#rwby 5 spoilers

[blujaymi]

"They're just weapons."

"Just weapons? They're an extension of ourselves—they're a part of us!"

[foxaoxarts]

BEE KISS TOMORR- *dead* /j

If anyone wants to watch me drawing this like a little victorian child then the timelapse is below the cut 🤣

(FLICKER WARNING. It's all through out so be careful!👍 )

[sedlex]

AND THE PROMISE WAS TO LOVE HER DAUGHTERS JUST THE WAY THEY ARE ALWAYS AHDLKSFDJSAKFJSKLFJS SUMMER ROSE THEY WERE RIGHT YOU WERE THE BESTEST MOTHER TO EVER MOTHER

[flipomatic]

Weiss’ reaction to Ruby’s outburst.

[kyraxyrespace]

Don’t mind me, just hyper-fixating on how these two are always aware of what’s happening to each other in battle.

[zexapher]

Taking Out the Trash

This is essentially how I see the story going now that we’re back to Remnant. Jaune and Weiss are definitely gonna settle the score with Cinder, in a Bumbleby v Adam-esque final fight imo. A lot building up to this; Pyrrha, Cinder almost killing Weiss, Penny's sacrifice, Jaune's ongoing conflict with Cinder, the way it would really hit Cinder if Ruby didn't focus on her and goes after Salem instead, the way Cinder thinks Jaune is beneath her and is outraged over the thought that he could have killed her and on and on. Although, I wouldn't be opposed to Ruby being part of that fight.

And hey, Cinder’s already made something of a dumpster fire out of her quest for power. Really her greatest achievements seem to be the result of working with the people around her; Torchwick, Watts, Neo, Emerald and Mercury. Increasingly though, Cinder’s becoming isolated, in no small part due to herself. That's all coinciding with the show’s theme of the importance of trust and cooperation bringing about strength and the resolution of the world’s and individual’s problems. Not hard to imagine where Cinder will wind up after taking the opposite path.

I originally intended to just edit Cinder in place of Marrow in the scene where Weiss is dragging him across the room. Put a good amount of work into fixing up that background, too. But a brilliant suggestion by Mallobaude to add a dumpster in the corner of the room changed my mind, and with a change of scene and a bit more editing we gained the nice scene we see before us now. The reference scene I took the background from is just brilliant, Weiss literally throwing a racist guy in the trash.

Anyway, I thought it was a fun idea to make my own little version of that meme trend I referenced in the 1st panel, with the rest of this little comic putting a bit of a twist on it actually being Weiss who’s all set to take care of Cinder. Hope you all enjoy!

[foulbearobservation]

ruby's anger really tracks for me and I like it a lot, actually. sometimes people who have intense trauma will not just lie down scared, sometimes their ptsd symptoms won't just be panic attacks, sometimes they'll fight back. kicked dogs lash out and all that. I dig it a lot.

it hurts like hell but I really like the way it's been building for a while and is so grounded in what's immediately distressing her, even the Bees.

like she had to go thru a rehash of all the ways they failed, had to watch atlas fall with weiss, only to come back and see that blake and yang were making out like teenagers at a house party like. i'd be pissed too tbh.

she got forced into a leadership role way too young and while she's had people around her helping her, none of them have taken that burden from her and that fucking sucks!! why is it their job to fix the whole world. she was 15 when she was chosen by ozpin. she's like. 17 or 18 now? her teenage development has been SO fucked up. she never learned to process her emotions in a healthy way like of COURSE she's angry.

[riveluart]

What it feels to be loved

[blackdagger456]

The Genuine Shock and horror on their faces are very much deserved. Who knows how long Jaune has been here? He was the last to fall but apparently the first to arrive in the Everafter.

Been fighting the Jabberwocky by his lonesome and whatever else threatens the people here most likely. His armor is rusted down, his shield and sword faded.

Above all else he looks…he looks tired.

Relieved to see them…but tired

For the first time in a VERY long time….I’m interested in Jaune Arcs story.

[joshy-tomato]

Ok, I dont understand why there's people saying that WBYJ dont care about Ruby or are taking out importance of what happened to her.

