When the heart of the card responds to your trust just right
#does this make kaiba kuzco #is kaiba gonna build kaibaland on top of Yugiâs gameshop
#can we turn kaiba into a llamaÂ
#does kaiba dress in drag??
i hate you allÂ
âYou threw off my groove!â
âIâm sorry, but youâve thrown off the CEOâs groove.â
#omg would Marikâs shoulder devil be Yami Marik?Â
âDonât listen to that guy. Heâs trying to lead you down the path of righteousness.â
âIâm gonna lead you down the path that rocks!â
#Rebecca should be the wifeÂ
#Ok Ok but Kuriboh would totally be the little squirrel >w>Â
#The Big 5 turning into animals
âGet them!âÂ
âHey, Iâve been turned into a penguin. Can I go home?â
âYouâre excused.â
âFor the last time, we did not order a Magic Cylinder!â
âYou know pal, you could have told me that before I set it up.âÂ
#would baby kaiba have blue eyes white dragon plushies?Â
i hate all 126,000 of you
âHey Yugi, you just missed your relatives.â
âYeah, we just sent them up to your house.â
#Kaiba lines up all the yugioh spinoff protags in a line looking for a rival
âHate your hair. Your hair. And your hair. AnnnndâŠâ
âLemme guess, you have a great personality.â
#And instead of a sewer crocodile itâs some sewer dragon thing..lolâŠ
#The dagger on Bakuraâs leg is the Millennium Rod
âThen I bet you werenât expecting THIS.â
[SCREAMS OF HORROR]
âAHA!â
âOh, okay.â
#So, when Kuzco gets turned into other animals, does Kaiba get turned into other monster cards, like UFO turtle and Fortress Whale since the big 5 got turned into cards?
âDonât you say a wordâŠâ
[If you like these crossover redraws, consider buying me a coffee?]
This one is for the OVERWHELMING number of people who have been flooding my inbox since I started this little series asking me for my take on Pyrrhaâs wedding dress. Sorry for the long wait, but you kicked my butt in gear!
For Pyrrhaâs design I tried to gather inspiration from Greek goddess gowns and gold laurel wreaths. Initially I was worried her a red dress would clash with her hair, but the gold gradient helped give it a more sunset-y vibe. :3
This letter to many is an eye opener and others believe that is an angry letter from disgruntle, former employee.
To me,
It just confirm some of my fears.
Now I am not saying that Rooster Teeth is a bad company, it just showed that Rooster Teeth has a not so positive side. JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. I always had a feeling that behind all the laughter and smile, there was some crap sticking around. Every company has it, no matter what they say.
Rooster Teeth is a business, plain and simple. They follow a structure and there is a guy on higher branches calling shots thinking it is the right call. Sometime they are right and sometimes they are.
When someone tries to change the structure, some people donât like that. People donât like change. I donât blame RT for being like that, I get like that sometimes.
Now why I do believe this letter has merit?
Hardcore fans and people like me who can dig around, have heard of rumors that Shane basically repeats. Rumors that were hard to find.
For example, I found a Sheena bashing forum, (Yes a bashing forum, everyone has one when you get famous.) a person said a rumor about some people at RT didnât like Sheena. I brush it off and said this forum is stupid.
When Sheena came out in the public eye, I thought, âThis is great, more people who knew Montyâs work.â but as time went by, I didnât see Sheena become a major contributor and that rumor came running back. When she barely knowledge RWBY on her own stuff and only majorly knowledge it when she called out some idiot cosplayer who tried to take credit of some of Montyâs works, that gut feeling of that rumor being true grew. This letter just seal the deal.
When Volume 3 came out, myself and many others voiced that the show felt âoffâ, like it was less organic and more âstructureâ. We brushed it off as, âMonty isnât there anymore and canât lead the team.â Donât get me wrong, the animation has gone through some huge improvements, but there was a huge difference in identity between Vol. 1,2 and Vol. 3.
When Shane was barely mention during Vol. 3, that felt odd. The right man of Monty was barely mention, that felt really odd.
Adding more than 1 professorial voice actor felt odd, they are great, but felt odd.
Everyone knew at some point, RWBY will go off course from Montyâs vision, but I didnât think it would be this soon.
