One of the oddest changes in Fixing RWBY that winds up being a total waste of the audience's time is what Celtic did to Arslan. To be a little fair to him, the novels that gave her an actual character were a long ways away from being written by the time he worked on FRWBY Volume 3, so trying to OCify one of the speechless tournament fodder isn't a bad idea. The problem is that this ends up being completely pointless given what happens to her
Arslan in Fixing RWBY is Lionheart's niece and was a rival for Pyrrha during her Mistral tournament days. Arslan is pretty bitter about this because a lot of people assume that Lionheart's been pulling strings to make her look better and that she's only as "good" as she is out of nepotism which is completely false. Especially with Pyrrha beating her every time despite being a nobody with zero relations to any big figures which only makes Arslan look even worse in the public's eye
Arsland is also flat out racist. Not to faunus, but to NPR due to them being ethnically descended from smaller nations that Mistral swallowed up which makes them not "true" Mistralians in her eyes
In Volume 3 teams RWBY and JNPR have their round 1 fights switched from canon due to Cinder rigging every match possible from past grudges for the sake of the plan. So RWBY fights BRNZ and JNPR fights ABRN for the Arslan grudge. After losing, Arslan breaks down in tears over her frustrations over everything which ends up being more fuel of negativity for the Fall of Beacon
Come Volume 5 and Arslan has a talk with RNJR about what happened with Pyrrha, with the truth about Cinder killing her coming out. With Arslan wanting to beat/kill Cinder to prove her superiority over Pyrrha post-mortem
And then here comes Volume 6. Toward the end of the volume 6 Arslan stumbles on Cinder fighting Melanie and separates herself from her team to fight her. Cinder kills her within seventeen seconds of narration, I counted. She didn't even put up a good fight, she does by far the worst out of anyone that ever fought Cinder, she was a speedbump at most. We don't even see her teammates' reaction to this because she ran off from them
This all makes me ask, why? What was the point of doing all this with Arslan? Because she was the weakest person Cinder fights? To send the message that revenge and grudges will only kill yourself? Melanie fought Cinder for similar reasons so why does she get to survive? Because she's stronger? Because her vengeance is more personal due to losing her twin sister? Because she's taking over canon Neo's role in the story? Because Celtic realized he was juggling too many characters? Did he run out of ideas with what to do with Arslan? I'm just really confused on why he did this. All this stuff about Arslan is a total waste of time
My guess..... Racism.
Whaaaaaaat nooooo it's not like my first post here about FRWBY on Tumblr was addressing the sexist and racist rewrites in this series or anything *COUGH COUGH*
Celtic’s thought on the matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBYcritics/comments/13lzuwb/fixing_rwby_v6_ep_19/jlehbke/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_content=1&utm_term=15&context=3
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Someone criticizing said thoughts: https://www.tumblr.com/kob131/718405261632700416/whats-your-thoughts-on-arslans-arc-in-fixing
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