#qrow vibes

[renabe4life]

Fair Game Week 2025 Day 6 - Mutual Pining | Regrets

but I got you, I got you and I won't, I won't shatter us too

[rwby-confess]

Confession #815

[salmontha]

every rwby episode

everyone: oh god. guys theres no way we can beat salem. its so fucking OVER

jaune: i miss my wife

ruby: guys we can win. with the power of friendship *10 minute long motivational speech*

qrow: *black out drunk, passed out in the middle of a park somewhere*

nora:

[one-real-wrimonkey]

I will never abandon my belief in tragic but amicable exes IronQrow.

[wildtornado-o]

When men become Machines.

Finished that Ironwood sketch :)

Kofi

[fr0gg13b413]

qrow branwen, patrick melrose, beth harmon, sherlock holmes, klaus hargreeves, jameson hawthorne... my god something is so inherently wrong with me.

does anybody know of any more? pretty please, i need a new obsession :>

[missallanea-archive]

"If you're seeking the road into town, you've gone too far south." The woman does not so much as glance in his direction, her arrow trained on the large black bird circling overhead — seemingly intent on striking the raven out of the sky. "Circle back to the crossroad and follow the blackberries."

@flightofaqrow for QROW BRANWEN || sc

[luxcruor]

*. Love how Nobody’s Solider is a Qrow vibe …

[vaciena]

Ozpin’s face of “why are you like this” at qrow getting even more drunk in his office while picking multiple fights

[littleblackqrow]

♪♫ Your life's a living hell Your life's a living hell

Hey, ho, you drink to cope Your life's a living hell. ♪♫

[flightofaqrow]

I remember those lost in the dark The bullet or the blade that kept us apart But I’ve been moving on, can’t be still for long ‘Cause it’s the only way

Never ache for a place called home Can’t hold on so tight, gotta let it all go I have a purpose, it’s all that I need To help me find my way Every day

I fought a war and I learned how to win But how do you fight when the enemy’s within? Find your pride, go deeper inside For the fire that will light your way

The ones you trust can often betray You’re the hunter and then you’re the prey You pay the cost, it all feels lost Then you hear a voice inside you say:

Keep your eyes on the road ahead Don’t be drawn into the lie or the shadows in your head Keep your eyes on the road ahead And don’t ever look back, don’t ever look back ‘Cause I got a feeling in my bones that the future's gonna be fine Yeah, don’t ever look back Don’t hold on to the past

A lot of road now behind me Every cut, every bruise, they tell their own story Whatever's up ahead, around the next bend I know I will survive I've learned how to live with regret I can forgive, but how could I forget The things I've learned, the strength that I've earned I have it all by my side, as I ride

[one-real-wrimonkey]

I need a fairgame v7 au where Qrow and Clover start dating fairly early but keep it a secret from everyone and sneak around because their team/kids are nosy and they want something just for themselves while they work it out.

It backfires slightly when the kids and Aces start trying to get them together. Anyone who catches them swears to silence but is happy for them.

It all comes out when one of them nearly dies and they’re lovey and worried.

[tumblingxelian]

All right let's do this, I am probably gonna be blocked again for it but this irks me & so warrants a response, @strqyr

No one wants bad or inconsistent writing, that is in fact the opposite of what we want and why we want the story to address what its set up regarding the Rose-Xiao Long sisters and their broken home.

You ask for "resentment", which feels rather loaded as it basically says "Victims have to act this way to qualify as victims". For a more recognizable comparison, "She didn't get overtly angry when he sexually harassed her so she wasn't upset." Do you see why this is a problematic approach to the situating off the cuff?

Though if you want some examples, the fact Yang's first instinct upon arriving at Beacon was to slip away from Ruby & then to try and suggest Ruby be on another team while being overtly nervous. Each time followed with her falling back into a caretaker role for Ruby which she then continued. Well there you have it. Also the fact Tai takes Ruby to visit Summer's grave but not Yang.

Again, you are demanding resentment, performative outrage in order to justify trauma being "real" which feels unfair at best. I don't express my resentment at loved one's who traumatized me, because its unhelpful and stressful at the best of times and won't fix things.