I say it again, I believe Rooster Teeth is not a bad company. I can see reason why they made some of the decision in the letter and why they thought it was a good idea. Although, RT may also follow some bad business practices and has an âinner circle of people problemâ
I still believe RT is a good company and it is different from everyone else. I hope it stays that way and stop growing into the âitâs business company.â
Now the question is, âShould I stop watching RWBY? Should I boycott RWBY?â
Those question were very hard to answer, I consider the many years of being Monty fan and a Rooster Teeth fan. I was a fan to both way before they came together.
My answer is...
Shane, Sheena and many other are going to dislike me,
I am still going to kept watching and supporting RWBY.
You can called me a idiot and not a real Monty fan for this, but I will be not upset over it, because I know what it looks like.
I am long time fan of RT, because RvB and I regret not becoming a community member ages ago.
I am huge fan of Monty. I would share and many times defended his works. Also strangely enough I could recognize Montyâs work. When I first saw that Warthog crash through the wall, first thought was, âWhy does that look like Montyâs style?â
RT did give Monty a chance to create on RWBY and Vol. 3 still had parts in it that had Montyâs style. RWBY maybe a clone of the original and it is hands of someone else, but I can still see Monty in it. Phyrraâs death was still Montyâs idea and the way it was carried out.
I am loyal to Monty and parts of him are still in it, is the reason I will see it to the end.
Though I am taking this open letter with a grain of salt. I donât know both side of the story; Shane could be blowing this out of proportion or Monty was not the awesome guy we thought he was. Monty also worked closely with a lot of people and Shane couldnât be the only one. There are something in the letter I believe to be true and something I believe to be faults.
This letter was hard to read and take in. I am still confuse on what is truly going on, but I will not started a war and nobody else should too.
Still, it just shows the world isnât perfect and everyone deep down is human.
To Shane, I can only image how hard it was to write it and how hard this will be in the following days.
I may still support Rooster teeth, but it doesnât mean I donât support you. I was shock when I saw the Twitter post of you leaving.
To Sheena, that goes to you too.
I made my decision about it and I will stick with it.
I place my trust and with many other fanâs trust on to Rooster Teeth and hope they promise what they do tend to do for RWBY and Monty.
That is my resolve.
âCan you match my resolve? If so then you will succeed.â
So, I have been sitting on this shoot for two and a half years now. Sheena and I shot it in Studio 5 as I was visiting after RTX that year.
Iâll have a writeup done in a day or two, or three. Giving everyone to recuperate after the finale - and maybe you all will understand why processing this was harder than normal for me.
But this isnât 100% accurate to the episode, youâre right.Â
But it is accurate to what Monty, Daniel, and I planned when we were creating the scene. So Iâm sticking with it.
Every since Monty said there will be a LGBT character/characters on RWBY, the fans cheered in rejoice. We would finally get a LGBT character in a show not for a teen and older audience, but a show for the younger audience that can be exposed to LGBT characters and situations and show that it isnât an immoral subject. The most interesting part of this is that how Monty was going to introduce the character/characters. Monty and many other members of the staff express wanting a LGBT character, but didnât want to shoehorn it in the series as the idea having one didnât occur to them until probably after RWBY Vol.1.
What Monty wanted to do as express in the interview (RWBY After Show w/ Monty Oum Volume 2 Chapters 1 and 2 "Best Day Ever; Welcome To Beacon" | AfterBuzz, at the 49:26 mark) about the LGBT character, was to show the character discover themselves as one and go through the series understanding more about themselves.
I quote from Monty from that AfterBuzz interview;
âSure. Absolutely. The best part about that is, you know, maybe they're there now because they're kids. We're on a path to try and help them discover themselves, so, I mean, I don't even think we need to make that decision right away because as we write these characters, we learn about them and help them figure themselves out. They're very real to us.
We're definitely not opposed to it. I--a lot of us are for it, even. I have some cast members and some crew members who are like 'this would be really cool' but the thing is we can't just shove it out there. It has to be earned, which is the better way to do it, and a lot of these characters we try and look at them outside of their genders. We'll want to do what's natural for them and best.â
I believe this was a good move on Monty and as it will make a better story telling element. Now the question is who is going to be the LGBT character.
My theory is that it is going to be two characters and they are Yang Xiao Long and Blake Belladonna.
Yes, I am saying Bumble Bee will become a thing and no, I am not saying this as fan who wants to put characters together as couple, I am more a fan of Ruby and Weiss (White Rose, Ice Flower, Red Snow.)
