#fall maiden

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Flat color commission for Soundwave3591! Featuring the Arkos family from his "Mother Maiden" RWBY AU. So here we have adult Jaune, Pyrrha, and their lovely children – Lia (Liakada) and JJ (Jaune Jr.)!

I always loved this family concept, so drawing them all together smiling and happy was such an enjoyable experience. What's not to enjoy here? They all look so fine >w<

[hadesisqueer]

RWBY Maiden Plots so far

Someone tell the Summer Maiden she is being dragged into their bullshit next volume.

[heyahs]

team rwby as the four maidens

ruby as fall maiden

weiss as winter maiden

blake as spring maiden

yang as summer maiden

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the tale of the four maidens is obviously the story of how ozpin met them. could it be that when he looked at the rwby team at the beacon academy he remembered his old maiden friends? 👀

[knightfall-4-life]

The Queen misses her blonde haired Knight

[hanamimi2]

Amber, Fall Maiden (commission)

[stoneillustrations]

These two sweet idiots are putting Cinder off her game.

[autumnsorbet]

Cinder lied about the relics

She didn't add more fire to atlas,I think cinder use the staff to make the real relics small some how and all so make 2 fake relics and gave the fake relics to Salem it's why we see Salem in the trailer looking

upset the relics she has don't work and cinder will lie and say there out of uses, so she will send cinder to vacuo to help get the sword,well Salem use her grim pools to make more grim for her last stand at vale so she can get the last relic

[blue-cheeseinmyoffwhites]

RWBY Amber’s Allusion

Amber was introduced in Volume 3 as the first named Maiden of the series. She is hunted by Cinder, who eventually kills her and takes her power. Amber’s time in the sun was short but sweet, as her introduction indirectly changed the course of the entire show. Ever since then, I have been doing heavy research and thinking to find out what her allusion is and how it relates to the overall RWBY narrative, and I think I have reached a possible conclusion.

Amber is Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty.

Sleeping Beauty was cursed by Maleficent the Witch to prick her finger on the spindle of a sewing wheel and fall to an eternal slumber. The dead giveaway for Amber’s allusion is that she is literally comatose when we meet her, or in hyper sleep.

Now as for the spindle part: a sewing wheel is a decided used for weaving fibers together to make cloth (for blankets, sheets, clothes, etc.). And there is one character that is known for weaving clothes in the show. Coincidentally, it’s the one who killed her.

Cinder Fall takes the place of Maleficent in Amber’s story. This shot above basically sets that up. Cinder curses Amber by pricking her twice (with her arrows), subjecting her to an eternal slumber (coma, death).

Now onto her name. Amber is materialized from resin that comes off of trees. Often, insects and small creatures can be found preserved inside as fossils, engaging in millions of years of hypersleep. Warm color lights (most notably Amber) also are proven to be one of the most effective light colors to help with sleep.

Amber owns a pendant on her chest with a unique design. It has an orange core, with three colored leaves sprouting from the side. These colors can pertain to the colors of Fall (her maiden power) but the actual shape of the pendant is fairly similar to a pixie, or a fairy. And the fact that there are three different feathers makes the pendant a possible nod to Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, the three fairies who helped Sleeping Beauty overcome her curse.

Maleficent, a magical figure, sends Diablo, her pet crow, to search for Sleeping Beauty while she is hiding with the fairies. In RWBY, a magical figure (Ozpin) sends his pet crow (Qrow) to search for Sleeping Beauty (Amber) while she is fighting the three bandits (Cinder, Emerald, Mercury).

And finally, the very season of Fall is the season of settlement and resting, which is the fated curse casted onto Sleeping Beauty.

Amber’s allusion has yet to be revealed, but hopefully this analysis can be useful. Thanks for reading.

[darius-1]

During their battle...!

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I’m kind of Terrified for the Summer Maiden reveal in V10

This is something I’ve been thinking about since RWBY vol. 8. We have seen countering identities for each maiden so far.

Fall Maiden: Someone no one knew. She had no importance to the main characters. 

Spring Maiden: Someone familiar, take it with a grain of salt. Raven is still blood relative to Yang. 

Winter Maiden: The original Winter Maiden was an old woman that Ironwood had shut away to just wait for death (which is messed up in its own right). Then there was the whole debacle with the powers going through Penny before finally reaching Winter.  

With that being said, I’m honestly nervous for the Summer Maiden’s identity. Because if CRWBY keeps up with the counterpart pattern, that means that the Summer Maiden is going to be some little Vacuan girl who’s barely old enough to attend a primary combat school like Signal. I can see them either making her a little five year old who doesn’t understand anything that’s going on, or some pre-teen know-it-all who thinks she can take on a whole army on her own because she has special powers. Either way, both would be very easy to manipulate.

Summer Maiden (head cannon/theory): Young Girl from Vacuo, probably going to be a Faunus since we haven’t seen one yet and Faunus seem to be abundant in Vacuo. My big thing is going to be the age of the girl. If she happens to be a Faunus, 5 points to Beacon!

