#rwby gif set

[fanstuffrantings]

Finally managed to gif the single most earth shatteringly important Arkos moment.

The quality isn't great but when I tell you I think about this regularly I mean it.

[misstrashchan]

Looking back, there's actually more symbolic foreshadowing for Whiteknight than I initially realised in the dance arc in V2. When Jaune goes to ask Weiss out, intending to follow Phyrha's advice about cutting out the bravado and just being honest about how he feels, he's holding a white flower to give to her:

But he then sees Weiss asking out Neptune instead, and realising she has someone else she's interested in, he drops the flower and leaves.

Essentially the flower represents his romantic interest in Weiss, but also a potential future of a relationship between the two based on mutual honesty and respect, (following Pyrrha's advice to just be yourself) instead of the false selves they project and initially see the other to be.

After this scene of dropping the flower he stops with his attempts to ask Weiss out altogether. Him dropping the flower is him dropping his romantic interest in Weiss, instead focusing on just being a good friend and looking out for her (convincing Neptune to go talk to Weiss because he knew it would make her happy).

But we see this flower transition into this vase, drooping and wilting at the dance:

...followed by a frustrated Weiss trying to perk the same flower up:

Which seems to foreshadow Weiss later on being the one to take a romantic interest in Jaune in V9, and also being the one to support and reassure Jaune when he's at his lowest:

Which does in turn seemingly cause that potential budding flower of their relationship to grow and bloom again, just as the two of them have been growing into their own true selves over the course of the series.

And I just think that's pretty neat.

[krismatic]

Red Like Roses Parts 1-3

[thebunnyremix]

RWBY “Yellow” Trailer

[blujaymi]

"...Even when you didn't like me all that much."

what in the beauty and the beast allusion??

[necroticboop]

[sirverofarrows]

one thing - jeff williams (feat. casey lee williams)

applying every rwby song to the witcher (6/62)

[oddlyhale]

RWBYV9:EP8, Ruby vs Torchwick.

[random-rwby-au-headcanons]

10 years ago, the RED trailer was released

[yoursisterpenny]

New chapter just dropped! Poor Weiss is in the trenches of gay panic... But it may just lead to an earth-shaking revelation!

Chapter 4/40

Current Word Count: 25,957

Summary

Weiss Schnee, captain of the newly christened Team RWBY, aims to become the best at a new and dangerous sport: Vytal Fight.

But it’ll be no easy task; She’ll have to balance her sports career, school life, the threats of the ominous Team Cinder, and an emotion entirely new to her— Love?

Of all the challenges she’ll face, her crush on Ruby Rose may prove to be the hardest one yet… But together, hand in hand, and standing beside their team? She may have a fighting chance.

An ensemble slow-burn story of Love and Competition with action, drama, fluff, and queer romance!

Main Characters and Relationships

Trans/Autistic Ruby Rose x Weiss Schnee (White Rose)

Nonbinary Blake Belladonna x Yang Xiao Long (Bumbleby)

[r0semultiverse]

The RWBY real time fandub is in the works!

if you’re waiting for content amidst the hiatus or a RWBY abridged kinda vibe then I think you’ll enjoy what we got cooking! 🥘 (look at me finally committing to a project)

[jboy44]

Undying happiness au

One day in everfree jaune gets set on fire ans burns to bone. His team mates along with team rwby are horrified.

Then the bones move shining with aura " relax guya the arc family semblance regeneration can handls this"

Rwbynpr

Jaune " ... I am already regenerating

Rwbynpr

Jaune " ..... Thats hurtfull its just a family semblance like weiss'

( if you share add more)

[rwbyrg]

Hello again! I was wondering, in your own opinion, what moment(s) for both Oscar and Ruby, really implied that there was much more going on with the two character, in the sense that their relationship was starting to evolve? Also what do you like about those moments? To add, do you think we will see it much more in volume 10?

Hello!! I think, generally speaking, all of their focused scenes imply there's more going on or that their relationship is evolving in some way. RWBY doesn't have filler. So when characters - especially ones as central to the narrative as these two - get focused screen time together (and romance-y tropes), it's done with intention.

Ruby's arc is about many things, but especially about how she's pretty much the last silver eyed warrior that can face Salem. Meanwhile, Oscar's arc is about defining who he is while under a curse that robs him of his identity. And in their first meeting, Oscar comments on Ruby's eyes, and she asks him who he is. Even their first lines to each other are mirrored in how they're spoken!

This scene really shows that their character arcs linked from the very beginning.

We get all the stuff I mentioned in my last post and more and none of it is necessary to do if it's not building up to something. Which it very clearly is.

