THE CHOSEN

you found greatness in knowing that when the world needed help, you were the one to reach out your hand. you took a stand against evil and said no. rwby multi-muse based on the reincarnations of oz. sideblog to canefought. penned by ori.

[ofawiz]

ozpin, what started the yeeting students off a cliff tradition?

“ well, it was really the only logic way to send students into the forest quickly and efficiently. we couldn’t simply drive them through the forest and sending them on foot from one entry point–as was the original tradition–defeated the purpose of randomizing the teams. the exercise is all about teamwork, after all. “

[rwbygenerator]

stop kinkshaming throwing students off a cliff

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For @cherenuit

Prompt: Ozma with a daisy chain/simple flower crown

This was fun to do!

[ghastlysmemes]

destiny item & quest description sentence meme

feel free to change pronouns & etc as necessary!

’ you did not receive the bond so you could babble arcane words. go forth, and burn our enemy. ’

‘ i think she’s hungry ’

’ you stand for something immutable and transcendent. act like it. ’

‘ the vault whispers of a world beyond. ’

‘ beware of false prophets. ’

‘ i count myself a king of infinite space. ’

‘ imagine the crowds. then block them out. ’

‘ nobody comes back the same. ’

‘ in vacuum, fire flows like water. ’

‘ be wary of what you find between the stars. demons have breached the gates where once only angels dared. ’

‘ join the eternal dance. ’

‘ all things converge. ’

‘ … til even the stars heed our calling. ’

‘ to each a purpose, and to all a fitting end. ’

‘ for this judgement, there is no protection. ’

‘ our enemies watch us huddle and just laugh. but it’s our show now. ’

‘ let no challenge lie. let no question hang. let no music fade. ’

‘ just… come on. just don’t. ’

‘ …a rattling shriek, the crunch of bones and the fading echoes of a brave woman’s last laugh… ’

‘ don’t include it unless you intend to use it. ’

‘ most helmets protect the mind from the universe. not this one. ’

‘ one throne beneath the howling dark. ’

‘ let this bone I reaped in battle give me strength to reap again. ’

‘ you have chosen to explore the depths of the darkness. you better be able to run. ’

‘ this helmet will keep you happy. why shouldn’t you be happy? ’

‘ how does it feel to land a six-meter jump in full armor? that depends who you’re landing on. ’

‘ are you afraid? listen closely: so are they. ’

‘ psychologically tuned to reinforce an important skill: holding down the trigger. ’

‘ swamp camouflage is the hottest fashion these days. ’

‘ feel the swamp. smell the swamp. be the swamp. ’

‘ learn the swamp’s secrets. keep the swamp’s secrets. lie awake at night, horrified by the swamp’s secrets. ’

‘ you can see everything. you can unsee nothing. ’

‘ of bladedancers seem a little unfair it’s because they are. no room for honor in a fight. ’

‘ your job on the fireteam is to answer the question ‘can we kill that thing?’ make sure the answer is always yes. ’

‘ don this monster’s face to hide the monsters lurking behind your own. ’

‘ he never sought glory or prizes. only peace. ’

‘ drive fast and take risks. ’

‘ feet alone cannot take us where we’re going. ’

‘ i face the challenges to come with dry eyes. there will be a time to mourn, but not until we have our vengeance. ’

‘ risk is it’s own reward. ’

‘ the last word. yours. not mine. ’

‘ everything is luminous. ’

‘ blot out the sun. ’

‘ they cast him out. but his words never left. ’

‘ for the more light the worms consume, the hungrier they become. ’

‘ YOU WILL DREAM OF TEETH AND NOTHING ELSE. ’

‘ i saw myself! slaying the darkness! that’s what i saw! ’

‘ the light shines the brightest in those it consumes. ’

‘ if you learn nothing else, learn this: when a hunter takes up the cloak of a dead comrade, this is a vow. ’

‘ the start is always the same. enter his court, and call him out. ’

‘ i will put an ocean into a thimble. i will build a world on the edge of a blade. ’

‘ a sacrifice is required. ’

‘ there was a moment where the hare chose not to defeat the tortoise. ’

‘ witness. ’

‘ are you the dream of a sleeping god? or the nightmare of a dead one? ’

[taitetsu]

[rus-califi]

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I took the stars from my eyes, And then I made a map, And knew that somehow I could find my way back. Then I heard your heart beating, You were in the darkness too, So I stayed in the darkness with you.

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[pennypuppet]

Oobleck be nimble

Oobleck be quick

Oobleck got A HUGE MOTHERFUCKING CANDLE STICK

[ofawiz]

@remnaent | continued.

he had thought... what had he thought? that telling her this would somehow make things better? he can’t imagine what this must sound to her: i regret being here. no, he doesn’t, not in the slightest. he chose to come back to be with her but that is different from moving heaven and earth to reverse nature. ozma thinks often of all the pain his death must have caused, how lonely she must have been but, from her story, salem’s loneliness seemed to have gotten even worse the moment she tried to bring him back. she should have let him go and should have been satisfied with the precious time they spent together. somewhere deep down, ozma feels in his heart that these moments are not the same.

there is chaos within her. magic once of light is now turned toward destruction. he sees it, he truly does, and that is why he is the only one who can do something about it. the same love that transcends life and death can bring back the salem he knows. all ozma must do is remain with her and love her as he always has to quell that chaotic thirst. he can do it, he must, because he loves her so.

the hurt in salem’s eyes spark a twinge of guilt running through ozma’s insides.  “ of course it is. “  a lie. this is not what he wanted. he wanted them to live simple lives free from the burdens now placed upon their shoulders. he wanted them to be together in the afterlife--a place he knows more than the earth they walk upon. but that is now a wish that can never be and so there is no use voicing such things.  “ all i want is to be with you. “  a truth, a feeling so painful it burns at his core. it is another wish, a longing, for a pure happiness that seems just out of reach. but ozma will reach it soon, he knows he will.

a hand breaks from her grip to caress her cheek, to give her all the softness and warmth he can muster.  “ forget what i said; it was stupid really. all i need is right here. “

[ofawiz]

back on my computer which means it’s time to destroy lilac.

