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Path To Isolation
Drafted (1.15.21)
I wrote this as a salt fic about my transphobic teacher who publicly shamed, bullied and humiliated me because of my pronouns. It’s sort of inspired by RWBY, sort of not. Eike is inspired Jaques Schnee as well as my old teacher, and Robin is inspired by Weiss Schnee as well as me. This contains direct lines from Jeff Williams’ Path To Isolation, as well as Pyrrha Nikos’ destiny mentality and elements resembling a reverse My R by Hikaru Station. I purposefully over exaggerated the ridicule of boys in theater and colorblind artists, as I have never heard of anyone in today’s day and age facing such hurtful criticism for those things. That is not to say that it might not happen to people! Anyway, enjoy this attack on my transphobic teacher!
UPDATE! (2.6.21) Turns out I might actually be going back to that cursed school after all...
Weiss Theory:
Weiss wanted to be a singer full time before Winter was disinherited.
Most of my evidence for this comes from the song ‘The Path to Isolation’- by which I mean almost all of it, but I’ve had this as a headcanon for a while, it just evolved into a full-blown theory recently.
So, to start with, the slow intro, so until now I’ve just kinda assumed that the ‘unexpected loss of something dear’ is about Weiss’ grandfather- makes sense, she was clearly either close to him or massively idolised him, and the start to her path to isolation absolutely would be his death, and her fathers subsequent takeover of his company. But it could also refer to Winter leaving- that definitely would be unexpected, especially if Weiss was quite young at the time and Winter, as we’ve been theorising, protected her and Whitley from the worst of Jackass.
Which, the line that's really interesting comes at the end of the second verse- ‘The path to isolation is littered with the dreams that lay destroyed’. This confirms (to me at least) that being a huntress wasn’t Weiss’ original dream. There was something else she’d wanted to do beforehand. This actually comes up in a few places, ‘forget your dreams do what your told’ in Mirror Mirror part II, for example. So, Winter got disinherited and Weiss had to give up a dream? We know Weiss’ goal by the time of canon is to become a huntress so she can restore her families legacy. So, it stands to reason that when Winter was around, that wasn’t something that really crossed her mind- she wasn’t the heiress, after all, her awesome older sister was.
And then there’s the other very interesting line in this song- ‘everything my mind wants, in conflict with my heart.’ We know her mind wants to become a huntress and restore her grandfathers company. So, what does her heart want?
Then the evidence that it’s singing: First off, in volume 5 Chapter 8, Yang and Weiss both talk about ‘recitals’ when she was younger, no mention of training. Yang is particularly interesting- that implies that Weiss’ singing career is pretty well known, even though, as we saw way back in episode 2, Ruby has no idea who she is. Which is especially interesting when Weiss admits in the same scene that the recitals stopped, which could explain why Yang vaguely knows about them but Ruby didn’t (or Weiss just mentioned them at some point in the 4 and a half seasons between those scenes, and I’m overthinking it. Both work.)
And, an interesting thought that honestly, could be a theory all on it’s own- Weiss seems like, disproportionally mad when she sees how young Ruby is in Volume 1. Maybe because, at Ruby’s age, Weiss was still fully intending to be a singer? Food for dumb thought.
So yeah, tldr, Weiss had a different career in mind before Winter got disinherited, and all things considered that’s probably why she’s a singer.
I was listening to "Path of Isolation" from the RWBY soundtrack, and I can't help but think of it in terms of Oscar, Oz, and their merge.
Lyric breakdown under the "keep reading" if you're interested. I think I did okay with this analysis. 💖
Love went wrong
Is it so easy to unlove someone? Is it easier than unfollowing someone on Instagram?
Just like blocking someone on WhatsApp?
Was it all a lie or a mirage in which I had fallen deeply?
Am I really not enough or capable ? Have you forgotten the moments we shared ,the time we spent together?
Why has everything turned into a question? Why have you fallen out of emotions when I had fallen deep into it?
Why has the garden of love turned into an abyss of sadness and uncertainty for you?
Was it my anger or tears or my saying no to things? Tell me which part of us made you think that we aren't good enough together ?
Why were you late in realizing it or was it me stretching things like an elastic band?
Finally now you realized that there's too much of shear stress and it will break or I shall say that it has broken and left me wounded.
I was giving love another chance and look what it did ;awarded me fresh wounds at a crucial point of life.
I guess all my questions will remain unanswered but that's for sure ,I won't give love another chance to break my heart.
fighting back, surrender but everyday I'm falling more apart
Path to Weissolation amirite guys? guys? hello??
Weiss Needs A Break
So I'm just gonna put this up since Weiss possibly cutting herself is getting so much attention.
If it turns out to be true then I hope it at least gets addressed in volume 6 since the most likely place it being addressed is while in Atlas.
If it doesn't and it's a more metaphorical or another way of self harm then that'd be good too. *internal sigh of relief*
But as for no signs of Weiss' possible cuts in volume 1:
The writers might not have come up with that plot point at that stage of the show.
The animation style might have made it difficult to show.
AURA HEALS HER CUTS AFTER SHE INFLICTS THEM.
I'm sorry Weiss *cries in corner*