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That is my Question

To me i think she thinks about Blake or does Cowboy stuff because she kinda dresses like someone from the old west like if Square Enix made final fantasy game set in old west character would probably look like Yang

That or writes in her diary probably about she is hanging in there despite everything that has happened with her & sister & girlfriend & Weiss I guess maybe recapping there adventures so far makes you wonder what she wrote about the Forever After or how home looks like after coming back from the Forever After

What do you think Yang thinks when going for a new look? Me if its Yellow enough & all that you know probably other things

But that me what do you think Yang does when her teammates aren't around?

mechanics

utility

power

writing

etc.

For starts, my apologies if this might be close to breaching Rules 2 & 8 (in that case, it's on twitter so...i'm not too sure about that since it's public)

But as we saw earlier today/yesterday, V10 is officially greenlit, even though that was already kinda confirmed before...but now we get a video confirmation!! And the crowd goes mild...

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At the moment of this screenshot it has barely over 35,000 views. That's just...not good...and that's me trying to be "nice" about it

I don't know what convention this is but, it really does look like it was a shadowdrop, like a surprise announcement. The thing is, for something like that to work properly, they would have to be popular to do it. This crowd is pitiful. Granted it's not like an RTX con, but still this is like a handful of people excited over literally nothing.

Especially now, with major competition that's eclipsed them in views, such as Invincible (though tbh that's not indie), The Backrooms, and TADC. For TADC, that's not really my cup of tea, but seeing that it's straight up getting millions of views like it's just a normal Monday for them, I should give it a shot soon. IIRC, they even had a move theater release just for one of their episodes? Yeah that's just aura farming at that point

When was the last time RWBY had anything close to that? Genuinely never.

I apologize if I sound like an egotistical prick, but as someone who aspires/dreams of creating an indie series with TADC numbers/popularity, S1-3 action choreography, and like, Halo Reach type cutscenes (like the scenes where Noble team is coordinating together to take Elites down, and not just MC soloing the Covenant like he's fighting kindergartners), RWBY at this point seems like a bible of what not to do with regard to storytelling, BTS drama, animation quality, how to write minorities, including LGBT themes, etc, etc.

I'm not gonna pretend to know what they've been doing the past like, 2-3 years, but the fact that we got nothing, along with still nothing now except confirmation that it's greenlit is troublesome. Assuming it's pre-production like script writing and maybe storyboarding and asset building, we can only assume that they'll soon start animating. Which means we won't get the show for another 2 years at least. Add to that, the fact that it took so long to finally have the series watchable on a single streaming site, it's like getting debuffs in Elden ring over and over and over again.

Also, what do they hope to achieve here? I've said this before, but imo, the series would have to wrap it up in S10, as I genuinely do not believe the show to be capable to get the numbers it needs to justify going to S11 and beyond. People are still begging for the action to look like S1-3, for them to hire animators/storyboard artists or whomever that can mimic it as close as can be. And for literal years, they refused to do so, and rightfully suffered the consequences

Another thing is one of the last controversies that hurt the series in its last years before RT shut down Remember this?

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I forgot that Blake's VA did that. I cannot confirm if it really was to try and wry control of the literal anime's writing back to the American team, but if that really was the case, what a horrendous way to do that. We (at least I can't) can't confirm if the allegations are true, and it seems they aren't but the thing is, why the fuck is she getting involved in any way like that? I't another case of her applying her own values to an entirely different culture. And it seems that could be the main reason why we never got more Ice Queendom, which sucks bc I actually really enjoyed that.

Any other production, she'd be fucking fired on the spot, and Blake would get another VA.

And to the last point that probably doesn't matter much but definitely seems like a desperate grab for cash. The OF thing. There's nothing wrong, at least imo if women wanna do that. But the main problem, imo, is the people doing it, and the timing. With Barbara and Arryn both recently creating their OF, and cosplaying as Black and Yang in their shoots, it seems very poor taste. It looks like they're trying to bank off whatever popularity Bumbleby had at it's peak. I hate to be a think of the kids guy, but that is a concern in this case imo. The show is trying to get newer viewers, and them practically doing OF in character seems irresponsible. Compare that to Jessica Nigri, who was already doing that shit way way before. And even then she is like, a model/cosplayer turned VA, and still cosplays other characters and shit. And the best part? She minds her own business. CRWBY and RT have a problem with a holier than thou attitude, and it led to this.

