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tonystarkbingo · 22 days

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TSB Round 8 - Week 1-4!

It's the first roundup of Mark VIII (late, becuase life is chaos), and we've had some phenomenal fills already. You can check them out below and give our amazing creators some love.

Card Number: 8022 Collaborator: fohatic Square Filled: A4 - Noir Tony Title: Vice Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve/Tony Word Count: 11735 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: underage, rape/non-con Summary: Steve had been working Vice long enough that he was starting to question whether he was still pretending to be one of the bad guys, or if he'd finally become one of them. Not long after wealthy industrial tycoon Howard Stark's son reached puberty and presented as an omega, the kid ran away. Alpha Vice Cop Steve Rogers goes undercover to find out if he's being trafficked, posing as an interested buyer— but once he's found him, he might just decide to keep him.

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Card Number: 8044 Collaborator: starkparade Square Filled: R1 - Reincarnation Title: Who Wants to Live Forever Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 2800 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Major Character Death, Grief, Sad Ending, Angst, Immortality, Growing Old, Super Soldier Serum Summary: It turned out that not being able to get drunk was far from being the worst and only unfortunate side effect of the serum. As the years went by, Steve noticed he had not been aging. Everyone else, including Tony, had been.

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Card Number: 8036 Collaborator: scottxlogan Square Filled: S1 - Last Times/Farewell Title: Working Our Way Back to Love Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Emma frost Word Count: 6731 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Sexual Content, Reunions, Adult Content, Romantic Gestures, Marriage Proposal, James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Tony Stark Friendship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary: Miserable without Emma in his life, Tony makes the decision to head out to Chicago to make an appeal to return to the romance that was lost between them.

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Card Number: 8036 Collaborator: scottxlogan Square Filled: T4 - Rare Pair Title: Working Our Way Back to Love (Chapter 2) Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Emma Frost Word Count: 5455 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Sexual Content, Reunions, Adult Content, Romantic Gestures, Marriage Proposal, James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Tony Stark Friendship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary: After spending a day helping out at the school Tony and Emma finally come face to face with one another.

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Card Number: 8017 Collaborator: SomeSortofItalianRoast Square Filled: S5 - Alien Planet Title: Of missions, Padawans, and identities Link: AO3 Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Qui-Gon Jinn Word Count: 2020 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Not Canon Compliant - Star Wars: The Clone WarsWinter Soldier Bucky BarnesForce Bond (Star Wars)References to Star Wars: Prequel TrilogyAlcoholCanon Divergence - Star Wars Expanded UniverseCanonical Character Death Summary: At a bar on Tatooine, Jedi Master Stark recounts an encounter between two Jedi Masters that is quite telling, in retrospect.

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Card Number: 8033 Collaborator: airas_story Square Filled: K2 - Painful Reminders Title: Donna's Pie Link: AO3 Pairings: Stephen Strange & Donna Strange, Peter Parker & Stephen Strange & Tony Stark, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Word Count: 6182 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Character Death Summary: Sometimes healing looks a strangely like making a viral TikTok video with the people you love.

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Card Number: 8016 Collaborator: illogicalkat Square Filled: S1 - "wanna dance?" Title: Can't start a fire without a spark Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 1170 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Fluff & Angst Summary: Tony just wants to dance. Steve is too scared to say yes.

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Card Number: 8036 Collaborator: scottxlogan Square Filled: A5 - Stains Title: I’ve Got You Under My Skin Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 9025 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst and Feels, Angst with a Happy Ending, Established Relationship Tension, Sexual Content, Swearing, Adult Content, Canon-typical violence Summary: After dealing with backlash about their new marriage, Bucky and Tony make their way out to Malibu hoping to get peace and quiet with one another, but Bucky finds he's overwhelmed by the surprising outcry of disapproval he's facing simply for loving Tony. Together they know they make sense, but everyone else has an opinion on what's right for them causing Bucky to question their future until Tony's romantic gesture reminds Bucky how good they are together.

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Card Number: 8017 Collaborator: SomeSortofItalianRoast Square Filled: A1 - Found Family Title: Of family, Kryptonite, and sleepy morning cuddles Link: AO3 Pairings: Clark Kent/Tony Stark/Bruce Wayne Word Count: 793 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Fluff, Cuddling & Snuggling, Sleepy Cuddles Summary: Sleepy morning cuddles with Clark, Tony, and Bruce. The kids know better than to bother them before noon. At the earliest.

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Card Number: 8003 Collaborator: BurdenedWithPointlessPurpose Square Filled: A3 - Free Title: Words, Gestures and Wants Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Clint Barton Word Count: 2862 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Trans Clint, PWP Summary: Taking another step in their relationship, Tony is overwhelmed with the openness. It’s a lot considering how long it took them to get together. All it does is make him fall a little more in love. Clint might be ready for this, but he isn’t ready for the depth of want continuing to grow every day in his heart.

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Card Number: 8005 Collaborator: nicoline1998enilocin Square Filled: K4 - Thirst Title: Playtime Link: Tumblr Pairings: Young!Tony Stark x Fem!Reader Word Count: 1K Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: College AU. Pregnancy fic. Explicit sexual content. Phone/FaceTime sex. Lactation kink. Summary: Being away from your boyfriend is never fun, but usually, you can get through it relatively okay. However, since you got pregnant and you’re carrying a set of twins, your hormones have gone all crazy, leaving you needier than ever before for him. This results in a FaceTime call Tony won’t forget anytime soon.

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Card Number: 8036 Collaborator: scottxlogan Square Filled: A1 - Canon Divergent: Nobody Dies Title: Sleepovers and Other Things Link: AO3 Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark Word Count: 5157 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Fluff, Family Fluff, Team as Family, Family Feels, Not Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pillow & Blanket Forts, Flirting, Avengers Movie Night, Implied/Referenced Sex, Team Bonding, Minor Michelle Jones/Peter Parker, Minor Bruce Banner/Pepper Potts, Minor Loki/Steve Rogers, Minor Happy Hogan/Aunt May Parker, Innuendo, Tony Stark Lives, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies Summary: After surviving the war against Thanos, Tony reflects on how the last year of his life has given him a new beginning and hope for something wonderful with his family and the team on a night away from the missions and the chaos. Movie night always brings so many possibilities of togetherness especially with Bucky at Tony's side.

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Card Number: 8028 Collaborator: PoliZ Square Filled: K5 - Misunderstandings Title: Coming Clean - Chapter Three Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Bucky, Bucky/Steve, Tony/Steve Word Count: 1196 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Omegaverse, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Misunderstandings, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Knotting Summary: Bucky and Steve clarify their relationship for Tony; who then goes down on Steve as Bucky watches.

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Card Number: 8033 Collaborator: airas_story Square Filled: S2 - My Best Suit Title: Well Suited Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Word Count: 7248 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary: In the aftermath of Titan, Tony's dreams of his future shatter. Someone helps him build new ones. OR Five times Tony’s suit gets ruined, plus the one time he doesn’t need a suit at all.

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Card Number: 8001 Collaborator: rebelmeg Square Filled: S1 - Iron Family Title: Iron Pals Bingo Card Link: Tumblr Pairings: N/A Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: bingo card, image editing Summary: An Iron Pals Bingo card just for funsies

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Card Number: 8024 Collaborator: Wolfsheart Square Filled: T3 - Retirement Title: the ones who will never need to be reminded Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Steve Rogers Word Count: 8875 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Post-Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Retirement, Retired Steve Rogers, Retired Tony Stark, Past Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Tony Stark Feels, Steve Rogers Feels, Jealous Steve Rogers, Good Loki (Marvel), Avenger Loki (Marvel), Misunderstandings, Flirting, Banter, Humor, Fluff and Humor, Domestic Fluff, Comfort Food, Cooking, First Kiss, Touching, Pre-Relationship, Developing Relationship, Mention of Morgan Stark Summary: A few years have passed since the final battle with Thanos, and against all odds, everyone lived. The Avengers have grown as a team, encompassing their new friends and family. Steve and Tony are retired - or rather, semi-retired may be more appropriate as they both still function as part of the team, even if it's more behind the scenes. Everyone has moved forward, healed. Steve longs for more, however, and what he longs for is Tony. The problem is that he keeps hearing how much time Tony spends with others, two in particular, and this makes Steve jealous. So, he's going to settle this once and for all...by showing up at Tony's lakeside home and find out if there's room in Tony's life for him as more than a friend.

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Card Number: 8022 Collaborator: fohatic Square Filled: T2 - dreams and nightmares Title: through fire below, and fire above, and fire within Link: AO3 Pairings: steve/tony Word Count: 7346 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: rape/non-con Summary: Tony had a lot of regrets about how his Ultron Program had panned out. Losing JARVIS and unleashing a murderbot on the world was a pretty major one. Turns out that incurring Steve's wrath might even be an even bigger one.

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Card Number: 8001 Collaborator: rebelmeg Square Filled: R1 - image of Tony and Dum-E from IM2 Title: MCU Bot Bingo Card Link: Tumblr Pairings: n/a Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: bingo card, image editing Summary: A Bot Bingo card for funsies

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Card Number: 8044 Collaborator: starkparade Square Filled: A4 - Cuddling Title: Morning Light Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 1817 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Porn Without Plot, Fluff and Smut, Established Relationship, Top Steve Rogers, Bottom Tony Stark, Anal Sex, Morning Sex, Sleepy Sex, Mild Somnophilia Summary: Tony couldn’t sleep in complete darkness, and Steve couldn’t stay asleep once the sun came up. Most mornings, Steve just got out of bed quietly so he wouldn't disturb Tony's sleep, but this time he couldn't bring himself to.

