the context that they're also related to Penny somehow. Personally, all I can think of is when Penny transferred the Winter Maiden powers to Winter. I'm definitely not the first to mention this, but it's awfully suspicious that the aura glow was yellow and not green, isn't it? Sure, there were motes of green, but that isn't what happened when Fria gave Penny the powers previously. So why the change? Unless the truth, while there, is disguised. The truth is that Penny is dying and giving up her power, but it's disguised somehow...

The way's uncertain but we're together / Movin' toward the light / When we trust in love and open up our eyes

Mention of Ruby being together with someone. Obviously, this could just be referring to team RWBY or the whole group being together, united under the mission of saving Remnant from Salem. But, again, when mostly every other line has been tied to hope--and by extension Penny--, it's hard to believe it's talking about that. So, maybe a reunion with a certain someone that hasn't happened yet? A reunion that will bring Ruby back towards the light--towards regaining her hope--once and for all? I mean, if Ruby's character arc in the second Justice League crossover movie is where her arc will go in the show proper, it's not too far of a stretch.

(The reason I mention the Justice League crossover movies is because Ruby's arc in the first movie was very reminiscent to the arc she had about her leadership role in Volumes 7 and 8. So, since she became very self sacrificing in that movie, diving headfirst into mission after mission with no regard to her safety, maybe that's what will happen in Volume 10 too? Maybe having the potential of getting Penny back will be the thing to make her stop?)

Anyways... I don't know if any of this really made any sense and I might just be rambling nonsense, but yeah. Some things that I noticed and felt the need to shout out into the ether.

Thanks for reading!

[one-crusty-batch-of-nature]

Commission for @bravewriting featured in the latest chapter of their Nuts n Dolts Swap au fanfic!!!!

[legomoviegaytrans]

i just be drawing random shit honestly

[xebime]

Dear My Rose

[y0urnewhyperfixation]

"And don't you dare leave me still in love with you. Nothing's fair when love is war."

[etinceelle]

Ruby takes Penny to Bubba Bubba Boba to try boba ♥

(that's a lot of boba)

[rubyfunkey]

WAR MACHINES - AIRFORCEMUFFIN (link)

comic commissioned by @bravewriting for their lovely RWBY/Nuts n Dolts role-reversal fic linked above :)

[venusnightsky]

🌠OUTFIT SWAP 🌠

[be-strong-and-hit-stuff]

Nuts and Dolts goes to a photobooth 🌹🔩

This project took way longer than I expected because life, but this ship gives me happiness 😊

[lemonsandwisdom]

Drew this for a friend!

[punkeropercyjackson]

Shout out to black and red-coded precious and dorky teen genius' who're put through the horrors but stay kind and optimistic despite everything because they're heroes at their core,gotta be one of my favorite autisms

[mentalmeles]

Every now and then I just get smacked in the face with Penny Polendina feels and all I can think about is how much I hope she’s revived again because her character arc was so far from finished and I want to know the meaning of all the Bumbleby and Nuts and Dolts parallels and all the references to her not really being gone in Volume 9 and why they had Winter say that one line the way she did in the epilogue and…. Yeah.

I am totally normal 👍

[nellawashere]

A couple of commissions I did for RWBY LOFI 3 ☕️🍂

[revel-arts]

Nuts and Dolts my beloved

[xebime]

welcome back rwby!!

got nothing but old doodles (penny as always)