black out the sky

here for strq reunion

[strqyr]

not that strq needs to have thematically similar semblances, but it would be cool if summer's and tai's fell into the same range as misfortune and kindred link.

while qrow can activate his semblance on his own, he can't turn it off; it will do its thing whenever it feels like it, being both a boon and a curse in a fight. raven's bonds most likely aren't the type she can just decide on on the spot, it takes time to form a genuine bond with someone, which can also make their use in battle limiting (not to mention the portals aren't the most inconspicuous, making them most useful for surprise attacks than anything else).

like, they can be useful, but there's a limiting factor... which in a way makes them less reliant on their semblances during combat, highlighting their skill using their weapons. a certain lack of control, a downside, that they just need to roll with, that stops their semblances from being the Greatest Thing Ever™.

and i'd like something similar for summer and tai; something that's a goldmine for storytelling and character work, but doesn't take the spotlight away from them during fights, if that makes sense lol

[strqyr]

"you block them on both your main and sideblogs by default" how would that work though is there a way to make tumblr know that all of your accounts are you???

you can have multiple blogs under one account? are people using "sideblog" to talk about blogs they made new accounts for, instead of creating a new blog within the same account?? like, this is the "set-up" i have (the "+ new" next to "blogs" is where you create new ones (tho iirc it used to be more hidden before)):

i mean, i suppose tumblr could introduce account linking and thus shared blocking that way, but idk if they'd consider it worth it to develop when they have tools for multiple blogs under one account already, for which they'd just need to streamline blocking into something more straightforward across blogs, which already exists to some extend (i.e. blocking someone via activity feed on your sideblog gives the option to block them on your main, too).

[strqyr]

tumblr should make it a feature that when you block someone, you block them on both your main and sideblogs by default, rather than forcing you to manually write their username on your sideblogs' blocklists.

or at least make it an option. if you block someone via a sideblog's activity feed, it asks if you want to block them on your mainblog too; they just need to give that option any time you block someone, like "do you want to block only for main, or for all your blogs?" easy peasy.

[strqyr]

since yang was already sleeping like a log before tai was done reading the story while ruby was still wide awake, i can only imagine all the times yang read ruby stories ending in her falling asleep mid-story, leaving ruby to pick up the book and finishing it on her own.

there's no other way lol

[strqyr]

potential, as a term, is kind of like packing a suitcase.

ideally, it's packing your suitcase with everything you need, all neat and tidy with some space to spare even, if you happen to think of something you might need later without any need to reorganize, the suitcase closing easily.

sometimes, problems arise: you didn't get to bring your own suitcase and the one offered to you is too small for everything you need, or perhaps you miscalculated how much space a specific item would take; either way, something's going to be left out. it may be something small and inconsequential (but would have been nice to have), or it may be something super-duper important, the lack of it noticeable afterwards, a decision that may have been a calculated risk, or the first one that came to mind in a rush.

and then there are times where you're just cramming everything into the suitcase haphazardly with very little planning. all the items are the same, but by the time you're done with packing, there's no rhyme or reason to anything, the suitcase is bulging and you're struggling to get it closed while sitting on top of it, the zipper threatening to undo its whole existence given a chance.

it's not pretty. you may see all the ideas the writer had in mind, the potential, the ideal, but the execution leaves you wanting more. the reasons why the suitcase ended in that state vary; it may be lack of time, budget, or skill, or some combination of the three, but regardless of the exact reason, the end result is still lacking.

but your audience will see that potential because good portion of the people know what a nicely packed suitcase looks like, what it should have in it for a nice trip, and they will yearn for it, conjure what ifs in their mind, talk about it openly.

that is to say, when people talk about "potential", they're not talking about how the writer packed a suitcase but what they really wanted was a hamburger; they're wishing the writer had packed the suitcase properly.

[strqyr]

while i can appreciate the attention to detail and being throughout with the information provided, i feel like referring to holding a weapon for 15 seconds as a "previous owner (temporarily)" is a bit over the top.

but idk. could just be a me thing lol

[strqyr]

team strq shouldn't have a b-team, they should have a rival team. full on hater-on-hater behaviour across the board, like strq might be a mess and not getting along in the beginning, but it's their mess, thank you very much, and if anyone else tries to mess with 'em, hands will be thrown.

and it's exactly that which acts as the step one of unifying team strq.

[strqyr]

arrow =/ that story gets so dark. she was on the inside of you podcast not long ago talking about how they refused to tell the actors what was going on for drama, and even late into the season when she could feel it coming they were sending her out there to do press tours about what was up next year. finally confronting the executive producer and having to plead with him to just be honest and tell her if she was going to have a job when the season was over. they were in kind of uncharted waters though when you think about it, with the social media feedback. no one knew how much credence to lend to what fans on twitter were excited about. they flopped hard but it's always sounded like they thought they were engaging with honest feedback. i like to think that other shows have learned from that at least. i want to think RWBY would know better in 2027

i remember at the time the talk already was that she was only told it was her character in the grave right before they began filming the episode, so i'm not surprised. i'm glad she's still talking about it because it was such bullshit, like holy hell the disrespect towards the actors one must have to pull that just for drama.......

like you know you've fucked up when your sister-show introduces the earth-2 counterpart of the character soon after to their earth and doesn't send her back (which, iirc, was pretty common occurrence with other earth-2 counterparts) just in case.

her death was so bad too :') what do you mean you have her severely injured in the field, rush her to hospital, say she's recovering while turning her into the ship's mouthpiece in what became her last moments, just to have a random doctor say she died off-screen due to Complications™... the disrespect :'')

barely watched the show after that. i think i only came back for the 100th episode (which was part of a crossover, anyway) and that one episode where they brought her earth-2 character over from the flash.

