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'''Monstra'''<ref>'''Concept art by Sana Freeman'''</ref> is a gargantuan, flying, whale-like Leviathan Class [[Grimm]] first seen in "[[The Enemy of Trust]]", as a mount for [[Salem]]. It also serves as a mobile base for her [[Salem's Inner Circle|inner circle]].
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'''Monstra'''<ref>'''Concept art by Sana Freeman'''</ref> was a gargantuan, flying, whale-like "''Leviathan Class''" [[Grimm]] created by [[Salem]]. It was first seen in "[[The Enemy of Trust]]" and served as a mobile base for her [[Salem's Inner Circle|inner circle]]. In "[[Ultimatum]]", it was destroyed by [[Oscar Pine]] using the stored kinetic energy in [[The Long Memory]].
   
 
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Monstra is a humongous, sperm whale-like Grimm, exponentially dwarfing [[Nevermore]]s and [[Sphinx]]es. Its head lacks eyes and has an orange glow, similar to that of a [[Seer]], with a whale's skull visible on the interior. Monstra appears to have giant, purple crystalline spikes and gray rocks on its upper and lower body and is shown to have five pairs red bat-wing-like fins, allowing for flight. The purple crystals on its body are composed of Gravity [[Dust]], which allows it the ability to fly.<ref>'''[https://twitter.com/sanafreemanart/status/1327718152915066882?s=20 Sana Freeman's Twitter]'''</ref>
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Monstra was a humongous, sperm whale-like Grimm, exponentially dwarfing [[Nevermore]]s and [[Sphinx]]es. Its head lacked eyes and had an orange glow, similar to that of a [[Seer]], with a whale's skull visible on the interior. Monstra appeared to have giant, purple crystalline spikes and gray rocks on its upper and lower body and was shown to have five pairs red bat-wing-like fins, allowing for flight. The purple crystals on its body were composed of Gravity [[Dust]], which allowed it the ability to fly.<ref>'''[https://twitter.com/sanafreemanart/status/1327718152915066882?s=20 Sana Freeman's Twitter]'''</ref>
   
 
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Furthermore, Monstra also serves as a mobile base for [[Salem's Inner Circle]] and a hub for the Grimm. The interior of Monstra is comprised of dark red fleshy walls and bone spikes, dripping with [[Grimm Liquid]]. Its hallway floors are shown to be a cartilage-like substance, with bright red Grimm markings outlining the path. In these, doorways are similarly fleshy, being a translucent membrane in Monstra that resembles gothic architecture, and large veins dangle overhead.<ref>'''Concept art by Weston T. Jones'''</ref> The hallways are patrolled by Seers, acting as scouts for Salem.
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Furthermore, Monstra also served as a mobile base for [[Salem's Inner Circle]] and a hub for the Grimm. The interior of Monstra was comprised of dark red fleshy walls and bone spikes, dripping with [[Grimm Liquid]]. Its hallway floors were shown to be a cartilage-like substance, with bright red Grimm markings outlining the path. In these, doorways were similarly fleshy, being a translucent membrane in Monstra that resembled gothic architecture, and large veins dangled overhead.<ref>'''Concept art by Weston T. Jones'''</ref> The hallways were patrolled by Seers, acting as scouts for Salem.
   
 
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Atop of Monstra's skull, Salem has stationed a throne for herself to overlook what is ahead. The bridge is extremely large, allowing for the entirety of her faction to comfortably stand inside and await her orders. Being that it is in the Grimm's skull, Salem's throne is similarly bone-like in nature, and is shown to have several Grimm markings. Upon touching the throne, Salem is able to command Monstra to clear itself of the smoke in its head to reveal what the Grimm sees.
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Atop of Monstra's skull, Salem had stationed a throne for herself to overlook what was ahead. The bridge was extremely large, allowing for the entirety of her faction to comfortably stand inside and await her orders. Being that it was in the Grimm's skull, Salem's throne was similarly bone-like in nature, and was shown to have several Grimm markings. Upon touching the throne, Salem was able to command Monstra to clear itself of the smoke in its head to reveal what the Grimm saw.
   