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Card Number: 8044 Collaborator: starkparade Square Filled: A4 - Flutter Title: The Fun Way Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 1759 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Porn Without Plot, Smut, Oral Sex, Mildly Dubious Consent, Resolved Sexual Tension, Pre-Relationship Summary: Tony is convinced Steve keeps harping on about him putting himself in danger on missions because he is frustrated about something else entirely. He has an idea how to relieve that frustration.

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Card Number: 8001 Collaborator: rebelmeg Square Filled: K3 - Happy Hogan Title: Happy Hogan Bingo Card Link: Tumblr Pairings: n/a Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: bingo card, image editing Summary: A bingo card featuring Happy!

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Card Number: 8036 Collaborator: scottxlogan Square Filled: T2 - Prison Title: To Bring You Into My Arms Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 9633 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Established Relationship, Misunderstandings, Kidnapping, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Implied Sexual Content, Kissing, Cuddling & Snuggling, Reunions, Idiots in Love, Hurt Bucky Barnes, Blood and Injury, Implied/Referenced Torture, Aftermath of Torture, Prison Summary: : After a miscommunication Tony is on a mission to bring Bucky back home again after the bad guys took him away. On the mission Tony's determined to rescue the one man he can't live without as the two find a way to clear the air between them along the way.

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Card Number: 8005 Collaborator: nicoline1998enilocin Square Filled: S2 - Friends to lovers Title: Discovering Our Love Link: Tumblr Pairings: Tony Stark x Female Reader Word Count: 11.5K Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Angst with a happy ending, friends to lovers, mutual pining, kissing as a dare, explicit sexual content Summary: When Tony throws a party after an extended, challenging mission to celebrate its success, you and the other Avengers get wrapped up in a game of truth or dare, which turns out to be the start of the most fantastic love story you’ve ever witnessed: you and Tony. When you’ve gone without warning the next day, Tony can’t help but get distracted every time he thinks about you, the thought of you and your first kiss still fresh in his mind.

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Card Number: R Collaborator: Bostyn or Fox2244 Square Filled: R2 - 8047 Title: Ironman bingo Link: AO3 Pairings: Romantic and platonic Word Count: 874 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Character death Summary: Tony was never afraid when he says I am Ironman. Not even on the last time.

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Card Number: 8047 Collaborator: Bostyn or Fox2244 Square Filled: R1 - Without fear Title: Ironman bingo Link: AO3 Pairings: Romantic and platonic Word Count: 874 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Character death Summary: Tony was never afraid to say I am Ironman. Even on the last time

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Card Number: 8001 Collaborator: rebelmeg Square Filled: S5 - James "Rhodey" Rhodes Title: Rhodey Bingo Link: Tumblr Pairings: n/a Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: bingo card, image editing Summary: A bingo card for Honeybear!

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Card Number: 8001 Collaborator: rebelmeg Square Filled: T1 - charming Title: Stud Muffin Cross Stitch Cutie Link: Tumblr Pairings: n/a Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: fandom craft, cross stitch Summary: An Iron Man cross stitch cutie bearing a very, very large muffin.

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Card Number: 8044 Collaborator: starkparade Square Filled: R3 - Christine Everhart Title: Close It Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 3057 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Major Character Death, Soulmates AU, Canon Divergence, Angst, Grief, Survivor Guilt, Unhappy Ending, Pre-Slash Summary: Steve had to make the hard call to prevent the nuclear blast going off inside the wormhole from reaching the island of Manhattan. As a result, Tony Stark never made it back. Steve did what he had to, and yet his guilt is eating him alive and he can’t figure out just why he is so affected.

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Card Number: 8044 Collaborator: starkparade Square Filled: K1 - Missing Scene Title: Romcom Fantasies Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 4803 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Fluff, Pining, Jealousy, Getting Together, First Kiss Summary: Tony runs into Steve at the airport, and when the hotel Tony booked in Washington DC abruptly cancels his reservation, Steve offers him to stay the night at his place. It sounds like something straight out of Tony’s romcom fantasies starring Steve, except Tony is convinced that Steve is in love with someone else.

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Card Number: 8024 Collaborator: Wolfsheart Square Filled: Adopted - Free Square Title: Got a telephone call from Istanbul Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark & Rhodey Word Count: 5641 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: 5+1 Things, Canon Compliant with Movie: Iron Man (2008), Canon Compliant with Movie: Iron Man 2 (2010), Canon Compliant with Movie: Iron Man 3 (2013), Canon Compliant with Movie: Captain America: Civil War (2016), Canon Compliant with Movie: Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Canon Compliant with Movie: Avengers: Endgame (2019), Tony Stark Needs a Hug, James "Rhodey" Rhodes Needs a Hug, Humor, Best Friends, Phone Calls & Telephones, Cell Phones, Emotional kick to the gut Summary: Five times Rhodey and Tony talk where the conversations veer into subjects one or the other doesn't want to talk about, so they threaten to hang up on each other. And the one time neither threatens to hang up.

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Card Number: 8050 Collaborator: DarthBloodOrange Square Filled: S1 - IMAGE: Tony looking disinterested Title: Dropping By Link: Tumblr Pairings: Peter Parker & Steve Rogers, Avengers Team Members & Tony Stark Word Count: N/A - Art Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Blood, Injury, Restraints Summary: Steve was getting lonely, hanging shackled to the villain's wall all alone. It's a good thing that Spider-Man and Tony came by to rescue him.

#tony stark bingo round 8 #tsb 8 #tsb weekly roundup #tsb week 1 #tsb week 2 #tsb week 3 #tsb week 4

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mhsnetflixblog · 9 months

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Midnight Horror School (Netflix Jr.) Character Voices

English

Ampoo - Christina Kelly

Anto - April Winchell

Æon - Kelly Sheridan

Bri - Laura Post

Borocca - Rebecca Soler

Chaps - Candi Milo

Dabble - Sarah Taylor

Docky - John Tartaglia

Enton - Tom Kenny

Fonton - Richard Steven Horvitz

Friedi - Fryda Wolff

Furanzo - Maria Petrano

Genie - Simon Hill

Hikky - Madeleine Martin

Inky - Leslie Carrara-Rudolph

Juno - Tabitha S. Germain

Kabo - Hope Marie Segoine

Kami - Cree Summer

Karen - Kira Gelineau

Liddy - Andrea Libman

Magnero - Andrew Sabiston

Noisy - Grey DeLisle

Nonny - Michelle Marie

Onpoo - Abigail Gordon

Œther - Dee Bradley Baker

Oozee - Lizzie Freeman

Piranin - Scott Menville

Quicky - Corinne Orr

Ringring - Michael Kovach

Rosso - Kelsey Painter

Shiro - Tara Strong

Spimon - Annick Obonsawin

Tubee - Pamela Adlon

Usop - Lance Henriksen

Vincent - Vincent Martella

Watt - Jo Wyatt

Mr. X - Jeremy Shada

Yumyum - Katt Williams

Zobie - Donovan Patton

Zuzu - Carla Delaney

Mr. Salaman - Ian McDougall

Mr. Tigerl - KJ Schrock

Ms. Peginand - Julie Sype

Ms. Unirex - Leah Ostry

Mr. Komoika - Shannon Lynch

Lure - Cory Doran

Johnny Crow - Patrick Warburton

Vending Machines - Patrick Seitz, Laura Bailey

Mr. Showtime - Christian Bale

Mr. Book Deposit Machine - Don Brown

Old Owl Sage - Jason Jones

Owl Sage Apprentice - Mariette Sluyter

Principal Kocho - James Hong

Eddy - Meesha Contreras

Vice-Principal Esme & Osma - Samantha Bee & Helen King

Casey - Vegas J Jenkins

Ra - Teala Dunn

Wendell - Brett Bauer

Winifred - Carol Ann Day

Monty Carlo - Joey Mazzarino

Bashful - Roger Rhodes

Pumu - Scott McNeil

Quasar - Lenore Zann

Edgar - Meesha Contreras

Smooch - Patton Oswalt

Kwazii - Veronique Barnard

Dr. Ongo - Park Shin Yong

Bello the Bus Driver - Dave Pettit

Coco the Jinn - Travis Willingham

Motherboard - Kimberly Brooks

Siobhan - Estela Echevarria

Izzy - Winter Murdock

AJ - Bommie Catherine Han

Eli - Sarah Bock

Fiona - Dahlia Lynn

Fred - Nitzan Sitzer

KC - Hope Marie Segoine

Mona - Meghan Strange

Roy - Finn Phoenix

Rudy - Yantzi Michael David (credited as Mike Yantzi)