i do agree that it was different time regarding social media and how much weight to give the voices there, but i also remember it being pretty common sentiment (at least outside shipping circles) that the showrunner's behaviour was far beyond what would be considered professional, especially when that treatment was only towards one, very specific group in the fandom.

arrow rant over, tho i have to say "arrow =/" is pretty succinct way of describing my feelings towards the show.

tbh i wouldn't be too worried over rwby if not for V9 commentary, where they specifically talked about neo being irredeemable but they still wanted to give her a chance to "bow out" thanks to her popularity, which is... not encouraging, as far as allowing audience to dictate what happens in the show goes.

my two copes are that 1) it's a one off, and 2) the writers were throwing anything and everything at the screen to "pander" towards the audience, whatever they thought would bring more views or sell more merch, because RT and the show were not doing great and any little thing counts, or that upper management were pushing them to do so, so that now, hopefully, under VIZ there's less need for that.

but again, that's me coping lol

[strqyr]

i'm not here to yuck anyone's yum, you do you, but whenever i enter threads of "what would you like / expect to see in future volumes?" and multiple replies include stuff that's only there to prop up their favourite ships i get violent war flashbacks to arrow, a show i enjoyed that went downhill the moment the showrunner started pandering to shippers (and this is like, "talking to shippers via dms" levels of pandering) to the point they haphazardly killed off a significant characters in the most hamfisted way possible because the shippers—despite getting what they wanted!!—still felt threatened by them, or something dumb like that.

and i just. i don't want to lose more shows for this. please. i'm begging. fanfiction exists for a reason we don't need different ships playing house in the middle of a war, nor does every character need to end up with someone else.

especially so when the future of the show is on a tightrope at the best of times, like there are so many more important things to get to for the show to have a satisfying ending :')

[strqyr]

Aesthetics Update! Looking good!

thanks <3

we'll see how long it lasts before i go back to black lmao

[strqyr]

i suppose i'm very easy to please because there's something very satisfying lining them up like this. like, bit by bit the full picture of strq is revealed... tho it's still missing pretty big pieces lol

but also it's funny how in a sea of reds there's this one spot of yellow :)

[source] (the cleanest scan of the archives book i've managed to find)

[strqyr]

one thing i'm glad to see in the announcement video is that the colours are red, white, black, and yellow, and i hope they stick with it, weird as it may sound to say because brand identity and such.

like, nothing against the blue and the purple, but the colour combo with them in it just doesn't pop as well as the OG does, and idk, it just... does not say rwby to me.

idk if that makes sense, but here's a quick edit to (hopefully) showcase what i mean (original vs edit):

like. red, white, black, yellow? that screams rwby. i could see that combo in the wild and think "ah yes, my girls :)"—no such thing with red, blue, purple, yellow.

[strqyr]

remember when they were going to give freezerburn a second team attack? yeah it didn't make it into the episode but they still thought of it. had concept art and everything, iirc storyboard animatic too, all ready to go.

that was a good day.

it better be in V10. there's no way it can go to waste, it was so good, combining fire and ice in equal amounts, neither overwhelming the other.

[strqyr]

what could have been... and should be. in the future :)

[strqyr]

remember when they were going to give freezerburn a second team attack? yeah it didn't make it into the episode but they still thought of it. had concept art and everything, iirc storyboard animatic too, all ready to go.

that was a good day.

it better be in V10. there's no way it can go to waste, it was so good, combining fire and ice in equal amounts, neither overwhelming the other.

[strqyr]

...how difficult would it be to update tai's emblem on rwby wiki? like, i'm willing to do this myself, but do i need to make an account for it?

it's just that the dimensions are all wrong in the wiki one, when the actual canon one is much more "squished" together and with a more pronounced heart shape, as seen here:

here the patch can be seen in the show, so it's not like. just the concept art doing it if there's any doubt left:

[strqyr]

would be kind of funny if any possible falling out between summer and raven was not because of anything ultra dramatic but simply... summer doing her job, similar to how clover was deadset on arresting qrow once the order came in.

if at that point raven had already gone back to the tribe, that is. no doubt there'd be some kind of an arrest warrant for her—though if summer found her with the tribe in the first place, that's probably not needed—, so the board has been set. like summer doesn't even need to know about any other horrible stuff that raven may or may not have done, going back to banditry is enough, no more second chances.

though summer would likely have to be less "polite" than clover about it. raven's a flight risk on so many levels that summer telling raven she's going to arrest her is going to be met with a "lol. lmao, even." and one quick portal out of there.

and that's how we get summer shooting at raven, just like qrow did at haven :)

[strqyr]

headcanon about how qrow's semblance manifested that no one asked for:

qrow really, really doesn't like the tribe. they're killer and thieves, bunch of jerks who attack villages in the middle of the night while their hunters are away or they're recovering from a recent grimm attack, and unlike raven, not once has he referred to them as his family.

he's a young boy idolizing a legendary huntress while growing up amidst bad people who aren't getting their dues. sometimes, bad things just happen, but they never seem to happen to the bad people.

"why can't bad things happen to bad people?" he thinks, watching the tribesmen go about their day... until something bad does happen. it's small things at first: someone trips, a tent peg fails, a wheel from a cart breaks, a gun jams—inconveniences, mostly.

maybe he eventually figures out that it's him causing it, whenever he's thinking negatively of the tribe, targeting a specific person, etc. maybe he's even happy about it, knowing he can make the tribe's life just a tad more difficult.

but he's also young boy with no aura training and no real understanding how his semblance works, and soon enough, it gets out of control—he can sort of ignore it when it's him getting the brunt of it, but when it eventually hits raven, it's not so fun anymore. he tries to get it back under control, tries to hide it, but to no avail; before long, the rest of the tribe catches on... and qrow gets his name.