 
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Monstra is equipped with many rooms for different purposes. One is designed as a small, circular torture chamber which is used when Salem interrogates [[Oscar Pine]]. The room's ceiling appears to be somewhat opaque, allowing light to shine into it and providing some visibility and evoking the imagery of prison bars. Most interestingly, the room is shown to have large torture hooks which resemble Grimm-like arms, being black in color with bone platings.
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Monstra was equipped with many rooms for different purposes. One was designed as a small, circular torture chamber which was used when Salem interrogated [[Oscar Pine]]. The room's ceiling appeared to be somewhat opaque, allowing light to shine into it and providing some visibility and evoking the imagery of prison bars. Most interestingly, the room was shown to have large torture hooks which resembled Grimm-like arms, being black in color with bone platings.
   
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Other rooms are used as private quarters for members of Salem's faction. These rooms are small, maintaining the consistent cartilage floors and fleshy walls. On the furthermost wall of the doors, Salem's agents can rest in a bed made of Grimm bone.
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Other rooms were used as private quarters for members of Salem's faction. These rooms were small, maintaining the consistent cartilage floors and fleshy walls. On the furthermost wall of the doors, Salem's agents could rest in a bed made of Grimm bone.
   
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The [[Relic of Knowledge]] was kept in its own special room. It was held in a pillar surrounded by pools of [[Grimm Liquid]]. The Relic was capable of being activated, but it was rigged so an alarm would ring around Monstra if anyone removed the Lamp.
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The [[Relic of Knowledge]] was kept in its own special room. It was held in a pillar surrounded by pools of [[Grimm Liquid]]. The Relic was capable of being activated, but it was rigged so an alarm would ring around Monstra if anyone removed the Lamp.
 
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Resembling gills under Monstra's wings, the Grimm has several bone-like landing pads so that Salem's subordinates can travel to the mobile base through the use of airships. The landing pads' flooring is seemingly bone-like in structure, and appears to be surrounded by large [[Tempest]]s.
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Resembling gills under Monstra's wings, the Grimm had several bone-like landing pads so that Salem's subordinates could travel to the mobile base through the use of airships. The landing pads' flooring was seemingly bone-like in structure, and appeared to be surrounded by large [[Tempest]]s.
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Exasperated with the failures of her subordinates, Salem decides to acquire the [[Relics]] herself, creating an army of Grimm and Monstra to serve as her mobile base.
  
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When Salem first arrives in [[Atlas (city)|Atlas]], she is shown to be standing atop the Monstra, casting a shadow over the city.
 
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Soon after, [[Cinder Fall]] and [[Neopolitan]] arrive in Monstra's landing pad. Cinder gives the [[Relic of Knowledge]] to Salem and takes full credit for retrieving it, much to Neo's annoyance. After some teasing from [[Tyrian Callows]], Cinder introduces Neo to Salem, referring to her as an asset, which once again upsets Neo. Soon after, [[Emerald Sustrai]], [[Mercury Black]] and [[Hazel Rainart]] arrive. Emerald is delighted to see Cinder, but Cinder harshly shuts her down. When Cinder declares that she will take the [[Maidens|Winter Maiden]] power from [[Penny Polendina]], Salem reminds her that she is merely a pawn who is not to act without Salem's orders. Later, Salem summons [[The Hound]] from within Monstra to hunt down a certain [[Oscar Pine|someone]].
  
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Salem and Hazel later use Monstra's torture chamber to interrogate Oscar Pine. Afterwards, Salem uses Monstra to spew Grimm Liquid into a river following to Mantle. After the Grimm Liquid succeeds in breaking through Atlas's Hard Dust Light Shield, Salem has Monstra land on Atlas before unleashing more Grimm Liquid to summon more Grimm. In [[Witch]] it is reveal Monstra is a Leviathan Class Grimm
  
   
 
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Through the use of the Gravity Dust on its back, Monstra is capable of slow flight. Furthermore, the Grimm's sperm-like head is able to clear itself of smoke to show an opaque image of what Monstra sees.
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Through the use of the Gravity Dust on its back, Monstra was capable of slow flight. Furthermore, the Grimm's sperm-like head was able to clear itself of smoke to show an opaque image of what Monstra saw.
   