Let the record also show the funniest unintentional meme was the "homophobic Ruby" rant. And it's funnier specifically because IIRC, the VA for Ruby hates it.

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Sorry for that last rant, I honestly want the show to do well, but I'm so sick of the issues (boring animation, ass writing, everything I mentioned above), STILL not being fixed/addressed, no actual news, and whatever expectations they should have from a fanbase that's barely alive because of their own mediocrity

For context, OOP was posting in response to the prompt: "what piece of media did you expect to dislike, only for it to end up being even worse than what you were expecting?" This person accused me of being someone named Arun, who I am very much not, then hit me with some whataboutisms about FRWBY's writers and promptly blocked me.

I am extremely confused right now. I didn't write FRWBY, I don't know any of its writers personally, and I don't know whether or not this person's characterizations of the writers are accurate. I am just entirely baffled.

Hello folks

The force is strong this July as I head off to Disney for a fun Star wars trip. But before I take a break it felt fitting to give you guys the season 2 finale of Remnant wars a Rwby x Star Wars crossover alternate universe story I made

Here Blake and crew pay for the selfish betrayal of a nurse who tries to kill off their one chance to save Ruby rose from an aura related disease to save himself from a Grimm hybrid golem

Will they find a way or will Blake’s purple lightsaber bleed like Ruby?

Find out here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14407039/40/Star-Wars-Remnant-Wars

Let me
Know if links work

Also coming soon season 3 trailer here on Reddit

garlic + salmon roe + nordic barnicle

Adam was born into the Schnee Dust Company’s Faunus labor system alongside his parents, forced to work dangerous mining operations under brutal conditions. The mines were all he knew growing up: collapsing tunnels, exhausted workers, overseers who treated Faunus lives as disposable. But despite all of it, Adam’s parents tried to give him something hopeful. After shifts, they would tell him stories about heroes. 

warriors who protected the weak, people strong enough to stand against monsters. Those stories mattered to Adam because they taught him strength could mean protection instead of cruelty.

Then his parents died in a mining collapse. And the company replaced them the next day.

That was the first lesson Adam learned about the world; Some people suffer so quietly that nobody notices when they disappear. As Adam grew older, he became respected among the other Faunus workers because he constantly protected them. He took blame for accidents to spare others punishment. He volunteered for the most dangerous labor. He became the kind of person who would destroy himself before letting someone weaker suffer in his place. Even before joining the White Fang, Adam genuinely wanted to protect people.

The branding incident becomes the moment that permanently changes him. After a Dust vein detonates during a mining operation, Adam accepts responsibility to shield the other Faunus workers from punishment. The SDC responds by branding him across the face. Not disciplining him.

Branding him. Reducing him to property. That moment destroys something inside Adam. Because the pain itself mattered less than what it represented: proof that no amount of obedience, sacrifice, or restraint would ever make people see Faunus as human. And from that point onward, Adam stops believing kindness alone can change the world.

When Blake enters the White Fang, Adam is not yet the monster people later remember. He is passionate. Intense. Hot-tempered, but compassionate toward his own people. During protests he protects civilians and injured Faunus alike. He believes violence should only be used when absolutely necessary. To many younger members of the White Fang, Adam is inspiring because he is living proof that fear can be survived.

That is why Blake falls in love with him.

Because Adam is everything Blake wishes she could be:
Fearless. Certain. Unbreakable.

And Adam loves Blake because she reminds him of the humanity he is slowly losing.

Their relationship genuinely works at first. Blake tempers Adam’s anger while Adam teaches Blake how to stand her ground. He trains her not because he wants her to fight wars, but because he never wants her to feel helpless. He gifts her books, encourages her intelligence, and teaches her discipline through combat. Adam sees Blake as proof that strength and compassion can coexist.

