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RWBY Volume 4 Timeskip Character Design

Ruby: Little red riding hood reaching lvl 99 and ready to fuck you up. Eats cookies made out of her enemies' tears.

Weiss: Started her own empire, became more rich than she already was, a responsible Elsa.

Blake: Achieved her bankai and became a Captain of a Gotei 13 division

Yang: Xiao Long

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Volume 4 Art from the RWBY Panel.

xkatebishop

Volume 4 Art from the RWBY Panel.

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A Response To Shane’s Letter, and more specifically all others who read it.

Summary: I don’t know how much I believe/what I believe after reading Shane’s letter. I think there are inconsistencies and we need to hear from more people. I think RT is doing there best to stay true but it’s not black and white and we need to give other people a chance to give their sides of the story. Don’t freak out on RT when we’ve only heard one side of this.

*If anyone wants to respond to what I say, read the rest of this, my summary doesn’t give justice to my overall thoughts. If you read the entirety of this feel free to respond to this post directly or message me about it anon or not.

I just finished reading the entirety of Shane’s letter twice. I don’t know how to feel about this.

Maybe I’m overprotective, maybe I’m ridiculous.

But I want to hear from the specific people he mentioned. Sheena, JJ, Kara, etc. I want to hear the side of people who do not have full fledged ties to RT currently (besides Kara’s voice acting). I want to hear another side of the story.

I’m sorry, but I can’t help but feel like there was something off about the entire letter. And I’ll say it again, I read it twice, outloud to myself. I’ve been sitting for almost three hours to do this because as a writer, a fan, and a person who looked up to Monty and still cries over him, I knew I needed to really think about this and not jump to conclusions at any point.

I give a shit about RWBY, because it’s one of my biggest inspirations, because it’s gotten my through a lot over the past years. Waiting for each new trailer and episode and preview has given me something to want to stay alive for.

I care so much it hurts.

It’s hard for me to have read that, to read a man’s words and thoughts and beliefs and feeling put out there for everyone to see, and for me not to immediately believe it entirely.

I’m a very empathetic and sympathetic person, my initial reaction to anything with a lot of emotional backing is to full out believe and support it.

There’s no way for me to accurately explain how much I hate myself for not being able to believe it all.

I’m not saying Shane made it all up, that none of it happened, that everything he said was fake or exaggerated. I’m saying that something isn’t sitting right with me after reading that.

This company, these people, they loved Monty, valued him. I don’t think they would ever want to do anything but fulfill what Monty’s dream was. If there’s anything that I don’t feel like I can believe, it’s when Shane seems to imply that Monty was not well-liked, that people thought his processes were ridiculous. That they would ignore what Monty wanted.

At the RWBY panel for RTX 2015, they did a moment of silence, those tears shed by Miles, Kerry, and Gray were real and obvious. They loved Monty.

There’s a lot of things that make me feel uncomfortable and unsure. One of which was how Shane seemed to imply that he was Monty’s only confidant in RWBY production besides Sheena. When the Red trailer came out, and Miles and Kerry were announced as writers they explained that Monty had given them “homework” when he approached them about working on the show, to watch anime. Throughout the years they’ve described days and nights and weeks of staying up writing the series with Monty, who was of course at the head of everything. Monty had never once said that these claims of working closely together were false, and if anything he confirmed them. Shane simply cannot be the only person who knew any of what Monty really wanted, I can’t believe that.

Also, many of the RT staff (Michael, Burnie, Gus, Miles, Gray, just to name a few) over the years have mentioned Monty’s work process, have commended it, have said that he works best in his environment. They’ve never once expressed distaste over how he works. There seems to be another inconsistency there.

It pains me to say that I don’t know how much I believe Shane. I think he’s possibly exaggerating things, or has a different view. Delusional isn’t the word I’m looking for, please don’t get me wrong because from what I read I do believe that he was close to Monty, that maybe because of Monty being gone the people in charge of story and RWBY in general have a different opinion and general way of doing things that every single idea that Monty had unfortunately hasn’t made it’s way into the show.

He admitted that the different plot points in Volume 3 (Yang v Mercury, Pyrrha’s death, Adam and Blake and Yang, etc) that they were all in the show obviously, but maybe they weren’t exactly what Monty had originally conceptualized. I think that Shane may be dealing with a lot and expects that somehow the show would look and be what Monty wanted it to be.

But it will never be that way, because the only way for that to happen would be if Monty’s hands were the ones doing it, and it kills me to say that it obviously can’t be that way.

In the end, I want three things moving forward, other sides of the story, and I want everyone to take a step back.

I’ve already seen a ton of “I don’t know what to believe anymore” and “Fuck RT and their business bullshit” and “M&K (Miles and Kerry) are ruining Monty’s vision” posts and the letter has been out for less than a day. We need to give this time.

