#yang xiao long ptsd

[owl127]

That zoom in Yang's eyes as Ruby drinks the tea;

That's the worst way of being abandoned

[historyhermann]

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 Spoiler-Filled Review

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1, also known as Justice League x RWBY, RWBY x Justice League, or JLxRWBY for short, is an anime-inspired science fantasy action-adventure film, bringing together characters from the Justice League and those from the young adult animated series, RWBY. The latter is the flagship series of Rooster Teeth and began airing in 2013. It recently concluded its ninth season. This film was written by Meghan Fitzmartin and directed by Kerry Shawcross.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and Wayback Machine. This was the thirty-second article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on April 30, 2023.

This 83-minute film begins with Superman's unexpected arrival on Remnant, since he has no idea how he ended up there. In classic crossover fashion, seven of the classic Justice League characters, find themselves in Remnant as teenagers. Soon enough the huntresses of Remnant, specifically Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long, and their friends, work with them to learn why their planet has changed and stop a Grimm monster from destroying all that exists. Ruby, Blake, Weiss, and Yang all have superpowers of sorts, known as semblances, each unique to themselves.

I was intrigued by this film as an avid fan of RWBY and occasional watcher of superhero series like DC Super Hero Girls, Young Justice, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Birdgirl, Harley Quinn, Hamster & Gretel, Gotham Girls, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, and She-Ra: Princess of Power. My interest in the classic superheroish magical girl anime Sailor Moon and the superheroish action series such as Sym-Bionic Titan, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, further made me want to watch this film. My excitement remained even after learning that the film takes place in the first half of RWBY's Volume 7.

There are differences from RWBY. For instance, Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang wear the outfits they donned in Vale, while Weiss can master her summoning of Glyphs, Nora wears the same outfit she wore in Beacon Academy, and the CCT tower at Beacon isn't destroyed, but is active. This is all because this film takes place in an alternate universe of sorts. That makes sense as it is a crossover film which has the same voice actors as the original RWBY series. One difference is Tiana Camacho, who voices Glynda in the RWBY original anime spinoff, RWBY: Ice Queendom.

It was nice to see Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Juane Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lie Ren, the latter three part of team JNR, interacting with members of the Justice League such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman/Diana, Green Lantern/Jessica, Vixen, Cyborg, and The Flash. In the RWBY show proper Ozpin has been reincarnated as Oscar, other characters have either died, like Jacques Schnee (presumably in Volume 8), or haven't appeared in the show recently, like Glynda or Kali Belladonna. They return in this film.

Two other characters also appear: Adam Taurus and Sienna Khan. Adam Taurus was Blake's abusive boyfriend. Sienna Khan was killed by Adam to take control of the White Fang, a peaceful organization originally aimed at improving conditions for the Faunus, a group of people with animal traits. Taurus aimed to change the latter organization into a violent terrorist organization which would overthrow human society and replace it with a Faunus-led one. In Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1, the latter two characters are only shown in a flashback when Blake remembers back to what actually happened during the series.

Apart from the voice actors for the RWBY characters, like Arryn Zech, Blake Dunkelman, Lindsay Jones, Kara Eberle, Miles Luna, Samantha Ireland, and Neath Oum, those who voice the members of the Justice League (Chandler Riggs, Nat Wolff, Natalie Alyn Lind, David Errigo Jr., Jeannie Tirado, Tru Valentino, and Ozioma Akagha) are just as talented. Riggs (who voices Superman) is known for his role as Carl Grimes in The Walking Dead. Wolff, the voice of Batman, has been recognized for his music, and roles in films like Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and Ashby. Lind, the voice of Wonder Woman in this film, is known for various television appearances including as Danielle Sullivan in Big Sky.

Errigo Jr., voice of The Flash, has previously done voice work in Ridley Jones, The Casagrandes, Milo Murphy's Law, and Dota: Dragon's Blood. Tirado, voicing Green Lantern, has lent her voice to characters in dubs of Fairy Tail Zero, KanColle: Kantai Collection, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Tru Valentino, who voices Cyborg, is known for his voice work in Madagascar: A Little Wild, Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, and Spidey and His Amazing Friends.

I personally remember Valentino best for his role as Cuphead in the short-lived animated slapstick comedy, The Cuphead Show. Finally, Arkagha, who voices Vixen, is best known for her acting as Harper Omereoha in Delilah, and her voice acting as Shuri in What If...? and Bumblebee in Teen Titans Go!, to name a few roles.

Admittedly, I wasn't sure about Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 at first. Surely, the fight scenes and the character designs were good, but was uneasy about the plot, even when Superman got on the scene at the film's beginning. However, the film drew me in, beginning with Grimm glitching out of control when killed, all while they still retain their goal, as soulless creatures, to destroy humanity, which as Nora puts it at one point in the film.

The humor of the characters, especially of Yang, lightened the mood. For example, Yang scoffs at the idea she will call Superman by his name, causing him to admit they can call him "Clark" (as in Clark Kent) instead. It was also funny that when Batman/Bruce Wayne fights people in the Schnee mansion, a person is playing the piano during his fight.