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Monstra also has the ability to spew [[Grimm Liquid]] from its mouth, which allows Salem to control it in various ways such as forming a river, creating a geyser to reach [[Atlas]], and create [[Grimm]] from it. Thus far, it has been shown spawning [[Sabyr]]s, [[Beowolves]], the [[Apathy]], winged [[Beringel]]s, [[Megoliath]]s, [[Ursai]], [[Boarbatusk]]s, [[Sulfur Fish]], [[Griffon|Griffons]], [[Manticore|Manticores]] and [[Teryx]]es. Possibly even the [[Lancer|Lancers]] were spawned from Monstra.
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Monstra also had the ability to spew [[Grimm Liquid]] from its mouth, which allowed Salem to control it in various ways such as forming a river,<ref>'''''RWBY'' Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary chapter 7'''</ref> creating a geyser to reach [[Atlas]], and spawn lesser [[Grimm]] from it. It was shown spawning [[Sabyr]]s, [[Beowolves]], [[Apathy]], [[Megoliath]]s, [[Ursai]], [[Boarbatusk]]s, [[Sulfur Fish]], [[Manticore|Manticores]], [[Lancer|Lancers]], [[Teryx]]es and winged [[Beringel|Beringels]].
   
 
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Arriving with Monstra, Salem has also brought the rest of her Inner Circle with her. She later orders [[Tyrian Callows]] and [[Mercury Black]] to head to [[Vacuo]] in "[[War (episode)|War]]".
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Arriving with Monstra, Salem also brought the rest of her Inner Circle with her. She later ordered [[Tyrian Callows]] and [[Mercury Black]] to head to [[Vacuo]] in "[[War]]". After [[The Hound]] captured him, [[Oscar Pine]] was held prisoner temporarily.
   
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With Monstra destroyed in "[[Witch]]", there are no longer any residents inside the Grimm.
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*Its designed is inspired by sperm whales, beluga whales and lion fish.<ref>'''[https://twitter.com/sanafreemanart/status/1327750606111584256?s=20 Sana Freeman's Twitter]'''</ref>
  
*Its designed is inspired by sperm whales, beluga whales and lion fish.<ref>'''[https://twitter.com/sanafreemanart/status/1327750606111584256?s=20 Sana Freeman's Twitter]'''</ref>
 
*[[Kerry Shawcross]] refers to Monstra as an "organic ship."<ref>'''[https://roosterteeth.com/watch/rwby-rwby-watch-party ''RWBY'' Volume 8 Episode 1 Watch Party]'''</ref>
  
*[[Kerry Shawcross]] refers to Monstra as an "organic ship."<ref>'''[https://roosterteeth.com/watch/rwby-rwby-watch-party ''RWBY'' Volume 8 Episode 1 Watch Party]'''</ref>
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*In "[[Ultimatum]]", [[Monstra]] is described as a "Leviathan-class" Grimm. [[Leviathan]] was a Grimm introduced in the [[Volume 6]] episode "[[Seeing Red]]".
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*According to [[:File:RWBY 18th Anniversary Star Chart T-Shirt.jpg|18th Anniversary]] [https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/rt18-rwby-star-chart-t-shirt?variant=39279774302256 Star Chart T-Shirt], Remnant follows several Grimm-themed constellations in their northern skies. November–December are Monstra.
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*When [[Connor Pickens]] asked [[Kerry Shawcross]] and [[Eddy Rivas]] if the fight inside Monstra's "Docking Bay" in "Witch" was planned from the start, they confirmed that it was what they had in mind when it was conceptualized with them calling it "The Hangar Bay Fight" except everything was made of flesh.<ref>'''''RWBY'' Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary Chapter 4'''</ref>
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*When planning which types of Grimm to bring back for the opening scene of "War", the [[Death Stalker]] was one of the Grimm considered to be created by Monstra and very nearly made an appearance. They were cut because creating and rigging new models for them would have been too time consuming for a large creature that would barely be used in the Volume.<ref>'''''RWBY'' Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary chapter 7'''</ref>
   
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Latest revision as of 01:04, 17 September 2023

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Monstra[1] was a gargantuan, flying, whale-like "Leviathan Class" Grimm created by Salem. It was first seen in "The Enemy of Trust" and served as a mobile base for her inner circle. In "Ultimatum", it was destroyed by Oscar Pine using the stored kinetic energy in The Long Memory.

Appearance

Exterior

Monstra was a humongous, sperm whale-like Grimm, exponentially dwarfing Nevermores and Sphinxes. Its head lacked eyes and had an orange glow, similar to that of a Seer, with a whale's skull visible on the interior. Monstra appeared to have giant, purple crystalline spikes and gray rocks on its upper and lower body and was shown to have five pairs red bat-wing-like fins, allowing for flight. The purple crystals on its body were composed of Gravity Dust, which allowed it the ability to fly.[2]

Layout

Furthermore, Monstra also served as a mobile base for Salem's Inner Circle and a hub for the Grimm. The interior of Monstra was comprised of dark red fleshy walls and bone spikes, dripping with Grimm Liquid. Its hallway floors were shown to be a cartilage-like substance, with bright red Grimm markings outlining the path. In these, doorways were similarly fleshy, being a translucent membrane in Monstra that resembled gothic architecture, and large veins dangled overhead.[3] The hallways were patrolled by Seers, acting as scouts for Salem.

