#rwby:v9 a year later

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The few things I remember from V9 was the weed smoke scene where Team RWBY are confronting their past selves.

I remember it because it was so incoherent. Seeing it again months later, you can feel how much the writers struggled to convince the viewers that Team RWBY had substantial growth throughout the series and how these topics their past selves confront them with don't have any weight.

Ruby's moment felt like it had something to it, however, and it did carry throughout the volume until the end. But Blake, Yang and Weiss have nothing to burden themselves with.

Weiss and her Schnee family lineage? It doesn't matter because Team RWBY sunk Atlas and Mantle, which was also the biggest distribution center for Dust, so her lineage is gone and she has nothing - neither do the rest of her surviving family members.

Yang is fine with her arm and didn't doubt it after Blake held her hand while confronting Adam. Yang has not let that part of herself burden her anymore, so this scene of her past self trying to convince her to "become whole again" was stupid.

Blake has, by all means, already taken the biggest step to fixing the White Fang and the Faunus movement. After stopping the bombing in V5 and killing Adam, there have been no threats of White Fang after that. The slavery (that she basically ignored for a long time) that was happening with SDC is gone now, so again, she has nothing more to worry about because the biggest slaver (Jacques) is gone.

They even lost a well-loved and highly important General of the Atlas Army, so if there were any soldiers left, they couldn't do anything because they lost their power once Atlas was gone and Ironwood dead.

The kids have nothing much to fight for, and you could say "they still have to face Salem," but I would say Salem is the least of their problems. Even Cinder isn't that important to them, and Cinder has slowly stopped caring about Ruby over time. She just wants the Maiden Powers now and Salem just wants the Relics.

Salem seems to have stopped caring about Ruby being a SEW, which is pretty big because she made it a huge deal back in V4, but as the years have passed, Salem has changed trajectory and wants the Relics to quicken her and Remnant's end. Perhaps Salem is becoming aware of how uninvolved Team RWBY are.

What she really needs to look out for is every RWBY fans' favourite white boy, Jaune.

Okay, this is me being petty, but I am curious to know if CRWBY will perpetuate this "Jaune is the main character" act some more, just to stick it to people who don't like him. Well, I say: please do it, it'll just help prove that he's far more important to prove himself to the vast majority than Team RWBY.

So, RWBY has lost much of its identity and V9 really shows it. It feels lost, and not in an Alice in Wonderland way. It feels like a colleague of newspaper clippings being glued together to try and create a narrative, but it's all just nonsense that would be tossed in the bin later because the ending didn't let all of the events matter.

But I am totally looking forward to Team RWBY destroying Vacuo!