The fracturing and scrambling of memory, causing the characters to be confused about what actually happened, is at the crux of the Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1. It causes people, such as Ozpin, to appear, glitch into Oscar, and disappear, or others like Blake's mom, Kali, to say strange things. Some try and figure out the reality of their present predicament. Batman/Bruce Wayne, attempts this, but gets imprisoned. Others realize something is wrong, but are unsure what to do about it.

There is even a sub-theme about the power of privilege. Weiss criticizes her father, Jacques, of the ever-powerful Schnee family, for having a party rather than not repairing the CCT Tower. This bonds Weiss and Batman/Bruce Wayne together, as he says that the wealthy don't care about the plights of other people in any universe.

As would be expected, there are disagreements between heroes, with Blake and Yang annoyed that the Justice League is trying to tell them what to do, and vice versa. In fact, in a harsh scene which resonates with those who saw Volume 9, Cyborg asks Ruby who she is and she doesn't know. Although Superman says it is difficult to be a leader, he later questions her as team leader, which does not help her confidence! Even so, when Kilgore declares that Ruby is a child who is trying to be a leader, Superman reassures her, saying leadership isn't about age, but about your heart. He adds that although people will inevitably freeze and fail, that's what makes you human. The latter is a hint at the theme of self-acceptance enshrined throughout RWBY's Volume 9.

In the end, Team RWBY, Team JNR, and Justice League all work together, either by examining at holographic maps or tapping into their superpowers/semblances to fight the Grimm and save the day. Their fight is complicated by the fact that these Grimm are not ordinary, but can reboot, until they are electrocuted. This means that Ruby can't use her silver eyes, her ultimate "weapon".

This road to victory is not necessarily a simple one. One theme of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 is that people lose something which is a part of them. For Vixen, her necklace is missing, and for Jessica, she lost her all-powerful Green Lantern ring. In the case of the latter, it seems she is having issues tapping into her powers at first.

What stole the show in this film was Juane offering to help her, showing care, patience, and understanding in the process. Ger power is trapped, and she can't access it. Jessica says the ring grounds her, stating it is a symbol of power, belonging, and control. Hence, without it, she feels unmoored and listless, like a ship drifting across the open sea. This reminds me of how Adora felt in the final season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, when she felt completely lost after the Sword of Protection was shattered, and even questioned whether she could help her friends. Coming back to this film, Juane tells her that her ring gets the truth of things and the truth of her, again trying to help her center herself.

At the same time, the film provides subtle hints to the trauma the characters have experienced in the past. Cyborg says at one point "what, you haven't learned to adapt thanks to childhood trauma?". Canonically, in the Marvel universe, Jessica experienced trauma herself as a kid. As such, the film's writers were not above retraumatizing the characters. For example, a person who looks like Pyrrha tricks Juane, and traps him, with Jessica, in a box, while warning them to not warn the Justice League about the reality. Juane is further affected when the Seer causes him to see Pyrrha's death, paralyzing him.

After Juane had already experienced the death of Pyrrha second-hand (Ruby saw it first-hand), seeing her in front of him caused him to lose all reason, and trust her. This isn't a surprise after all he has been through, so no one can hold it against him. It was good writing to have Juane tell Jessica about Pyrrha and still be able to help Jessica be more than her fear. In a powerful statement which is often not stated in fiction, he tells her it is fine to have anxiety flare-ups and implies she shouldn't be ashamed of them. All of this helps encourage Jessica to use her green lantern power to help them escape.

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 hints at the ship-of-sorts between Jessica and Juane, which could be called "Greenknight", overriding any interest Juane had in Vixen, who he seemed taken in by, at first. The film also implies there is a ship between Batman and Weiss. In fact, Weiss states various times that Batman should stay. This could very well mean that she has romantic feelings for him. Their collaboration is an important part of the film, as both work together at an Atlas' computer lab to learn the reality of the world and why everything is glitching.

Funny enough, Diana is jealous of how close Weiss and Batman are getting. It could be part of the reason she wants to pull him back to "his" world. The writing of Diana, Weiss, and Batman in the film is good. It better than what some would claim, as it is clear that a Batman and Weiss ship, at least in the forms shown in the film, is possible. Otherwise, Weiss and Batman can fight well together, even when faced with impossible odds.

While it is not directly stated, there is queer subtext between Blake and Yang. In the show proper, both are in a relationship, mutually confessing their romantic feelings in the Volume 9 episode "Confessions Within Cumulonimbus Clouds". The ship between both, known as Bumbleby, had been semi-canon before that point, but was not canonized until that episode. In the film itself, Yang hugs Blake happily, Blake gives Yang the side-eye when she describes Diana "very strong", and Blake agrees to go along with Diana to Atlas because she is jealous. Still, Blake puts this aside and fight alongside her against the Grimm while flying through the air.

