Speaking of gun safety, Suzie never should have been in the position where she was rummaging in her purse for a gun of all things. They have purse holsters for a reason.
Person in my writing workshop: yeah I will need you to have a detailed knowledge of aristotle thornton wilder and the classical symbolic resonances of both scorpions and bears to understand my short story
Same person: your use of the singular they was just SO confusing no reader is gonna understand it, too complex, simplicity is key
Can I say something about our pal Neptune, real quick?
Ah~ my favorite blue haired supporting character (not my favorite character, to ensure you this is not biased) that mainly gets flack from one angle and that would be Neptune “giving up Weiss” and “Treating her like an object.” And although that may seem what it sounds like, I’ll have to tell you that’s simply not the case.
"Look. If you want Weiss, she’s all yours.”
Now. Let’s analyze this term of phrase. In context, Neptune understands that Jaune wants to date Weiss. It’s a fact that probably half of the school knows this at that point. When I hear that line, I don’t hear “Look, If you want Weiss to yourself, just take her, she’s a toy to me.” I hear “Look. You really like Weiss, so I won’t stand in your way anymore.” See how different wording can be? (I mean if Yang said “He’s all~ yours, Weiss” would Yang get hate? I want you to think about that for a minute)
Now, Neptune seems like a womanizer, he’s a bit of a playboy and winks to other girls, however, are we going to ignore the fact Yang groped a man’s balls without consent, which is pretty much sexual harassment? (People would lose. Their. Shit if the roles were reversed) Yang has no issues ogling boys half naked in the open sleeping area, but Neptune can’t wink and smile at a few girls? What about Sun? In EVERY SINGLE FUCKING EPISODE that Sun even ENGAGES with Blake, there’s always unwarranted flirting, winking, seductive terms of phrase, seductive lying down, or listening in on her conversations. Hypocrisy. And you wanna talk sexist? Let’s talk about everyone in the dance clowning Jaune for wearing a dress to the dance EXCEPT for Neptune and a few others. Here I thought “Remnant is a very accepting place filled with diversity and numerous nationalities.”
If we’re going to talk about Neptune’s dance arc being an incident, then I want to hear about Yang’s sexual harassment. Or Sun’s soliciting. I don’t hate Yang, but honestly you can’t just prey on Neptune because he’s new and hasn’t been on screen a long time, that’s not fair to the character. If Neptune was anything like a douche, he wouldn’t have helped RWBY in the search and capture mission. Neptune obviously CARES about Weiss. Remember this?
If Neptune didn’t care about this “object” then he wouldn’t have said anything just like everyone else around her when she ran straight for a gunning mech.
Also, even if it did sound a little sexist, maybe you’d forgotten who the writers of the show are? Grown men. That’s no excuse mind you, but I’m not going to hate this character because what he said “sounded kinda sexist”. I’ll hate a character if they fiddle with the plot in a negative way every time they show up on screen. But that’s not the case with Neptune. I feel as though, Neptune is a flirt with a heart of gold and there’s no evidence to show he’s an asshole to all women, so I stand by that. So, Yeah.
I can do a full analysis on this character because honestly there are some aspects about him that I personally don’t enjoy, like the fact he seems to be getting weaker and weaker as days pass, but honestly that’s for another day.
In conclusion, I don’t believe Neptune was at all, if not, intentionally being a jerk to Weiss. If you wanna get on someone for being a jerk to Weiss, look at the person who scolded and lectured him about “how to treat a woman” even though he clearly doesn’t understand the word “no” repeatedly. Tall, blonde, and scraggly.
I sort of brute-forced my way past Dyslexia as a kid/teen (It still happens, but it isn’t as much of a struggle), but now that I’m studying Japanese again I’m also rediscovering how bad my dyslexia is. Now I get to be dyslexic in TWO LANGUAGES 8D *facepalm*
im screeching bc i went into magnus family member tags and stumbled upon posts made by angry racists who hate brown magnus family.....and one post in particular is written in the same vein as multiple hate messages ive gotten...........that feel when you got Blockedt so you have to spread ur colorist shit directly into the tags instead :-/
