Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181201123231/@comment-4141313-20181201175048

So we have a name for those Grimm now, the Apathy. And dumbass Bartleby tried to use them to control the emotions of the Brunswick farmers. They literally died in their sleep from being unable to care about anything, not even living. Rather than simply be drawn by negative emotions however, they magnify them, and it seems representative by those affected by it having their eyes glazed over. They also seem weak if Maria's words are anything, hence why the attack by magnifying emotion, so their prey won't fight back. And by god are they freaking creepy. Like Slenderman and a Skeleton had a baby.

At least, even when Apathetic, the others don't blame Oscar for what Ozpin did and have some sense of comaderie with him.

So, like it wasn't obvious enough, Maria is a Silver Eyed Warrior. Based on her words, it seems at least her group, or her at least, studied Grimm in addition to fighting them. Makes sense now why she could take what Jinn showed everyone a lot easier, she's seen shit like that already. Considering she had to ask what color Ruby's eyes were though, she's colorblind from those artificial eyes, and as such, its reasonable to assume using them damages your eyesight. Either that, or someone/something took her eyes.

And we now have a little info behind how the SEW's work. The desire to protect, and the terror of losing someone. Everytime Ruby's eyes went off, either someone was at risk of being lost, or someone was lost before her eyes. Pyrrha died before her eyes, Jaune she feared would die to Cinder, Blake nearly got taken by the Apathy, and Ruby's desire to defend the others awoke them. Weaker Grimm such as the Apathy are disintegrated, while stronger Grimm like the Dragon are petrified. As for Cinder's arm, its possible because Emerald knocked her out Ruby didn't fully wake them up, otherwise Cinder's arm is even stronger than the Dragon, seeing as she only held it in pain but otherwise could still use it.

And thankfully, Qrow is safe for now, so his part in the intro was just symbolic of what the Apathy does. Hopefully though Ruby can get him to stop retreating to the bottle and use this incident as a lesson.