At other points in Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1, Blake and Yang look at one another, with Blake explaining how she and Yang got to know each other. Furthermore, Yang worries about Blake after she talks about losing people. In a very touching scene in the film, Blake and Yang touch each other's hands through the cockpit window, with Yang saying she trusts Blake, while she pilots the aircraft. In the meantime, Blake puts aside her jealousy so she can fight alongside Diana against the Grimm even as she flies through the air.

Toward the end of the film, after Diana says she knows it is hard to fight under fire, Blake says that it is nice to kiss ass and bumps her ass with Yang. As Yang's voice actor stated in watch party for the series, "how did anyone ever think Yang was straight". Although it has not be directly confirmed, fans have stated that Yang is a lesbian. Blake was previously confirmed as bisexual. As Shawcross put it, Bumbleby moments were added because it was something the crew liked and said the moments. He also stated that "Blake and Yang had a lot that they could talk [about] with and relate to with Diana, Wonder Woman". The latter may have been a reference to past comments by those who say that Wonder Woman is a bisexual icon, later confirmed by writer Greg Rucka.

The last battle of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1, which involves riding on bikes, and tag-team fighting (like Yang and Blake), is one of the film's strongest. In a hint at what may happen in the second part of the film crossover series, it is clear that a villain named Kilgore, who created a virtual reality by mind-controlling The Flash, is also stuck there. As such, it is implied that someone else is controlling him, although it isn't clear who.

His plan to make the Justice League into teens, when they are "vulnerable", have the world rip them apart, and cause them to deal with emotions they ignore or regress as adults seems like a weak plan. He could have, just as easily, imprisoned them on their own world, instead of Remnant. The hubris of Kilgore is what takes him down. Jessica uses the equivalent of Ruby's silver eyes on the Grimm dragon, which has Kilgore inside, causing him to almost fade from existence.

Although everyone says their goodbyes and they all go back to their respective worlds, it is clear this isn't the end. All of the main cast, which are not part of the Justice League, wake up from what was supposed to be a training mission. Ruby's concern that someone created the virtual reality/simulation, a person from their world, setting the stage for the next film.

All in all, animation of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 is well-done, and the designs are very colorful. There are even features that make it seem like a comic book, such as talk bubbles when characters are annoyed, and other expressions. All of the flowing animation which goes easily with the storytelling, voice acting, and the like, is no surprise as over 210 people, if not more, worked on this film. That makes it an even bigger effort than a volume of RWBY!

Unfortunately, Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 was effectively spoiled on social media before its release, in part because it accidentally aired early on Redbox on April 20, five days before its general release. This made animators ask fans to not post spoilers until the film came out, or say they feel "pretty hurt" by people posting clips from the entire film before its release on April 25th. On the positive side, this interest will undoubtedly help support Volume 10 for RWBY, so that the show's characters can have their stories continued, even if reported review bombing on IMDB continues.

The film was available on Google Play, but was later taken down for unexplained reasons. Although the stock of Rooster Teeth's parent company (Warner Bros. Discovery) has been falling, thanks to the rebranding of HBO streaming platform, and debt continues to accumulate, the film survived the cuts. That is for the best.

Adding onto what I've said so far about the film, I personally liked the design of characters like Jessica, whether you consider her gender non-conforming or not, the White Rose scenes of sorts, Weiss summoning powerful glyphs, and it is a lot of fun. Perhaps, there will be future RWBY features in the future which are not crossovers.

In certain ways, this film made me think of Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night, which I reviewed earlier this year, as it is also set in a virtual reality. In this film, the characters are forced into a virtual reality, while in Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night, I believe they chose to be in that reality.

Hopefully, in the second part of film crossover series, Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part Two, which may come out in the summer, there is more character exploration of Superman, Batman, Diana, and Vixen. This film focused on the internal struggles of Jessica more than the other Justice League members. It would be great to see a focus on the mental struggles of the other Justice League members as well. I would not be surprised if there are additional scenes with ships such as Bumbleby, Greenknight, and Weiss/Batman, since this film set the groundwork for the next one.

As a final note, although David Levy, who has long worked on RWBY, and on series such as Red vs. Blue, Camp Camp, various bands, and independent films, does a decent job with the film's music, it isn't that memorable. Maybe, Casey Lee Williams could either compose the music score of the next film, or at least a few tracks. That would ensure that the film packed an extra punch.

Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part 1 can be purchased or rented on Prime Video, MoviesAnywhere, iTunes/Apple TV+, Redbox, and Vudu, or have the DVD and Blu-ray ordered from other online marketplaces.

© 2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

[rwbycrimeau]

Yang, aka Best Big Sister

Yang is a student at Beacon Academy studying business in hopes to own her own club someday.

Ty, her dad, forced her to learn fighting skills to keep his daughter safe after her mother, Raven's, death. She was born with a missing arm as far as she knows and has used a hook prosthetic arm her whole life.

Ruby was thrown into her life recently, a half sister she didn't know existed but is happy to help. If only she could figure out how to help such a troubled kid...

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 1

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

Yang Xiao Long-RWBY

Qualifications:

She is canonically wlw (has been for years but specifically kissed and got together with her now girlfriend in the latest season) and uses a prosthetic arm and has been shown to struggle with PTSD due to the traumatic nature of losing it during the show.