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Flat color commission for Soundwave3591! Another piece dedicated to RWBY MBK!AU. Amber and her little sister Sherry were enjoying an evening together at the Valewood family house when somebody upstairs got their attention... I wonder who it was 😉 You can read a little story behind this drawing here!

The original idea and the poses were inspired by these official Sailor Moon illustrations of Makoto Kino and Ami Mizuno.

And here’s more about where Amber and Sherry come from: "My Brother's Keeper" RWBY AU gallery on DeviantArt.

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Someone made a post once about how Winter becoming the Winter Maiden was the first time someone being a Maiden was portrayed as something completely heroic and triumphant, rather than a huge villanous moment (Cinder) or a big twist (Raven and Penny). And they made a good point explaining that the reason of that was because the relic is gone, now the Maiden is finally able to be free.

But honestly, I think another reason is simply because it was the first time that someone other than Cinder (who is like, a power hungry villain) was happy to be a Maiden.

Raven killed the former Spring Maiden to take the power from her, so she could become stronger. However, she clearly doesn't like or takes any pride on being a Maiden: she sees it as just a burden, a target painted on her back, and it scares her, which is why she kept it secret and used Vernal as a decoy.

Penny became the Winter Maiden as a last minute decision. Then it only caused her pain, because people dehumanized her more than they'd already done before. And it's clear from minute one that Penny never wanted to become the Winter Maiden, and didn't want those powers. Either her or Cinder. Like with most things in her life, she actually didn't have much of a choice.

Even our Maiden candidate, Pyrrha. Pyrrha didn't want to become the Fall Maiden either. She was only like 17 or 18, and she'd known about it for only like two days, and didn't have enough time to think about it. When she agreed to it, everyone could tell that she really didn't want to do it, even if she said she was choosing it.

Winter, on the other hand-- just like Pyrrha, she was offered to become a Maiden. And she was upset about it, too, at first. She didn't like the fact that Ironwood was making decisions about her own life for her.

However, unlike Pyrrha, Winter did have time to think about it. And she thought about it, and she-- was okay with the idea. Like she said to Weiss, she was choosing it for herself. She would be a Maiden because she wanted to be, because she saw it as a way to do good for everyone.

And next volume, when she's defected from Ironwood and Penny dies and gives her the power, Ironwood tells her “so the destiny I chose for you has finally arrived” and then, Winter literally tells him that he chose nothing. Because he didn't. Her previous decision to accept the Maiden power never really had anything to do with him wanting her to. And much less, now.

She said it herself: This was a gift.

The Winter Maiden powers were a gift from Penny, her friend. And she was proud of it, and was going to honor her fallen friend.

So, yes, I think that one of the reasons why Winter becoming the Winter Maiden was portrayed as something so triumphant rather than just dramatic was because this is the first time we see a Maiden who considers her power a gift, not a burden.

[midnightechoes]

Had some thoughts about what Cinder’s post-redemption arc outfit could look like, assuming of course that she gets one. I decided to go back to her outfit being predominantly red, but keeping the cape, thigh-high boots, and buckles. And her new arm, assuming she’ll lose the Grimm one as a part of her rejection of Salem, is made of black glass that she can use her Maiden powers to move and manipulate to be a normal arm or to use in a myriad of different ways.

[starwarskawaii]

BUCKLE UP CHILDREN, IT'S THEORY TIME!

So, every maiden we have met has ended up being someone we know. The Spring Maiden is Raven, Cinder Fall is the Fall Maiden because CRWBY loves puns apparently, Winter is the Winter Maiden because puns, and so far we don't know the Summer maiden. So here's the theory;

(I wanna preface this by saying that every maiden has had a country that it matched the climate of so far. And a maiden that is from that country. Atlas is wintry, Vale is Fall-ish, or at least it's associated with school, which seems fall enough, Mistral is spring-y, and Vacuo is literally a desert. So, this theory doesn't totally line up with current patterns. BUT, Ruby finding out in Vacuo could still sort of count for this. And I guess we don'tknow for sure where Cinder is from.)

I think Ruby Rose will be the Summer maiden. One, she's special. She's the main character, for starters, but her entire theme with her silver eyes is that she is light. He mother is named Summer. The Summer Maiden's relic is destruction, which Maria says the silver eyes are the opposite of, because they are preservation. I think she balances it out.

Obviously, lots of people think that Summer is/was the Summer Maiden. I personally do not. But I think Ruby is being set up to be the Summer Maiden when she arrives in Vacuo. Ruby has always wanted to be the fairy tale hero. This would make her all she has ever wanted, after her much needed growth this season.

It would be an amazing way for the writers to connect who she is, what she wants, and all her suffering and talent into an essential piece of the plot.

[whimsywoo]

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Here is the Winx x RWBY mashup! Instead of using the “usual suspects” I decided to use the antagonists, This was a lot of fun to put together. Thank you to @dragonturtle2 for the suggestion. :)