"That Dog Stole My Shoes..."

I refuse to call this trio anything but ‘Stoplight’.

(work in progress)

Rosegarden + Lancaster = Chivalry

She did report her treatment to the authorities.

Rhodes was an authority. Do you think Cinder was allowed to leave the hotel? For all we know she could get zapped if she goes 10 feet out the front door. How many people do you think she actually got to talk to?

It’s interesting to watch people scramble for excuses for Rhodes so much that it somehow pushes back on young Cinder for actually daring to rise up against her abusers.

They’d rather blame a child for her circumstances and her tragic past than a grown adult who failed to be a protector. “Cinder shouldn’t have done this. Cinder should have run away/taken the collar off on her own/reported her treatment to the authorities.”

It’s just interesting...

Penny's semblance is that she always knows which way north is, because M A G N E T S

Is...this a pvp joke because if so how dare- /lh

Jaune spent all night playing and re-playing the RE8 demo, getting hyped up for tall vampire ladies. What does the sleep-deprived dolt do when the first person he sees in the morning is Elm?

Jaune: AAH TALL VAMPIRE MILF!

Elm: excuse me..

Jaune: sorry i just. Been playing this demo

Elm: oooh... so are you into tall women?

Jaune: um

Why did she pick a ribbon over this!? They all look so fucking good.

Love how you can just add the respective missing hat to any one of Blake’s outfits to instantly demonstrate which type of formal menswear inspired it.

The further I read this, the more I headcanoned that ‘Mysterious Chessmaster Ozpin’ is a front that he puts on for literally anyone who isn’t his own staff or students.

From the interrogation room through initiation, he was gritting his teeth to keep all the Dad Energy from escaping.

He brought a goddamn plate of cookies the first time he ever talked to Ruby, probably just because Summer said how much she loved them at some point, it was probably Summer’s recipe.

Glynda came to show him how fake Jaune’s transcripts were and he probably tapped his mug on ‘Accept’ before she got two words out.

He let two teenage bandits enroll in his fight college to try to reform them.

People used to joke about it, but he probably does just wander the school looking for students who look troubled. He is/was a father, and now he has dozens of youths he is explicitly responsible for, many of whom are orphans. You cannot stop this guy giving guidance.

Ozpin keeps up the ‘Wizard’ act for the council, the citizens, and any of the applicants who aren’t students yet. Even other headmasters and their students, maybe. All to keep his dramatic image and his position as Headmaster. All so he can keep helping good kids be better so they can save the world.

I really love your idea of Uncle Oz. But in the early volumes, Ozpin was given the 'menacing, plotting' Dumbledore treatment. Which is weird, because by the time we have the backstory he's just genuinely a caring, wonderful person in an awful situation. Which is also weird, because the hands-off man we know doesn't map to the idea of who the guy must have been to set up the school in the first place. Oz seems like the prime example of the show actively not always knowing where it's going.

Especially since, looking back, I honestly believe that the vast majority of said “menacing, plotting Dumbledore treatment” came from viewer expectation and very little was built into the text. Meaning, this is the Harry Potter era watching a new show. We see an older, white, clearly powerful, somewhat eccentric headmaster and go, “AH HA. I know where this is heading,” even though canonically Ozpin barely does anything to generate those feelings in the story. I’ll admit the “You have silver eyes” line is easily the most damning - What does that mean?? What does he want with Ruby??? - and we have the moment where Yang comments that he’s “off” during the speech, but both of these things happen within the first few episodes. Following that, Ozpin’s mysterious/manipulative persona is obliterated. Not just through all the legitimately good things we see him doing (counseling Ruby, talking to Blake, bending rules to help deal with the White Fang, etc.) because admittedly that all could have still been a part of some larger manipulation. AKA, Ozpin is grooming this group to do his dirty work like Dumbledore groomed Harry. But that reveal never comes. Instead, Ozpin encourages the group to leave if it’s not their own, active decision to help. He doesn’t manipulate people into working for him, he deliberately discourages anyone with doubts from continuing on because doubts, as we’ve seen, lead to people betraying the cause. Just as importantly, the ‘shady headmaster’ persona fails because we learn what his secret is. What’s Ozpin hiding? The fact that there’s a war on. What’s he doing about that? Something nefarious or at least ethically dubious? Uh... no. Actually he’s just doing the best he can with limited options. It’s like if in Prisoner of Azkaban we got to follow Dumbledore’s perspective for multiple chapters, learned pretty much all there is to know about the war, and likewise confirmed that Dumbledore was never attempting something as horrible as raising a kid for slaughter.

Really, the text only starts treating Ozpin as legitimately shady around Volume 5 with the whole bird transformation stuff, which as we’ve discussed was just stupid. Then it was hinted that he had some other, terrible secret hidden away, we waited a whole volume to find out what it was... and then it wasn’t terrible at all. Salem is immortal? Anyone who thinks about this war for five minutes can figure that out. Is it Ozpin’s fault that Salem is immortal and trying to kill us all? Uh... no. No it’s not. So... why was he supposed to be shady again? 

The structure basically went: 

Keep reading

Blake: This is... Progress?

Emerald: I hate this.

Yang: I love this.

Jaune, hitting Cinder over the head with a door: I a-DOOR you!

Cinder, rubs her head: aksdsj!

Cinder, picks up a frying pan and hits Jaune with it: I love you with a BURNING passion!!

Jaune, grabs a vase and breaks it over Cinders head: My heart BREAKS when you’re away!

Cinder, grabs a tall lamp and hits him in the chest with it: You are the LIGHT of my life!!

Jaune, falls to the floor: EYUGH!

Topaz is Jaune and Emerald.

Don’t worry about it, I forget them too if I’m not constantly seeing people use the names.

Ghost Pyrrha reacting to sudden post-whale Topaz developing?

What’s topaz again? Still bad at Remembering all the ship names...

Realistically, there's still Councilwoman Camilla, and possibly Robyn, since Jacques got proven a fraud. This is assuming Ironwood will die.

I'm not saying he won't help, I think he really will, I just don't think running the Kingdom would suit him as well as just doing good with the SDC.

One thing I would love for the end of the arc, is seeing Atlas have to land (hopefully not fall but...), and recombine with Mantle as a single city.

Less headcanons and more predictions

Once the whole Salem debacle is done, and assuming mantle is still standing, whit,say first order of business is gonna be to install a far more effective and sturdy heating Infastructure,

Oh yes, I'm sure there is a lot whitley could do with the atlas government (assuming there is an atlas by the end of this volume) to make sure that the infrastructure is upgraded.

One or the other would be amazing.

I during the mid season break I kept wanting to post “Since knightfallcravin and rwby-sk are both killing it, I feel like I should make content for Topaz to finish the ‘Jaune and a redeemed villainess’ triangle.”

But I couldn’t think of any content, and didn’t want to post it and do nothing...

LOOK, IF WE DON’T GET SOME FUCKING HINTS AT SILENTKNIGHT ANYTIME SOON OR AT ALL! I SWEAR TO EVERYTHING THAT IS HOLY WE BETTER INSTEAD BE GETTING SOME HINTS AT TOPAZ! SILENTKNIGHT OR TOPAZ! DON’T FUCK IT UP CRWBY!!!!