#Ozma

[howi99]

Ruby: This place is so... Dead.

Jaune: *eyes flashing to brown* ... *Looking at the map, mumbling* Shit, we shouldn't be here, i knew that map was missing something.

Ren: *looking around* This is Oniyuri, a settlement made by rich people that tried to become its own city. I heard my parents talking about it, i think it was destroyed by a grimm.

Ruby: You mean Grimms, right?

Ren: *shaking his head* No, a single grimm.

"Jaune": This area is known for a legend. A grimm riding a horse. A nuckelavee if you prefer.

_NPRR: *looking at Jaune with a strange look*

Jaune: *eyes flashing Blue* What? Not all stories from professor Port were soporific.

Ren: *sigh* In any case, we should keep moving. I don't know why but i feel like someone is watching us.

Pyrrha: You think it's a grimm?

Ren: I'm not sure. But i can sense danger nearby and i don't want to stick around and find out.

[strqyr]

one thing i rarely see mentioned about the lost fable—because the focus is often on the later discussion—is that ozma was already troubled over the wars that were waged over their religion:

ozma: are we sure this is right?

salem: you said we needed to bring humanity together. in order to do that, we have to spread our word, and destroy those who will deny it.

and it's that last part that gets a visible reaction from ozma, that prompts the man he reincarnated to question "what are we doing?"

and this is ozma we're talking about: the legendary hero, a warrior who fought only for righteousness, who had been ready to give his life for justice countless times.

"kill all non-believers" would have never sat right with him, and it's this moment that's really the beginning of the end for ozma and salem.

[obligatoryjauneblog]

One of the weirder things I've seen from all the 40k/RWBY Mashups, no one has had the genius idea of having Oz be the Emperor. A crotchety old man begging to die but not allowed to with a gaggle of children he's failed on some level or another.

[furiouskettle]

My friend recommended me the wizard of oz anime. "Oh, it's cute! Idk if im gonna watch the whole thing though" I said, before promptly spending the next two weeks watching the entire thing and liveblogging it to them

[howelixir]

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[erros429]

rwby textpost memes pt35!!!! meant to have this done way earlier but i got distracted and then i procrastinated. such is life.

[yellowbrickramble]

Scarecrow is singing Fancy Girl, the opening credits theme song of Ozu no Mahōtsukai, the Wizard of Oz anime series. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it in the news posts before, but I'm not going to go back and check.

It adapted the first 3 books and also the 6th book. The only official translation is a dub which butchered the first few episodes and only covered the first two storylines, so I'd recommend finding a fan sub if you can.

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[girlbosspyrrha]

the lost fable & the past lasting forever

rwby v6ch3 concept art // @/ryebreadgf on tumblr // sylvia plath // what the dragon said: a love story - catherynne m. valente // reuse the cels - car seat headrest // @/peteski on instagram // toward certain divorce - marvin bell // rwby: fairy tales of remant

[brainrotisseriechicken]

..

extra:

(it was a spring morning)

(he was a frail boy with no friends)

(he ran into you from across the wall)

(you said hello to him, and asked him to play along)

(at that very moment, he received his lifelong—)

extra 2: oscar boogaloo

yeahhhh....iykyk

[sasasafeier]

[howi99]

Ren: ... Someone is approaching!

JNPRR: *readying their weapons*

...

Tyrian: *jumping from one of the houses* Oh? I see i was expected, wasn't i? *Giggle*

Jaune: *eyes flash to brown* Damn it, just what we needed. A psychopath with too much time on his hands. What are you here for? *Point crocea mors at Tyrian*

Tyrian: Aw~ you want to be the one i play with? Too bad! I'm here for the girl. *Point at Ruby* But... You intrigue me. You seem to know of me?

Jaune: *eyes flashing to blue* I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't know who you are, but i can say that you will regret going against u-

Tyrian: *with a lot of agility, goes on the offense, trying to cut Jaune leg, which he blocks with difficulty* Good~ you know how to use that shield of yours.

Ruby: Jaune! *Shoot at Tyrian, who parries each bullet without too much difficulty* Don't be this impatient little one, i'll be here soon~ *leap to Ruby using Jaune shield as a platform to get himself more momentum* Missed me? *Use multiple attack to try disarming Ruby*

Pyrrha: No you won't! *Use her semblance to remove Tyrian weapons from his hand*

Tyrian: *cackling* You think this will help you? *Dodge Nora's attack* Woah there! Almost got my head!

Nora: *gritting her teeth* That's the idea! *While continuing to put pressure on Tyrian, Ruby uses Electric Dust to boost nora* Take that! *Hit him square in the chest, making him fly through the clocktower*

Pyrrha: You got him?

Tyrian: *maniacally laughing* Oh! That's what they call a homerun! *Dash quickly from the tower, kicking Nora in the guts, breaking her aura*

Ren: NORA! *Goes to her, looking if she is alright*

Tyrian: *shrug* Toys aren't as durable as they used to be i see.

Jaune POV

//Use my power//

Jaune: *blinking* What? Wasn't that-

//concentrate and imagine a gust of wind//

Jaune: *panicking* Who are you? What's going on?

