
How would you feel if the team shadow dropped an Apathy Grimm horror short film?
With the whole partnership letting them do more projects thing happening I figured I would bring this idea I had up.
So we know what happened at Brunswick Farms with the owner, and the Apathy Grimm, sealing the water tunnel, everything, my idea is that this short film visualizes the story for us to see.
The first act could be the owner Bartleby seeing how the estate was hemorrhaging money, then him having the idea of using the Apathy Grimm to keep the farm peaceful so he could cut down costs on Huntsmen protection, and doing the idea of luring a couple Apathy Grimm in the water tunnels to get an effect without doing too much harm, then He leaves saying he’ll seal the tunnels tomorrow but then we cut to the middle of the night where we see the rest of the pack following the other 2 into the tunnels, and act 1 ends with Bartleby sealing the tunnels next day.
The second act could show the deterioration of the town over time with not immediate progression, after a bit Bartleby notices the town quieting down, so thinking his plan worked, fires most of the huntsmen/huntresses leaving 1 or 2 left, then we see the town deteriorating over time and eventually 1 of the 2 remaining hunters if Bartleby kept 2 hunters around, leaves, and the act ends with the town not having enough food to feed everyone and the infrastructure falling apart from lack of maintenance, and Bartleby realizing the mistake of his actions.
And the third act then begins with Bartleby using the last of his strength to inform the remaining huntsmen what he did, but not realizing the rest of the pack wandered in, tells the huntsmen there aren’t that many of them, then goes to lay in bed knowing if the huntsmen fails, he won’t have the strength to get out of be, then the scene shifts to the Huntsmen breaking open the seal to the tunnels and entering, only expecting a few Apathy Grimm, not knowing he’s walking into his death, only to run into way more than he can handle, after trying to fight them off to no real avail, he attempts to flee, ditching his weapon and other eq in the process, but eventually the Apathy Grimm get to him mentally and he just sits against a wall just saying, “this is okay…”, and we cut to black, ending the movie, right before the Apathy Grimm completely close in on him, then the credits play.
Then maybe or maybe not there could be a post credits scene where we see the corpse of the Huntsmen, now just a skeleton and clothes, as the camera pans or just goes to above ground, where we see team RWBY + Qrow and Maria arriving at the farm, maybe not going above ground and showing them, but just literally anything to signify that we are now at the time they were at the farm, or maybe just not have post credits scene at all, that could work to.
Also, I have seen some people be confused to why the corpse of the Huntsmen in the tunnel doesn’t have the weapon or any ammo near it, this could answer why that is, my theory is that like with Team RWBY, the Apathy Grimm made his weapon feel heavy, so when his objective shifted to escaping with his life, instead of keeping his weapon and ammo, he ditched them to maximize his chance of escaping.