Tee - Bommie Catherine Han

Zane - Sharon Youngmee Kwon

Japanese

Ampoo - Chiyako Shibahara

Anto - Ai Maeda

Æon - Ai Kayano

Bri - Kumiko Yokote

Borocca - Junji Majima

Chaps - Hisayo Mochizuki

Dabble - Ken Morita

Docky - Takeshi Kusao

Enton - Tarusuke Shingaki

Fonton - Kenji Nojima

Friedi - Azusa Enoki

Furanzo - Miyuki Sawashiro

Genie - Ryuuzou Ishino

Hikky - Hiromi Ohtsuda

Inky - Tomoe Hanba

Juno - Ayumi Kida

Kabo - Etsuko Kozakura

Kami - Nakamura Maiden

Karen - Kaori Yamamoto

Liddy - Etsuko Kozakura

Magnero - Setsuji Satoh

Noisy - Tomoe Hanba

Nonny - Yutaka Nakano

Onpoo - Sakiko Tamagawa

Œther - Kenjiro Tsuda

Oozee - Ayano Yamamoto

Piranin - Eriko Nakayama

Quicky - Takeshi Kusao

Ringring - Yuna Taira

Rosso - Eriko Nakayama

Shiro - Isla Summerhaze

Spimon - Etsuko Kozakura

Tubee - Chiyako Shibahara

Usop - Kosuke Okano

Vincent - Kosuke Okano

Watt - Sakiko Tamagawa

Mr. X - Ayumi Kida

Yumyum - Ryusei Nakao

Zobie - Yusuke Numata

Zuzu - Etsuko Kozakura

Mr. Salaman - Sukekiyo Kameyama

Mr. Tigerl - Kenji Nomura

Ms. Peginand - Hiroko Oohashi

Ms. Unirex - Hiroko Oohashi

Mr. Komoika - Kenji Nomura

Lure - Yuichi Nagashima

Johnny Crow - Kosuke Okano

Vending Machines - Cho, Sukekiyo Kameyama

Mr. Showtime - Kenji Nomura

Mr. Book Deposit Machine - Kenji Nomura

Old Owl Sage - Hiroshi Iwasaki

Owl Sage Apprentice - Yuko Sanpei

Kocho-sensei - Tomomichi Nishimura

Eddy - Kenji Nomura

Esme-sensei & Osma-sensei - Cho & Hisayo Mochizuki

Casey - Kenji Nomura

Bello the Bus Driver - Chafurin

Ongo-isha - Mayumi Tanaka

Coco the Jinn - Kenji Nomura

Ra - Chiyako Shibahara

Wendell - Kosuke Okano

Winifred - Hiromi Ohtsuda

Bashful - Setsuji Satoh

Monty Carlo - Tomoaki Maeno

Motherboard - Atsuko Tanaka

Pumu - Ayumu Murasa

Quasar - Misato Fukuen

Edgar - Kenji Nomura

Smooch - Tomoaki Maeno

Kwazii - Reina Ueda

Siobhan - Nanako Ishizuka

Izzy - Yuna Saito

AJ - Karen Miyama

Eli - Chinami Yoshioka

Fiona - Maika Pu

Fred - Botchiboromaru

KC - NOA

Mona - Ai Kayano

Roy - Isla Summerhaze

Rudy - Yu Fukaya

Tee - Kaori Yamamoto

Zane - Yuna Taira

#midnight horror school #voice acting #english #japanese #netflix jr #netflix #netflix kids #netflix anime #mhs

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armenianwriterman · 2 years

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So as you all have probably seen by now, in the other day during the RWBY Roundtable, CRWBY have mentioned that there is gonna be over 100 characters (!) in volume 10. Therefore, I have decided to list all the characters by how likely they are to appear here based on their appearances in the books or otherwise guessing.

Definitely: Arlsan Altan, Blake Belladonna, Bolin Hori, Cinder Fall, Coco Adel, Dew Gayl, Elm Ederne, Emerald Sustrai, Fiona Thyme, Fox Alistair, Gwen Darcy, Harriet Bree, Jaune Arc, Joanna Greenleaf, Klein Sieben, Lie Ren, Maria Calavera, Marrow Amin, May Marigold, Mercury Black, Nadir Shiko, Nebula Violette, Neptune Vasilias, Nolan Porifino, Nora Valkyrie, Octavia Ember, Oscar Pine, Ozpin, Pietro Polendina, Qrow Branwen, Reese Chloris, Robyn Hill, Ruby Rose, Sage Anaya, Salem, Scarlet David, Sun Wukong, Theodore, Tyrian Callows, Velvet Scarletina, Weiss Schnee, Whitley Schnee, Willow Schnee, Winter Schnee, Xanthe Rumpole, Yang Xiao Long, Yatsuhashi Daichi

Possible: Ambrosius, Argento Pocoron, August Caspian, Bertilak Celadon, Bianca Prisma, Camilla, Carmine Escalados, Ciel Soleil, Curious Cat, Edward Caspain, Flynt Coal, Ghira Belladonna, Gillian Austrias, "Green", Henry Marigold, Ilia Amitola, Ivori, Ivy Thickety, Jabberwalker, Jinn, Kali Belladonna, King of Vale, Kobalt, Little, Neon Katt, Neopolitan, Olive Gashley, Penny Polendina (Yep still got my clown shoes on here), Raven Branwen, Roane Ashwood, Rosa Schewin, Ruda Tilleroot, Slate, Summer Rose, Taiyang Xiao Long, Umber Gorgoneion, Zwei

Unlikely: Adam Taurus, Adrian Cotta-Arc, Amber, Amonico Glass, An Ren, Arrastra Skye, Arthur Watts, Asher Mora, Atlas Pilot, Bartholomew Oobleck, Bram Thornmane, Brawnz Ni, Captain, Cardin Winchester, Carmel Vanille, Caroline Cordovin, Clover Ebi, Corsac Albain, Dee, Deery, Dove Bronzewing, Dudley, Fenix Nemean, Fennec Albain, First Mate, Forest, Fria, Glynda Goodwitch, God of Darkness, God of Light, Hanlon Fifestone, Hazel Rainart, Higanbana Waitress, Jacques Schnee, James Ironwood, Jax Austrias, Jimmy Vanille, Junior Xiong, Leonardo Lionheart, Li Ren, Lil Miss Malachite, Lisa Lavender, Mata, May Zedong, Melanie Malachite, Merlot, Miltia Malachite, Nicholas Schnee, Nubuck Guards, Olive Harper, Perry, Peter Port, Pyke Rite, Pyrrha Nikos, Rhodes, Roman Torchwick, Roy Stallion, Russel Thrush, Saber Rodentia, Saphron Cotta-Arc, Shay D Mann, Shion Zaiden, Shopkeep, Sienna Khan, Sky Lark, Sleet, The Hound, Tock, Trifa, Tukson, Vernal, Vine Zeki, White Fang Lieutenant, Yuma

#rwby #rwby10

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icemankazansky · 2 years

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🎙️which one of your fics would you like someone to make a pod-fic of?

Oh, man. I do have a few stories people have made into podfic, and to be honest, the story choices were all kind of surprising to me when people asked? I've never made a podfic, so tbh I'm not sure what one looks for, but except for one, I've been pretty surprised by the things people chose. (Completely flattered and delighted, of course, but also surprised.)

I think Dreams of Impact could be really cool; it'd be like the old radio mystery serials. Will Maverick survive this time? Tune in next week ...!

These are the podfic made from my stories that I am aware of, and the links to the stories themselves:

The Wrong Man (podfic by chemm80) - The Wrong Man (story) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Harry Lockhart & Perry van Shrike, Mature Harry pretends to be Perry to take a case. For some reason, this does not go smoothly.

yes your wings are beautiful. yes they shimmer. god. (podfic by sophinisba) (story) MCU, James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Tony Stark, General Audiences your machinery is too much for me

every road leads to you (podfic by growlery) (interactive story) American Gods (TV), Jinn/Salim, Mature After Laura tells you where the Jinn is headed, you speed away in the cab. You are driving so fast the landscape is only a blur past the mirrors and the cab’s locks rattle in their metal rings. It takes you a while to realize that you don’t know where you’re going.

Static (podfic by Ravin_Pods) (story) MCU, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff & Sam Wilson & Steve Rogers, General Audiences Stake out chatter.

Thanks for playing!

#asks answered #beloved mutuals #fic memes

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sailorsunspot · 3 years

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Been busy jobhunting and stuff recently, but i wanted to draw my buff butch OC for wish fulfillment purposes i guess

#jinn rhodes #butch art #butch #my art #my ocs #i love her and i WILL HAVE THOSE ARMS DAMNIT.

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dresspheres · 3 years

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EDIT - Please note that, for some reason, the download links do not appear if you are looking at a reblogged version of this post. You will need to the view the original post on my blog (dresspheres) to see the download links.

Each character’s screenshots have been split into volumes in case anyone wants screenshots from a specific volume rather than all of them. If you want a character’s screenshots from all volumes, there’s a download link for that too. All I ask is that you like or reblog this post if you plan on using the screenshots! If you would like to support me, please consider buying me a Kofi or tipping me on PayPal.

I have not gone through these screenshots with a fine tooth comb, so some screenshots might be blurry, out of focus or there might be one or two mistakes in there.

Adam Taurus // Volume 3 // Volume 5 // Volume 6

Amber

Ambrosius

An Ren

Arslan Altan

Arthur Watts // Volume 4 // Volume 5 // Volume 6 // Volume 7 // Volume 8

Bartholomew Oobleck // Volume 1 // Volume 2 // Volume 3 // Volume 4

Blake Belladonna // Volume 1 // Volume 2 // Volume 3 // Volume 4 // Volume 5 // Volume 6 // Volume 7 // Volume 8

Bolin Hori

Cardin Winchester

Caroline Cordovin

Ciel Soleil

Cinder Fall // Volume 2 // Volume 3 // Volume 4 // Volume 5 // Volume 6 // Volume 7 // Volume 8

Clover Ebi

Coco Adel // Volume 2 // Volume 3

Dew Gayl

Elm Ederne // Volume 7 // Volume 8

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Emerald + Mercury = Cinder

BEGINNING OF THE END = MIDNIGHT

The episodes Beginning of the End and Midnight can be seen as complementary.

