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I return from like several months of inactivity because boredom.
So what I wanted to talk about today,
Am I the only one here who’s considered that a good number of issues in RWBY and its FNDM stem from the fact that nothing is fully explained or fleshed out that well at all.
The fanbase is just left to fill in the blanks and they start assuming their own headcanons and speculations are actually true for the show.
Like take Aura for example. In World of Remnant, it was stated to be something that passively protects the user. But in the show itself you have to activate it in order for it to do its thing. People call this a retcon, but really, I believe this is just because it was never that well explained. There’s really no way to know for sure it’s a retcon or not.
Hell this could probably apply to some of the characters too, what with the whole people making excuses for characters’ more dumber actions (“Oh, they were tired and weren’t thinking straight.”) But I don’t know, that’s probably just me.
Like I once even saw a guy claim that the reason Grimm don’t die in captivity despite WoR saying they would is because they apparently only die when they know they can’t kill people? Like………what?
But anyways, am I onto something, or am I just spitballing
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Just Updated
Seems like an inactive weekend but I'd like some interaction from other rwby fans B) what do you guys want to see in volume 9? For now I just wanna know what neo finnah do if she alive, like is she gonna go straight to fighting ruby orrrr
The setting currently seems to have elements of Gothic Fiction instead of simply Dark Fantasy as the present is haunted by the past in the case of Salem and the Remnants of the previous world.
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He shares a lot in common with him, the silver colour scheme, the style of clothing and the style fighting based heavily around kicking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He79A5h3Lm0
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https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/scogkh/rwby_is_not_real_life/
Warning this Reddit post has a few grammar errors.
I feel like this Reddit post from the RWBY subreddit makes a lot of good arguments in a nuanced sort of way. The bit of getting overly attached to characters sort of speaks to me because at one point, I was way overly attached to General Ironwood.
So we know that the Volume 7 design outfits for Team RWBY are not that great and look pretty weird. So I thought to myself "Hey why don't you think of a redesign? Sure it will suck but hopefully your idea won't be too stupid?" So I came to make this thread since I originally was going to post it in the comment section of Team RWBY page but thought nah a thread is better.
So lets start from Ruby then goes to Weiss then Blake and finally Yang.
Ruby Rose:
Okay so we know Vol 7-8 outfit for Ruby is quite like her previous outfits but I am going to change it. As Ruby will be wearing something like her Beacon Era outfit but with additions of a few other stuff. She would be wearing her iconic red cloak which is a red hooded cloak fastened to her shoulders by cross-shaped pins. Her top is quite like a mixture of her iconic Beacon saga look, her Slayer outfit from Vol 2 and very little of her vol 7 look. She has a black blouse though her sleeves are grey and the blouse has a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, over which is a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front, and a matching skirt with red lining. She has the volume 7 onwards black choker around her neck. She has a few pieces of metal arranged in the shape of a rose are attached to the shoulder of her left sleeve. She has a black belt bordered in red holds the magnetic clip for Crescent Rose and its ammunition. On her arms, she wears black bracers with large brown buckled straps around the wrist as well as black fingerless gloves. She also wears a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces, red trims around the top, and red soles. Her hairstyle is pretty much the same as it was in her Beacon saga outfit.
Weiss Schnee:
I would honestly changed Weiss' Volume 7 and 8 outfit with a mixture looking of her Beacon era main outfit and her Snowpea outfit along with some additions. As such she wears white, pleated full skirt with black lace trim that has a faint color gradation from white to pale blue at the hem. A small piece of black lace sits in the front of her neckline and the hem of the dress is scalloped and stitched to resemble snowflakes, with layers of white tulle under the skirt. Over this, she wears a bell-sleeved bolero with the same color gradation as her dress from shoulder to wrist, and has black piping, cuffs, and buttons. On the back of the bolero is the Schnee Crest. She also wears a small apple pendant on a silver chain and thin, rectangular silver earrings and has a large sapphire broach that has three pendants dangling from it. She has a thin white sash is tied around her waist with a pouch attached to the back. She wears long, pale blue wedge-heel boots with white frill detailing at the top at the front, alongside grayish blue coloring on the toes and navy blue wedged heels. For her hairstyle she has it similiar to the Beacon era but it is long like the Promotional material of Weiss in her alternative outfit in the RWBY Mobile Game.
