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Twin Yang: “You can just disintegrate me with water.” Twin Jaune: “Yeahhhh.” Twin Yang/Twin Jaune: “Yeahhhhhh.” (gravity falls this just popped into my brain sorz)

Who knows what shenanigans they’re up to

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I think Ice Queendom really grounded a lot of my WK headcanons and what it would mean for Weiss and Jaune in the canon timeline. The way they’re foiled in that show is one of my favorite additions.

They’re both dealing with their identity in a specific way related traditional gender roles and in a way that they think their family might want, and based on the knights/maidens they idealized in their families and from fairy tales. Jaune is afraid of not living up to this toxic masculine image of what he thinks a huntsman is meant to be like the men in his family he looks up to and this translates to a fear of being worthless. On the inside he’s a terrified child oppressed by his legacy and the disappointment/scorn of his family for being a liar and a coward.

In Weiss’s nightmare she projects the image of who she believes she’s meant to be (Ice Queen), while neglecting the other parts of herself she projects onto others. Like Jaune, she’s also still a terrified child in a way. She locks that part of her away because she doesn’t want to be vulnerable. But she also projects the gender normative standards of “Knights” and “Maidens” onto two other people in her dream - Jaune and Pyrrha.

Pyrrha is the ideal Maiden. She’s idealized in her dream world more than anyone else. She’s elegant and beautiful. She sings “Mirror, Mirror.” She essentially speaks to Weiss’s own deep-seated insecurity of not being able to live up to her standards of perfection. Pyrrha actually connects the pairing in her nightmare in a way not dissimilar to how she does in canon.

Jaune is different… as one of the dream NPCs he’s nothing special at all. But when Jaune himself comes into her dream world, he is decked out in a special cape and a giant sword that repels the Nightmare. But he is too weak to lift it. Weiss believes Jaune is too weak and unworthy of his weapon. It speaks both to Weiss’s opinion of Jaune as a person, but also to her own feelings about herself. She had to kill a knight to be free of her Father’s patriarchal prison. She had to essentially become her own knight to save herself (the princess) from her tower. But she also feels she is unworthy of her name unless she lives up to a certain standard, which is why she thinks lowly of Jaune here because he so clearly doesn’t, and why she foists that aspects of herself onto him in her nightmare.

But then why does Jaune have the sword? Because Weiss saw that Pyrrha (her idealized “Maiden”) placed her faith in him. So, as much as she denies it, Jaune has the potential to be a “knight in shining armor”, and some unconscious part of Weiss recognizes that potential. And that’s more or less the burden Jaune struggles to lift in the nightmare. He has the potential to be Weiss’s knight, but he’s not yet worthy. And this story isn’t about him. It’s when Jaune integrates with both the feminine (Pyrrha) and the inner child (the mini Weiss’s) that he can lift the sword to destroy the corrupted “knight” of Weiss’s father to be overcome to help free her from the nightmare. This, too, mirrors Weiss’s slaying of the Arma Gigas in the White trailer. And this is also what Weiss needs to do too to finally be free of the nightmare she’s stuck in. Both Weiss and Jaune need to integrate with those neglected parts of themselves to become the best versions of themselves. They do it a bit in the climax of Ice Queendom and maybe they’ll do it completely in canon too.

Hi!

I love this analysis, thank you for sharing it :D

I agree, the White Knight's foiling is one of my favorite details of the Ice Queendom anime!

I remember loving how the story

Juxtaposes Jaune's knightmare to Weiss's

Highlights how Ruby and Jaune are the people Weiss needs in juxtaposition with Pyrrha, as the one Weiss wants

Has Jaune find a relic, which highlights Jaune's potential to properly connect with Weiss in the future

Has Jaune fight together with Pyrrha and the mini-Weiss at the very end, which symbolically foils Arkos and White Knight :''')

I don't really have anything else to add to your beautiful thoughts!

Thank you for writing them!

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Your Twins AU makes my brain pop because… they’re literally Yin and Yang. Yang is positive/active/masculine. Jaune is negative/passive/feminine. So, right off the bat with their names you’re playing with GNC just like their characters do in canon. But they’re also the Sun and the Moon. Opposing yet complementary forces. And their love interests also reflect this. Blake is the Moon to Yang’s Sun; Pyrrha is the Sun to Jaune’s Moon. It’s really neat.

YES YES YES THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

This is why I love this AU so much because it’s freaking PERFECT considering the roles they already play in canon

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Twins playing basketball while their partners watch. Jaune: “This one’s for you, Pyrrha!” (bricks it). Yang: “This one’s for you, Blake!” (air ball).

We love a pair of fail blondes with their über competent partners

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“Wade cries… a lot” yup that’s Jaune lol

He just seems like the most earnest, anxious, over emotional, “just some guy”. Which is exactly Jaune to me