[ozpinstbh]

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[owletmoved]

this is the beginning of the end, ozpin   …   and i can’t wait to watch you burn.

[ofawiz]

WHAT SHAPE DOES YOUR PAIN TAKE?

G H O S T S

Your pain takes the shape of ghosts, haunting you, always there. No one would believe you if you told them, or understand even if they did. You don't know how to make them go away, or what they want. They just follow you, casting shadows over all you do, being your fears and the embodiment of all you've lost or are afraid of losing. They can't touch you though... Can they?   

[ofawiz]

hey! ask my muses questions!

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Here’s my most ambitious thing yet, Ozpin—in action!

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Leonardo Lionheart used Jinn’s First Question

Bold title, I know, but hear me out.

On first watch, Leonardo Lionheart is quite a flat character. He seems a coward through and through, every character doubting him which raises questions from the audience such as “Why did Ozpin put this coward in charge of a school?”

And then we get to Volume 5 Episode 11 and Volume 6 Episode 2, where we can infer some of his past thanks to Ozpin.

Ozpin alludes to the idea that Leo was once a brave man of high standing and Leo says he’s not the fighter he used to be in Volume 5 Episode 1. This suggests that Lionheart was probably one of the best of the best when it came to huntsman, and a fall from grace stripped him of his confidence, bravery and skill.

But what caused that?

Some might say it’s due to a meeting with Salem, as alluded to in Volume 5 Episode 2:

But Salem’s dialogue suggests he was already fearful at this point. So again, we have to ask ourselves why he was so scared when he was presumably such a brave, top-tier huntsman. My theory?

Leo asked Jinn a Question.

But to do this, he would have had to jump through a lot of hoops to get to her, right? There are a lot of criteria necessary to be fulfilled for one to access a relic, but here’s the thing - Leo fills each one nicely without having to stretch your suspension of disbelief, and he’s also the most Occam’s Razor candidate.

In Volume 6 Episode 2, Ozpin tells the group that the Relic of Knowledge can answer three questions every hundred years, but when we meet Jinn…

…one has already been asked.

None of the characters query this, but it’s definitely there for a reason. The writers know why someone asked a question and who it was, otherwise they would have had all three be available to the cast.

Now you’re probably thinking, “Jinn says it’s good to see Ozpin again, so he probably asked it, right?” Nu-uh. Jinn and Ozpin met once already, and he asked all of the questions, likely before the Great War - during her last century of questions.

After that, Oz probably had it secured in Haven Academy, leaving the “era” to tick over and the three questions to unlock again during the 80 years between the War and the present day. And at this point, it was more easily accessible to the Headmaster of said Academy than Ozpin. Again; Leo.

So now we know one of the questions was asked in the most recent era; the last 100 years. But there are still prerequisites required to access the relic in the first place. How does Leo stack up against those? Spoiler: It’s easier for him to get over those hurdles than anyone else.

Exhibit A: The Spring Maiden

By this point we all know you need the Spring Maiden to access the Spring/Knowledge Vault. Did Leo have the Spring Maiden at the time he needed her to be able ask Jinn a question?

Yep, he did. Leonardo seemed to know more about her than anyone else. One could assume Ozpin keeps the appropriate maiden close at hand to their vault and relic when he has them on side. Amber is kept in her vault while she’s unconscious, for one.

So Leo had the maiden, and could have used her to get to the relic to ask a question - a question that shook him to his core and caused his fall from grace. But as we know from Volume 6 Episodes 2 and 3, those in the immediate vicinity when the question is asked will also be shown the answer. So the maiden, a child at the time, in the vault with Leo, was shown the answer to his question too.

She got scared too - and ran away.

Leo’s question broke her just as it did him, making her run away, eventually stumble upon the Branwen tribe were Raven decided she was the law and killed her because she wasn’t ‘made for this world’. But, according to Leo, she was determined at first. Just… not after she saw the answer to his question.

And Spring was missing for around a decade. Perhaps a similar amount of time to the amount Leo was aiding Salem. The same thing caused them both to act the way they did - Leo’s question.

Exhibit B: The Key

Leo may have asked the question and had access to the appropriate maiden. But there’s one more prerequisite that singles out Leo alone to be the one who could have asked.

Leo is the only person with the key to the vault itself.

Leo’s pocket watch activates the Jinn statue which opens the path to the vault. Cinder knows only Leo has the key, he’s seen fondling with it in Volume 5 Episode 1. If someone wants the vault opened, they need him or his pocket watch. Leo himself has an easier access to the vault than anyone else.

TL;DR

Leo has access to the key to the Vault, the Spring maiden, and one of the questions was already asked. He had the easiest access to all three at one time.

Jinn’s answer was shared with both Leo and Spring, devastating both of them and causing Leo’s uncomfortable alliance with Salem as well as Spring to flee and be picked up by Raven.

But then… what was Leo’s question? What did he ask Jinn that broke him and Spring so badly?

I can think of one idea:

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