Both share a similar structure with the first part telling Cinder’s story and the second part showing how past events are influencing the present. At the same time, they show the links among Cinder, Emerald and Mercury and explore their changing dynamic.

In Beginning of the End it is shown how they came together and we reach the climax of their cooperation. The Fall of Beacon is when the trio is at its strongest. It is only because of their coordination and teamwork that the plan succeeds. In Midnight instead we are shown the beginning of their separation.

For different reasons (fears and wishes) both Mercury and Emerald are about to leave Cinder. Mercury already has and it is probable Emerald will soon.

The two episodes also give us two opposite and complementary visions of Cinder.

In Beginning of the End, we have the way Cinder wants to appear:

Cinder: (stepping forward slowly, glass anklet shifting with her footsteps) I've already told you. And I don't like repeating myself.

Salem: I would like to think I have shown a great deal of patience over my many years walking Remnant. But I do hate repeating myself.

Mercury: Is this how you treat a patient? (Emerald reaches over and twists the screwdriver in his leg, causing him to wince) Ah, too tight!

Cinder: Enough. Our Mercury put on a wonderful show. He was quite brave.

Salem: Do you find such malignance necessary?

Watts: I apologize, ma'am. I'm not particularly fond of failure.

Salem: Then I see no reason for your cruelty towards young Cinder. She's become our Fall Maiden, destroyed Beacon Tower, and most importantly, killed dear Ozpin. So I'm curious, to what failures are you referring?

In Midnight we see who she really is. Moreover, it becomes more and more clear that her imitation of Salem is different from the original:

Salem: I will tell you when and where you are needed.

Cinder: Both of you, get out. I’ll let you know when you’re needed next.

Mercury: Yeah about that, Salem’s got other plans for me. I’m not gonna be taking orders from you anymore.

Why is this being shown through her interactions with Emerald and Mercury? Why are they important for Cinder’s character?

First of all, Mercury and Emerald are Cinder’s kids, at least narratively speaking:

Roman: Oh, look! She sent the kids again! This is turning out just like the divorce!

Roman calls them so when they first appear and later on several characters refer to them as kids in relation to Cinder.

Raven (about Emerald and Mercury): Two children you've tricked into following you.

Tyrian: (chuckles as he slowly walks toward Emerald) Careful, little girl. Cinder isn't here to protect you anymore.

Tyrian (mocking Mercury): Oh yes, the world is mean, and I'm a big, bad man now just like the others.

Salem (to Emerald): Speak, child.

In short, they are meant to be the last link in a chain of abuse that starts with Salem, goes on with Cinder and finally arrives to them.

At the same time, as the title says Mercury + Emerald = Cinder because they are nothing more than parts of Cinder herself, both in their backgrounds and in their personalities.

CINDER + “HUNGER” = EMERALD

Cinder: Follow me, and you'll never be hungry again.

Cinder: It's... an emptiness. It burns. Like hunger. I like it.

In Beginning of the End Emerald and Cinder are shown to share a hunger motif.

Emerald is presented as a street rat who survives through stealing. She is poor and starved, so she accepts Cinder’s offer to be taken care of and to be given food. That said, it is clear that other than food what Emerald is truly starving for is love:

Emerald: I just... (sighs) Cinder was the only family I ever had. She cared about me, taught me things...

I'm the one Who rose out of filth and was loved by no-one

Similarly, Cinder too is shown to be hungry. More specifically, she is hungry for power:

Cinder: I want to be powerful.

It is meaningful that in the episode where Cinder tells Emerald she won’t have to starve anymore, she herself is starving. This contradiction conveys the tragedy of Cinder’s character aka a traumatized girl taking in a kid similar to her and becoming like her past parental figures.

As a matter of fact Emerald and Cinder’s first meeting has parallels with Cinder meeting both Madame and Rhodes.

When Cinder meets Madame she asks for food, but is negated it:

And she is later shown to have survived through leftovers.

In contrast, food is the first thing Cinder offers Emerald, who she recognizes as a girl who has survived in poverty, like her.

In their first meeting, Cinder also treats Emerald pretty much like Rhodes treated her. Both discover a young girl, who has just committed a theft and confront her. However, instead of punishing the girl, they both offer to be the girl’s mentor and become her idol.

As a matter of fact both Cinder and Emerald are shown to idolize their saviors to the point that both girls try to look like them by changing their hair/clothes:

So, it would superficially seem that Cinder is acting like Rhodes and in the opposite way of Madame. However, the reality is far more complex. Deep down, Cinder is acting like her adoptive mother because she is targeting a girl and thinking about how she can weaponize her. At the same time, there is a key difference between her behaviour and Rhodes’s. Rhodes had Cinder give the sword back, while Cinder never stopped Emerald from stealing. If anything, she encouraged her criminal activities changing her from a thief to a terrorist. In other words, Cinder radicalized Emerald.

This is once again linked to the motif of hunger both girls share:

Cinder: You Atlas elites are all the same! You think hoarding power means you'll have it forever, but it just makes the rest of us hungrier.

Cinder’s trauma is rooted in the unfairness of the world. She was made to starve simply because she was born in the wrong situation and society completely failed her.

What is more, when Rhodes refuses Cinder as well, she too refuses his vision of the world. Rhodes, pretty much like the Prince of the original fairy-tale, offers Cinder a way to social-climb. In the fairy-tale, Cinderella marries the prince and so becomes a princess in the end. Here, Rhodes is telling Cinder she can reach her own castle. Cinder can escape her misery and reach Atlas. However, this is seen as a lie by Cinder the moment he attacks her.

So, Cinder giving food to an orphan like her and trying to destroy the current order are both coherent with the idea that the world is unjust and needs to be changed. However, Cinder is using the same problems she criticizes to her advantage. What is more, she is exasperating them in order to fulfill her personal agenda, which is only about herself and her self-image.

Let’s see now, what do our two young thieves steal? What are they “hungry” for?

a) Emerald steals a ring:

Salesman: A beautiful ring... for a beautiful woman.

Interestingly, the ring itself might be a reference to the original story of Aladdin, which is apparently Emerald’s allusion.

In the original story Aladdin meets two jinns. The first one is in a ring and Aladdin uses it to save himself and to escape with the magic lamp, where a stronger jinn is. So it makes sense for Emerald to steal a ring (something she wishes) just to meet a woman that promises her she can have more (her personal jinn aka someone that can realize Emerald’s dreams).

Why does Emerald steal the ring?

It is possible she just wants to sell it in order to buy some food, but I like the idea that she steals it also because she wants some beauty (”a beautiful ring for a beautiful woman”) in the harsh and horrible world she lives in (“filth”).

b) Cinder steals a sword:

Like in Emerald’s case, the object of Cinder’s theft can be seen as part of her fairy-tale’s allusion.

As a matter of fact, in Cinder’s adaptation of Cinderella the swords are nothing, but her glass slippers.

This is made clear later on when Rhodes (both the Prince and the Fairy Godmother) gives Cinder the first sword. It is meant to be a prize on his part. He is showing Cinder she does not need to steal it anymore because she has gained it. Moreover, weapons are said to be extensions of a person by Ruby, so it makes sense that the slipper of the original Cinderella becomes a sword in this version. It fits the personality of our Cinder, a fiery young girl, who wants to become a huntress.

Finally, since Cinder’s story uses both inversion and deconstruction when adapting the fairy-tale, it is interesting that in the end the Prince refuses to give Cinder the other sword (slipper) and Cinder takes it by force:

In this way, Cinder goes back to stealing, which was what Rhodes had originally tried to avoid.

Why does Cinder steal the sword in the first place?

She steals something to defend herself with and to hurt her tormentors. Violence is rooted in Cinder’s first theft.

In short, Emerald wants something beautiful, while Cinder wants something powerful.

This difference is coherent with their respective semblances since Emerald creates illusions, while Cinder is able to overheat objects, so that she can create explosions and manipulate their shape. Both powers are representative of their user’s flaw and coping mechanism.

Emerald is a person who has reacted to her traumatic life by chasing illusory dreams of warmth and love. She tricks others and is tricked because she refuses to dispel her self-delusions.

Cinder is instead a person, who has been molded through violence just like the glass statues in the hotel. She is forced to endure until she can’t take it anymore and she explodes:

She herself is the Glass Unicorn, which shatters like Cinder’s innocence when too much pressure is added. Not only that, but Cinder too has started molding others to her will. She has been grooming both Emerald and Mercury for her own ego. This is why the name Scorching Caress fits her so well. It is because behind every act of care it is hidden an act of manipulation. And this happens because Cinder too has been treated utilitaristically and the only kind of love she experienced (Rhodes’s) was a “weak” love Cinder ended up perceiving as fake.

In short, Emerald and Cinder have different coping mechanisms and aim for different things. However, this does not mean that one is better or worse than the other. Their main difference is that right now Emerald is more in touch with her own needs and wishes. Ironically, the delusional girl has never lost sight of what she truly wants.

