from the flames

aph • 26 • they / them • rwby • rwde warning ! ⚠️

[solardragun]

hello & welcome. on this blog, you'll find rwby content, such as headcanons and rewrite ideas. there will also be rwde present.

all posts / reblogs regarding the rewrite my wife and i are writing will be tagged with: #* rewrite au.

all rwde / critical posts will be tagged with: #rwde for simplicity

on another note, this is a sideblog so i can't follow back or reply back in the comments.

× aphrodite / aphy / aph / aphs

× 26

× nonbinary + they / them

× venusic / lesbian + taken

[sheenaduquette]

There’s so much that could be said.

I have written, deleted, rewritten and trashed so many attempts. Every time I think I’m done I question the purpose behind what I’ve composed, and hate it even more.

I’ve felt defined by things and people who should not have any control over me. I have spent years feeling like there were boots on my throat, a silent threat in case I try to find my voice.

I used to wonder what I had ever done to deserve this treatment, why I had been chased out, threatened and abandoned. I’ve lost so much of who I used to be, so why in the world was the retaliation so aggressive on top of that?

For years, I tried to put myself in each and every one of these shoes; the ones who threatened me, the ones who abandoned me, the ones who tried to steal. And I tried so, so hard to understand why they were wielding such cruelty. I’d made sure not to do anything to set anyone off. I was already too self-conscious, self-analyzing every interaction for what I could do better, if there was a way to stop the harassment. So what could the reason be?

I gave grace to those undeserving. I gave empathy to those who kicked me when I was down. I gave patience to those who were trying to manipulate me. But I cannot forget the first time I saw one of them actually—and literally—turn tail and run away from me.

Me, the tiny woman who gets shoved around and stepped on regularly because she doesn’t deserve respect. The stupid little cosplayer who doesn’t do anything other than look pretty for pictures. The woman everyone chalks up to being just a hysterical widow because it’s an easy way to silence her.

That’s who they ran from.

So I thought about that. I thought about that a lot. Perhaps the internal narrative was worse than I originally understood. I stopped receiving replies, becoming more and more isolated and alone. Maybe people really did believe I was a monster, as the guy who turned red in the face would remind them all if someone dared to speak my name. Why should my name garner such a passionate, albeit hateful, response? Just my name?

Now, I like to think, every day when I wake up, that I am holding a fusion bomb on my tongue, and they don’t know when or if it will ever drop. There’s a new excitement in embracing this view of thinking, of taking back control over the story of my life. I’m tired of other people putting words in my mouth, or of the departed’s.

More often than not, accusations that are tossed around easily tend to be a flimsy projection by the person throwing them. It was not me who was trying to take control. It was not me tanking team morale. It was not me self-inserting characters.

But it’s so easy to shift the blame and redirect the attention, the scrutiny and suspicion in the wake of tragedy, isn’t it?

It’s such a simple thing to reshape a broken woman into your scapegoat, so how could you resist?

All of this to say, no; I’m not gonna just spill everything. I want to continue holding on to the rope for the guillotine, because they deserve to eat the anxiety that comes with anticipation for every meal. I did not spend the last ten years protecting my work in silence from greedy and grubby hands just to give away pieces of myself to satisfy some childish online disputes.

Of course I know the untold story; who do you think was helping to write it? It was not mine to tell, but along the journey I took to protect it, a tale of my own has unfolded. It’s all intertwined, I just need more time.

Thanks for reading.

死勿

[solardragun]

c/rwby got me fucked up so now spite lives on in me and i'm gonna work on my au some more smh also gonna make new aesthetics bc i made new templates

[solardragun]

@ammy246 // 'there was a literal grimm invasion-' beyond the one salem directly caused, the grimm piling into mantle was an issue long before team rwby arrived, so neither invasions are a result of the relic being exposed. 'why would they need to follow the relic-' because that's what the narrative insisted on in volume 6 after the trainwreck. ozpin stated that the reason the train was attacked was because the relic acted as a beacon for grimm. so using that established fact, it didn't make sense that there were no grimm attacks beyond the ones i stated above. there should have been hordes upon hordes of grimm following them around if the relic was supposedly a magnet for them.

