Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-4010415-20190129061536

Honestly, I didn't start really believing there was anything romantic going on with Yang and Blake, or at least from Yang to Blake, until I read the lyrics to Armed and Ready and saw "There's nothing that I won't do for her". That seemed... pretty "I'm in love with her", to me, so I found it suspect and started to wonder if the Bumbleby shippers were onto something after all.

And yes, that part is about Blake, no matter how much some people insist it's about Ruby.

Armed and Ready starts off with Yang talking about reliving the event where Adam cut her arm off, and since she is reliving it, of course she's speaking in present tense because it's as if it's happening all over again within her mind.

"It happens every night I watch my world ignite But there's no waking from this nightmare The stage is always set The place I can't forget The hidden eyes that I can feel there

My eyes are open wide I'm racing to her side There's nothing that I won't do for her But this is not a dream My mind repeats the scene I can't forget it and it's torture

That was before But not anymore I've left it behind"

Breaking this down...

"It happens every night / I watch my world ignite / But there's no waking from this nightmare" = She keeps having this nightmare over and over again.

"The stage is always set / The place I can't forget" = The nightmare takes place in an actual location that she can't forget about.

"The hidden eyes that I can feel there" = Adam's eyes were hidden behind a mask.

"My eyes are open wide / I'm racing to her side / There's nothing that I won't do for her" = She did, indeed, try to race to Blake's side.

"But this is not a dream / My mind repeats the scene / I can't forget it and it's torture" = It's not just some made-up dream, it's a memory that her mind keeps repeating when she's asleep. Even in this part, she's speaking in present tense, saying "But this is not a dream, my mind repeats the scene" because she's speaking about the nightmare as if she's currently reliving that memory.

"That was before / But not anymore / I've left it behind" = Now she's speaking past tense, letting us know that all of that is in the past, that's what was happening before, and now she's left it behind her.

Nowhere in that intro does it allude to Ruby. It's all about Blake, Adam, and the moment that Adam cut Yang's arm off.

Anyway, so... yeah... I'm pretty sure a big part of my hesitation with Bumbleby is just because the ship started literally before Volume 1 even premiered. Same with White Rose. People have been shipping those two ships since the four color trailers, before Volume 1 Episode 1 premiered, before we actually got to know these characters, and before Blake and Yang were seen even remotely in the same general location.

So because of how that ship started out, I couldn't take it seriously until canon material actually started to show me that, yeah, that old pre-actual-show ship might have something going for it.