I have no doubts we'll get to see more of their shared story in V10 onward. The V9 epilogue - what was supposed to be the final episode of the season - works as both a closing point for the Atlas arc, and a kick off for the Vacuo one. It's setting the stage for what is to come. A non-extensive list of what we know we're getting so far:

Nora's and Winter's character arcs; both of them struggling with responsibility, grief, and guilt.

Weiss will almost certainly be getting some focus by extension of that as well. Especially because her arc has always been about her family.

Ren being more open and trying harder to support those around him.

Qrow, more hopeful than he's ever been before and how much it's propelling him forward.

And then we have Oscar.

Oscar and the merge. Oscar Pine, Little Prince, pining at Ruby's grave in the desert. I talk about this set up a lot, and it's difficult to explain succinctly because it's got a lot of complex pieces at play (and has been going on since their meeting, as mentioned above). But if I were to try and break it down as simply as possible:

Ruby's fatal flaw is her grief. Her silver eyes are powered by, and the embodiment of, the preservation of life. She doesn't want to lose anyone else that she cares about and cannot bear the weight of responsibility that comes with it alone. So much so that she almost abandons her own identity via ascension because she is offered the choice to do so. She stays true to herself in the end as someone that fights, not for those she's lost, but for those she hasn't lost yet. And the narrative, through all their interactions, but especially the Tea Party, has placed Oscar front and centre in the position of who Ruby hasn't lost yet. Oscar, who wants nothing more than to be a part of the team that he keeps pushing away. Oscar, who just wants to be who he is, to preserve himself, but is being robbed of that choice via the merge. Something Ruby, can't protect him from.

RWBY loves to make its pairings thematically complimentary and it loves pushing characters to their limits. There is no way that the scenes and setup between Oscar and Ruby haven't been intentionally building to something big with how much their respective and shared conflicts are directly playing off of each other. There is no way CRWBY - with their limited budget and resource constraints - dedicated all that screen time to these two for it to not pay off at some point. And given this arc is the last one... now's a good a time as any for it to happen.

[thebunnyremix]

RWBY: Ice Queendom Episode 1: Red, White, Black, Yellow (sub version)

[nakamatoo]

Finally got around to watching the RWBY/ JL part 2 movie and I absolutely loved Ruby and Superman's scenes together. It not only serves as a really cool continuation of Ruby's development right after v9 but it also shows us how she still holds her own mom in such a high pedestal that she doubts even if she will be able to make it out of her fight with Salem alive or not.

Having her say this to superman is just so freaking good in an ironic sense because he above all else would understand the fear of not living up to expectations of those who came before you. To live by their examples and fear that youre own failures will somehow tarnish the legacy they left behind. His whole entire philosophy has been to set an example of how much good one person is capable of, and that stems from the teaching not only from his adoptive family, but also his biological kryptonian one. Where they might have failed does not define his future successes and he uses the good that they have done in order to inspire him to continue fighting for what they believed, even after they are gone.

Having superman play this sort of big brother role for ruby and helping her ease her anxieties and show her that she does more than enough to maker her mom proud was just so important to me and I love how the movie handled these two together.

[chaoticevilspacewitch]

Why Bumbleby Matters

Yesterday was the first anniversary of one of the biggest kisses in queer media. Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long, of the cult hit web show RWBY, confessed their love and smooched on March 25, 2023, and I was totally normal about it. I don't have all the manga and figures and a tattoo and half a million words of fanfic; that would be *crazy*, especially compared to socially-acceprable normal fixations like season tickets to sportsball games or thousand-dollar concert tickets. 

A lot of things make RWBY an important show. It's an animated action story that puts its four heroines unambiguously front and center, with arcs that are about *them*, and not as set dressing or motivation for make protagonists. It's increasingly represented sapphic, trans, and nonbinary characters across its nine seasons, and its won awards for taking its silly, cheesy origins and developing a complex story about broken heroes and traumatized villains finding themselves and struggling with love, loss, disability, abuse, and a whole spectrum of human experiences, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. 

But what's important about Blake and Yang was that they got a real romance that, across nine seasons, they had to fight for. In an era where queer representation is largely still a diversity checkbox for most media (see: Disney crowing about having background characters looking at each other a little gayly while passing on movies like Nimona that actually revolve around queer relationships), or struggle to be more than titillation (Saltburn) and are swatted down by corporate censors (Legend of Korra and She-Ra were years ago, and this year's blockbuster Witch from Mercury was still officially "open to interpretation"), getting an actually romance cooked for nine seasons across ten years... y'know, like you'd expect from a straight slowburn... is huge. 

RWBY's studio was just shut down by Warner Bros, infamous for shelving projects for the tax writeoffs, so who knows if we'll ever get a conclusion to the story. But one year ago, we got a beautiful conclusion to Blake & Yang's love story, one that mattered to queer people around the world. 

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