I'm Dying And Honestly I Think This Rather Confirms The Test's Quality More Than Anything

I've been having THOUGHTS again (very dangerous I know, someone take my brain away) but about Summer this time bc I saw a post with the same premise aka...

Please, PLEASE don't make her a Ruby 2.0

The show kind of loves to emphasize their Ruby-Summer similarities... Their designs are very similar, and most of the time when her personnality is mentionned it's to drive home how much Ruby took after her.

But I really don't want it to BE that ?

EVERYONE is their own person. And even then in general, trapping a child in the confines of who their parents were is bad for them on many levels. It stifles growth and self-expression and in Ruby's case since her mom is very appreciated by those she left behind, it's also a kind of "role model" she feels she HAS to reach. Even though Ruby's growth right now should lean more toward acknowedging her flaws, her trauma with honesty and gentleness instead of being "perfect" like her mom. I don't want Ruby teared down, but i also don't particularly want 3 speeches a day about how good she is because it doesn't help nor fixes her core issues.

BUT ANYWAY, back to Summer Rose. Make Summer her own characters. Give her flaws, her own personnality, her own dreams. Why did she join Beacon academy ? How did she get along with everyon ? What I love most about her design are the little things that differentiate her from Ruby. A warmer skin (though let's be honest Ruby being pale as a sheet makes no sense when BOTH of her parents are more tanned wyd RT xD); a white cape; hair even redder that her daughter

Give me a Summer who has the same drive and optimism as her daughter but who is her own person. Give me a bratty Summer. Give me a Summer who knows how to make herself respected. A Summer who is warm and bright and sunny but won't coddle you. A Summer with a temper. A Summer who went toe to toe with Qrow's shenanigans. A Summer able to butt heads with Raven without flinching and laught it off afterwards like a warm summer wind.

In a fanfiction I read, someone went ahead and gave Summer & Clover parallels and similarities as a way to tie up how easily Qrow fell into that relationship. Give me this sort of thing : let Summer exist outside of Ruby. Tell Yang how she inherited some of her mother's quirks too. She knew her in a way Ruby didn't. Show that.

Give me her mistakes and her flaws without making Ruby the "upgraded" version who is everything Summer was without her failings. Instead, give me a human Summer and a human Ruby who are both their own person with their own flaws, similar but also so very different. Let Ruby recognize that without making it about "being Summer but better". I know that "the world is in good hands with the new generation, they're better than us" is compelling to many and there were already hints of that...

But I wish for something slightly different. Just a step to the left

People be out here like Freezerburn would end in divorce like these two didn't have the most softest reunion hug.

As if Weiss didn't open to her and Yang vise versa and held each other.

I rest my case

I've come to the realization while playing our campaign yesterday that this is straight up the best way to describe our party interactions regarding sacrifices or life & death situations

In other words, we all have the mentality of 12 years old

At least we care about each other I guess A bunch of stubborn adventurers on the road... multiplying the threats of death by sticking together bc they all have their own plot-related problems...

What could go wrong s/

To be honest these two were one of my favorite part of the Atlas arc ;; Winter, Penny... I care them. That scene made me tear up, they're too good for this world

“I thought of you… and here we are.”

“Oh, Penny.”

When Winter realized what Penny meant… the way her voice just cracks

THIS WAS SO BITTERSWEAR I CAN’T

I just found your blog and hecking love it, especially the love language posts and asexual rosegarden content! Speaking of love language, I hc Salem before turning grimm as physical touch+ quality time (which makes the fact she uses physical touch to hurt+ torture, and her time for manipulation and cruelty all the more saddening)

Aaaaw thanks, that’s super sweet of you !!  I mainly discovered the asexual Rosegarden idea through @greenteaandtattoos so you should definitely check out their blog if you’re part of the gang ♥  I don’t know if I’ll be able to make much more Love Language posts but I can probably try to scrap together one or two more ^^  (I’ll have less canon material though so it might get a bit headcannon-ish :P). After that I think I’ll moreso just share some thoughts on the show and mostly make lyrics post : like finding songs appropriate for RWBY characters, OR analyzing characters with a song as leitmotiv. I have quite a few in mind already, among which a song to parallel Ruby and Ozpin and the leader status they’ve been given mhmm 👀 Oh my, that’s dark. I def think it makes sense for her though you’re right. I can see the Physical Touch that’s for sure... All these headpats and fake loving touch brr. You really ought to be uneasy around her. (unless you’re Tyrian ofc because you’re the one making others uneasy then)

When bored in the subway, why not make RWBY picrews ? Link here if you want to have fun

Ignore my obvious Oscar bias, nothing to see here

Slight color edits added on top for extra shiny ✨

21/01/2003

(remake)

I always thought Tyrian was The Scorpion who could control his nature.

Do you think Tyrian might try and make Mercury see things his way?