What you should be looking for is the fact that they got a package from home and Yang views it as a means to cheer Ruby up while being indifferent to its presence herself.

Yang literally has brought this up:  I had to pick up the pieces. I had to keep things together. Alone.

Though if you are asking why she didn't bring it up to her dad when they were arguing, I imagine its again, because doing that doesn't help. Tai shouted insults at her for less and she only laughed when Oobleck dropped his cup and reminded her company was over.

You mean in the scene we didn't even get to see because it cut away? Plus, again, you keep demanding resentment like that's the only valid way to express having trauma. Its deeply wrong and unfair.

It should be enough that Yang felt shamed by the implication she is what kept Tai home & then when better (not really) she ended up taking on the caretaker role again while he stayed home to indicate that the family's dynamic is messed up.

As has been noted by @bestworstcase children raised by their parentified older siblings usually report a much nicer childhood than their siblings. We also know Tai sees Raven in Yang despite the traits he described not fitting her, and projects Summer onto Ruby, one he resented one he revered.

The fact you think Tai leaving a grieving 5 and 3 year old alone in the house long enough for Yang to pull Ruby in a cart for hours seeking a different parent qualifies as good parenting is confusing.

You do realize said memory could be from before Summer died right? & also that someone whose been traumatized doesn't have only sad moments right?

Yang also read Ruby bed time stories, and that is in the official actual show canon. Also trips to a boba place do not parenting make. Again, you demand victims have lived lives of only perpetual misery. & you presume excellence from frankly rather superficial examples of parenting that either don't align with canon or don't carry much weight. Hell, just look at the contrast in how Yang & Ruby view their visits to the Boba store, to Ruby its a magical memory from childhood, to Yang it was potentially stupid and insignificant.

In order for your take to be accurate, Yang ad Ruby have to be liars, given Yang's outright said she had to keep the family together and Ruby has openly stated that Yang raised her.

I see you discuss the writing and I want to draw you attention to something.

Neither Ruby or Yang express resentment about Qrow's drinking. When Qrow is introduced, his drinking is framed as part of his roguish charm. Its a funny quirk and a joke that he starts swigging booze in meetings, everything's fine, they're happy, this is a functional man, with a functional family dynamic with his nieces.

Then we get to Volume 5 and 6 and we see Ruby is very used to Qrow being dragged in blind drunk by strangers and needing to be taken care of. We see that Ruby and Yang are deeply unhappy with Qrow's drinking but also extremely familiar with it. This has been a problem all their lives, but it took three seasons from Qrow's introduction to actually highlight it as such.

Not to be blunt, but your read on Yang seems about as accurate as Tai calling the manifestation of her soul a temper tantrum. Despite the fact her Semblance does not gain power from anger, it just so happens being hurt tends to piss people off. As well as not understanding that she can hit her foes multiple times before she runs out of charge. You are also forgetting her feeling the need to apologize that she reminded Tai of her birth mother. She has complicated feelings on the subject to say the least.

She didn't frame it as being with them, it was in general, because his absence is confusing given Vale's been overrun and they explicitly don't know where he is and that is weird.

Said daughter upon waking up plied him for information, barely even let herself tear up around her uncle and then sought out her recently crippled sister for emotional support & guidance. Said daughter treats him as an afterthought in her letters, did not confide her plans or concerns in him and has explicitly referred to her sister as the one who raised her.

Tai being asleep at her bedside is nice and all, it also means the currently one armed Yang is in her room alone and as before, a gesture does not a parent make. Parenting is being there consistently which Tai very much is not. Especially given he just leaves Yang alone during panic attacks and his idea of helping is to try and get her "Back out there" and to insult her and outright withhold his support until she is "Done moping". His terms, his words, not mine.

No one said he didn't love them. Loving someone doesn't make you good at being a parent however.

I have already addressed these points. Frankly, the idea that all of STRQ and the previous generation have fucked up majorly and its TRWBY's generation who are fixing things and the elder one's who need to change is baked into the narrative themes. Tai cannot and should not be an exception to that and him grudgingly telling Yang a tiny fragment of information about Raven is not the same degree of character growth as Qrow's had.

