#also i 100% hc ruby as a trans lesbian

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gimme your top 5 hot takes about rwby

I'm afraid I don’t have an accurate gauge of what qualifies as a “hot take” (or even what it actually is. Is it merely a controversial opinion?) so if any of these are ice cold I apologize

Adam and the Rose family should be connected in some way. Visual cues are important and there's so much spicy potential, especially if the dynamic originated with Summer

For Roman, the best and longest standing villain of the show, to be one of the few on-screen Grimm deaths is borderline parody. Personally, I think Ruby should’ve had a more active role in his death, even if by accident or setting up circumstances like she did Neo

Ozma’s situation is far more horrifying and sympathetic than Salem’s. The gods proved that they could bring Ozma back to life in his own body, but instead he’s forced to be a body snatcher? That’s fucked up in so many ways. She may be able to die again and again, but I think it’s way worse to die knowing you’re dooming several people at once

May Marigold isn’t that great of trans rep. She’s so unmemorable and inconsequential to the plot that the only reason I remember her at all is because she’s The Trans One. Like, glad they made her trans, and the reveal was respectful and clear and not even plot-relevant!, but maybe make her a good character first?

If we’re going by the show’s queer golden rule of blushing = romantic feelings, then Ruby had a crush on Emerald in V3 and it should have been explored way more for angst purposes

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headcanons for team rwby?

SO GLAD YOU ASKED ANON!!

lets start with ruby:

she/they ace lesbian

despite always being kicked out of the kitchen for overcooking everything because her mind can’t conceptualize how the fuck a frying pan works, she’s an EXCELLENT baker. give her an oven and she’ll win the great british baking show EASY

we all know most of her interests stem from her admiration of qrow, but the way she can make a plan off the top of her head is exactly the same as summer (because i say so). and her determination to flip a bad situation onto its head definitely comes from being tai’s daughter

ruby is definitely not stupid or naive, but it’s her lack of effort in the boring subjects in school that bring her grades down. pls try to point someone out to me who can make a scythe gun at 15 and tell me they’re an idiot

actually isn’t very good at action video games. she prefers the puzzle-y type ones, but since she’s grown up playing with yang, she kinda had to.

a master at manipulation. if she REALLLLY wants something, she throws on the doe-eyed look and pouts until her victim cracks. 99% success rate, probably going to be how they defeat salem

wants to be the uncle qrow type of aunt to yang and blake’s kids, but you know… without the alcoholism

weiss:

she/they demisexual lesbian

weiss’s gay awakening was pyrrha 100% — she is a little concerned about her thing for redheads (pyrrha, ruby, penny, probably nora)

allergic to peanuts. learned this the hard way when she was trying one of ruby’s peanut butter sandwiches (weiss very begrudgingly tried it, she was worried she’d get crumbs all over herself)

once found out she and jaune liked one of the same shows and then she immediately began to dislike it. even tried to have the show canceled just to spite him. later on when she’s finally started thinking of him as a respected friend, they have some fun discussions about it

always smells ridiculously good without even trying. seriously, she could go a month without showering and she’d still smell like the finest perfume bottle in existence

weiss adopted a lot of the same mannerisms as klein, like placing her hands behind her back, giving people food from the cafeteria after-hours, and speaking uncharacteristically softly when she sees someone hurt

despite wanting to use her abilities as a huntress to better the schnee name, she’s still extremely business-minded, and it sometimes shows in her daily interactions with people.

blake:

nonbinary bisexual

ilia was blake’s first kiss (stole this hc from @/technicallyblakebelladonna from a comment on one of my old posts, sorry!! i loved it way too much) childhood catmeleon my beloved

lactose intolerant, but consumes dairy anyway because if she can be an ex-white fang member and say “fuck society’s system” then she can say “fuck my digestive system” too

gossips with ren. all the time. they are actually besties. they both love observing people and they’re ridiculously good secret-keepers, so they just dish out all the drama to each other and trust that neither one of them will tell anyone else

hates the enemies to lovers trope. much prefers best friends to lovers

wraps herself into a blanket burrito when she sleeps, unless it’s really hot — then she curls up into a ball, hugging her knees into her chest

very very picky eater, maybe even worse than weiss. she doesn’t have a particularly refined pallet, but she’ll take an hour eating her meals just because she’s trying to individually remove pieces from her food that she doesn’t like

yang:

she/her trans lesbian

used to curse a LOT but when she realizes ruby’s been saying fuck at the ripe old age of 12, she kicks the habit.

the best cook. idgaf what crwby says. she is a homebody. she also loves gardening!

when yang came out as trans, she wanted to have a gender reveal party because she thought it’d be funny.

doesn’t believe in expiration dates until she learns the hard way. she’ll never forget the time she spent an entire week just throwing up.

her sneezes are explosively loud. honestly, everyone around her is convinced that she’ll spout fucking fire from her nose or cause a mini-earthquake one day

learned guitar from tai, but hasn’t done it in over five years. when she lost her arm, she’d stare mournfully at it as it collected dust in the corner of her room, and she tried to pick it back up for a bit after she got her prosthetic

team dynamics:

in beacon, ruby and blake formed a secret little book club after bonding about it one night because they know weiss will just throw really informative nonfiction books at them and yang won’t be interested in the first place.