Their timeline is, Ruby drinks the tea, the cat possesses Neo, they ran away from the mansion because it was breaking apart and Jaune stressed out of what happened to Ruby. Weiss tries to get the hopes up because they have to keep moving, as far as they know CC is on his way to Remnant and that state of Remnant is already bad enough, they need to think on a way to get back. Almost instantly the found the ascended Paper Pleasers, changed but the same at the core, and you could say better now that they are less fragile. And they come to understand that ascension is not a bad thing, is just change and is scary, but just change after all.

They didn't have time to worry about what happened with Ruby because the cat attacked them, they had to run to safety and then almost instantly got the confirmation that ascension is good and tree is not evil.

Man, latter in the episode thay have the door back home right in front of them and they decided to stay and fight to prevent the cat from meddling with Ruby's ascension process. And they stopped Yang earlier from doing the same.

They are not worrying because they now understand that there's nothing to worry about. Ruby will change, but she will still be Ruby Rose.

[ninadove]

We just finished (re)watching V5 and oh gosh.

The plot twist (you know the one) works so well. It’s so simple yet so satisfying.

I cried from relief again over Weiss. I cried from love again over Yang.

And let’s not even talk about Beeunion 1.0!

I love the writing on this show so much.

[chlothequeen]

I’ve seen some people saying they wished bumbleby had happened in volume 7 or 8 after the latest episode aired, and I gotta say, there are a few reasons why it really, narratively couldn’t have.

You gotta realize that both of these characters’ entire arcs, while they’ve always been intertwined, have been about them individually working through trauma. Blake is an abuse survivor, and Yang has abandonment issues; similarly to the reason that they didn’t just make out at the end of volume 6, they’re both hesitant to acknowledge their feelings while they’re in Atlas.

Yang confronted Raven, who then left her again, in the vault of the spring maiden just over a month ago as of the huntress work montage. And Blake, even after those weeks of working with Yang and getting to be herself with her, which is made clear during A Night Off, is still conflicted about what happened with Adam. Blake and Yang even talk about that when they’re waiting in ambush in Worst Case Scenario.

Things obviously go off the rails from that point on, as every chapter from Cordially Invited to Confessions Within Cumulonimbus Clouds takes place within the span of about 4 or 5 days at most. Blake sides with Ruby when Ruby and Yang have different priorities, and then acknowledges the effect Adam has had on her when she’s talking to Nora about her sense of self. Yang wonders if Blake will think less of her for arguing with Ruby and prioritizing Mantle since Blake took Ruby’s side, and later it’s very clearly pointed out by Ren that Yang dismisses her feelings with jokes. But they’re both still worried about each other.

From Ultimatum onward, they’re basically inseparable, and Blake was always going to encourage Yang to have a talk about feelings with her the moment that she thought she lost Yang in Worthy. That’s why the confession scene is so perfect: they both realize exactly what’s happening, that they can’t take the next step without acknowledging their feelings, and that’s a microcosm of their whole romantic dynamic so far.

That’s why it’s so perfect that Blake is the one to say she’ll feel better when they’re together, and Yang figures out that she has to talk about Blake, then casually asks if there’s any big truths they “haven’t dropped on each other yet.” Yang thinks “I love you” and Blake knows it. That’s why it’s so perfect when they literally hear each other’s thoughts, and the second Blake hears Yang doubting herself, she encourages her to just say it. That’s why it’s so perfect that when she hears Yang utter “I think—“she immediately replies “I love you too.”

[sedlex]

Shoulder checking Raven on their way to go do heroic shit.

[strqyr]

absolutely losing it over the possibility that we might get more than 5 seconds of new footage of summer this volume.

finger's crossed that it won't come with colorful smoke background or i will cry

[wild-moss-art]

I loved how blake lists a bunch of things about yang that she likes and yang responds with "I like that you're not intimidated by me" !! yang who intimidates everyone. on purpose. yang who hides behind being powerful to keep people out. blake who has a preference for people who are headstrong and intimidating. blake who knows a facade like that when she sees one. blake who knows exactly what yang is going to say and responds without a pause. do you understand

[zexapher]

There can be only one... probably

Cinder really is zeroed in on killing all of Jaune's love interests though. It's suspiciously consistent.

Almost makes one believe Cindere and Knightfall is canon, and not just in the manga.

I also had to redraw most of Jaune's left arm from the elbow down, after cutting Ruby out of the scene. I think I did a pretty decent job.