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Yeah this whole section is gonna be about Weiss and a mini rant on this absolute loser of a man. But first:

I haven’t heard Weiss sing since her debut trailer and I standby what I said that she has an amazing singing voice. I mean, it’s no competition since she’s the only character who’s known for singing 😅. I wonder how often she sings in her free time? Anyway, I feel bad because while I’m sure it was a wonderful performance, it was done out of obligation and not because she wanted to 😑.

So the Charitable party continues and Weiss tries to leave but Jacque tries to keep her close. Firstly, you get your disgusting dirty rich hands off her you pompous old di-

He lets Weiss go anyway so he can continue to chat along annoyingly with the guests (he’s so one of those guys who makes those annoying rich people laughs. Y’all know the ones I’m referring to). She walks up to a painting and all of this doesn’t sit right with her.

After turning down a guy who was trying too hard to flirt/make conversation. She overhears a conversation between a couple when the woman made a claim that Vale had it coming. Honestly I’d be just as peeved as Weiss because wdym?! “Oh I’m here in my fancy mansion in my gorgeous clothes and my safe and secure kingdom” “they didn’t have proper kingdom defense like we do so therefore they deserve what happened to them and their kingdom.” Jacque you stay out of this! I don’t give a $#!% about your reputation and what did I say about laying your hands on Weiss 😠?

She accidentally summoned Grimm Pumbaa that’s about to attack the woman (I’m not one for unnecessary violence but you know what I’ll make an exception). Unfortunately, Ironwood shot it down and she had the AUDACITY to say that Weiss should be arrested for her actions and he delivers the best line: “She's the only one making sense around here.” You know, I wasn’t sure about Ironwood in the beginning but you know what? He’s alright! He’s good in my book because y’all privileged people are just jerks.

Jacque is furious at her (can’t imagine why) because her display is making them (him) look bad and Weiss rightfully stands her ground! From day one she’s been doing everything she can to uphold her family’s name.

And this guy, this self righteous, arrogant, a$$hole has the audacity, the gall, the absolute GUMPTION, to slap Weiss in the face! That honestly got me heated. Like who does he think he is?! Treating her this way. Putting his hands on her like that!Something about parents/parental figures slapping their children like that just triggers me 😡. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a father do that to a daughter before in an animated show so yeah I’m mad and now he’s keeping her locked away until she’s told otherwise. I hope he gets hit by a truck. Matter of fact, where’s the phone so I can call the cops? This guy’s going to jail! And as if that wasn’t bad enough, he decided to strip her status of heiress of the company due to a bs excuse he came up with and now it’s passed onto her brother Whitney.

And so when she confronted Whitney about all this, he apparently knew about all this and wanted this to happen like unbelievable 😑😑. Idk if it’s just an act or not but he’s not looking good right now 😒. I just feel so bad for Weiss. Everyone else is making progress or moving forward while she’s basically trapped. Idk if she’s planning on running away or not but at this point I don’t blame her if she did. She needs to escape this hellhole.

Man I’ve gotten really defensive but you guys weren’t kidding when you said that I was really gonna hate this guy. Congratulations Jacque, you get to join Cinder and Adam on my hate list. Raven, you better pray that you don’t have to join them.

Jaune is stealing Team RWBY's screentime.

Cinder is stealing Salem's screentime.

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Team RWBY

Ruby - Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz

Look I know Theodore is mean to be Dorothy but by the brothers she is literally going through a similar journey to Dorothy going to kingdom to kingdom meeting the yellow brick gang but each member instead of being an ally against the witch turn against her

Blake - Esmeralda/Mowgli

Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame with the romani as the faunus and her as Esmeralda not really sure yet what else to do involving it I just think it kinda fits Blake

As for Mowgli I have her dad and mom be ghira and sienna with Kali and sienna fused into one

Blake is an orphan into he sense she was kidnapped as a child and her mother went to war becoming more violent while her father was the one who still wanted to coexist

Blake grows up with an adoptive dad possibly Pietro who gives her the belle experience until she gets left behind with other faunus to the grimm and rescued by the fang and eventually joins them becoming mainly the distraction or spy hardly ever getting into the knitty gritty part until she gets partnered more with adam

Team JNPR

Jaune - Prince Charming

Pretty much he's more of a failed prince charming what with the whole Weiss thing

Meanwhile with cinder he technically will go on to try and return a glass slipper

Or in this case a glass arrow through cinder's heart

As for that last prince he does succeed in being

Pyrrha - Helen of Sparta/sleeping beauty/one of the saints Joan of arc sees

Simple enough pyrrha in my au is someone who's been told what her life would be what she's destined to do destined to be told that she will achieved great things and has had no agency in her choices somewhat like Helen not having agency when Aphrodite traded her away to Paris

As for sleeping beauty I have her survive in my au but in a coma like amber was having been saved by the ace ops after the arrow shot with ruby having done her silver eyes before pyrrha got burned

As for the saints thing she ends up as a spirit her aura following jaune around during the mistral arc and only being strong enough for him to see when he unlocks his semblance and accidentally boosted her aura

Ren - Shang

Basically his dad was based more on the general from the movie

Ren was technically local nobility or atleast upper class in the town with his dad being the mayor and head of the village having his kuroyuri Rangers beignt he main militia watching over the place

Ren loses his father

That's mostly it

Criminals

Roman and Neo- Honest John and Gideon

Honestly wanted more to the characters and wanted Roman to be the son of a faunus and a human but wasn't born with any distinguishable traits apart from fox eyes

Neo has a cats flexibility snd whiskers though I'm not set in the whiskers and might switch Roman and Neo's faunus parts

Though I will be having them interact with penny more during vol 1 to 3

Salem - the Magic Mirror

Since she can't leave evernight castle she can only talk through her seer grimm that act like mirrors hence Magic mirror

Each member of Salem's cabal has a mirror that they can talk to Salem to with Salem also working to have her seals removed

Well, why would they go there?

