Thread:Kirito Rose/@comment-99.156.168.24-20170610214602/@comment-99.156.168.24-20170611025020

Well, I'm getting pathetically desperate to get people to take my theories seriously, and have resorted to trying to convert people individually rather than making posts that just get torn apart and buried in derision. Hadn't tried the wiki before, but I saw Kirito's random comment and it just leaped out at me because 'believe in Pyrrha Nikos' is pretty much how I summarize the entire theory to myself. So I came to this page and tried to start a conversation about it. It was a stupid, emotional impulse decision; I thought I could just talk to one receptive user and not have the whole wiki come down on me.

But this place doesn't seem any different from r/RWBY or the Discord servers; people are so sick of hearing theories they get mad as soon as they hear I've got one. You people are so burned out on RWBY, the show you're supposedly fans of, that you've become antagonistic to the very *idea* of hope, which is apalling considering it's the exact opposite of the message I believe the show is trying to send. I don't understand why so many people are so proud of being dismissive and pessimistic.

I believe I misunderstood SomeoneYouUsedToKnow making a dumb pun on their name and thought they meant they might be open to listening, but they deleted the thread I started on their page in reply and that sunk much of what I'd started to write to them. They basically dared me to post to the current Penny thread with the statement that no evidence that Penny is coming back exists, and I'll admit I took a long hard look at that thread, but I'm way past being willing to perform for people who try and goad me into dumping my information for them while they salivate over the chance to rip it apart. It doesn't matter if I prove them wrong on a few concrete points I've got solid material for; the real battle is getting people to *want* there to be a happy ending, and to look forward to what's to come in RWBY, and I've already lost that battle.

There's no satisfaction for me to gain in trotting out the same list of links to people who don't want to read them and just go grumpily silent or snottily dismissive when it looks like what I've got is complicated and outside their experience. If you're going to be uncharitable, you're going to find holes to poke in the theory, in the same way that people can rationalize all kinds of crazy theories that aren't supported by the show. I'm sick of playing that game and I don't want to play it anymore. If you want to stay in the dark, I'll keep the light for the people who still want to reach the end of the tunnel.