The White Rose of STRQ

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[seshirukun]

Mom team

[littleali07]

Side by side comparison of Team RWBY and their mothers.

[owletarc]

RWBY + moms.

i struggle so deeply   to understand   how someone can pour their entire soul   ( blood and energy )   into someone without wanting anything in return.     i will have to wait till i’m a mother.

[mottesk]

Bratgang *all the glasses belong to Yang

wanted to draw some wholesome family picture!

i just ripped the edge off, because I got tired drawing Qrows arm :(…or his legs

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[cosmokyrin]

“I heard you don’t like getting your cape wet.”

Day 6: Rain / Storm

It’s @hummingbirdweek 2019!

[artsynimbus]

..I feel like if I drew this on the reg, i’d cry… ♥(๑′̥̥̥▵‵̥̥̥ ૂ๑)♥♥♥

[strqwhiterose]

//now that we have canon stuff on summer, might reopen this blog someday... might.//

[elleleh]

I just want soft Qrow and Summer romance is that too much to ask for?

[anthurak]

The White Rose of Death - On the topic of Summer Rose’s Weapon

There have been a lot of theories and concepts floated around as to what Summer Rose’s weapon might have been. From chain-whips, to a spear, to a battle-axe, to swords and more.

However, what I personally find rather odd is that I’ve yet to see Summer using what is kind of the most obvious choice for her weapon.

A Sniper Rifle.

Ruby’s Crescent Rose is specifically noted to be a Scythe and a Sniper Rifle. We know Ruby’s use of the Scythe was symbolically inherited from her Mentor/Uncle Qrow, but considering that Qrow’s scythe does not have any kind of sniper function, Ruby must have gotten the Sniper Rifle from somewhere else.

We know that Ruby always wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps, so why not use the same weapon that Summer did?  

Summer being a Sniper also fits very nicely into a running trend we’ve been seeing with Silver Eyed Warriors; the fact that they all have a very strong Death motif and imagery.

Ruby of course has her giant Scythe, a weapon closely associated with Death in western culture via the Grim Reaper. Ruby’s attire, a hooded cloak, is often worn by personifications of Death, again like the Grim Reaper. Red is Ruby’s most prominent color, a color that is often associated with Death (see Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Masque of the Red Death’ for perhaps the most well-known usage.) Ruby has a very significant birthdate related to Death; October 31st, both All Hallows Eve and the Day of the Dead. Finally, the nature of Ruby’s Semblance and the way it scatters rose petals has a few Death connotations, with the imagery of falling and scatter petals or leaves sometimes being using to symbolize the passing of a life.

Maria Calavera of course has a lot of symbolic association with Dia De Los Muertos through both her name and her Skull motif. Like Ruby, she wore a hooded cloak back in her huntress days, which was colored Black, pretty much the iconic image of Death. Also like Ruby, she uses a Scythe in the form of a pair of sickles which even indirectly inspired Ruby’s own use of a scythe via Qrow. And of course, there’s Maria’s nickname; The Grimm Reaper.

Then we come to Summer. Even with the bare bones information we have on her at the moment, we can already see a major bit of Death imagery in her character in the form of Summer’s White Cloak, another color with a lot of association with Death.

And Summer being a Sniper fits perfectly into this trend of Death symbolism. Going back through history, we can see that a lot of famous Snipers get Death-related nicknames. From the Finnish Sniper Simo Häyhä, AKA ‘The White Death’ to the Soviet Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, AKA ‘Lady Death’ to the multiple snipers throughout history that have been given the moniker ‘the Angel of Death’. Which of course has carried over into any number of fictional representations. The fact is, Snipers tend to get a lot of Death symbolism associated with them.

Finally, Summer being a Sniper sets up a very nice parallel with Ruby’s own super kind/sweet yet ruthlessly pragmatic demeanor. I recently did a whole analysis on just how ruthless and deadly a fighter Ruby can be, and Summer herself employing a style of combat that is all about maximum lethality would tell us exactly where Ruby got her own ruthless edge from.

Also, this is probably pretty obvious, but Ruby herself using a sniper rifle can certainly mean all the Sniper-related Death symbolism can be applied to her as well.

[lieu-rey]

summer rose and her weapon, albarosa!

[jesper-mojo]

Mother’s beach

[oranzero-blog]

[oranzero-blog]

RED LIKE ROSES PART 2 almost made me cry. Jeff is a genuis!

[draconicgale]

RWBY / STRQ ~ UNIFORM

“You’re such a scruff, Qrow.”

[draconicgale]

RWBY / STRQ ~ UNDER THE OAK

[strqwhiterose]

what your rwby ship that was both left out of the popular 'what your rwby ship says about you' video and is something i've seen on my dash says about you, or, i don't know half the shipnames so just roll with it

rosebird (summer/raven): you love angst

cloqwork (oz/qrow): you love hot principals and angst

tai/summer (i don't know if this ship has a name and i was going to suggest 'tai/die' but that's mean): you love battle couples and angst

emberald (? is this what we're calling it?) (cinder/emerald): you just want emerald to get what she wants

precious gems (emerald/ruby): you saw ruby do a verbal keysmash upon receiving one (1) compliment from emerald and you ran with it and you never looked back. also, you want emerald to have nice things

roman/neo (which according to the rwby shipchart is called ‘romeo’, which i hate): you never got over team rocket

professor port/dr oobleck (which i am not looking up on the shipping chart because i’ve now seen some things i never wanted to see and i’ve closed that tab forever): you are very angry that ao3’s tagging system doesn’t distinguish between relationships that are the focus of the fic and background relationships

nora/pyrrha (if this one doesn’t have a ship name i suggest ‘heartbreak’): you have a thing for characters who put up fronts to cover their trauma

soulmates (pyrrha/cinder): you have a thing for characters who are inescapably haunted by their decisions

phoenix (taiyang/raven): you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of divorce

taiqrow (i don’t know the ship name for this either) (taiyang/qrow): you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of school bros and/or dads

ironqrow (james ironwood/qrow): you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of bitter rivalries, and you're gay

glynda/james (glynda goodwitch/james ironwood): you are heterosexual

jaune/so many girls (like the entire female cast of rwby, can you calm down a little?): you are horny and heterosexual

flown north (summer/qrow): i'm trying really hard to say something nice here but i just want you to know if you think qrow can't care about ruby without being biologically related to her or if you participate in the chickification of summer i will hunt you for sport. now that that's out of the way, you're hoping for strq flashbacks in v7

team strq but in a shipping way (summer/taiyang/raven/qrow): you’re REALLY hoping for strq flashbacks in v7

ironwand (hey, i’d just like to take a moment here to give a shoutout to all the ship names i’ve seen for james and oz, because you guys are absolutely trying to cram as much phallic imagery into this as you can and i support you) (james ironwood/oz): you’re still riding the high of volume 2

narration (i feel like i've seen it called this somewhere but i could be wrong) (salem/oz): you will not admit to shipping this on pain of death OR you will not let people forget that you ship this (on pain of death)

ironozqrow (james ironwood/qrow/oz): you're me, natalie, avia, or jon.

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