Emerald wants a family. She has been looking for it in the wrong places and she has been pursuing it in the wrong ways. However, Emerald has never forgotten what she is truly after and she is starting to realize she won’t have it, until she stays on Salem’s side:

Salem: It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: Love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.

Tyrian: Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. I want to tell you both a little secret. Your question is all wrong. (laughs)

Emerald: What?

Tyrian: "What do you want from this?" Children, please, if you're not loving what you're doing, then you're in the wrong field.

Salem promises to fulfill Emerald’s wishes, but Tyrian has already told her that pursuing a wish while working for Salem is useless. Emerald is starting to realize it and this is why she will probably leave.

Cinder has instead forgotten what she originally wanted:

Cinder: Like you? You can do whatever you want, go wherever you want.

Cinder’s original wish was to be free and also to be loved, like Emerald:

You're no good I hope you know That your life is of no use And the truth is that No one's ever loved you

However, her being failed by the adults has twisted her wish into a desire for power.

This difference is well conveyed by Cinder and Emerald’s respective line in Beginning of the End:

Cinder: Follow me, and you'll never be hungry again.

Emerald: Thank you...

Cinder: The Huntsman severed the connection before it was complete. (pause) Yes. It's... an emptiness. It burns. Like hunger. I like it. (pause) Yes. I will claim what is ours. (pause) Thank you.

Emerald thanks Cinder because she won’t have to be hungry anymore, while Cinder thanks Salem because she is able to feel a hunger she likes.

This fits well with Cinder’s last words to the Madame:

Cinder: You’re right. Without you I am nothing. But because of you, I am everything.

Emerald does not want to be hungry, while Cinder has been tricked into thinking that being hungry is the only way she can become not even “everything”, but just “something”.

CINDER + “EVERYTHING” = MERCURY

Cinder: Because of you, I am everything.

Mercury: So I got strong, but I never got it back! I've had to work harder than anyone to get where I am.

Cinder’s way of thinking is very similar to Mercury’s. Not only have they both endured their parents’ violence, but they have tried to give this violence meaning. It is because of Madame that Cinder has become “everything” and it is because of Marcus that Mercury has become “strong”. They must believe that it was not all for nothing and that the pain they felt made them stronger instead of weaker.

This is why Cinder thinks that deep down her “hunger” is good. It is because it drives her, but she ignores that it blinds her too.

This is why Mercury keeps going back to his father:

Mercury: Bad hair, used a scythe, and smelled like my dad after a long day. It was him.

Mercury: My dad always said... "if you need to know a city, ask the rats."

He mentions Marcus here and there and uses his teachings to solve problems. That is because those teachings must have some value, right? If they don’t, then Mercury’s life means nothing.

The nature of Cinder and Mercury’s foiling is clear in their first meeting:

Like in Emerald’s case, Cinder finding Mercury calls back a moment of her past.

In particular, it parallels the murder of her adoptive family and Rhodes discovering it. Mercury, just like young Cinder, has just killed an abusive parent and is confronted by a person after the fact.

Once again, Cinder seems to act differently from the adults that let her down. Rhodes was horrified and attacked her, while Cinder praises Mercury and has him join her group.

However, she is deep down acting as Rhodes did. As a matter of fact what truly hurt Cinder about Rhodes’s reaction is that he convinced her that she is irredeemable.

The whole scene plays with the Cinderella’s allusion and inverts it:

The clock strikes midnight and just like in the fairy-tale, the magic is over. In Cinderella, the protagonist goes back to her true self and runs away not to be seen. However, in the end, the prince recognizes her through her slipper (a symbol of her innate beauty and kindness) and marries her despite her humble condition.

In Cinder’s story, midnight is when she reveals a part of herself to Rhodes. She shows all the anger and violence she has been repressing. Cinder is not a “good victim” like the Cinderella of the fairy-tale and Rhodes can’t accept it. Not only that, but he negates Cinder’s dream to be free:

Rhodes: You can run, but you’re going to be running for the rest of your life.

Cinder: I won’t have to run now.

Rhodes: That’s all you’ll ever do.

This shatters Cinder’s hopes and self-perception. She internalizes that she will have to live in opposition to society because she is somehow “a bad person”. She is not a huntress (a princess), but a nobody who’ll have to use violence to survive. And she starts doing it immediately. As the song that starts playing implies, she has been awaken from the “fragile lies in bones”. However, this “truth has broken her soul in two”. This wound is still there and it has influenced, among other things, her reaction to Mercury.

When Cinder meets Mercury, she associates him to his father three times:

Cinder: And you're his son. We saw your fight from the treeline. He's taught you well.

Mercury: Guess so.

Cinder: What's your name?

Mercury: Mercury.

Cinder: Mercury... Tell me, are you anything like your father?

In this way, she strengthens the connection Mercury tried to cut by killing Marcus. She is indirectly convincing him that he can’t be different from his father:

Tyrian: All you ever learned was pain and violence, and now you're too afraid to leave it. Such a tragedy.

Tyrian spells it out clearly for both Mercury and the audience. The only reason Mercury joined Cinder and is now working for Salem is that he is scared. Not only is he scared for his own survival, but he is scared about failing to be anything else than what his father taught him.

Cinder is deep down scared too by Salem and her group:

However, she too, like Mercury, has given up on being anything different than a criminal. She puts up a strong demeanor, but is actually really frail. She is like glass that has been bended through heat (violence) and can easily shatter.

Both Mercury and Cinder are two violent victims. This duality is kind of conveyed also through their names and colors.

“Cinder” is something that has only partially burnt. They tried to reduce her to ashes, but failed and a part of Cinder is still burning. This is why her main colors are black and red. She is black because she was burnt. She is red because she can burn. She was both hurt and has hurted others.

Similarly, “mercury” is a silver/gray metal and this is Mercury’s main color. This choice gains a possible deeper meaning when one considers that his aura is white and that his surname is Black. His aura can be seen as Mercury’s nature, while the surname “Black” is a symbol of the “nurture” he received. Mixing these two factors made so that Mercury turned out like he is (a gray character).

So, Cinder and Mercury have been shaped by their abuse and this is clearly visible on their bodies as well:

Cinder keeps the scar on her neck hidden, while Mercury has chosen to weaponize his missing legs.

It is telling that Mercury made of his own mechanical legs his weapon and that he mostly uses kicks to fight. It is another detail that shows how he is reducing both himself and his trauma to weapons he can use.

Cinder too shows how frail her sense of self is through weapons. It is not by chance that her current weapons are made of glass. In her backstory her swords were a symbol of her true self and of who she could become. Right now, they are nothing, but glass imitations of that ideal.

In short, Cinder and Mercury are both victims and murderers and they needed to have both sides of themselves accepted by their mentors.

However, Rhodes and Cinder failed to do so. They both refused the victimhood of the child in front of them, but they did so in opposite ways.

On one hand Rhodes refused Cinder’s violence and its reasons. He ignored his feelings of affection for the girl and steeled himself, so that he could fight her.

On the other hand Cinder gladly accepted Mercury’s violence and groomed him (Scorching caress), so that he would completely embrace it too.

The difference between Rhodes and Cinder lies in them having different reactions to the violence perpetrated by a child. However, they both fail to address the child’s pain. Rhodes does so because his vision is too black and white. Cinder does so because she is not even able to address her own pain.

However, both Cinder and Mercury need to address their own victimhood. Still, they refuse to do so because it would mean to accept their vulnerability. It is easier to convince themselves that they are the strong and violent ones. They are the ones others are scared of:

Mercury: We're the guys you should be afraid of.

But it is precisely because of this refusal that they are currently caught in dynamics similar to the ones they escaped:

Salem and Tyrian are nothing, but more dangerous versions of Madame and Marcus.

Salem treats Cinder as a pawn, rather than a person. She strips her of her personhood and agency and punishes her violently.

Tyrian is a killer, who enjoys his job like Marcus. He keeps invading Mercury’s personal space and threathens him. Moreover, his own semblance is similar to Marcus’s. It might not steal people’s semblances, but it still messes with their auras (with their very souls).

Cinder and Mercury struggle to recognize their own situations because to do so they must accept they are still stuck in their horrible childhoods:

Mercury: You may not like it here without Cinder, but I think I'm right where I'm supposed to be!

Cinder: I don’t serve anyone. And you wouldn’t either, if you were built that way.

However, this refusal is confusing them about what their true needs and wishes are:

Cinder: I want to be strong. I want to be feared. I want to be powerful.

Mercury: So what's in it for me?

In Beginning of the End both characters receive a line where they express some kind of wish.

As stated above, Cinder’s wish is not her original one, but a twisted version because she thinks she can’t reach her true desire.

When it comes to Mercury, he is not even sure of what he really wants. This is made clear even later on:

Emerald: I mean, there has to be something you want from this, right?

Mercury: Salem's promised us everything. We win this thing for her, we'll be top dogs in her new world. What more do you want?

He says Salem will give him all he wants, but he still fails to answer Emerald’s question. What is it that he wants?

He wants “everything” Cinder can offer him and later on “everything” Salem offers him. However, this is just another way to say he’ll take anything he is given, be it even something as basic as survival:

Mercury: Look, even if what he said was true, we can’t stop Salem. You told me yourself, Hazel tried. He failed and he got in line. Big guy’s not going to pick fights he can’t win, and neither should we.