Blake Belladonna:
Blake has some designs of her Beacon Saga along with few other looks combined in with it. She wears a black, buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath this is a white, v-neck, zip-up crop shirt with a black hem and three-quarter sleeves. She has white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg. She also wears thigh-high black heeled boots with gold-colored edging around the top. The left boot has a belt wrapped twice around the thigh. Each boot bears her Belladonna emblem in white on the outer side of the thigh, and a white pouch is attached to the back of her belt. Her emblem is visible on the outside of both thighs just below her shorts in white. On her left arm is a black detached sleeve with a silver cuff around her bicep, and black ribbons are wrapped around both forearms. Attached to the rear of the belt is a black piece of fabric that covers her from hip to hip. Underneath this is a longer, translucent, purple piece of fabric. She often keeps her weapon attached to the magnetic backpack when she is not using it. She has her cat ears, she wears purple eye shadow in cats eye style and her hair style is the same as it was before Volume 7.
Yang Xiao Long:
This one is a big change given her Volume 7 one was pretty bad as such I will try to give her a different look. Yang has black biker jacket with silver pauldrons, and golden gloves which is from her Promotional material in her alternative outfit in the RWBY Mobile Game. She also has deep-collared cream vest worn over a a low cut yellow crop top with her emblem on the left breast in black; both are covered by a dark gray shrug with a raised collar. She has a pair of crooked black belts with gold accents are slung around her hip, with a black-and-orange belt with black-and-yellow folded fabric on the sides, which runs behind her with a pouch attached to it and a golden buckle of her emblem. She wears thigh high stockings attached to her black miniskirt by garter-belts on the front and back of each thigh, decorated with four golden studs above her knee and her emblem on the outside of each thigh in gold. She also wears black ankle boots with multiple buckles and white ribbons on the back tied in a bow. Around her neck is a purple pendant set in silver. A gray bandanna is tied around her left knee and has an orange infinity scarf to complete her outfit. Also in her Promotional material in her alternative outfit in the RWBY Mobile Game she has sunglasses. Her hairstyle is the same as she has bright golden hair that fades to pale gold at the tips with a cowlick sticking out at the top, greatly resembling her mother.
So what do you guys think of my redesigns of the Volume 7 and onwards? Hope they are interesting, also I am curious to hear about your possible redesigns for the Volume 7 and onwards for Team RWBY?
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Uh, hey there, everyone. I guess this is my first major post on this wiki. In any case, it's RnR. Nice to meet ya. Now, I'mma cut to the bone here. I love the Semblances in RWBY. I'm a bit of a superpower buff, so you can imagine. I love their idea, I love their concept, and I love how they can evolve. However, as much as I love them, I think they're underutilized at times, or at least not used to their fullest potential. Unicorn of War's video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEpC_x9elVM, got me thinking that Semblance doesn't play as much as a part I think should, and they can be so much more. It's also got me wondering. How would I do things differently?
Now, I know that RWBY is no stranger to criticism, but ya know what? Let's have some fun here, okay? How would you guys the Semblances? What changes would you make, if any? What abilities would you add? What would their evolution be?
For starters, I'll share my ideas.
Ruby Rose - Petal Burst (Of course, I'd call it Rose Burst, but that's a topic for another day): It's pretty much the same as the original; it gives Ruby the power of super speed. However, instead of Ruby forming into massive, separate clusters of rose petals, I would have her Semblance go something like this. Ruby's Petal Burst would start at the essential incredible superspeed, getting faster the more she uses it in battles. Then it would evolve into a flashstep ability, pretty much Ruby's standard ability in the series proper, but it would be far stronger since she worked her way up to it. Next, it would further evolve into invisible speed. When Ruby dashes in a burst of speed, she moves too fast to the point where she's invisible. Not to be confused with the flash step evolution, where she moves so fast it looks she teleports. Finally, and my personal favorite, Ruby would gain the abilities of scattering and reforming. This one relates to Ruby's and the poem's lyrics on her grave, 'Thus Kindly, I Scatter'. Ruby would have the ability to scatter and reform herself somewhat instead of form into massive. It's like her Semblance in the recent volumes, minus "thus negating her mass," and just being an enormous cluster. Ruby would be turning into more scattered petals. Not only would Ruby still be able to break down her and her friends into petals, but she can disperse into intangible petal clusters to avoid attacks and move at incredible speed.
Yang Xiao Long - Burn: Now, I was inspired by Unicorn of War's video for this one. Yang's would pretty much be one for one in RWBY proper. However, much UoW, I didn't particularly appreciate how her Semblance got shelved later in the series while everyone was free to use theirs however they wanted. Instead, much like UoW, I would have Yang go through her trauma as she did in the series, and instead of activating it by taking damage, she would be using the strength of his inner flame, her drive to fuel her Semblance. That drive is to protect her friends, especially Ruby, one of the few families she has left. With this evolution, Yang's Semblance would be much more powerful, and she would be able to form that power into a whole burning aura around her instead of just her hair. Moreover, she can concentrate her power into a single point, i.e., her fists, increasing the power of her punches immensely. Yang even ability amplify this ability with Fire Dust.