So when it was announce of a LGBT character being placed in the series, I put aside my fan bias ideas and thought hard about it. Who was most likely to discover themselves as one as the series goes on?
The only assumption I have is;
- The LBGT character is someone we seen and know their personality up to now (RWBY Vol.1 and Vol. 2)
If the character comes from outside Vol.1 and Vol.2, my theory will break.
Using what I learned from the characters from RWBY, interviews from the staff and storytelling logic, I did processes of elimination. First, I donâtâ believe the character will be a transgender. Transgender characters are often made near the beginning of the story or shoehorn in later, which the shoehorn canât be done now in RWBY as the series started and it wonât follow what Monty promised. A character becoming a transgender without shifting the original focus of the show is very hard to do and I donât think it will be done with RWBY. Donât get me wrong, it can be done, but it will be very difficult for RWBY.
Now to determine the LGBT character, I started to eliminate possibilities that have the lowest chance of happening in RWBY. So Monty mentions they were kids, so the character wonât be adults and by the Montyâs quote, the character seem like someone who we will connect with. Therefore, the character will most likely not be a villain as most storytelling doesnât have the audience connect with the villains. There is chance is could be, but the way how the direction of the show is going, I donât see it happening.
That leaves Team RWBY, JNPR, SSSN, CFVY and Penny. I am going to eliminate Penny right away, as I believe the chances of that happening is low. The reason I say this is that looking at Pennyâs character in depth, she has already so much story going on with her and adding this will make this too much character development for her. Penny is based off of Pinocchio, so in RWBY she is an android that can generate an Aura, in another words, she a ROBOT WITH A SOUL! That in its self is a big character element for her and she is living proof that the world of RWBY can create artificial humans or faunasâ. Not only that, they tack on that Penny is basically a baby, and is learning society, human and faunas behaviours, morality and everything that makes a person, a person. Also she will have conflict with what General Ironwood tells her what the world is and what she learned about the world. So Penny already has a lot of character development and story to go through, so I highly doubt she will be the LGBT character.
The next characters I have removed from the list are Team SSSN and Team CFVY. Sage and Scarlet of SSSN as of writing of this theory are characters that I donât about and little is known about them. So I canât say if they will be a LBGT character or not and the same could say about Team CFVY. Each of these characters are very difficult to determine, so my assumption is that they are not going to be LGBT, but there is a chance they could be in the future when more known about them. As for Sun and Neptune, their personalities as of Volume 1 and 2 show no signs of being a LBGT character. This could change in the future, but as of now they are predominant straight males as they are trying to start a relationship with their opposite genders. Having examples with Sun trying to woo Blake, with moderate success, and Neptune with a very high chances of starting a relationship with Weiss. Yes, Arctic Ocean could be actually thing.
This leaves Team RWBY and Team JNPR to analysis for this theory. To help narrow this down, I am going to add this story element. I believe there will be two LBGT characters and they will form a relationship with each other. To show a positive light on the LGBT community and to show the characters growing up and discovering themselves, they most likely would portray this relationship in the series. Most people who discovers themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual do so, because they found out they are attached to their same gender and will try to form relationships with same gender to see if they are or not. Now this not the case that happens all the time, but it is a common case and as this did happen to someone close to me. Of course it did also involve them hiding the fact for many years, going to therapy and meeting other gay people before the dating happen to determine they were a gay/lesbian. There is possible chance of one character becoming a LBGT character and the person they like rejects them, but still remains friends afterwards. I believe there might be a better scenario if the characters were to become a couple as I will explain later.
As for Team JNPR, I donât think any members will be a gay or lesbian character do to obvious reasons in the series. With Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos, the story is going with them having a relationship in the near future, as it was being building up for two volumes and if they donât, I will be very surprised. Also, can someone smack Jaune across the head and give him a clue about Pyrrha? There is a beautifully, talented, strong, kind woman who is into you and you donât have a problem with her, so go for it. You wonât get another chance like this.
Now for Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie, and why I think they are not going to be gay/lesbian characters for obvious reasons. Yes, they are currently good childhood friends and yes, they said they are just good friend with a good possibility they just stay as friends for the rest of their lives, but I just find it hard to believe that they wonât explore a romance relationship in the near future. Looking at the core character of Ren and Nora as described by Miles and Kerry in many interviews and the DVD commentary of RWBY Vol. 1, they said that Ren and Nora are people that share a one energy pool and Nora takes all of it. Nora also has a personality of being loud, hyperactivity, uncontrollable and having a minor (hopefully only thought about and not acted upon) murderous intend against people she doesnât like and usually these are the people who we can only tolerate in small doses, but for Ren, he shrugs it off. Ren as evident in the series is probably the only one who can handle Nora 24/7 and does enjoy being in her company, for the most part. I can image that Nora in her childhood had no friends, because of her personality and Ren was the only one who came to her and became friends with her. With a bond as strong as theirs, I couldnât see them of not starting a relationship.