//*sigh* Of all the host why must i have gotten a chatty one that i can't switch place with. You have magic. Trust me, point at your ennemis and imagine a guat of wind. Or fire. Or anything that will hurt him. I'll take charge of the difficult part//

Jaune: Your voice, aren't you-

// yes, it's me, Ozpin. Now stop asking questions and save your friend.//

Jaune: ... *Nod, then concentrate on making a ball of fire*

// By the gods, with how much aura you have, you could almost be a mage.//

Return to the fight

Tyrian: *fighting both Pyrrha and Ren by himself* You are good, but you both are still lacking in technique and bloodlust!

Jaune: *opening his eyes* FIRE!

*a ball of fire around the size of a basketball goes straight to Tyrian face*

Tyrian: *jumping out of the blast trajectory* Well well well! I even found you at the same time!

Jaune: *panting like if he ran 5 miles* That *huff* was *huff* really hard!

// well, i did just wake up. It's difficult to transform aura into magic, you know!? Gee... Anyway, you should dodge//

Jaune: What? *Sees Tyrian stinger going straight for his throat* OH GOD! *Deflect the stinger away clumsily with a shield bash*

Tyrian: *smiling* Now what should i do? Should i take the girl? Or the ghost?

Qrow: *descending from the sky, attacking Tyrian with his scythe* How about neither, pal?

Tyrian: *dodging with a somersault* Hm... Maybe i should get serious? I am disarmed and now the crow has finally shown himself.

Qrow: Kids! Leave the area! I'll take him on!

Ruby: Uncle Qrow!

Qrow: *turning to Ruby* Now!

//He does have a point, you all are keeping him down and it would be wiser to leave for now//

Jaune: *nods* Let's go team! You heard him!

NPR: *nods at Jaune*

Ruby: But he needs our-

Qrow: *still attacking and dodging Tyrian* I can't fight at my best with you here! Go, now!

//He needs to be alone to use his semblance against an enemy//

Jaune: Ruby! Believe in your uncle damn it!

Ruby: ... Fine.

__________

Qrow: *rejoining team JNPRR* He got away. But he shouldn't be going against us for now.

_NPRR: *looking intensely at Qrow*

Jaune: ... Hey, you old sack of feathers, when i was recovering, it didn't come to you it would be nice to tell me i had a ghost in me!?

Qrow: *Wincing* To be fair, i didn't know how to tell you the information.

Nora: And you didn't tell us he could use magic!

Qrow: ... No, that's news to me too.

Jaune: *sigh* the voice in my head is telling me it shouldn't be possible, but with how much aura i have and my semblance-

Ren: You discovered your semblance?

Jaune: *shake his head* Apparently it regenerated my aura so we are assuming here.

Pyrrha: Go on.

Jaune: Well, basically Ozpin can channel his magic through my aura, making it far more potent than it would normally be.

Qrow: ... Does that mean-

Jaune: Before you ask, yes, that apparently makes me like one of the maidens.

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My first try at putting more action in a scene, though i did cut the fight in the middle since there wasn't going to be much dialogue and i'm not the best at representing a scene, so multiple would be hard af lol.

[maripr]

Them Bois!!! So glad to see them talking and sharing their experiences!

I think they're really setting up an Oscar and Ozpin focused arc in the future (pardon my pun), where the merge will probably be stopped after coming very close to finalize. There's a sense of melancholic finality about Oscar but still both him and Ozpin are fighting to delay the process and their past and new friends (like Neptune and Sun in the past episode) keep differentiating between them, in a way helping them regain what sense of self they have left.

And it's really interesting to see Oscar as a part of JNPR but in a very special way. He feels like part of the team more than ever now, not entirely because of himself but not entirely because of Ozpin either. Wonder if the rest of RWBY beyond is gonna show us more interactions.

Also interesting how Oscar is adopting Ozpin's mannerism and speech. Does that mean that Ozpin, before the merge, didn't speak that way? It's an Oz thing, not an Ozpin thing? Mmmhhh.

[ukyuo]

mostly oscar posting

[anthurak]

As a followup to this post, when discussing how Ruby’s character arc will place her in the same position as Oz, I think it’s really important to touch on what I believe is going to wind up being the key difference between Ruby and Oz.

Namely, that unlike Ruby, Oz never had a team. And more specifically...

...Oz never had a PARTNER.

Basically, I think this volume is going show Weiss and her partnership become a KEY aspect of Ruby’s character arc. Show just what makes Weiss in particular so important and why she’ll likely be the biggest factor keeping Ruby from turning out like Ozma did.

For example, has anyone else noticed that last volume featured Ruby have close, heart-to-heart conversations with Blake and Yang?

However, neither of these conversations really ‘click’ for Ruby. Neither of them really drive her to truly open up and confront the real underlying problems Ruby is facing. Namely, her ever-more-compulsive and ever-more-self-destructive drive to help others and her general hero-complex.

So I’d say it only makes sense that there is a third conversation we’ve yet to see between Ruby and her one remaining teammate. The teammate who also just so happens to be her PARTNER. The conversation that Ruby desperately needs right now.

This is where I think we’re going to see what truly separates Ruby from Ozma, and what will ultimately keep her from repeating his mistakes: At the end of the day, Oz has always been alone, whether by circumstance or by consciously pushing others away.

Whereas Ruby has friends, family, teammates and a PARTNER who will support and help her no matter what.

[askapossessedfarmboy]

How’s Oz handling all this, Oscar? Has he been more open with you about how he’s doing? He must be really worried about you, probably feels a lot of guilt

*(It's... going.)