Hello anons!

These asks can be answered together!

To the first anon, ooooh, interesting take! Do you mind to elaborate?

Anyway, as for me, I do not think he can actually control his nature. Tbh... I would not be surprised if in the end his nature were to lead him to his death.

As for now, I would rather say that he is the Scorpion who has embraced his nature:

Tyrian: Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. I want to tell you both a little secret. Your question is all wrong. "What do you want from this?" Children, please, if you're not loving what you're doing, then you're in the wrong field.

Tyrian: Do what makes you happy children... please? I'm begging you...

He does what makes him happy aka killing and hurting others. He has accepted who he is, so he does not really try to change or to become someone else.

I think this reading also fits with him foiling both Qrow and Mercury aka two characters who have trouble accepting who they are.

On one hand Qrow sees himself only as a bad omen. He thinks it is his own nature and misses how much he means for his loved ones.

On the other hand Mercury claims he is embracing his own nature:

Mercury: All my life, my father trained me to be a killer, an assassin like him. And then moments after I killed him, you two showed up looking for someone with my exact skills. Just felt like it was meant to be.

But he is actually negating his personhood:

Tyrian: All you ever learned was pain and violence, and now you're too afraid to leave it. Such a tragedy.

Which leads us to the second anon’s question.

Honestly it is too soon to say.

As for now, there has actually been an interesting dynamic between Tyrian and Mercury. To be more specific, Tyrian has actually said out loud things Mercury has been negating/repressing.

Mercury wants to see himself as a big bad man, but Tyrian strips him of this coping mechanism and states Mercury is just a victim and a scared child.

Mercury does not want to deal with the Salem destroying the world, but Tyrian appears and makes this truth impossible to escape.

At the same time, Tyrian’s body language in both occasions has been controlling and threathening. He tells Mercury the truth, but also traps him in fear more and more.

In short, their interactions are good because Tyrian’s body language negates the effect his words could have.

All in all, it seems to me as a jungian dynamic...Tyrian is acting as Mercury’s shadow in multiple ways. He is giving voice to truths Mercury deep down knows, but does not accept. At the same time, he is taking control of Mercury (he literally drags him away in War).

Until Mercury is trapped in his fear he will be Tyrian’s prisoner as well.

So, I do not know if Tyrian will consciously try to influence/groom Mercury. He seems more than anything having fun tormenting him tbh. However, it is possible Mercury will try to act more like him as a coping mechanism. After all, it is the same thing he has done with Marcus. Mercury deep down despises his father, but he is still doing what his father would have wanted him to do. At the same time, the juxtaposition with Tyrian might lead Mercury to finally accept he can’t be like him or his father, no matter how much he tries.

Anyway, it is too soon to say, there are many possibilities.

Thank you for the ask!

I can't even fanthom the sheer CONFIDENCE with which these people qualify RG shippers as gross 30 yo when this ship is just two wholesome children trying their best. There is nothing sexual about it, there's no power imbalance between Oscar & Ruby, they respect each other, they just finger-gun each other or blush a bit. How do they even make that jump to "ew gross" I genuinely CAN'T understand

Also you know they're not even worth it when they outright say "if you see me attack people who are just existing & liking a sweet ship between 2 teenagers, don't call me out." Someone really missed the "having differing likes and preferences doesn't allow you to attack a person" classes uh

Rosegarden Antis: "Why are you always shoving rg in our faces??? You're disgusting and it's inappropriate and you're all toxic!"

Also Rosegarden Antis:

One: *confused 20-year-old noises*

Two: You're telling people to mind their business as you harass and attack rosegarden shippers who are *looks at scribbles on hand* minding their business?

Three: When people call you out on your bullshit, you claim that they "proved your point" and that they're the bad guys for... defending themselves?

Four: This person ALSO did a post asking what people's unpopular RWBY opinions were and added, "No HTDM!" as if they weren't part of it.

^^^

You've already got most of the fandom agreeing with you anon, just go literally anywhere else and leave people alone

Or better yet, have the mindblowing realization that people are not hiveminds and sometimes they will (shocker) disagree with you.

You have a nice day that doesn't consist on trying to impose your OPINION (you know the difference with fact) unto OP.

Anyway *I* think OP is right and they should say it. :) I also think what happened to Penny's character in V8 was pretty shitty. And I think pulling out of nowhere medical opinion on the state of his arm when nobody knows what happened just to justify that ''well actually he was just too impatient and he's a monster for replacing his arm so easily" is shitty. Because that's not canon remember, that's just someone's headcanon Have a good day. Go discuss with people who agree with you, there are plenty of them and you'll be way happier

Anyway there was nothing ableist about Ironwood. Have a nice day.

Have a good day too hon.

Maybe go outside and enjoy yourself instead of harassing people in their inboxes, I promise it’ll make you a lot happier <3