To breakdown Team RWBY, I asked myself a question that even Lindsay Jones asked everyone about the characters in relationships; âDoes this makes sense?â
As much as I hate to torpedo my favourite ship and it hurts to say it, White Rose (Ruby and Weiss) will not work. To get the hurt over faster, I will start with Ruby Rose and why she will not be a lesbian or bisexual character. Looking at the personality of Ruby, is the embodiment of innocents, she native and willing to accept people for who they are and because of that, she mostly likely sees thing in black and white. That view gives her a narrow sight and that transfers to her goals in life. She wants to be like her mother, a huntress to help people and right the wrongs like the heroes in her stories. This is probably why she is so socially awkward, she is so goal driven to become a huntress, she barely had anytime to make friends and to the point where she okay being by herself. At this point, I think Ruby Rose is an asexual person and could be the LGBT character of the series. Yes, she could change her views in life later in the series, but still doesnât change the fact she could be okay not being in a relationship in her life.
As for Weiss Schnee, her personality is the heiress with a little rebellion in her; style with her off center pony tail and wanting to become a Huntress. Most people believe that Weiss could be a bisexual or lesbian, because of her up bring of her strict traditions and family. The restricting of traditions and family would cause Weiss to want to break free from that, rebel against them and be someone who she wants to be, thus discovering herself as she goes through Beacon. This concept would make sense, it is a good character building for Weiss and I would be all for it, but this is not how Weissâ character is.
She is not rebelling against traditions and family, she is rebelling against one person; her father. In the episode, âSearch and Destroyâ and the âMountain Glenn,â Weiss talks about her father operating the Schnee Dust Company in a very moral grey area and basically ruining the family name. The problems in her family may have come before Weissâ father took control of the company, but the major problems took place when he took control. Weiss wanted to up hold her familyâs name and when she discovered she could be a fighter, she wanted to be a Huntress. As a Huntress, she would able to become stronger as a person, repair the damage her father did to the family name and maybe take control the Schnee Dust company to make things right again. Of course doing her duties as Huntress takes precedent before her goals, but never less, they are goals she wants to complete.
This means she still holds value in her family and traditional up bringing and when you still believe in old tradition values, being bisexual or gay is frown upon. Now society in Remnant could be accepting of the LGBT community and the Schnee family could tolerate the LGBT, but thatâs it, tolerate it. Weiss would be the same; she wouldnât care about another people being gay, but wouldnât consider being one. With this background of Weiss, it would not make sense that she would be gay.
This leaves us the last two members of Team RWBY and the two characters who I think will be the LGBT characters, Yang Xiao Long and Blake Belladonna. Individually as a gay or bisexual character, no, but when I asked myself does this make sense as them as a couple? The answer I came up with is yes, as a couple they would make sense. I believe that over time in the series, Blake and Yang will grow closer together and then they will have feelings for each other. When both Blake and Yang first met, they didnât get along very well, but when they met again in the Emerald Forest to form partners, they instantly connected and formed a strong bond. This is reinforce by Monty when he describe them in the RWBY Vol.1 DVD commentary; during the fight with the Nevermore, Blake did her attack/recon on the Grimm and reported back to the team, more specifically she reported to Yang. Miles Luna also in the DVD commentary describes the relationship of Team RWBY in the early stages as partners contrast to each other, Ruby and Weiss would buttheads with each other and Blake and Yang would get along flawlessly most of the time.
To help to further the point that Blake and Yang would be a couple, I will explain what they bring to each other in a good relationship. Blake was a member of the White Fang since she was little, so her childhood was not like other peoples and being a Faunus, she dealt with a lot of racism. When Blake went to Beacon, Yang and the other members of Team RWBY got Blake to experience what it is like to be a normal girl and to be accepted by people. Yang is like a wild cannon ball, but when needed; become a mother bear and Blake is the one that is shown to keep Yang in check and at the same time, willing to put up with Yangâs silliest. Honestly, if someone than Yang did that laser pointer thing to Blake, they would find themselves hanging upside down in a tree with their pants around their ankles or get a huge yelling from Blake. I swear that never happened to me.