Maybe the gods left something on the shattered moon as they escaped, and so the protagonists have to go to it... Heck, other planets even.

But if worldbuilding's poor on remnant, I can't imagine space being worse

Would've loved to see Penny on the moon 🥲

Jaune Pyrrha Weiss and Blake (Jaune and Pyrrha)(Blake and Weiss)

Ruby yang Ren and Nora(Ruby and Yang)(Ren and Nora)

So these are the two teams that formed instead of team jnpr and team rwby

How would the story change with them

Will team RRYN still be going after the white fang

Or would that end up falling to team ASBN

1. Okay they’re showing this kid again (who I now know is named Oscar), so now I’m convinced he’s important. That and the way he was looking at himself in the mirror and gotten the most polite jumpscare I’ve ever seen. So Ozpin is here and now I’m curious, he’s either living in the mirror (highly unlikely), this is spiritual situation, or he’s somehow sharing a body/mind with Oscar. I’m not too familiar with Wizard of Oz lore and I wonder if his fate is based on that or there’s no correlation between the two except for names only.

2. When Team RNJR arrives at the already destroyed village, Ren in particular looked extremely distraught by all this. He and Nora looked especially serious when they saw a specific Symbol on the ground like they know what that is. And something tells me this is gonna lead into some Nora and Ren backstory that’s gonna hit me like a truck 😭. I mean I did want to know more about them and their history, hence one of the reasons why I was excited about them Joining Ruby on this quest so we not only get some interactions between the 4 but also learn more about them because up until now I don’t know much about Ren and Nora so this volume or next volume could be it.

3. Cinder is getting her treatment to get better from Salem and it looks extremely painful (I almost feel sorry for her. Almost but not quite 😆.). She summons this creepy Grimm looking Jellyfish that I thought was a little lie detector (don’t ask why lol). And she used all her energy to utter a single word to confirm that Ozpin is indeed dead. Now listen, I’ve seen enough media to know that unless I see a body or see them get axed onscreen, I don’t believe they’re dead. Now yes there’s some exceptions and confirmed offscreen deaths are possible, but this feels like one of those shows where they’re not afraid to show a prominent character die on screen. And after whatever is happening with Oscar, I’m even more convinced that he’s alive somehow. So either Cinder is Lying, or she believes she has but isn’t fully confident herself that she killed him. Salem is after some Relic, not sure what it is but I’m gonna assume is bad and move on 😅. Oh and Mercury and Emerald is here too I guess lol.

4. Ohh Raven, I’ve been saving you for last because I for the life of me have no idea what to make of you. You have a cool design and all, but I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t understand why Qrow doesn’t see eye to eye on how you go about things. Like are you a good guy? Bad guy? An Antihero? Like I know that you know everything about what happened or what will happen and I’m sure you have good intentions but from first glance, your approach has been questionable at best. Also I can’t get over how your own daughter gets one save and that’s it. Mom of the year woohoo 🎉. I’m sure there’s more to her, heck she comes from what sounded like a cutthroat, ruthless village that Qrow strayed away from. Also I’m betting she knows where the Spring Maiden is but she’s keeping it to herself 😭. I am curious about this relic they’re trying to get because I’m just gonna take a wild guess that in Salem’s hands, the world is gonna end or something 😅😭. I’ll have more to say about her as I continue watching but man the inevitable Yang and Raven interaction is going to be very interesting.

Since Dust can be infused into a person’s body, what do you think tattoos made from Dust would look like overall, and how would they work in practice?

I already imagine that these kinds of tattoos could only be made by specialists, making them incredibly rare. They might also be considered illegal by the Kingdoms due to health concerns, as well as how addictive they could become, since they would need to be re-inked once the Dust runs out.

Edit: Also, what do you think the worldbuilding and lore behind this would be overall?

Edit 2: I just discovered this Fanon link discussing this topic, so I wanted to add it here as well, along with some related posts.

https://rwbyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Dust_Tattoos

https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/62l4ep/implanting_dust_into_own_body/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/3t2s8g/tattoos_in_rwby/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/38hjdt/something_i_noticed_upon_rewatching_world_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/2e91zi/cinders_weapon/

I wonder if this was intentional because of RWBY’s connection with colors. Like the color naming rule.

For anyone that cared, I did do a post yesterday about my first watch through. I thought more about the overall story today, and tbh I think that it has a lot of questionable writing throughout. But since its already been dissected multiple times here ima not dive into it

I have 2 that I think would work really well

Archivist

-a specialized Huntsman who spend most of there time in field research going through ruins and lost cities to uncover most of the history they could've forgotten

-known characters who are Archivists is professor oobleck

Messenger

-aura users who have bare minimum training when it comes to a fight and spend there time traveling between the settlements to deliver letters and messages and are often used by poorer villages who can't afford a cct station and most of the time messengers are what happens to students who don't end up making the cut in academy initiations as an alternative

-known characters who are Messengers deery from the white fang one of the white fangs safest methods of communication with there messengers being considered one of the best in the business as not only as faunus they can continue the journey at night

They are also most of the time as combat trained as a 2nd year huntsman student