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

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

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?

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.

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.