Miles and Kerry are only two people in the entirety of RT and though they are the writers they don’t make every decision about the story and don’t deserve to be told they’re ruining what they’re mentor and friend started. Stop blaming them and only them about anything having to do with RWBY

Don’t throw away your belief in RT yet, don’t give up on them. Give RT a chance, give the other people (Sheena especially) a chance to respond.

Take a step back and wait until we have some more pieces of the story, I think that we owe it to everyone, and I mean everyone, involved to give them a chance.

tealdragon

“i love summer”

“we havent even met summer”

“u kno what watch me love summer harder now”

daftprodigy

Ruby moves extremely quickly and has silver-eye magic that enables her to one-shot monsters

She is actually a tiny, hopeful silver bullet

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RWBY Rant (swearing and spoilers to follow)

You know it’s funny, most of Penny’s interactions are with Ruby and a lot of her death is meant to further Ruby’s character arc (kind of marking the official “loss of innocence” point in her life), but fucking NO ONE seemed to mind that.

Yang losing an arm and becoming despondent was partly to add angst to Blake and allow Ruby to go off on her own with the remaining members of Team JNPR. NO ONE seemed to mind that either.

Hell, the fact that Yang’s bedridden, crippled and despondent, Weiss went back home with her family, and Blake went MIA in the wake of the fall of Beacon, was all to emphasize that RWBY is no longer the same story we’ve gotten used to, and hey, guess what? Allows us to focus more on Ruby individually since she’s the only one left. Basically, Penny’s death, Yang’s arm loss, Weiss’s going home, and Blake’s disappearance WERE ALL MEANT TO FURTHER RUBY’S CHARACTER ARC.

And not a single fucking one of you complained about any of that.

But suddenly, when it’s Pyrrha’s death being used to further Jaune’s arc (or rather, set it in motion), you complain that she lacked character depth outside of being his love interest. Despite the fact that about half of Volume 3 had episodes focused on HER and HER PERSONAL STRUGGLE of choosing to whether to be the Fall Maiden, Penny’s death serving as a catalyst for her to fall further into despair, her final words having nothing to do with Jaune, but with what she believed in most - destiny - you all choose to see her as just a prop for Jaune Arc. Ironically, it’s not because you hate her, it’s because you hate Jaune and want an excuse to keep hating him.

Was her death meant to further Jaune’s character development? Yes, of course it was! That wasn’t the only reason for it though. And not to mention, the whole “will they or won’t they” scenario with Jaune and Pyrrha hinged on her struggle to get his attention, culminating in her kissing him before running off to fight Cinder Fall. It was their romantic arc, but it was her pursuit of his affections.

And really, why is it such an issue that Pyrrha wanted a boyfriend? Why does it suddenly make her less of her own person just because she wants to be with someone who will treat her as an equal - that’s the key guys, an equal. Despite what the gay edgelords of Tumblr tell you, heterosexuality isn’t a power struggle with a guy dominating all over a girl. Hell, if the exact same romance arc played out but with Jaune as a girl your only complaint would probably be about the “tragic lesbians” cliche.

So really when you claim Pyrrha or her death were only there to further Jaune Arc’s character, you may think you’re dissing Jaune but you’re really just insulting Pyrrha as a character.

No, seriously, fuck you all.

rontra

glynda “dril” goodwitch

epsilontucker-deactivated202404

i made this to prove a point to someone but I have so many regrets

metallikato

put it back

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the-meta

Oh I’m sorry did you think I was done?

kaisergeyser

Oh my fucking god

the-meta

…..Cesar. You have given me an idea.

rwbyaddicted

I can’t tell which one is more horrifying.

#rwby3 #rwby spoilers

polaroidmax

So that’s why Qrow didn’t miss Ruby…

rwby-rose

she sure didn’t miss him

Episode 11

ROMAN NOOOOOO

#rwby #rwby3 #rwby spoilers #rwby3 spoilers #roosterteeth #BABY COME BACK

chiicharron

a rwby telephone game featuring

@azure-zer0

@kumadraws

@miss-nerdgasmz

@ammietty

@bonpyro

@xuunies

@kumafromtaiwan

@booksandweapons

@dashingicecream

@theasgardiandetective

@funblade

i took the burden of coming up with the starting image, i chose the theme Snow Ruby (like snow miku only ruby) we started before christmas so it explains the accidental christmas theme oops, (please right click idk what tumblr did but the quality died on some of them)

i made a lil story out of it:

Ruby purchases dolls of her teammates and plays with it before wrapping them up to give as a gift and weiss doll is having NONE of it and went rogue and probably breaks out blake doll and yang doll too and ruby is now telling weiss the story of how she acquired the dolls, weiss somehow not believing her tale and complains why is it her doll that went rogue and in the last scene u see the dolls showing signs of sentience. Also they changed outfits a lot, ruby likes to play dress up with the dolls

anway this was super fun and thank you everyone who joined!!