Your stance that Tai is a solid, functional, generally good dad makes a liar out of our protagonists.

It props up a man who has done nothing but sit at home for the last five volumes while his children fought and died.

It protects a man who has been outright stated to have not kept his family together but needed his eldest daughter to do so.

Your take instead makes both his children into at best, over dramatic brats, and at worst, liars.

Because I again remind you:

Ruby: If you thought we wouldn’t come for you, then you must’ve forgotten who raised me.

genuine question: do people want bad, inconsistent writing? is that it? because that's the only way "taiyang is and always has been a horrible father and yang had to raise ruby all on her own and she resent him for it" makes any damn sense.

like. where's the resentment?

where is yang, while happy that ruby is one step closer to achieving her lifelong dream, feeling just slightly frustrated that she's once again sharing a room with her sister, when going to beacon was supposed to be a place just for her for at least two years without having to watch after ruby and feel guilty over it?

where's the resentment when tai sent zwei to the girls to be taken care of while he's away on a mission, placing that responsibility on yang again? why show yang instead being flippant about the whole ordeal, and shrugging it off like it's nothing, being ready to leave zwei alone in the dorm room for the week they're away because he has the absurd amount of food and a can opener tai provided them?

where's yang bringing up how she had to apparently grow up early because tai wasn't there, when she wanted to be treated like an adult?

where's the resentment when yang was about to leave home under the assumption it was her keeping her father from going after ruby, only to find out he isn't coming with her, once again leaving the responsibility of taking care of ruby on her shoulders?

because the show i watched, it doesn't exist. to even remotely get to that point you'd have to ignore ruby talking about their dad in a way that makes it clear he was present and raising them, you'd have to ignore yang having to wait for him to be out of the house to leave herself once again proving he was present and attentive of them, you'd have to ignore ruby's first happy memory being from that same time period (and with no corresponding sad memory to counter it), you'd have to ignore him reading them bedtime stories and taking them out for boba after school, making sure he's spending time with them even when he's busy with work.

you'd have to ignore that both yang and ruby have a good relationship with their father.

that is not to say tai doesn't have his flaws—every damn character in this show does—, but that's exactly what V4 is about. the rift that existed between yang and taiyang was his refusal to talk about raven and doing his best to prevent her from looking for her. that's it. just compare the difference in tone between yang's "oh, so now we can talk about her?" and "i don't know. some things you just need to be there for." and it's clear as a day where the resentment actually lies.

therein lies the core of the arc between yang and tai, and like many issues between characters in this show, it gets resolved: for the first time ever, he properly talks with yang about raven, and when yang is about to leave, he doesn't try to stop her like he has before; instead, he asks her where she's going, and gives information that might help make her journey easier.

if they intended there to be any lingering resentment from yang, 'boba' was not the way to do it. we know what yang's resentment looks like: anger, snappiness, the like. it's not quiet, almost somber.

they could have written yang treating tai's absence in vacuo as something she has come to expect from him, but they didn't; instead, she wonders why, because she can't fathom what could be more important for their father than being there, in vacuo, with them.

and that alone comes as validation for everyone who has wondered the same: why is tai staying in patch when everyone else is on the move? this is a character we're first properly introduced to as a father who has fallen asleep by his daughter's bedside waiting for her to wake up, a father who is almost brought to tears by relief that both of his daughters are back home and safe.

a father we last saw being absolutely desperate for his daughter to come back on screen when ruby's message cut short.

and beyond brings a sledgehammer and says yes, it is odd that taiyang hasn't left home to be by his daughters' side. wonder why that is, must be something important, wink wink ;)

and if you ask me, that sounds like a pretty damn good "long con", and damn good writing.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Can the RWBY Character say the Bad word for Gay?

Based on those shorts by Jake Blennings

Ruby: Yes, But she won't.

Weiss: Yes, and Has, originally as an insult, but now as a matter of pride in her bisexuality.

Blake: Yes, but chooses not to.

Yang: I cannot fathom Entertaining the Idea that she can't. She's a sapphic that catches on fire, the word was LITERALLY MADE FOR HER

Jaune: Yes, And has, but only because he didn't know what it meant so he asked his mom, and when he learned what it meant he washed his mouth out with soap and threw up because he was scared he was homophobic.