Canonically had her right arm chopped off, uses a prosthetic. Has PTSD. Is canonically in a WLW relationship.

She has a canon girlfriend and canonically has a prosthetic arm and PTSD

She's canonically sapphic (part of a recently canonised wlw slowburn relationship) and is an amputee (due to events from the 3rd season finale) who wears a robotic prosthetic. She also suffers from PTSD which is explored in the show

Propaganda:

I will keep on submitting Yang to relevant brackets until I die. RWBY has plenty of strengths and weaknesses with writing, especially Yang's recovery arc, but instead of forcing her to push past her trauma and enter the battlefield immediately, we see her struggle with it, take time to process, and not be pushed into repression and when she chooses to wear her prosthetic, chooses to train to ready herself, and chooses to seek out her family and save lives, she isn't perfectly healed, as no one is. The show depicts her having flashbacks due to sudden loud noise, shaking hand the first few times she has to fight for her safety instead of training with her dad, and snapping at friends when they bring up Blake, the person she lost her arm trying to save (who, near immediately after ran away due to feeling she was endangering those she loved, furthering Yang's already present abandonment issues.) It isn't done perfectly but the intentions and general message sent are extremely positive and honest. She struggles less as the show progresses, and there are opportunities to consider herself less for being disabled or "become whole again" but she explicitly refutes these ideas and says that's she's better because of her failures and losses, and isn't any less whole. Her becoming disabled is also extremely tied to her being LGBT, because, as previously mentioned, she lost her arm protecting her then friend and partner, now girlfriend, directly after the villain who cut her arm off told her love interest that he would "destroy everything [she] love[s]. (Camera pans to Yang, he looks at her.) Starting with her." LIKE. He attacked her BECAUSE Blake cared for her so much and Yang ran to her defense blindly BECAUSE she loved Blake so much. When they reunite, they struggle with communication because Yang feels Blake is seeing her as weak, and through several things, mostly a climatic battle against the man who severed Yang's arm, they affirm each other as equals. I can go on but this is already too long. YANG SWEEP!!!!!

Yang lost her arm while protecting her best friend and future girlfriend from said girlfriend's abusive ex. Had a whole arc about learning to live with that loss and dealing with PTSD. Is totally devoted to and in love with Blake Belladonna and is just the sweetest but most badass character in the show.

She's one of the main characters, and just finished a 10 year slow burn romance. Plus, she has both physical and mental disabilities, but is never treated as lesser or incomplete.

Yang Xiao Long was one of the first examples of a sapphic character I ever saw in animated media with her character journey in the show being an iconic part of my teenage years and current young adulthood. The loss of her arm after a traumatic event in the show's 3rd volume was one of the big shockers of the show that nobody saw coming. Since then the show has done an amazing job in exploring both the mental and physical effects of her losing a limb, gaining a prosthetic arm and the recovery journey. Her character also has a major arc regarding handling her PTSD from both this and her past most notably in the 5th and 6th volume. Her character also has a slow-burn romance with her teammate and fellow main character Blake Belladonna which is one of my fave romances ever (it has everything: canon soulmates, friends to lovers, sunshine x grump,battle couple etc..) that has recently became CANON BABIEE!!! There are MULTIPLE characters in RWBY with various disabilities that are handled well in the narrative but i would say Yangs definitely the top FAVE!

Valerie Day-Paranatural

Qualifications:

She is Blind and a Lesbian.

she's blind and sapphic

Propaganda:

Agent Day is a Spectral (a humans who can interact with spectral entities like ghosts and spirits, and possess spectral energy, in her case Pink spectral energy) working for the Paranatural Activity Consortium. Her "Tool" (an object possesses by a weakened spirits that Spectrals can use to host spirits an directly use some form of the spirit's powers) is her cane. Due to the influence of the cane being possessed by her spirit partner, "Venus Guytrap" (a giant talking Venus flytrap that emotes through various marble statues wrapped in its vines), it appears as a green cane with a bouquet of roses at the top. As a manifestation of Venus Guytrap's powers, the cane can fire pink arrows that cause whatever they hit to fall in love with the first thing they see until the arrow is removed. As a Spectral, Agent Day can enter a "Heightened State of Perception" to converse & interact with her spirit in a mental state wherein time seems to move at a slower rate, to the extent that it almost seems to stand still for everything except her and her spirit partner (a phenomenon also known as a "Spirit Trance"). Spirit Trances also create an illusory alteration of the world surrounding the Spectral theme around the Spirit's aesthetics, and cause the Spectral's eyes to glow white, but neither of these aspects really affect Agent Day given that she a) can't see the illusory alteration to the world & b) often has her eyes closed anyways, making it so that no one else would be able to tell if she was in a trance in public so long as she stays still and does not talk while being sped-up relative to everyone else. Thanks to this, she utilizes Spirit Trance to occasionally have Venus Guytrap act as a "seeing-eye spirit" to performing certain actions, like reading off of a menu so that she can order lunch during her date with Dr. Mina Zarei.

i'm no good at propaganda so i don't have a lot to say but i think she's very good and also she made a train kiss someone once. what more could you want

[doyouknowthisdisabledcharacter]

Do You Know This Disabled Character?