I could go on, but I think I chattered enough. Sorry for the long read, I just wanted to elaborate on my ideas for their Semblances, and I got into it. Like I said, superpower buff, you know how it is.
Anywho, you got any idea for Semblance ideas and evolutions for the characters? Write em' in the comments below. I'd love to know to see what you guys come up with. Check out the Superpower Wiki if you need help getting a clear-cut idea.
And with that, everyone, stay safe, stay healthy, and take care.
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As mentioned in https://rwby.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000127544 i had this idea for a RWBY Video Game for the Nintendo Switch (Which i own in my own room) called RWBY: Rise of the Unforgotten
Now here's the plot resolving about the idea: Gloom (Character by @TitanXecutor) has use a book of forbidden magic and cause the summoning of a group of powerful grimms known as the Ancient Ones and caused the world to get shrouded in darkness and it up to Team RWBY to restore order in the realm and defeat the Ancient Ones
Tell me what you think @Idk my user name @Rashedalaa and @GlitchyRetroVirus
As might have known @EmBELLEm asked me to put most of my Grimm Ideas in My Profile's Blog by making them blog posts and i gotten enough space to add more RWBY OCs. so i asking @Idk my user name @Rashedalaa @GlitchyRetroVirus and @Heliosluna to go see my blog posts and comment on them: https://rwby.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Animelover72
Yes, they have more in common with each other.
No, it's fine the way it is.
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Disclaimer: This post is about a video from the UOW. Now this video isn’t about them criticizing the FNDM or anything of the sort, it’s simply a rewrite video of Volume 8. Now, here’s the deal. I would like for people to engage with this post, I sincerely do. However, what I would like from people are these two simple things.
If you agree with this video, make a dialogue about what you agreed about this video. Don’t just post a one sentence comment about it being good, or whatever.
If you disagree with it, then make a counter argument about it or a critique. Please don’t go off on a hate filled rant about how this person hates RWBY, because they don’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2jDVM3cEYQ&t=6322s
Now that's outta the way, I genuinely enjoyed this video. Here are a few things that I liked from it.
I thought that bringing Ciel back was an actual good choice, the character is from Atlas, and rather than being just a throwaway character for the writers to stick in, she has a role to play in the rewrite, and making her role way more personal with Penny, I liked the idea of her being the biological daughter of Pietro.
I also liked that in this rewrite we got ourselves a little Oscar adventure away from the heroes, and Team RWBY and Team JNPR were fighting Grimm, instead of them instantly finding Oscar, and returning to the Happy Huntresses’ hideout. I also liked that since Penny is a newly ascended Maiden, she is very inexperienced with her powers, despite being a robot, it makes her “human,” to say the least.
Ren and Nora swap places during which person goes to which team. From the official Volume of the series, in Volume 7, Ren was the one who was trying to think of the bigger picture while Nora wanted to mainly focus on Mantle. It was kinda weird they swapped goals without any hint or indication that Ren wanted to keep fighting in Mantle while Nora wanted to go help Ruby’s team up in Atlas, and get Amity ready. Besides, sneaking into a high security military compound is more of a Ren thing, while smashing Grimm left and right is more of a Nora thing.
The villains make more of an impact in the rewrite. For starters in the rewrite, Salem pretty much makes herself known. She does in the official Volume, however, in this fan rewrite, Salem gives James and the people of Atlas an ultimatum. Establishing herself as a threat. In this rewrite, I liked the idea of Salem wanting to recreate the world free from death rather than her being bitter about her ex-lover and the Gods, and wanting to obliterate the world. In this rewrite, I also liked that Tyrian, Mercury, and Hazel have more of an impact. Because in the officially written Volume, Tyrian and Mercury don’t do anything, and just go to Vacuo, while Hazel only does two things: beat Oscar to a pulp and then decides to help him. Since all the villains were all there at Atlas, why not utilize them? In the rewrite, have Mercury, Tyrian, and Hazel be the ones who cause the river of Grimm, and give them a rematch with the heroes.
I liked the redesign of the Atlas prison. Rather than it being just a dark room with 4 corners, and James has a moment of humanity, i.e. regretting shooting Oscar off the platform, and him not liking the plan to abandon Mantle, but feeling it’s a necessary evil to save Atlas, rather than him being just a “genocidal general” who tries to nuke his own Kingdom.
The things I could have done without are the voice changey thing for Salem, I get it, it was to make her intimidating, however, I found it sort of silly. I think the plug for their book was a tad bit unnecessary.