the only one out of the team that actually drinks is blake. yang and ruby have had bad experiences with qrow’s alcoholism and weiss with her mom’s.

during the beacon days, yang forced weiss to play fuck-marry-kill their teachers (but it’s kiss-marry-kill bc weiss insisted she wouldn’t play if fucking was part of the equation). weiss reluctantly said she’d marry ozpin and yang has never let it go.

in atlas, ruby forces them all to make a pillow fort to parallel their time at beacon. but really it’s an excuse to use yang’s ridiculous body heat to get through the night.

none of the teammates comment on blake’s shower singing because they’re scared she’ll stop if they do

weiss and blake both have ridiculously long skincare routines before bed. yang and ruby secretly keep score of who takes longer every night

similarly, weiss and yang both take ridiculously long in the shower (weiss because she’s scared of having so much as a speck of dirt on herself, and yang because shampooing her hair takes forever and a day). blake and ruby secretly keep score of who takes longer every morning

weiss and ruby bond over NEEDING to pop all the bubbles on bubble-wrap

to get revenge on yang drawing mustaches on them while they’re sleeping, the rest of the team bands together to completely vandalize her face one night. ever since, she’s never been the first to sleep

the team becomes so accustomed to each other, they can all tell their footsteps apart. ruby’s feet slide a bit against the floor, weiss’s basically dance, blake’s are nearly soundless, and yang’s are heavy-footed and make the floor creak

when blake and yang start dating, they’re so fucking insufferable, weiss is certain she’ll have a stroke. at one point, she thinks she’s finally gotten used to them constantly touching each other or looking at each other for prolonged periods of time, but then she’ll catch them making out on her bed, and she decides to just throw the entire mattress away.

weiss is touch-starved (nobody’s surprised) but ruby gives her the best tackle-hugs to make up for the years lost

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Why does everything have to be an us vs them situation?

LONGish RANT:

Why do we need to twist things and insult others and all that so we win or whatever

Imo both interpretations (that Arryn wants Yang to be Blake's love interest/former love interest) are true, cause it simply wasnt worded that clearly. When you say "are you really that stupid? Is your reading comprehension that bad?" youre insulting people for simply not seeing your truth, when there are multiple truths here. Like, correct me if Im wrong as Im not a native english speaker, but "... And I also hope for Yang in the future" can be either "to be a love interest" or, based on the earlier enumeration with that "former suitors" thing it could also be "to be a former suitor". Yes its weird and if you think about it why would Arryn want Yang to be a former love interest? But you need to acknowledge that the phrasing is bad and, if you dont know much about Arryn or whatever, that the "former suitor" would gramatically make sense

So like, why insult people about it? Why tell people "haha your ship is dead!! Lol!!" and then insult them for their interpretation? Like from what Ive seen so far it doesnt look like bsers came to our posts and tags our whatever to tell us how our ship is dead as well or whatever, and Im pretty sure most acknowledged bb is romantic way before.

We know its romantic, everyone knows, there is really no battle to win or whatever, theres no reason to tell people how your ship is romantic and endgame and all that, cant we just simply ignore what we dont care about and let the people who care enjoy it? Cant we talk about bb while they talk about bs and how sun was a love interest and heck how it could (in their opinion) still have a sense? Nobody gets hurt cause of that, as long as we keep our tags and all it should be good?

Like dunno Im a bit disappointed that I saw so many people go for their throat? And for the short time I saw like 4-5 posts like those I havent seen any from them about us like that?

There was also a post about someone who was mad people hc Qrow as Ruby's dad and this whole policing people's views and opinions really gets on my nerves. As long as they dont insult you/the writers and crwby and the vas and anyone really, who the fuck cares??? LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS. Someone likes to think qrow is rubys dad? Sure, whatever. Someone gets happy that Sun is a former love interest? Great for them. Why can we enjoy things and they cant? Why our hcs (like trans nora) are real and good and we can talk all we want about them, but when they talk about how cool it would be for them for qrow to be ruby's dad there are posts about how they should stop and that theyre annoying and whatever?

Everyone likes the show for different reasons, and the thing we have in common is that it brings us joy. If what brings you joy isnt problematic (like pedophilia or abusive relationships), if youre nice and dont insult people, if youre just somone enjoying the show, then whats wrong with that? Whats wrong with people believing qrow is ruby's dad? Whats wrong with someone thinking bs can happen? Maybe this brings them joy, so what? If they dont act as if its the ultimate truth and tell us how theyre right (like how people used to come on lesbian yang posts to tell us how shes actually bi) then who cares about what they think/enjoy?

What Im trying to say is: differentiate between those who simply enjoy something and those who think only their opinions are right, who come to your posts to say ur wrong, who insult you for your different opinions, and just let people enjoy things

and seriously, aint yall tired of all those battles or whatever? At this point we're 100% sure bb is romantic, whats the point of making posts about how bs is dead just cause after all this time they finally got something to gush about and theyre excited about this. Werent we the same in v4? If they get something just let them enjoy it, I thought we knew better than this