Yang Xiao Long is an amputee and has PTSD.

[crazywolf828]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: F/F

Fandom: RWBY

Relationship: Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long

Characters: Yang Xiao Long, Blake Belladonna, Pyrrha Nikos, Jaune Arc, Ruby Rose (RWBY), Weiss Schnee

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - War, Soldier Blake Belladonna, Soldier Yang Xiao Long, Soldiers, War, Heavy Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Blood and Violence, Major Character Injury, Minor Character Death, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, This one's going to be rough, they're both self sacrificing idiots

Summary:

Blake had grown up with Yang, they'd been friends since they were children. She watched exactly how war changed Yang, changed herself, to the point they couldn't live among civilians.

The country says they care about veterans, they say how they fought for their freedom, but Blake knows it's all bullshit. They're used as tokens in political arguments they're not even part of. The government barely, if at all funds the VA, leaves them stuck with the wounds of war. Both mental and physical. The worst part is that they hadn't even bought into that patriotic bullshit, they'd done it to get a free ride to college. One tour and they'd be done, there wasn't even any war at the time. They were just a bunch of teenagers hanging out, that's all it was supposed to be. But war is hell, war never gives you a heads up. War fights dirty, drops grenades on a bunch of teens who barely passed drills while they're sleeping. - Bumbleby Week Day 2: Sacrifices / "Your life is more than a sacrifice for others"

This fic idea was sparked when I saw @ghoulsamgrusam's war au, which you can find here and here!

And of course make sure to check out the @bumblebyweek-blog for everyone else's entries!

(Also this one has a mini playlist)

[maxiemumdamage]

In honor of her birthday I’m gonna briefly talk about why I love Yang so much.

Honestly from my first exposure to RWBY (which was playing Grimm Eclipse and hearing a friend rant about it all the way back when Volume 3 aired - I didn’t actually watch until just before Volume 6 was released though) she was my least favorite of the main four.

And that was because I totally bought into the shallow party girl vibe she gives off, not realizing that mask was one donned by choice, both in-universe and by the writers.

Because Yang isn’t shallow — she’s a girl who cares so so deeply about her loved ones, eager to sacrifice even her own physical and mental well-being. But she hides that care behind a casual demeanor and quips, because Yang knows how it feels to lose someone, to be abandoned after caring that strongly. Yang was so much smarter, both emotionally and academically, than I ever realized.

And that’s without even touching on how inspirational she is. A disabled character with PTSD that’s actually shown on screen, but without being sensationalized. Yang’s fears are so personal and real in a way you rarely see represented.

And since I’ve said the magic word — how amazing is it that she’s a main character whose WLW romance has been so central to her storyline over the course of the show? There’s a reason we were saying Bumbleby was canon three seasons before they actually kissed.

Which is not to minimize the kiss. Yang Xiao Long had the most awkward and magical and personal and perfect confession and kiss and I am dying of envy months after watching it.

My point got derailed but whatever. Happy birthday Yang Xiao Long.

[the-elegant-necromancer]

Chapters: 20/? Fandom: RWBY Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jaune Arc/Cinder Fall, cinder fall & jaune arc Characters: Cinder Fall, Jaune Arc Additional Tags: Fluff, Work In Progress, Volume 6 (RWBY), Cinder Fall Redemption, Jaune Arc/cinder fall - Freeform, jaune arc - Freeform, Romance, Memory Loss, Enemies to Lovers, Knightfall, Temporary Amnesia, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jaune has anger issues, Angst, but in a good way, Mentioned Ruby Rose (RWBY), Mentioned Weiss Schnee, Mentioned Yang Xiao Long, Slow Burn, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Winter Schnee - Freeform, Cheating Summary:

Jaune Arc finds Cinder Fall devoid of all her powers and the majority of her memories. Will he take revenge on the woman or will he find another path And how far will he go to find himself without the constant hunt.

This story starts during Volume 6 when the group is in Argus.

[iamafanofcartoons]

Ah, c'mon. Female characters are only ever hated when they're poorly written. If they were male, they'd be just as hated. Calling anybody sexist is such a reach.

I mean, you really think that the likes of Team RWBY would be more liked if they were guys? Qrow? Ironwood? Got any solid examples? All I see from you lot is a bunch of accusations and hypotheticals.

C'mon. The FNDM's maddening but real bigots are few and far between.

Let me give you three examples of sexism from the RWBY Critics. And let me remind you that both men and women can be misogynists. The Republican Party of the USA is sure proof of that.

Now that we have the proof of RWBY Critics being nasty sexists out of the way. Let me go over Yang Xiao Long, since most straightshippers and rwby bashers love to hate on Yang.