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Are your mods asleep or something? Cause if not you might wanna know about the literal pr0n that is currently Ruby's profile image
Oh, and also the someone igsinifant thing of emeralds link literally being the n word, with a cheeky period in the middle to escape Amy censoring.
Guys, pay attention.
Back when Volume 8 was still new and such. Some people (including myself) hoped that Nora Valkyrie would become the Winter Maiden rather than Winter Schnee. I think it could have worked if one of the main characters ascended to the status of Maiden. I think it would have been better if Winter was a red herring, destined to become Penny's successor, but instead give it to Nora. Now why do I think it could have worked? Well other than playing on the expectations of the audience, Nora has more heart-to-heart moments with Penny than with Winter.
You could argue Penny knows Winter better than Nora, simply being that after Penny's "resurrection," she and Winter were working together protecting Mantle, and setting up James' plan to tell the world about Salem. However, during the runtime of Volume 8, Penny and Winter never interact. Well they do, but it's Penny, post-mortem, saying farewell to Winter, and giving her the Powers. They don't interact with each other via scroll-call, or while Ruby's Group is in the Altas Military compound. Not once (while Penny's still alive) do they even talk to each other. While Nora, on the other hand, has more personal interactions with Penny, and is the one who helps her take control of her virus, albeit temporarily.
Another argument one could bring up is, "if Winter didn't receive the Maiden powers, then James would have killed her." I say, write it to where Winter uses her speed and agility to outmaneuver and beat Ironwood, since James was all about brute force, and power. Also, he's hauling that giant cannon, it should've been harder for him to move around, while Winter has a lighter weapon. (Plus, I still don't understand how she was able to beat him without his weapons, but was struggling when he was lugging around that BFG knock-off. But that's for a different time).
Another reason why it would have been spectacular to see Nora as the Winter Maiden is it would definitely be a BIG character moment for her. Nora goes from being the quirky girl who smashes stuff with a hammer to essentially a superhero. However, at the same time, it paints a big ol' target on her back for the villains, getting more personal with the characters.
In conclusion, while we did get Winter as the Maiden (and that's just how it is), and if you liked the decision in making Winter the Maiden. Then I'm happy for you. However, I think Nora would have been a better fit.
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What would the story be like if instead of going to Atlas after the Mistal arc they main cast went to Vacuo and went though the events of after the fall and before the Dawn along with team SSSN and team CFVY. And since Salems next target was Vacuo what she made an alliance with the crown. And how would Ironwoods plan in Atlas turn out if Salem never intervened with assassinating his opponents and rigging the election allowing his Amity plan to go more smooth?
What Ideas would you put in this hypothetical what if?
I watched the lost fable on dailymotion and Salem was a serious liar before she went in the Grimm pool. She lied to humanity saying that her curse was a benefit she stole from the Gods. And when the God of Destruction destroyed humanity on impulse for using the gift of destruction against him she blamed everything and everyone but herself. And when she jumped in the Grimm pool it was stated that since a source of infinite destruction couldn't destroy a being of infinite life it created a being of infinite life that desired infinite destruction. And before Ozma reunited with her she was a witch that terrorized the countryside, she even had an enraged expression when answering the door before she realized it was Ozzy. Then later she mentioned that rather than redeem humanity she wanted her and Ozma to replace them with their children. Salem wasn't a good person she just went from bad to worse.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jmSVBFgMqg&t=3002s
Disclaimer: Despite this video being posted by Twiins iink. So I will probably get backlash from this post. I know I'm gonna get posts and comments saying, "not this sh*t again." Well, I'm sorry, but I sincerely think we can learn a thing or two from this video.
This video discusses the genuine concern with what fans and audience members have with the toxicity in this community. The mob mentality of you're either a hater or a shill for simply having a disagreement. I will admit, I have fallen towards the Hatedom side a bit, just because I thought people were making disingenuous posts just to spite me or others. It's so easy to twist a comment or post as spiteful or dishonest. Frankly, that doesn't add for healthy discussion, and I'm sorry if people thought of me as petty or rude. To be honest, this video has opened up my eyes about this community. Not because the haters or fanatics are overtaking the community, but that the people who have genuine critiques of this series are afraid of voicing their opinions because they'll get called a hater. If they have a praise with something in the series, even if it's minute, they get called a shill or a simp. It's easy to be vilified as one thing or the other.
The people who demand others just give this show constant praise, "good vibes only," and the people who claim anyone who likes this show is a shill or an idiot are a small minority. But those minority groups in this community are extremely vocal unfortunately. So it is very easy to get pulled in either or direction, and it's easy to not want to voice your opinion otherwise face backlash from one toxic camp or the other. Like I said, we could learn a thing or two from this collaboration video.
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