#rwby roman holiday spoilers

[cinderthefallenmaiden]

Ruby and Neopolitan: The girls with a lot of problems

Spoiler Warning: This post contains spoilers for RWBY Volume

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Ruby has snapped leaving her Team and Jaune. I feel the Ruby vs Neopolitan conflict is imminent and oh boy do these girls have a lot of problems.

Ruby's Trauma

For Ruby's part, we are just now starting to get a clearer picture of how deep her pre-series trauma lies. How her unresolved trauma from Summer's disappearance and how Ruby has based so much of her own identity around Summer.

Add all of that to the fact that she lost her school, lost two friends and was separated from her team. Ruby's life since the fall of beacon has been a break necked race to stop Salem and secure the relics with little time to rest let alone process and heal.

Now while I think succeeding in protecting Haven and being reunited with Penny has helped Ruby to a degree, everything that happened with Ironwood, Salem and Cinder these past two volumes has all but erased that progress toward healing. Atlas and Mantle are gone, Salem has two relics and Ruby has lost Penny a second time.

Neopolitan's Trauma

Everything we know thanks to the Roman Holiday novel paints the picture that Neopolitan had a messed up home life.

After disappointing her family's expectations of her one too many times, Neopolitan is sent to Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls.

It is during this time that Neopolitan meets Roman who accepts her for who she is rather then what someone wants her to be. Working together the two of them discover Neopolitan's parents role in the gang war between the Spiders and Xiong Family.

Roman helps Neopolitan escape the cage of abuse her parents would keep her in. Roman and Neopolitan set off to make a new life together as criminals. However, it can not last because Roman's grudge on Ruby sets himself on a path of self-destruction. Despite not physically being there to witness it, Neopolitan believes that Ruby is the reason Roman is no longer with her.

The Path Toward Overcoming their Trauma

Now one possible scenario Ruby and Neopolitan might face is that, Ruby is ready to take the Blacksmith's offer to ascend but Neopolitan stops her. Neopolitan wants revenge on Ruby and has no intention of letting her take the easy way out.

The two begin to fight and their emotions start to effect the Ever After. Neopolitan gets the upper hand or vice versa and is about to give the killing blow when the two of the are caught in a Punderstorm.

At this point it becomes evident that the only way out of this is by working together and learning more about the other.

[wildtornado-o]

The contrast in Roman and Neo's mannerisms and how they're written here will always be so funny to me hdshfds: "From the way Neopolitan delicately sipped her tea and ate her finger sandwiches, Roman could tell she had been taught good manners, or more likely had them inflicted on her" vs "Roman stuffed a whole finger sandwich into his mouth. None of that refined nibbling for him. If you didn’t know where or when your next meal was coming, you didn’t waste time eating."

[blakistan]

Also can we talk about how fucking terrified Neo is when the Cat is talking to her, and then beginning to possess her? Like it’s clear in that moment that she’s never been more scared in her life but after losing the last thread tying her to reality she just doesn’t have ANY strength to flee or fight back

[dallina17]

Roman Holiday, Chapter 25:

Please. You have to let go.

-Roman Torchwick

Inside, Volume 9 intro:

I've gotta let go but could I lose my mind?

[diddyspice]

'Roman Holiday' established that Roman used to have a ponytail. And guess who has one now?

I'm connecting the dots! Here's how this proves Silent Knight will become canon, you see

[sillytorch]

what would roman torchwick think of neo's choice at the end of v9 and her wanting to be like them

I think he'd be happy for her.

Yeah it sounds crazy considering who Roman is but remember at the end of Roman Holiday after she saved him Roman says "I don't know why you would stick with a guy like me. With your skills, you could be anything, even a Huntress."

Not to mention Roman has expressed several times to Neo that she shouldn't stick with him, even at one point pleading with her to save herself instead of worrying about him when her life was at stake.

I also believe he wouldn't want her to pursue revenge. esp if it has her costing her own life and well-being. Basically it goes against his philosophy of survival.

So yes imo, I think he'd be happy for her choice

[thatorangedrank]

I AM SO GLAD I READ ROMAN HOLIDAY THIS WEEK BECAUSE HOLY PHUQUE

[sir-adamus]

throwing out a guess here that Neo’s semblance + the Ever After’s weirdness lets her create full proxies of people and she’s using that as a way to not process her trauma at all

[xbox-cwtie]

[14cookiesinajar]

I know I am delusional but I really really really REALLY need Neo to be safe after all this. Please! Just let her be alright!!!!

[aesha-101]

I just finished reading Roman Holiday, and am further infuriated by how they killed roman in the show

[caterpillarinacave]

Jimmy Vanille: *loses Neo in a crowd* Jimmy Vanille: Fucking finally.

[wildtornado-o]

Some misc things :) Includes: Random Roman and Neo doodles and some stuff for my Roman survives Neo dies au. (The Roman outfit is kind of a messy drawing but I injured my arm so shhh)

[hellowhoisthere]

I can't understand that people are saying Neo desvered it. Did she have that happen to her as the result of her own action and inablility to cope? yeah. But she did not deserve it. There is a difference.

[dallina17]

You know... maybe this wouldn't have happened if CARMEL VANILLE AND JIMMY VANILLE WEREN'T SUCH AWFUL TERRIBLE PARENTS

[foxy-pawsy]

I'd like to point something out regarding Neopolitan's character in relation to two others:

Light Spoiler for Roman Holiday

In Roman Holiday, we learn that Roman Torchwick was the first, and up-'til-now, only person who could understand Neo without the use of her scroll, whether it be through typing or its speaking application. Not even her own parents could understand her without such aids, including her Communication/Spelling Board. But Roman could. In fact he was so adept at understanding her nonverbally, that he was shocked her parents couldn't, or rather, wouldn't.

And as we all know, he was eaten by a Griffin. Thus leaving Neo without that companion who seamlessly understood her.

That is until Neo found her way to Mistral and tracked Cinder down with the help of Little Miss Malachite in volume 6. And from there, Cinder has been shown to easily understand Neo; as easily as Roman had. Continuously and unfailingly, Cinder has never had any trouble understanding Neo.

The two people who have shown unwavering understanding to Neo are the two people she had been allied with. One now dead. And the other, one who had betrayed her.