Critics gnoring the fact that she losed a arm, got PTSD for like 3 volumes, saving the world from a immortal being. Edit: She's just not 24 hours all happy girl anymore like in the volumes 1-3….nobody is anymore after everything that happened. Because taking world ending stakes seriously, and not constantly being quippy doesn’t mean that someone is no longer fun. No, no, don't look at Yang pranking Nora during their arm wrestling match, making jokes about getting reward money for Weiss, or doing stunts on a hover bike. Giggling about Adrian? Pranking Penny with her arm? Joking about crashing the Schnee Party? RWBY Critics: Yang is no longer fun, she’s a Karen! Basically, critics have to ignore/forget/deny ANYTHING that disagrees with their negative views of women. If these people can't even understand a character after showing all his background, trauma and way of thinking, imagining understanding a real person you know nothing about. But seriously, things are less fun in general. Like, yeah V1-3 were school fun-times where the characters weren't even aware of the world ending threat working behind the scenes. Now they are, and they're trying to stop it, things are going to be less fun. Want an example of how Critics pretend to be blind and deaf? Adam Taurus: Introduced trying to blow up a train of passengers. Blake Belladonna: Introduced trying to stop him, and then joins Beacon, hoping to change the system from within. Volume 2: Adam literally tells Cinder that he finds his followers expendable. Blake is opening up to Yang and becomes more and more happy. RWBY Critics: Blake manipulated Adam, Blake is the reason Adam is evil, Blake should have saved Adam, Adam should have killed Blake. Yeah, I’d call that sexism. Let’s cover Robyn Hill

I’ve got some memes just for this But somehow Robyn is an evil terrorist? And Ironwood is somehow the savior? Ironwood, who constantly demands trust and talks about making difficult decisions while : A) repeatedly forbidding penny to have any friends and having her as a project done behind everyone’s back? B) Holding more government power than any other Council Member, and forbidding anyone not part of his military from being allowed to defend themselves or carry weapons (volume 7 chapter 2, clover ignoring Qrow’s license) C) Going behind Ozpin’s back to get the council to fire him for not giving James what he wants? D) Threatening Jacques and telling him to get on James’ good side while declaring closed borders WITHOUT the council’s permission? Threatening a civilian while declaring HIMSELF the council? E) That mech was put in Argus WITHOUT the people’s awareness or permission. Ironwood then installed a racist megalomaniac because she was fanatically loyal to him.  But any woman standing against is immediately considered a war criminal? So yeah, the hatedom? Is misogynistic.  I keep seeing men and women talking about how they want the female characters in RWBY to suffer. I keep seeing them throw slurs at fictional characters and towards the writers. If you don’t have anything respectful to say about the show unless it involves pushing cis white male OC/MC fanfics and talking about how your ideas are superior? Or you wanna talk about porn? Then you have nothing to contribute but Hatred, and you shouldn’t contribute at all.

[doomalade]

July 28th, Yang’s Birthday

So to celebrate the occasion, here are some details about the Sunny Lil Dragon in my AU.

Yang Xiao Long, daughter of Tai Xiao Long and Raven Branwen, cousin of Ruby Rose, niece of Summer Rose and Qrow Branwen, and great (x5) granddaughter of Amber Xiao Long.

She is 5’7”

A pansexual queen 💖💛💙

She lost her left arm in the same explosion that killed Summer, and suffers greatly from PTSD and depression.

Her robotic arm was made by Ruby. The two bonded as they grew up together and are basically sisters.

During her time at Beacon, she was recruited by Ozpin to be a special operative that he could send far behind enemy lines to obtain intel or assassinate a high value target.

Yang has had plenty of run ins and experiences with the Widows and Xiong crime organizations. Roman being a massive headache even when he’s helping, Junior supplying her with information just like he did for Tai, and Neo who broke up with Yang by trying to kill her.

Yang later into the war would be sent to protect Weiss Schnee from White Fang operatives in Mantle, but ended up joining Adam, Blake, and surprisingly Weiss herself to kill Jacques Schnee. Yang would then try her best to help Weiss escape Solitas.

Yang finds out that she has two half-siblings, both from her mother. Adam and Vernal.

Yang has a lot of resentment and anger towards Raven, but in the end will look back at her mother as complicated yet still her mother.

Yang once fought Nora at a Mantle camp in Vacuo and it can only be described as “smashing two mountains together”.

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[ID: an image of Yang Xiao Long in her current character design.

Yang is a fair-skinned young woman with long blonde hair with a cowlick, and lilac eyes.

She is wearing an orange scarf, a white crop top, khaki overalls that are unzipped near her breasts, a dark brown crop aviator jacket with a fur trim. Around her waist, she is wearing a fabric that is brown with yellow trims held by a brown belt with an orange stripe in the middle and her emblem, a yellow burning heart, used as a buckle./End of ID]

Day 5 for disability pride month, here is Yang Xiao Long from RWBY

She is an amputee with PTSD and is *sapphic

*(Rooster Teeth hasn’t confirmed her sexuality but she’s observed to be mspec as she has shown interest in men in the past and is currently dating a woman, Blake Belladonna.)

[Day 4] [Day 6]

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About the Yang Xiao Long Abuse post.