Pyrrha: Yes, but won't, both because she personally doesn't want to, and she'd be cancelled faster than Ruby eating a platter of cookies.

Nora: Yes, uses it as both a compliment and an insult.

Ren: Yes, but when he says it he more likely means a bundle of sticks.

Oscar: Yes, but when he says it he more likely means a bundle of sticks.

Emerald: Yes. She hasn't, but she could.

Mercury: Yes, but he thinks he isn't allowed to. Does anyway.

Cinder: Yes. Like Yang, but. Evil.

Neopolitan: Yes, but she doesn't speak, so no? Like, she can speak, she chooses not to, but-

Roman: My Man wears eye-shadow and acts like a theater kid. He can say. Even if he's cishet, I'm giving him a pass for the word.

Qrow: Yes. This man is SO Bisexual, trust me.

Raven: On one hand I want to say no because of vibes, on the other hand I want to say yes because I enjoy Rosebird and Hellbirds, and in a third hand, there's the ones that REALLY ship Rosebird and Hellbirds pointing a .38 Colt Revolver at me, so I think she can say it.

Taiyang: oh he can FUCKING Say it, if it mean she can take me out to dinner.

Summer: oh GODs Yes.

Ozpin: Yes, he can. He won't, but he could.

Glynda: I'm gonna be honest ... I don't think so, not just a faculty member of prestigious school, she's just ... I dunno. Not strong vibes for or against her saying it.

Oobleck: No he can't, and he doesn't.

Port: No he can't, but does because he means a Cigar/Cigarette

Jacques: No, does anyway knowing FULL Well what it means.

Ironwood: No, does anyway but he means a bundle of sticks.

Winter: Yes. She doesn't know she can, but she can.

Willow: Can, has, and will.

Whitley: See; Weiss, but with the understanding he hasn't realized it yet.

Robyn: I'm sorry, this woman is fighting against the Government with a band of other, strong, smart, capable women Of course She can fucking SAY it.

Kali: Yes, Doesn't because she's married to a political figure.

Ghira: Yes, IF IT MEANS HE CAN TAKE ME OUT TO DINNER-

[anthurak]

Takeaways from the Volume 9 Epilogue:

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One thing I really like about Oscar’s ‘If there was anything I wish I could borrow from you…’ monologue is that it laid out/confirmed something I’ve always felt was a major aspect of Oscar’s dynamic with Ruby that I nonetheless feel a lot of the fandom has missed: That Oscar very much sees Ruby as a mentor and an example to follow, and how their dynamic is specifically a foil to what we saw between Ruby and Ozpin. That Ruby acts as a mentor and example to Oscar in the same way Ozpin was to Ruby, and that Ruby is a far BETTER mentor and example to Oscar than Ozpin ever was to her. Which, as an aside, is a dynamic I can’t help but feel a lot of people have been misinterpreting as ‘ship-teasing’ and is one of the main reasons I’ve simply never been able to see Oscar as any kind of viable love-interest to Ruby. Frankly the dynamic of ‘Ruby is the mentor and example to Oscar that Ozpin couldn’t be for her’ is simply so much more INTERESTING than any kind of romance could ever hope to be.

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Even in animatic form, Winter basically going overdrive on the maiden powers was a sight to behold. And her own monologue had all the self-deprecation we were expecting. Our girl is clearly holding on by a thread and it’s going to be REAL interesting seeing how she reacts and adjusts to her sister not actually being dead. As in, I can imagine a situation where Winter tries to throw herself into a heroic sacrifice with the belief that Weiss would make a better Maiden than her.

Also, Winter’s monologue giving major focus to how Penny is super-super-dead-dead-and-definitely-not-coming-back-for-really-realsies, as she is talking to the sister who she ALSO believes is DEFINITELY also dead? Specifically with the words that Penny is gone, when Penny’s last words to her were that she’d be ‘part of you’?

Yeah, there is no way in hell we’ve seen the last of Penny XD

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The CROWN. Like it was only a few shots, but as someone who read the CFVY Books (which you totally should if you haven’t, they’re great), holy shit I was NOT expecting them to pop up here.