Another point I would like to make that Blake and Yang would make sense as a couple is a minor theory I have. I believe that Adam Taurus and Blake may have a romantic relationship when they were together. Yes, Blake said that Adam was more of a mentor and they could have a very good friendship. Still Blake could have said that to hide the fact she was in a romantic relationship and she was the one who left him; this is reinforce by the fact that Blake is see often thinking about him. So if they were in a relationship, when the actions of the White Fang started escalate and Adam started to become crueller to a point where he became a beast. Blake no longer saw Adam; she saw a beast, so she left him. Blake left him, because she no longer felt safe.
You can be the strongest person in the world, but you will always want to feel safe. Feeling safe is one of the major factors why people in a relationship are attracted to their partners and Yang does that very, very well. When Blake went on her solo crusade against the White Fang with the motto of âSleep is for the weak,â Yang was the only managed to pull Blake out of it and reminder Blake that there are people who care about you, that Yang cares about her and that it is okay, we will keep you safe. That is something Blake hasnât probably felt in a very long time.
There is the question about Sun and Blake, I believe that they will start a relationship together, but they will eventually break up. Right now they are shown to be attracted to each other and they can bring happiest to each other; they have the makings of being a good couple. Unfortunately I donât think their personalities would make their relationship last long and Blake will be the one who realizes that Sun canât fulfill Blakeâs needs in a relationship. Sun has a fun personality; he has brought joy to Blakeâs life and showed that Blake is attractive women, but there is something that Sun canât fulfill. That is to bring the seriousness and maturity to a level where Blake needs it, something that Yang has shown before. So at the end of the day, they realize their relationship couldnât go any further and after that, I believe they will remain good friends.
Another minor theory I have, which also will make an interest story element to RWBY is a love triangle; a Blake, Yang and Adam love triangle. If it is true that Blake and Adam used to be in relationship, then Blake could still have feelings for Adam and when she starts to have feelings for Yang; Blake will be torn between them, especially if Yang and Adam get into a fight. This would create a very good conflict that the characters would have to overcome and I would think the fans of the series would enjoy.
Bumblebee is the one couple in the LGBT situation that would make sense, but I much as I hate to torpedo the ship again, there is high chance that Miles and Kerry will not do a LBGT character for RWBY.
Even though Monty said that a LBGT character is highly possible for RWBY, it is Miles, Kerry and Gray who have control over the series. Since Montyâs passing, the team decided to carry on the series to honour Monty and that is a huge responsibility to make sure that they donât disgrace the series. Trying to add a LGBT character into the series, especially a series that have a very wide audience, is very hard to do and even more so when they are trying to do it right. The series already had some backlash with the scenes with Blake and Yang in the classroom in episode 6, âBurning the Candleâ and them dancing in episode 7, âDance Dance Infiltration.â Some people were yelling that was âqueer baitingâ and there were some problems in the same episode with Weiss, Jaune and Neptune with the whole âyou can have her thing.â
RWBY would be a pioneer with this type of general audience if they try to do a LGBT character, but they would be under a microscope, so they will have pressure to do this right and even more so to keep with Montyâs wishes. So if the production crew of RWBY decides to not go ahead with the LGBT characters, I will not blame them. Even I thought that the Rooster Teeth team wouldnât do it before Monty made that statement in the interview, because the backlash on this topic can be intense. That being said, if RWBY do decides to add the LGBT character to the series, I will fully support them and everyone should do too, because no matter what, if it turns bad or good; they should be not condemn for trying to do what other people are afraid to do.
If it does come to light, I believe Blake and Yang will be LGBT characters as they mature through their life and learned more about themselves. Blake and Yang would bring to develop feelings for each other, but would not realize it at first. Blake would starts dating Sun and when they realize that it would not work, they will go back to being friends. After that, Blake and Yang will learn their feeling for each other and they will try a romantic relationship together. Yang would give Blake the enjoyment, the comfort and make her feel safe in life and Blake would keep Yang focus, in check and be a partner to Yang in life. Out of all the characters in RWBY, Yang and Blake have more emotional connections to each other; they work well with each other and out of all the couples that could be in RWBY, Yang and Blake; Bumblebee would be one of them that would make sense.