For a while, she keeps him balanced.

But the world keeps giving Adam reasons to hate it. The more brutality he witnesses against Faunus, the more his worldview changes. Peaceful protests fail. Innocent Faunus get beaten or killed. Human authorities protect powerful abusers while punishing desperate victims. And every time Adam tries restraint, suffering continues anyway. Meanwhile Blake continues believing people can still change.

That difference slowly tears them apart.

The turning point comes when one of Adam’s closest friends is murdered by a corrupt Atlesian higher-up who uses wealth and political power to avoid consequences entirely. 

For Adam, this becomes undeniable proof that justice does not exist for people like them. So Adam creates his own justice. He hunts the man down and publicly executes him before both Atlas and the White Fang.

And the crowd cheers.

That moment changes everything.

Blake stares in horror as Adam no longer looks like someone protecting people from fear but someone who has learned to control people through it.

The admiration, the worship, the power — Adam embraces all of it. For the first time in his life, the world is afraid of him instead of the other way around. And after spending his entire childhood powerless, Adam becomes addicted to that feeling.

“Fear is power. Pain is power.”

That philosophy becomes the foundation of who he is. To Adam, fear is no longer merely survival. It is truth.

What’s worse? part of him is still trying to protect people. Adam genuinely believes the world forced him into becoming what he became. In his mind, violence is the only language oppression has ever respected. Every monstrous act he commits is justified by the belief that mercy only creates more victims.

That is why Blake cannot entirely hate him. Because she knows the world truly did brutalize him. But Adam’s greatest flaw is that he stops seeing fear as a weapon and begins seeing it as identity. The more power he gains, the more he defines strength through domination, until eventually he values victory more than the people he once wanted to save.

His final argument with Blake mirrors the collapse of everything they once believed together. Adam argues that the world will never change unless forced to, but Blake argues that becoming monsters guarantees the world never will.

And when Blake finally leaves him, it devastates Adam far more than he admits. Because beneath all his rage, Adam genuinely trusted Blake more than anyone else. At one point he even asked her to stop him if he ever strayed too far from their cause.

Deep down, part of him knew what he was becoming.

But by the time Blake leaves, Adam no longer believes he can turn back.

That is what makes Adam tragic in this rewrite. Not that he was secretly evil. Not that he was always abusive.

But that he began as someone who wanted to protect suffering people. and slowly convinced himself that becoming terrifying was the only way to do it.

And the worst part is; part of him is right. The world did create Adam Taurus. The hatred, the abuse, the branding, the exploitation — all of it was real.

But Adam ultimately becomes proof that suffering alone does not justify cruelty. Because once fear stopped being a means of survival and became the core of his identity, Adam stopped fighting for freedom, and started fighting so nobody could ever make him feel powerless again.

Yes, I'm sorry. I know I should publish the post about Adam. But let's just say that every time I try to write it, I remember another argument from the fandom, and so on in an endless cycle.

Anyway, in this post, I want you to tell me if the series (through the writers) really demonized Sienna Khan.
Or if that demonization was exclusive to Adam and his faction.

Something curious is that Ghira (a character we're supposed to see as a good guy) is presented as respecting Sienna.

"So I stepped down, and Sienna Khan was appointed as my successor. It's true that I do not fully condone many of her methods. What I do condone is what Sienna fights for: the idea that the Faunus and humans are, and should be, equal. Adam Taurus does not seem to have that goal in mind."

In fact, in the scene where Adam kills her. Sienna is portrayed as a rational person and, to a certain extent, moderate regarding violence.

And even when Blake talks about Sienna Khan's strategies (in the Black and White episode), she mentions that it worked. That her use of violence actually yielded results.

It's important to consider that while Blake left the White Fang, that was because of Adam's actions, not Sienna Khan's.

So, did the series present Sienna as someone evil? Or just someone misguided?

I honestly can't see them getting a 11 or 12