This is because Mercury is so scared and hurt he can’t even start to think about what he wants.

Similarly, he goes back to a fatalistic vision of the world:

Mercury: Just made sense.

Emerald: It made sense?

Mercury: All my life, my father trained me to be a killer, an assassin like him. And then moments after I killed him, you two showed up looking for someone with my exact skills. Just felt like it was meant to be.

Let’s highlight that Cinder does the same:

Pyrrha: Do you believe in destiny?

Cinder: Yes.

Cinder: You know, Neo, someone once asked me if I believed in destiny. And I'm happy to say I still do.

Both Mercury and Cinder have convinced themselves that there is a “destiny” written for them and that they must play that role (the role of an assassin, the role of the Maiden). However, in this way they are just chaining themselves and accepting to Do As They Are Told by adults and mentor figures, who do not really care about them.

EMERALD + MERCURY = SOUL + BODY

I'm the one That was born in a nightmare a murderer's son Got no gun But I gleam like a blade and I'm harder than iron I'm the one Who rose out of filth and was loved by no-one Delusion I'll steal til your blind and defeat you from inside your mind

I'm the one That was ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun Overrun By the hate and the beatings defiled by a father I'm the one I'll race with your eyes and you'll never outrun Illusions Will conquer your mind and will make you fulfill my design

Mercury and Emerald’s song says several things about them.

First of all, it conveys the idea of two kids that feel let down by the world and have decided to retaliate. They mock their opponents and praise their respective abilities. However, it is clear from the verses above that it is just a mask to hide their pain.

This fits with them appearing for the first time in Best Day Ever where Ozpin says this:

Ozpin: And they will be, but right now they're still children. So why not let them play the part? After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever.

Differently from out protagonists (at the time), Emerald and Mercury are not playing the part of kids, but they are acting as big bad thugs to prove themselves to the people around them.

Secondly, the song is useful to explore Emerald and Mercury’s foiling.

I'm the one Who rose out of filth and was loved by no-one Delusion I'll steal til your blind and defeat you from inside your mind

I'm the one That was ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun Overrun By the hate and the beatings defiled by a father

Emerald was never given love, while Mercury was given hate:

Mercury: I'm sorry you didn't have a mommy that loved you, but I had a father who hated me!

This difference is at the root of their different personalities.

On one hand Emerald attaches herself to the care Cinder gives her and takes it as the most love she’ll ever receive.

On the other hand Mercury is just content with not receiving hate and violence from the people around him.

Emerald is more open about her connections with others, while Mercury is more disillusioned. She is strongly driven by them, while Mercury is too scared to fully embrace them.

Emerald has clear wishes, but she is deluding herself about them. Mercury has fears that do not let him realize what he wants.

This difference stems from the different nature of their traumas. Who was never given anything accepts whatever they are offered, while who received pain thinks even nothing is better than more pain.

Still, we are currently seeing an inversion of this dynamic. Emerald’s wishes and their not overlapping with reality are making her doubtful. Mercury’s fear and survival instinct are making him refuse the truth:

Mercury: And all of this is pointless, anyway. Salem’s not ending the world.

In the end, facing one’s own feelings, being them wishes:

Or fears:

Is still better than repressing them, even if it might be painful.

I'm the one That was born in a nightmare a murderer's son Got no gun But I gleam like a blade and I'm harder than iron

I'm the one I'll race with your eyes and you'll never outrun Illusions Will conquer your mind and will make you fulfill my design

The song I’m the One has four key verses. In the first two ones both characters tell a little of their past and then discuss their abilities, while in the other two Mercury mostly talks about his past and emphasizes it, while Emerald highlights her semblance more.

This ends up foreshadowing the importance of Emerald’s semblance and Mercury’s lack of one (”got no gun”).

Emerald’s semblance is important on different levels. As stated above, it perfectly embodies Emerald’s flaw:

Mercury: You're in denial.

And it is linked to unconscious aspects, like wishes and fears. Finally, it is a semblance linked to trickery and lies and these are among the causes of The Fall of Beacon:

Cinder: Our Kingdoms are on the brink of war, yet we, the citizens, are left in the dark.

It is not by chance that this semblance specifically has been so instrumental in Cinder’s plan, after all.

Similarly, Mercury’s lack of a semblance is one of his defining traits:

Mercury: He never went easy on me! Every day of training was a beating. And when I unlocked my Semblance, he stole it with his!

Ironically, this would make for an excellent narrative objective for Mercury’s character. However, he is so sure his semblance can’t be taken back that he has completely given up on it. This even if he is clearly bitter about having had a part of himself stolen.

The key aspect here may be that Mercury has failed to get his semblance back through his father’s teachings:

Mercury: He told me I could have it back when I was strong. So I got strong, but I never got it back!

And he is now considering it lost forever. It is possible that the path to find his ability again is instead another one altogether.

That said, while Cinder mostly used Emerald’s semblance in her plan, she also made great use of Mercury’s skill and of the peculiar nature of his body:

The first step in her plan, after all, uses both Emerald’s semblance and Mercury’s prostethic legs to spread negative emotions. This tendency continues in PvP where Emerald uses her semblance and Mercury, unhurt because of his legs, prevents Ruby from interrupting the fight.

In short, Emerald mostly relies on her semblance, while Mercury mostly relies on his legs and fighting prowess.

This detail adds to the idea that Emerald and Mercury have been acting as a unit and have been complementing each other. Emerald acts as the “soul” and Mercury as the “body”.

The soul is one’s personal essence (like the semblance). It is where (once again) wishes reside. The body is what protects the soul and is animated by instincts and self-survival.

They complement each other. This complementarity is shown in Emerald and Mercury’s fights.

In the Vytal festival, Mercury takes on both Coco and Yatsuhashi for a short while, so that Emerald can size her chance to fight Coco at her own terms (and she wins by using her semblance).

In the Battle of Heaven, Emerald uses her semblance to help Mercury fight and, in a sense, she compensates for his lack of one:

This perfect complementarity used to make them strong, but right now it is clear that it has become limitating:

Blake: When you’ve been at someone’s side for so long, after a while they become a part of you. But that’s just it, they’re only a part of you. Don’t forget about the rest.

This is why they are currently being separated by the narrative.

On one hand Emerald must learn not to be so emotionally dependant from others and must make her own choices. This is also why her using the lamp might be meaningful:

Qrow: This last great creation would be given the power to both create and destroy. It would be given the gift of knowledge, so that it could learn about itself and the world around it. And most importantly, it would be given the power to choose, to have free will to take everything it had learned and decide which path to follow - the path of light or the path of darkness.

The whole point of the relics (and of the journey we are going through) is to learn about the world, about creation and destruction, so that in the end a choice can be made.

This is why the first relic we saw is the relic of knowledge. Now, Emerald is a character that has been dependant on others, so that she could realize her wishes. Aladdin itself is a story about a character depending on a Jinn to make his dreams come true. However, it is possible Emerald’s arc will be different and it will be about gaining the knowledge to act and realize one’s wishes.

On the other hand Mercury must face himself and learn what he really wants. He must start living instead of simply surviving. In a sense, he must take the soul his father stole back.

Mercury quoting Marcus: "This is a crutch!" "This makes you weak!"

Marcus was wrong. One’s individuality (semblance) does not make them weak. If anything, Marcus’s abuse of Mercury made him need a literal crutch (since he lost his legs) and the boy is still hiding behind this violence to avoid any real choice about himself. This is what prevents him from becoming strong:

Yang: You might be powerful, but that doesn't make you strong.

Raven: Who do you think you are, lecturing me?! Standing there, shaking like a scared little girl?!

Yang: Yeah, I'm scared. But I'm still standing here!

His connection with Emerald might still play a role in this. After all, Mercury is, among other things, the god of thieves and this allusion has been played with by making him protective of Emerald (whose surname means “thief”). It might be used in a deeper and more meaningful way later on.

Emerald and Mercury must grow because if they don’t, they’ll end up as their dark foils:

Both Hazel and Emerald ended up joining Salem out of a feeling of love that was twisted. Emerald joined Salem because of her loyalty to Cinder, who is using her. Hazel joined Salem because of the death of his sister that he blames on Ozpin. Their semblances are even symbolic of their respective flaws since Emerald is caught up in her own delusions, while Hazel is unable to properly grieve, so he can’t “feel pain” on more than just the physical level.

Both Mercury and Tyrian are assassins and Tyrian is who Mercury might become if he truly chooses to live only to kill and does not find a different goal.

It is also telling that both Emerald and Mercury are currently put in similar circumstances as their two foils. As a matter of fact Mercury is leaving with Tytian, while Emerald and Hazel have been given the password to use the lamp and must choose what to make of this information.

At the same time, Emerald and Mercury have also some traits of respectively Tyrian and Hazel as well.

Emerald is fiercely loyal to Cinder like Tyrian is to Salem:

Tyrian: So devoted to someone so incompetent.

Hazel wanted to protect Gretchen (and is still acting on these unfulfilled feelings of protectiveness) like Mercury is trying to protect Emerald. Moreover, Gretchen and (probably) Emerald’s choice was/will be to fight an enemy that can’t be beaten, going against Hazel and Mercury’s wishes.

All in all, Emerald and Mercury have had interesting interactions with both Hazel and Tyrian that can be (ironically) seen as two incomplete and flawed mentor figures.

