Rwby V9 - Blog Posts

One small kindness, in one small moment led to such a marvelous transformation.

Has this been done yet?

I’m going to hell for this aren’t I.

Felt that when he said that in volume one

Jaune has had a lot of development which is great I have a lot of friends who love Jaune and we all just want to see him happy and in a good head space

"I don't want help! I don't want to be the damsel in distress. I want to be the hero. I'm tired of being the lovable idiot stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives. Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own ... then what good am I?" (V1:E12)

Never have I seen myself in such a powerful piece like this

Some may say I died of a broken heart that day….

I waited for a true love that never came

I waited as days turned into weeks as weeks turned into almost 2 months with nothing but the sound of my heart breaking

Everyday I woke up and I wish for your texts or your calls something…. But I think deep down I know you are never coming home gone are the days of watching movies together gone are the days of planning our future together gone are the days of pure love together…

Not yet gone are the days for winter for the princess… Spring may not ever arrive for the princess

I will never forget

the story of the faunus princess

It was wonderful that you came to visit me winter and thanks for having my back mom and Whitley

Rwby - Family

I promise you grandpa Nicholas I will

I miss you dearly grandfather

on second watch, I've realised Volume 9 feels like a love letter to not just early fans, but also to Monty

the focus on Neo and her relationship with Roman

acknowledgement of Pyrrha's sacrifice and the guilt Ruby feels over it

reversed Whiteknight dynamic

Ruby breaking down for the first time since V3

RWBY using their team attacks

and his specialty: fight scenes with story and character

an emphasis is put on Blake and Yang fighting side-by-side, because their feelings are finally out in the open and they're more in sync than ever. Weiss using all sorts of glyphs and dust and summons, because she no longer cares about being prim and proper and noble, she will be as loud and chaotic as she likes so long as it keeps her friends alive

and Ruby,

Ruby doesn't fight at all until the finale, because she doesn't feel like she can. she stays out of the way and never really tries to defend herself. even when she's being tortured by Neo's illusions, even after her Aura breaks, she doesn't fight back until she's right on death's doorstep. but then she speaks to the Blacksmith, and she hears that her mother loves her, and she knows that she is enough. she always has been, since the very start

so, she goes back to the start. whirling and spinning, using her Semblance, zipping around with her scythe in a way reminiscent of Monty's choreography, as if reliving the Red trailer in her mind. and once she's had that chance to show her newfound confidence, what she's truly capable of, her teammates step in to help her, because now she finally sees that they are there, and they finally see that they weren't there enough. they don't even have to talk to understand what's changed. Ruby grew the most, but they all learned from this, so she takes the lead at first but they finish it together

I just think Monty would've liked this volume

shoutout to RWBY Volume 9 for making me ship both Nuts n Dolts and Rosegarden when neither Penny nor Oscar were even in the volume

Okay... but y'all, as dark as it was... CRWBY could have made it so much darker

They could have cut up and bruised Ruby's face after her Aura broke and she took all that physical abuse, especially with Ozpin brutally caning her like an abusive father or uncle

We could have heard squishing and crunching noises when Neo stomped on Little

They could have painfully, heartwrenchingly, drawn out Ruby's suicide with the poison making her jerk and choke and dribble bile in a disturbing parallel to IRL suicide by ODing or drinking bleach/antifreeze

They would have been forced to up the maturity rating if they did, so they didn't, but can you imagine...?

EDIT: And oh dear... how could I forget all the rape imagery around the Curious Cat standing on top of Ruby, penetrating and violating and dominating her in multiple meanings of those words at once. They could have made it so much worse by having the Cat purring, nuzzling, and licking Ruby as they brag about the act of being inside and a part of her, how much they will enjoy it...

I am not okay...