User blog:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Trailer "RED"

Hello and welcome once again to author analysis. Today's topic: the trailer RED.

Before starting let me explain how I will proceed. This analysis will be done in two sections. One will be the trailer itself and the secong will be the song as often the song itself is more relevant to analyze than the video itself. So let's start with the first trailer, Ruby's red. Here is the link http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=6052&v=more

The most important part of the trailer is at it's beginning. We see Ruby kneeling in front of a tombstone, the inscription on the tombstone says "Summer Rose, Thus Kindly I Scatter" It has been confirmed by Monty that it is an allusion to Thomas Moore's poem "The last Rose of Summer". Here is a link to the poem http://www.bartleby.com/41/487.html

As you can see the poem is beautiful but bleak. It is a love letter of a sort to the last days of summer. Telling isn't it? We can say by this part that Summer was personally known by Ruby. Someone close to her that she misses terribly. Everything Ruby is has been influenced by Summer. Her cloak, her scythe, her fighting style. This I believe will be important later in the show.

We next see her fight a bevy of Beowulfs, nothing really note worthy here except when she changes bullets. The clip for the bullets is different and the trailer make it a point to show it as a close-up. With what we see next we can assume they are more powerful bullets. Nothing in the trailer really tells us why except maybe the clip itself was glyphed.

Now the song. The lyrics itself are short you can find it here http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/RWBY_Soundtrack/Red_Like_Roses

The Lyrics are clearly about the whole RBWY team and is separated in four piece

Ruby: Again a link to Summer

Weiss: Always yearning for friends? The royal test part, I would bet it has something to do with proving herself to her father

Blake: We have her Faunus clue here and her use of her semblance to make shadows of herself.

Yang: Talk about her beauty and the attraction it causes.

These are essentially the essence of each character. So anytime you wonder how each character will react to a situation always keep these lyrics in mind. As an example look at everyone's reaction to Blake's coming out as a faunus and read the lyrics again. Make sense no?

Next time on Analysis I review the WHITE trailer. See you there!