Bridge

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Salem's Throne

Atop of Monstra's skull, Salem had stationed a throne for herself to overlook what was ahead. The bridge was extremely large, allowing for the entirety of her faction to comfortably stand inside and await her orders. Being that it was in the Grimm's skull, Salem's throne was similarly bone-like in nature, and was shown to have several Grimm markings. Upon touching the throne, Salem was able to command Monstra to clear itself of the smoke in its head to reveal what the Grimm saw.

Rooms

Monstra was equipped with many rooms for different purposes. One was designed as a small, circular torture chamber which was used when Salem interrogated Oscar Pine. The room's ceiling appeared to be somewhat opaque, allowing light to shine into it and providing some visibility and evoking the imagery of prison bars. Most interestingly, the room was shown to have large torture hooks which resembled Grimm-like arms, being black in color with bone platings.

Other rooms were used as private quarters for members of Salem's faction. These rooms were small, maintaining the consistent cartilage floors and fleshy walls. On the furthermost wall of the doors, Salem's agents could rest in a bed made of Grimm bone.

The Relic of Knowledge was kept in its own special room. It was held in a pillar surrounded by pools of Grimm Liquid. The Relic was capable of being activated, but it was rigged so an alarm would ring around Monstra if anyone removed the Lamp.

Landing Platforms

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Landing Pads

Resembling gills under Monstra's wings, the Grimm had several bone-like landing pads so that Salem's subordinates could travel to the mobile base through the use of airships. The landing pads' flooring was seemingly bone-like in structure, and appeared to be surrounded by large Tempests.

Powers and Abilities

Through the use of the Gravity Dust on its back, Monstra was capable of slow flight. Furthermore, the Grimm's sperm-like head was able to clear itself of smoke to show an opaque image of what Monstra saw.

Monstra also had the ability to spew Grimm Liquid from its mouth, which allowed Salem to control it in various ways such as forming a river,[4] creating a geyser to reach Atlas, and spawn lesser Grimm from it. It was shown spawning Sabyrs, Beowolves, Apathy, Megoliaths, Ursai, Boarbatusks, Sulfur Fish, Manticores, Lancers, Teryxes and winged Beringels.

Residents

Arriving with Monstra, Salem also brought the rest of her Inner Circle with her. She later ordered Tyrian Callows and Mercury Black to head to Vacuo in "War". After The Hound captured him, Oscar Pine was held prisoner temporarily.

With Monstra destroyed in "Witch", there are no longer any residents inside the Grimm.

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Trivia

  • Monstra is based on Monstro, the fearsome sperm whale that appeared as the final antagonist in the Disney film Pinocchio.[5]
  • Its designed is inspired by sperm whales, beluga whales and lion fish.[6]
  • Kerry Shawcross refers to Monstra as an "organic ship."[7]
  • In "Ultimatum", Monstra is described as a "Leviathan-class" Grimm. Leviathan was a Grimm introduced in the Volume 6 episode "Seeing Red".
  • According to 18th Anniversary Star Chart T-Shirt, Remnant follows several Grimm-themed constellations in their northern skies. November–December are Monstra.
  • When Connor Pickens asked Kerry Shawcross and Eddy Rivas if the fight inside Monstra's "Docking Bay" in "Witch" was planned from the start, they confirmed that it was what they had in mind when it was conceptualized with them calling it "The Hangar Bay Fight" except everything was made of flesh.[8]
  • When planning which types of Grimm to bring back for the opening scene of "War", the Death Stalker was one of the Grimm considered to be created by Monstra and very nearly made an appearance. They were cut because creating and rigging new models for them would have been too time consuming for a large creature that would barely be used in the Volume.[9]

​References

  1. ↑ Concept art by Sana Freeman
  2. ↑ Sana Freeman's Twitter
  3. ↑ Concept art by Weston T. Jones
  4. ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary chapter 7
  5. ↑ RWBY Volume 7 Crew Commentary - Chapter 13
  6. ↑ Sana Freeman's Twitter
  7. ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Episode 1 Watch Party
  8. ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary Chapter 4
  9. ↑ RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary chapter 7
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