Something occurred to me; Qrow may have also contributed to the abuse.

Back in Volume 3, when Yang was framed by Emerald?

Qrow accused her of either lying or being crazy.

Yang sought one of her family figures for validation, and Qrow called her crazy.

Then Qrow told her that Raven didn't care for her.

Would what Qrow did be considered abusive as well?

There's a lot in Volume 4 I dislike, which is why its my least favorite volume, and the Patch Scenes were among them.

But I feel that the way Qrow treated Yang was also a factor in Yang's mental/emotional state.

Also, regarding Yang's prosthetic. It appears Tai had planned to "call in some favors, pull a few strings" in order to get Yang her new arm, which shows that while Tai is emotionally insensitive to a degree, he is still caring about others and willing to help.

Ruby did say that Taiyang does love them both and is overprotective.

But a person can be loving and yet at the same time emotionally harmful to a degree.

Its strange, given the character we see of Qrow and Tai in RWBY Chibi, both being loving family members.

How would you, if you could make suggestions to the writing team, made ideas on how to improve things in V4?

Beyond just Yang, it feels there was too much in need of a revision here or there.

So to start with the question about Qrow, those instances wouldn’t count as abuse. For something to be abuse there has to be a pattern of this stuff happening, so the single comment about the Vytal Festival isn’t abuse, just a really messed up thing to say to her.

As for the comment about Raven, while it’s a little too blunt, it’s not something she shouldn’t hear. Especially since Qrow gave her the information to find her and knows Yang’ll be meeting her in the near future and he wants to prepare her for that.

Like as much as she was saying she was just looking for answers, you know deep down she’d been hoping for years if she found her, Raven would care enough about her to take care of her and Ruby.

That being said, in V6 when Yang and Ruby find him passed out drunk, their reaction does indicate he was doing this regularly at some point in their lives and they know how to handle it… and taking care of a passed out drunk adult isn’t the job of a kid(s) and is also a form of parentification. So likely he contributed in some regard when Yang was younger.

However, Qrow acknowledges that he has an issue and does try (successfully!) to work on himself to be a better uncle/mentor both to Yang and Ruby but also their friends as well, which is important to acknowledge.

And yes, I never meant to imply Tai doesn’t love them both. He clearly does, it’s just that love alone isn’t enough when you’ve got a couple of very young grieving children at home, and then a traumatized teenager with fairly severe PTSD. (And tbh I wouldn’t ever put much weight into the characterization in RWBY “cake butler” Chibi, lol).

As for V4, I think that the biggest issue the volume had overall was that they were trying to follow too many different storylines in too many different locations. Like they had to balance:

RNJR + Qrow’s trip across Mistral

Weiss escaping from her father

Blake and the Faunus Civil War

Yang and her PTSD/Recovery

Introducing Oscar and all the world stuff that comes with the reincarnation story

Introducing Salem and Team WTCH

I’d suggest combining at least a couple of these earlier on to give themselves more breathing room. Tbh Yang’s entire recovery arc barely happened (it was like three, 5ish minute scenes across the whole volume, which was also almost every scene she had) and Weiss’s arc was also fairly short and a bit underwhelming for how much it was built up, so I’d try to fold them into other storylines.

Honestly, I’d specifically suggest combining Yang and Oscar’s stories (they both are dealing with huge, unexpected changes in their lives they don’t know how to navigate) and Blake and Weiss’s (Weiss could go through a very similar emotional journey as she did in canon but from the opposite side by witnessing how Ghira and Kali treat her and Blake compared to her father), with Yang and Oscar catching up to RNJR at some point in the later part of the volume.

If they specifically wanted to write Tai as a good parent now (while also not retconning anything from V1-V3), one of the first things he’d need to do is admit that he was in the wrong in the past (like Qrow did in V7) and was not there for her. And then make it clear he is now and then ask after and follow her lead in terms of what she needs to heal instead of assuming he knows best.

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Will you be giving the main characters any less-represented mental disorders (beyond depression, anxiety, and PTSD, which I imagine are pretty common in their desired profession *and* after what they'll go through) or neurodivergencies?

Oh, most certainly. Depression, PTSD, and anxiety are going to be prevalent for the reasons you already specified (and in no small part because they’re conditions that I’m personally familiar with).

The current list I have going is far from complete. There are a couple things I had to omit because they’d give away major spoilers for the Redux's story. That being said, here’s what I’ve got for disabilities (physical, mental, and psychological), neurodivergencies, and medical conditions.