On one hand Hazel has been acting as a protector of sorts. He carried Emerald when she lost consciousness after the Battle of Heaven and he tried to protect both Emerald and Mercury from Salem’s rage after their failure.

On the other hand Tyrian is seen tormenting the two kids whenever he gets the chance. That said, he ironically ends up spelling out for them truths the two must face:

Tyrian: Do what makes you happy children... please? I'm begging you...

Tyrian: Of course she is! You’re surprised? Salem is destruction incarnate! Our mistress wishes to see the end of it all! There is no ideal more beautiful.

In short, some kind of interesting foiling seems to have been set-up for the four of them and it will be interesting to see if/how it develops.

MIDNIGHT = BEGINNING OF THE END

In a sense, when the clock stroke midnight it was the beginning of Cinder’s end because she entered a spiral she has not been able to stop since then. Not only that, but she has dragged other people in that same spirals and those people are now struggling against it, just like her.

At the same time, midnight signals the end of illusions and that may be a fitting description for where we are in the story so far.

Ruby has just announced the existence of Salem to the world, Emerald is uncovering several truths about Salem, Cinder and herself and the Ace Ops are being forced to face their emotions. Of course, when some illusions end, new ones appear. However, it is clear we are in a pivotal moment, which will hopefully lead to some changes.

Similarly, Cinder, Mercury and Emerald will probably go their own ways soon and it will be interesting to see how their paths will foil and where they will meet again.

As for now, it seems that because of Emerald’s allusion to Aladdin, she might use the last question to Jinn. If so, she will probably aquire knowledge and wisdom (emeralds are the stones of wisdom apparently).

Mercury will probably spiral a little bit as for now, but I wonder if he will receive some pivotal focus in the Vacuo’s volumes. Other than him going there with Tyrian, there is also the fact that it would make what is currently just a juxtaposition with Penny (thank you, @hamliet for noticing) a more interesting foiling.

Penny is an artificial human, a creation who was given life because her father loved her so much that he sacrificed a part of his aura for her... twice. She is at the centre of the theme of creation and it represents the good sides of it. She is a creation with a soul, a child, the fruit of parental love. It is because of the love she received that she is willing to protect creation:

Penny: That is not… I choose to fight for people who care about me.

Penny’s arc is about self-actualization. She struggles to be her own person outside her role, her purpose and even her parent. However, even if she has been objectified and keeps being objectified, she has also been given affection and this is why she fights.

Mercury is her opposite. He was the target of his father’s violence. Marcus not only stole his legs (while Pietro built Penny a body), but even a part of his soul (while Pietro gave Penny a part of his). He taught Mercury hate and violence and this is why he is currently helping a witch to destroy the world. Because of this, it would be interesting for such a character to receive focus on the volumes about destruction.

Finally, Cinder, as the Fall Maiden, is linked to the theme of choice. This has already been explored a little bit in her being obessed by destiny, as said above. However, the theme of choice is one which must still be fully explored.

In particular, there are several references to choice and destiny when it comes to Cinder’s foil aka Pyrrha:

Cinder (about Pyrrha): Hmm... People assume that she's fated for victory, when she's really taking fate into her own hands.

Cinder: It's unfortunate you were promised a power that was never truly yours.

Pyrrha: When I think of destiny, I don't think of a predetermined fate you can't escape. But rather... some sort of final goal, something you work towards your entire life.

Red-Haired Woman: She understood that she had a responsibility... to try. I don't think she would regret her choice, because a Huntress would understand that there really wasn't a choice to make. And a Huntress is what she always wanted to be.

Pyrrha’s arc is about making a choice. She must choose if she wants to become a Maiden. She struggles, but in the end she accepts this responsibilty. She embraces her idea of destiny and tries to be a Maiden even without powers.

Cinder’s idea of destiny is not fully explored. In a sense, just like Pyrrha, she has taken destiny in her own hands. However, she also seems to use the idea of destiny to nurture her self-image as the Chosen One and as the Worthy One.

At the same time, Pyrrha’s choice led to her tragic death. Not only that, but in the end her death accomplished little. Even Ruby activating her silver eyes has more to do with her wish to protect life, rather than with death. Why is that so? It is probably because Pyrrha’s choice was made without knowledge. She had been explained only a fragment of the truth, while the whole point is that one should learn, meet creation and destruction and then make a choice. This is why we have yet to meet the relic of choice.

My guess is that the theme of choice will mostly be explored through Cinder’s character, who will be asked to choose her destiny in the end.

#rwby #rwby meta #cinder fall #emerald sustrai #mercury black #my meta

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karinta-agogobell-unified · 3 years

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So I’ve come to a realisation about Cinder.

I’ve been trying for a little while to get inside her head and understand why she feels the way she feels, why she does the things she does, why she is the way she is — and so far, this is the only explanation that has made any amount of sense to me.

Deep down, she still instinctually wants something she thinks she can’t have. Due to the conditioning of her incredibly abusive childhood and early adolescence (as well as the lessons she learnt from her interactions with Rhodes), she believes that love, compassion, and mercy are fake and don’t exist, and that anyone who claims to display those traits is lying in order to get what they want. She has thoroughly internalised this mindset, to the degree that her modus operandi is to casually inflict cruelty onto others in order to get what she wants — and yet it is becoming more and more apparent that a deeply-repressed part of her still wants to be cared for by others. Look at how she reacted to Emerald’s betrayal when Jinn showed her Ruby’s plan: she was, for a brief moment, visibly disappointed that Emerald had left her and defected to her enemies’ side. On some level, she felt a bond with Emerald, despite the screwed-up abusive way in which it manifested itself.

Nonetheless, Cinder is convinced that being cared about by others for its own sake is an utter sham (“the truth is that no one ever loved you”); she simply doesn’t believe it’s possible, because she’s seen no compelling evidence that it’s anything other than a means to get her on the side of the other person.

She only submits to those she sees as posing a threat to her (i.e. Salem, and previously Madame, who instilled that example in her first), because she sees that their “care” for her is ultimately a means to an end. And yet, with Salem, a small part of her probably still hopes that Salem actually cares about her, which is why she hasn’t yet realised that she’s being manipulated and abused by Salem just as she was with Madame — plus this time, it’s subtler and more insidious than Madame’s abuse ever was.

And I believe that it’s this psychological conflict between what she wants and what she believes is possible that leads to her all-consuming drive for revenge upon Huntresses and Huntsmen (as a proxy for Rhodes, who betrayed her and shattered her trust when she was just a child). The utter lack of real trust that anyone ever showed her has taught her that she can never trust anyone unless threats and fear are involved, and the complete lack of any compassion towards her has left a hollow space inside her, emotionally, that she feels she can only satisfy by destroying the things and the people that stand in her way. Since she believes that compassion and care (towards her or otherwise) is impossible, she sees destruction of her obstacles to power as her only option.

But the acquisition of as much power as she can get is nothing more than a repeatedly-applied band-aid over a massive gaping wound in her psyche that’s been festering for decades. And until she learns that the quest for unlimited power, by its very nature, cannot satisfy her innermost instinctual need to be loved, she will not and cannot heal and become a less fucked-up person.

#yes I know this doesn’t address the issue of accountability for the myriad horrific things she’s done #but that doesn’t mean it’s not important #redemption isn’t clean or tidy or a panacea for all the harm that someone has caused #it’s basically harm reduction #because nothing will ever truly heal the wounds that someone has caused #what’s done is done and we can’t change what’s already happened #but if someone is able to change their outlook and actions #the future harm they would’ve caused is reduced #WITHOUT inflicting cruelty on that person who caused the initial cruelty #inflicting cruelty on those who are already cruel is wasteful and doesn’t change anything #punishment =/= accountability #I honestly don’t know though this is all sort of rambling free-floating musing #cinder fall #cindemption #rant

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Imagine the following: the writers of RWBY come to their senses and realize that their show is sorely lacking one thing : some happiness for our boy Jaune. They think long and hard on how to procure some for him, and decide that the best way would be to get him a love interest that isn't six feet under, or a single mother. Scouring ao3, they eventually come across your fics and decide knightfall's as good a pairing as any. You're now tasked with writing the official RWBY Cindemption and Knightfall Arcs. How do you do it? In order to not just be asking for spoilers to Distance, it's probably best if you stick to canon mechanics for this one.

TL;DR: If you had to realize Cindemption and Knightfall within the context of canon RWBY, what would you do? In as much detail as you're willing or able to give.

So back in 2014 I wrote this RVB Felix/Locus fanfic before the Felix reveal (won't say spoilers, if you know you know) and there was a good moment or two after that where I was like, 'No way,' because of what I’d managed to predict, which also happened to be more than the big reveal. There was no possible way Miles had read my fanfic, but I was very delighted, let me put it that way.

This is an awesome question, I love it. I've sort of talked before about how I'd think they'd do it, but if it's ME, alright, and specifically not Skimming Eye. So the way I'd do it is I'd ask: what are the emergent narrative needs of their respective characters, how can you best realise them, and how can you best realise the themes of the show through their romance? Salem/Ozma, life and death, queens and widowers and towers, all of that.

So I would say that structurally you need them to be:

The last realised romance (Salem/Ozma is the first) which needs a LOT of build-up. If I were working on V9, I would already be beginning to play into the Joan of Arc allusions with hearing from saints. I would very much play up the surreal stuff of the Fallen Place. In this case, I think this can begin to humanise Cinder or at least challenge Jaune. She's his anima, he's her animus, they've got to be resolved together at some point.