I mean, in hindsight it makes perfect sense that they’d be involved in Volume 10. They’re basically Vacuo’s equivalent to Vale’s criminal element and the White Fang splinter faction as Salem’s co-opted insurgency group, with Jax and Gillian joining Roman, Adam and Jacques as the latest of Salem’s unwitting patsies. It’s definitely going to be real interesting seeing the crew deal with them. Like it’s really fun to imagine Team RWBY in particular being kind of exasperated at seeing Jax’s probably doing a whole ‘With Salem’s help I shall be King!’ shtick after everything they’ve seen with Roman, Adam and Jacques.

Oh and if you don’t know, Jax has a mind-control semblance, so him trying to use that on Yang could actually lead to a sneaky callback to the Justice League crossover, ie; Yang doing a ‘Yeah, I’m not doing THAT shit again.’ XD

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Qrow’s whole vibe through this is fascinating. Like his section may have been the one we already saw, but after seeing the abject depression and growing despair of all the other characters, Qrow actually being OPTIMISTIC hit so much harder.

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Raven showing up at the end is… interesting.

I’ll admit that ever since we saw that specific clip a few months back, I’ve been rather conflicts about Raven showing up to deliver RWBY+J to Vacuo, particularly after Ruby’s tree vision. Like for one it felt a bit random and unnecessary. The tree already deposited the Ever After team outside of Vacuo so they didn’t exactly need help getting there. Not to mention that it kind of clotheslines the story-thread set up by Ruby’s vision; that she now has a reason to track Raven down to get the ANSWERS to what happened to Summer. Finally, it’s just kind of… random? Like where did Raven even come from to get the team?

But now having seen the clip with its intended context, I’m definitely more on board with it. Particularly hearing from Kerry and Eddy that the original ending for the penultimate episode had RWBY+J going through the portal to arrive at their memorial stone, and met by a ‘Mysterious Figure’, ie; Raven. Here it feels like were getting more set up to get answers later as to what Raven was doing at the memorial.

And really, now that I’ve thought about it more, this method kind of puts the thread of Ruby going to Raven for answers even MORE into focus. Like the story reintroduces Raven in the present right after Ruby got a vision basically saying ‘hey, Raven is important’. And now going into Volume 10, we’re pretty much perfectly positioned for Ruby to pull Raven aside for those all-important ‘Why were you fucking my mom? What happened to my mom?’ questions.

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Finally… yeah that ending hit me a LOT harder than I was expecting. Like that ending was HOPE in its purest form and it was honestly beautiful to see. Particularly right now with the future of the show seeming so uncertain. I’ve personally been optimistic about RWBY’s future (in a manner not unlike Qrow’s vibes I suppose lol), but damn the hopefulness of that ending hit especially hard, and was something I’ll admit I needed. And I imagine the rest of us could use as well.

We'll be getting Volume 10. And 11, and 12, and however many more it takes to finish this story. At this point, I have no doubt of that.

[ryuto12]

I love throuple STR cause it always just gives me the vibes of

Summer, walking into the kitchen with only Raven’s shirt and Tai’s shorts: hey Qrow when did you wake up

Qrow, sipping coffee: last night. Weird noises in this house, I’m telling you. Ghosts, or something

Summer: thought you didn’t believe in ghosts?

Qrow: I don’t. Lot of screaming, though

Summer:

Summer: oh.

Tai, in only his boxers: what’re we talkin’ about?

Summer, lunging to cover Qrow’s mouth: ghosts!

Tai: ok. You sleep good last night?

Qrow: no.

Tai: damn, nightmares again? You okay man?

Qrow, deciding here and now to start drinking: no. Just, uh, neighbors.

Tai: we live on like a few acres? All to ourselves?

Raven, emerging in only Tai’s shirt and her underwear: would never want to live in the city again, that’s for sure

Qrow, about to flip the dining table: for sure

Raven: fucks wrong with you? Have you had your coffee?

Qrow, slamming his mug on the counter: I’m moving out.

Yang was born nine months later. Raven moved out before Qrow got the chance.