Team RWBY:

Ruby Rose - ADHD, social anxiety, depression Weiss Schnee - trauma from neglect and child abuse, perfectionism Blake Belladonna - anxiety Yang Xiao Long - PTSD, parentification, trauma from amputated limb

Team JNPR:

Jaune Arc - [REDACTED] Nora Valkyrie - trauma from childhood homelessness Pyrrha Nikos - perfectionism Lie Ren - autism, synesthesia, PTSD

Team CFVY:

Fox Alistair - congenital blindness Velvet Scarlatina - anxiety

Team STRQ:

Summer Rose - ADHD Taiyang Xiao Long - depression Qrow Branwen - alcoholism, depression, cataspin-induced functional disorder (CIFD)

Salem and her allies:

Salem - [REDACTED] Hazel Rainart - toxorhizosis Cinder Fall - trauma from child abuse, trauma from amputated limb Emerald Sustrai - trauma from childhood homelessness Mercury Black - trauma from child abuse, trauma from multiple amputations, subapothymia Roman Torchwick - trauma from childhood poverty Neo - congenital muteness

Ozpin and his allies:

Ozpin - [REDACTED] Ozma - [REDACTED] Glynda Goodwitch - migraines James Ironwood - autism, trauma from multiple amputations

Other noteworthy characters:

Penny Polendina - autism Pietro Polendina - autism, chronic Aura degradation (CAD) Maria Calavera - blindness (non-congenital), arthritis

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Far Away From Home: Izuku's Crossover Harem!

by Enderman534

Izuku Midoriya, Ochaco Uraraka, and Eri become the victims of a support students gadget, which wasn't Mei this time, surprisingly. Which sends them into another world. Far away from home, they settle here in this new world trying to find a way back home, if there is one. They end up at a new school, where instead of heroes, there are huntsman and huntresses. Where they attend and fight off monsters, extremists, criminals, and girls who Izuku just seems to accidentally pick up left and right. Spoiler Alert: That last one is the hardest one.

Words: 1333, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), RWBY

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/M, Multi

Characters: Uraraka Ochako, Hatsume Mei, Ruby Rose (RWBY), Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Velvet Scarlatina, Coco Adel, Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Taiyang Xiao Long, Summer Rose (RWBY), Eri (My Hero Academia)

Relationships: Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Hatsume Mei/Midoriya Izuku, Hatsume Mei/Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Midoriya Izuku/Ruby Rose (RWBY), Midoriya Izuku/Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna/Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku/Yang Xiao Long, Midoriya Izuku/Velvet Scarlatina, Coco Adel/Midoriya Izuku, Jaune Arc/Pyrrha Nikos

Additional Tags: Midoriya Izuku Adopts Eri, Established Midoriya Izuku/Uraraka Ochako, Ruby Rose (RWBY) has PTSD, Ruby Rose (RWBY) Needs a Hug, Midoriya Izuku is a Ray of Sunshine, Everyone Loves Midoriya Izuku

source: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55185793

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Spider

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/RcLwmxY by The_Penitent -- Not a compilation of one shots, this is a crossover fic -- The intertwined story of teenage villain/vigilante Gwen Stacy and teenage Ward Miles Morales as they try to unravel a series of mysteries and save the people they care about most as New York, and maybe their entire universe, crumbles around them. -- This is a first person AU fic, following Undersider Gwen and Ward Miles, who alternate as Protagonists each arc (Gwen odds, Miles evens). It takes place in the world of Worm, but every named character in Worm has been replaced by a different character from one of the sources in the tags. I explain a lot about sources in the text, only vague familiarity with Gwen and Miles is recommended, everything else is explained, you don't need to know all the sources to follow this. To see a full list of characters in this fic, go here, beware of mild spoilers: https://ift.tt/QSaJxwC Words: 10261, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow, Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies), RWBY, Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Life is Strange (Video Game), The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), 重返未来：1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game), Critical Role (Web Series), Red vs. Blue, Nemesis - April Daniels, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Batman (Comics), Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/F, F/M Characters: Gwen Stacy | Spider-Gwen, Miles Morales, Ruby Rose (RWBY), Maxine "Max" Caulfield, Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III, Agent Texas | AI Program Beta, Mark Grayson | Invincible, Peni Parker (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Agent Carolina (Red vs. Blue), Danielle "Danny" Tozer | Dreadnought, Rachel Amber, Tim Drake, Keyleth (Critical Role), Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, George Stacy, Jefferson Morales (Earth-1610), Rio Morales, Aaron Davis (Earth-1610), Ganke Lee, Peter B. Parker (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Omni-Man | Nolan Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Hobie Brown, Caleb Widogast, Salem (RWBY), Miguel O'Hara, Ludinus Da'leth, Wilson Fisk, Adam Taurus, Dick Grayson, Anna Ripley, Vertin (Reverse: 1999), Schneider (Reverse: 1999), Leonard L. Church | AI Program Alpha, Vex'ahlia (Critical Role), Atom Eve | Eve Wilkins Relationships: Miles Morales/Gwen Stacy | Spider-Gwen, Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long, Ruby Rose/Weiss Schnee, Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III/Vex'ahlia, Leonard L. Church | AI Program Alpha/Agent Texas | AI Program Beta, Schneider/Vertin (Reverse: 1999), Atom Eve | Eve Wilkins/Mark Grayson | Invincible Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Slow Burn, Angst, Secret Identity, POV First Person, POV Multiple, Moral Ambiguity, Domestic Violence, Adam Taurus Being an Asshole, Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Not A Compilation, Worm-Inspired, Undersider!Gwen Stacy, Ward!Miles Morales read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/RcLwmxY