They're basically Edgy Rose/garden, so whatever you intend to do with that romance you can do subversions or echoes of with Knightfall. I was actually musing today on that scene where Oscar re-introduces Emerald to Ruby, that's basically Jaune trying to introduce his friends to Cinder. XD (I mean in the sense of Ruby going for the scythe when she sees Emerald - that’s Jaune being like ‘no Cinder, they’re my friends’ lol).

For Cinder, based on her redemption arc projection, we already know the Jinn narration that 'many had tried to climb [Salem's] tower', so Cinder has had failed challenges to her character. Jaune has to be the successful one. I do think it's fitting that he's the first in the story (and also the one who asks why she is like this), but what specifically makes him different? I think what has to make him different is that what he wants, and what he wants to know, is unconditional. Every other person (Rhodes, Emerald, Raven, Penny, Watts) has had their own interest, to a degree. The point of why Jaune works is sort of specifically because he doesn't have any of that. So if I were writing Cinder at this point in the story, she is at her peak, he is at her lowest (just like V5 - his peak, her lowest), the way you challenge her is basically to show her that the mask she's put back on isn't working.

So you need somebody to see through that.

Like somebody who already chipped away at it, but didn't really hurt her when he did.

I think that for Jaune's lowest point and Cinder's highest point right now, setting up interaction in some way, even symbolic (like, will Cinder see him in the Fallen Place? she needs to be going about her business, I suppose) is sort of necessary. Though if I were being really playful with the story, I'd have her go to Vale for the Relic of Choice, and the Fallen Place bring them out of Patch with Raven at Tai's (yeah I read Raven saving them as a foregone conclusion, though I definitely don't think it's an underworld, her portals have too much visual similarity to not be a connection).

So, actually, I'd have them interacting in Vale, which is also fitting because it's where a true Pyrrha resolution would take place. I think that Cinder would be really, really resistant to somebody trying to get in, but Jaune, by this point, is reflecting on his moral actions and who he is. He's supposed to help people. So who is she? Why did her Grimm arm hurt her like that? Is he really the same person as he was when this story started? Not at all.

There's no reason that here is exactly where the romance fully realises itself. There's argument to be made that Vale still comes after Vacuo. Cinder could fail to find the Relic here, but there could be the reveal that Summer's a Grimm and has been station holding off the school. So Vale is still returned to later... or not. If I'm to write them all in Vacuo instead, you have Jaune return from the Fallen Place in still a VERY low place, and very confused about what he had seen. I think he should be very unsettled and Cinder should still be very proud, and then inversely as I would write him stronger I would write her more shaken, but in a good way. She may be upset, but ultimately it's a ship with the highest price and the highest boon. It's not just that her redemption arc is making her care about people, it's about making her feel again.

In terms of show foiling... well at this point I think Rose/garden is happening, I think there's more complicated stuff happening with Salem - I would begin to seed HINTS of more Salem sympathy actually - and I would also be wondering how I'm writing Nora's arc. Nora is more independent, and so, too, is Jaune, because of his interactions with Cinder in whatever form they take.

I do really lean hard into the allusions myself, and for Cinder to free herself from Salem she has to feel again and confront that same pain she did with Madame. I'm of half a mind about third-party Cinder, but I could see Cinder being in an anti-hero position, if only because she's so resentful of what he has made her feel (he is her necessary suffering the same she is his necessary suffering. She made his Semblance unlock with what she did, so, what does he do for her?

Really funny how we had that, 'fully realised Maiden' shown off with Fria right in front of Cinder. I'm just saying!!!!! I think that Cinder has to stop wanting the other Maiden powers and has to feel safe, and also has to embrace her Fall Maiden power. In this case, I would actually make it textually sort of explicit that Jaune's Semblance doesn't just amplify Aura, but it also sort of like, spiritually emboldens and strengthens somebody. It's a foregone conclusion he helps her with the arm, and is part of the reason Ruby's able to harness her own silver eyes - for the most noble of tasks).

I would take my time building it, but I mean, their V5 has such eroticism and tension to it, that would still be running throughout however I'd build their Vacuo/Vale interactions, and there has to be a 'I want you to join me' moment, but on Jaune's part. Unconditional, not about the conflict, not just about who she is as the Fall Maiden or Salem's Maiden vessel, like purely, sincerely, Jaune has come to know her in the same way she has come to know him. She feels now. The emphasis really with her character needs to be that time has begun to turn, she can feel again, it's not midnight anymore. It's dawn. Now you see why I really like his yellow and sunlight, hm.

(Notice the Grimm hand of Cinder's taking Salem's, and her hand is shaking after torture. Then contrast with the Indecisive King scene).

(On the note of his design: I'd give him the long pretty hair again. Sorry! Then of course as I've said, with her design, she would be silver/purple/blue, so she would get new outfits to reflect this transition to them matching each other).

All of the beats of the romance I'd hit would be the allusions as I've so thoroughly talked about. It's sort of mad how neatly it all slots in into R/WBY's story. It's not even hard. I'd tell the writers it's the easiest thing they could possibly do, it's already right there, and makes Cinder's redemption arc the most complicated and the sweetest. They love their foiling, so I'd also emphasise it's Edgy Rose/garden; they're sort of like BB, colour-wise, and given Jaune is a bit like Tai and Cinder's a bit like Raven for obvious reasons, they're a double-whammy of Reverse Salem/Ozma and Raven/Tai; it also hits a good trope of enemies-to-lovers, and they've covered a few good tropes now and it's time to hit the best one; what else, well, no one knows Cinder's backstory and if you want to introduce her perspective to other members of the cast, Jaune is the one to do with it. He's been there in front of her the whole time. So that's the funny thing, with Knightfall you get: Reverse Salem/Ozma (wound-healing); the Fall Maiden lesson in the Four Maidens; a reprisal of the Indecisive King; Rhodopis and Sappho's brother; you get everything else that is so cool about this ship and you give Jaune something very, very important to do in the story which realises the non-violent approach of V5 and his interaction with Cinder.

If I had to pick when the 'I want you to join me, and have lots of babies with me' moment would happen, with the most dramatic setpiece, it would be wherever the Relic of Choice is. I would really love it if, for instance, of all of the places where the Relic is hidden, it's somewhere plain like in the Indecisive King, or somewhere beautiful and green. Lots of living things, nothing unnatural, green beneath the feet, nothing manmade in sight, lots of flowering blossoms. I would really make the colours as much Knightfall as possible, like yellows, blues, purples, oranges, so it's not like the Haven Vault, maybe also try to pick flowers that only bloom in autumn. It should be very beautiful, and very tactile, and also sort of secret - like a meadow, perhaps. The way I'd frame it too is that it's one very quiet moment amidst a very dramatic volume (this would be maybe two volumes before the end, or even one - the last one is not about the Beacon Relic), and at this point they've already been falling in love for a few, and we know exactly why Cinder is here and exactly why Jaune is here, because we've been beaten over the head with the direction of their character arcs.

I would really give as much substance as possible to their earlier interactions, though. By this point Cinder is already purified and thoroughly rehumanised in the story, so she's got the full emotional context to make her decision, and really the only thing she wanted is to be asked. (Look at all of those scenes of people leaving her... and Rhodes leaving and letting her down. I don’t think Salem asked, by the way). She wanted somebody to ask her to go with them, because that's all she had wanted her whole life, and really the thing Jaune wanted the most is somebody who could still come back.

So you get the perfect answer to both of their characters, you get a believable Cindemption arc, something which appeals to her emotionally and makes her alive again, and then you have True Love's Kiss, because this a fairytale romance, come on!!!!!!!!!! That's why I think there's still a volume after this - so you get more romance development - and because Salem/Ozma is now healed, what next? I also want to see them holding hands and fighting together more, this is necessary. Oh, I would add in a team-up somewhere in Vacuo and then I would make it really really really hot and basically like sex.

Then there's the question of integrating of Cinder into the rest of the cast... I also think allowing time for that to happen is important, but the Fall Maiden joins last. That's all really interesting and it's possible to do through Jaune, and I think that, of course, Cinder is the best person to come back and fix things, make them stronger after they are broken. I mean, if you don't have Cinder with the goodies you are missing out on the most supreme, dramatic, amusing interactions. Living redemption arcs are so undercapitalised for these reasons. But now you've got all this FUN to have, even after you've established a great romance, so it's all you'd ever need lol.

Then what do you think the story ends with. A happy ending. Come on. Come onnnn. The whole point of the story is the technical absurdity of Ozma's death. I think that Salem and Ozma might get an inhuman solution to their inhuman states, so they can't get married again and have babies. But Cinder and Jaune still could. :D

Now all your themes are realised, you had awesome character arcs, you had great dramatic setpieces, great character interaction, something radical and new and different... what else? It's everything the show needs.

I hope this was an appropriate answer... obviously there are things I want to do in fic, but this was constrained in canon, and how long their slowburns tend to be. I hope it gave you something fun to think about. <3 <3 It certainly was for me!

#seraphina's asks #user: lareanzo #knightfall #long post #there is nothing more amusing than the idea that Jaune is the one tempting Cinder #and is the one who makes the 'I want you to join me' offer #I love that. I love it #it's so good

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