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RWBY's Trailers were... a problem in the making.

The way I see it, as somebody who didn’t even see them until after finishing Volume 1, the Trailers were something of a double edged sword.

On the one hand, they went beyond just giving us clips of an upcoming project edited together into a trailer. They were more akin to pilots for networks at a shorter runtime each where we got a taste for the show’s style or at least part of what they hoped to convey.

The Red Trailer was of a young girl alone in the snowy wild facing black beasts and having an epic battle. There was no dialogue, no voice actress at the time, but the kind of action expected of Monty Oum.

The White Trailer was of another young girl singing a beautiful song about what was likely her inner most conflict while we, presumedly, saw a flashback of her and a giant knight having an epic battle with powers that hinted at a magic system of sorts.

The Black Trailer showed a pair who were clearly renegades fighting “the man” for whatever reason only for the male partner to seemingly go a step too far. Tall, black and broody girl cutting the coupling speaks volumes, indicating that this is a falling out for her. What’s the reason? What were they fighting for? What’s she running from?

The Yellow Trailer showed a blonde bombshell straight out of any year’s top rated seasonal Anime and with the rack to boot. She looks good but busts the club manager’s boss before going Super Saiyan on the mooks and two twin girls. We also meet Red again who is her sister and sounds nothing like the moody goth we thought her to be.

Obviously, there was more going on beneath the surface since it only showed and told so much. It was meant to tease what was likely to come and more. Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum together had plenty of hype combined but it being on Crunchyroll to boot gained it more eyes than it… likely should’ve.

Because it was paired with the Seasonal Anime of its debut year, AniTube and AniTwitter did what it did best: make it their whipping boy just shy of SAO. There was no acknowledgement that this was a low budget, high concept web based animation from those that brought them Red vs. Blue. Outside of it being “sh*t.”

I won’t get into the weeds with them but they certainly set the tone to come. Shifting to the fans that the Trailers actually hooked in, Volume 1 would certainly throw many for a loop with a lot of things.

A Magic School premise.

Weiss being a mean girl.

The very cringe comedy (that has its web series charm, mind you).

And last but certainly not least, Jaune Arc.

Now I mentioned that I never seen the Trailer until after Volume 1. And… I feel like that’s why I felt such a disconnect with the common complaints at the time. Even so, when it was just the Trailers, many would-be fans found it to be a vertiable sandbox for pet ideas based on what little they could find.

Like, say, that masked edgy sword boy in the Black Trailer looked really important and perhaps was a “complex villain” in the making.

They invest so much of that to the point that when the actual thing comes out, disappointment on some level was inevitable. Whatever they envisioned was not going to be that, even if they came close, because, well, no one on the CRWBY was obligated to. This was their show, their story.

They didn’t set any of those tangential expectations. The burgeoning fandom just got too attached to what they’d made.

Welcome to the FNDM, Mosco

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I initially said this in the tags of someone’s fanart, but…

When you watch the RWBY trailers, none of then miss, but Yang’s trailer has a VERY different tone than the others. Partially in how it’s arranged, and partly in how it barely tells you anything about her.

I’m gonna start from the top here — first off, the trailers are clearly a progression. Ruby’s was in some ways just proof of concept for the show, but it also gave us the absolute least information as a result. The Red trailer has Ruby wearing a design that still gets tweaked, the song has four lines and they’re more about the whole team than Ruby herself (and even then more about the allusions than the characters in many ways), the designs for the Beowolves/Grimm aren’t yet crystallized as we know them. The Red trailer told us about RWBY, the show, but not Ruby the character.

Like, Red and White don’t even have speech — the songs are the only dialogue. But Weiss’s obviously tells us more; because the song has more lyrics, because she’s singing it in universe, because of the announcer at the beginning who tells us just a little bit of who she is.

And then things change with Blake’s trailer. It’s got the song and the very informative lyrics, but most of the dialogue is actual dialogue. Blake isn’t the only character present. She’s not fighting faceless monsters, but automated robots that are acting as security, which gives us a much better idea of the technological advances made in-universe. We see a whole cool biome in Forever Fall, and we meet a new character in Adam — even if the relationship is being ended as we watch, we do learn a lot about Blake. Plus, her quote most directly relates to the content of the trailer itself.

In some ways, the amount of info we get per trailer is progressively ramping up, right? So it makes sense that in Yang’s trailer, we get multiple characters with unique names and faces, a cool setting, a good bit of dialogue and even an explicit reason for the conflict.

Except we don’t get the actual reason for conflict fully explained until Volume 2. We know Yang is looking for someone, but we don’t know it’s Raven until far later. And Yang sharing that story wasn’t for her own benefit, but Blake’s! Even when Yang gives information about herself, it’s not for herself.

What do we see Yang do in her trailer? She fakes flirting with a guy, twice, just to beat him up. She orders a drink, demands information, starts a fight when she doesn’t get it, throws down with the DJ and two snotty mean girls. She gets mad about losing her golden hair after fighting the three bears — we get an explicit look at her fairy tale allusion at least. And then, crucially, we learn Yang’s name through Ruby. Her sister. Yang is the main character’s big sister, and that’s the last real bit of information we get. The trailer ends with Yang casually avoiding any meaningful explanations. The song is barely even hers! We get one minute of if I Burn, but the rest of the Yellow trailer is backed by remixes of the other three trailer songs. Yang is being defined by her relationships to other characters, but we don’t actually learn a whole lot about those, either. Because her trailer is Yang against the world, with her sister only there after the battle ends.

Yang is telling us nothing about who she actually is — what motivates her, her friends, her enemies. The conflict behind the fight is opened and shut in five minutes, and we don’t know the greater underlying reason for it at all. Yang only shows us that mask of the dumb party girl that she wears in the early volumes, which some people got fooled into thinking was her real character.

In some ways, though, we learn a lot about her. Because by flirting with Junior just to get him close enough to threaten and hit him — twice — she does tell us that the party girl mask is just that: an illusion. A facade she puts up to trick people dumb enough to underestimate her. Yang embraces her mask of the dumb party girl, then adds on the doting big sister. We see so much, but learn so little.

Yang doesn’t even hold the focus of her trailer at the end. Because the last moments of Yang’s trailer are the first times we hear Ruby speak.

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RWBY Malachite Twins REAL Allusion

Ok so I was just randomly watching the Yellow Trailer today and everything just hit me at once so I’m just writing down whatever I came up with during that time.

So Yang is based off of Goldilocks, right. And her Trailer is based on the story. Goldilocks (Yang) gets to the house (club) and breaks everything (nuts/people/club itself/etc) and comes upon the bears (DJ, Junior). It took a while, but people were eventually able to catch onto the storytelling going on in the trailer. The one thing they were having trouble with was where the Malachite Twins fit into the equation. And although there has seem to been an agreed allusion found, I believe it can be driven into something BIGGER.

Basic research will reveal that they are based on Rose Red and Snow White. The pair come across a bear and take care of it, with the bear eventually revealing himself to be a prince. On the surface, this can easily be translated to Melanie and Militia being bodyguards of Junior, the bear manager (prince) of the club. Yeah cool whatever.

But guys, this is Yang’s trailer. This is the Goldilocks story. So where do they fit in?

You guys

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The Malachite Twins are TOO HOT and TOO COLD

In the Goldilocks story, the young girl tries some of the bear family’s porridge. She complains that the dad’s food is “too hot” and the mom’s is “too cold”. But when she gets to the Baby Bear’s bowl, it’s “just right”. In the Yellow Trailer, Yang fights the twins, too hot (Militia, Red) and too cold (Melanie, White), to get to her real opponent, Baby Bear (Junior).