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many regions in remnant still have royal families and actual monarchs, especially in vacuo. our most prominent character that hails from royal kingdoms is rose. she’s a runaway princess who discarded her royal status in favor of becoming a huntress. her motivations behind this are currently redacted as it’s a spoilers

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more lore ! ami fey and nicholas schnee are responsible for the white hair, light eyes and pale skin within their families. certain traits do filter through from other family members, such as ami’s husband passing on his tan skin, darker hair and brown eyes, and nicholas’ wife passing on her dark hair and brown eyes to gregory. this is why willow and gregory look nothing alike despite being siblings. 

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maidens —

• each seasonal maiden has a specific element: spring — earth, summer — fire, fall — air / electricity, winter — water / ice.

• maiden flames reflect their aura color rather than their eye color. so for instance, if a maiden with gold eyes had a blue aura, their flames would be blue.

• maidens are not gender locked ! there were instances of men, and trans / nonbinary / genderfluid people becoming maidens throughout remnant's history. despite this, the name unfortunately stayed and is in need of being modernized.

• known maidens: raven branwen (spring / current), sol (summer / former †), [redacted for spoilers] (summer / current), amber (fall / former †), pyrrha nikos (fall / fated †), cinder fall (fall / current), ami fey (winter / original †), misty fey (winter / former), [redacted for spoilers] (winter / current)

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the branwen clan were founded by a pirate from vacuo and continuously moved about. they didn’t start off as pillaging or thievery, they mostly did what they could to survive after what happened to their kingdom. down the line, some leaders began to take on a more brutal aspect, thus giving them their infamous name and reputation.

when it was sterling’s turn, he tried to clear their name, not wanting their clan to stay with that reputation. but raven doesn’t agree. she likes the power and fear her clan name brings

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jacques schnee is originally from the von karma family and is the younger brother to manfred von karma . manfred had a rivalry with gregory schnee when they were attending atlas academy . soon his rivalry turned into disdain and hatred , and he was willing to do anything to keep him out of the picture .

when gregory was rumored to inherit the schnee dust company , manfred instructed jacques to marry into the family through willow schnee , and helped him plead a case to nicholas schnee , convincing him to hand the company and legacy to willow instead .

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official ship names —

💎fire and ice → phoenix branwen + miles schnee

💎spirit brawlers → maya fey + kay faraday

💎feathered dragon (formerly) → raven branwen + taiyang long

💎crimson corvus (formerly) → raven branwen + summer rose

💎dusty rose 💙 → summer rose + qrow branwen

💎snapdragons 💙 → summer rose + taiyang long

💎taiqrow / bad dragon 💙 → taiyang long + qrow branwen

💎black clover / lucky charms 💙 → clover ebi + qrow branwen

💎garden of luck (endgame) → summer rose + taiyang long + qrow branwen + clover ebi

💎metalgear / ironoz → james ironwood + ozpin

💎monochrome → weiss schnee + blake belladonna

💎sunflowyr → ren lie + yang branwen

💎snowpines / rich farmers → whitley schnee + oscar pine

💎blood moon (formerly) → oliver newton + adam taurus

💎blue raspberry (endgame) → katiana blaine + adam taurus

💎emercury / silver thief → emerald sustrai + mercury black

💎monkey princess → sun wukong + rosa santiago (rose meltdown)

💙 = eventual poly

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phoenix branwen / kay faraday / maya fey / miles schnee — team bffs (belfast) aesthetic (cred.)

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summer rose / taiyang long / raven branwen / qrow branwen — team strq (stark) aesthetic (cred.)

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ozpin / leonardo lionheart / james ironwood / reyna de la rosa — headmasters aesthetic (cred.)

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katiana blaine / rosa santiago / autumn roux / aria tempest — team brat (bergamot) aesthetic (cred.)

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violet blackwood / glynda goodwitch / bartholomew oobleck / rosalyne peach — beacon professors aesthetic (cred.)

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current beacon professors and what they teach —

violet blackwood — grimm studies, such as how to fight them [replaces peter p/rt]

glynda goodwitch — combat, team management and understanding aura and semblances

bartholomew oobleck — grimm history

rosalyne peach — remnant and valean history

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the branwen triplets and the ~ist mindsets they each hold

raven: realist — sees the world for what it is and accepts that that's just the way it'll always be. stems from growing up in the branwen clan and seeing how the world treats her people. doesn't easily accept change

qrow: pessimist — sees the world bleak and dreary, rarely sees the light at the end of the tunnel. stems from his semblance

phoenix: optimist — believes the world and their lives can change for the better. clings to hope and faith, tries to share that belief.