The RWBY Thread

Yeah, I hope to all heck that Tyrian's stinger wasn't venomous.

I have to admit that I was mad at Ruby over it. If he hadn't been focused on her, then Tyrian wouldn't have landed that hit on him. He instructed her to stay back, so she started shooting from afar. She should have kept shooting from afar, every time Qrow and Tyrian were separated. Even if she never landed a hit, she'd wear Tyrian down quickly from having to dodge all of the time. But she should DEFINITELY have been able to land a hit or twelve. It's a sniper rifle. It's meant for long distance precision hits. And she knew to sever the stinger, so why not shoot the stinger off the tail from a distance? Assuming she's been practicing sniping, she could have removed the stinger from halfway across town.

Instead, she chose to ignore his instructions and got him hurt because of it. Kids these damn days. In fact, Nora had a long-range weapon, too. They could have both been shooting at Tyrian every time he and Qrow separated, while still keeping perfectly well away from the fight itself, while Jaune and Ren kept guard.

KIDS. UGH.

Anyways, speaking of kids, Oscar. He's just a child. Ozpin seriously needs to explain a thing or twelve to him BEFORE he gets the poor kid killed.

And Whitley. That guy is so slimy and creepy. I thought at first he was just awkward or didn't know how to relate to Weiss, and that's why I was creeped out by him. But nope. He's creepy, THAT'S why I was creeped out by him.

And sad as I am for Weiss, I'm also kind of happy for her. This takes a lot of the pressure off her. And hells no she's not trapped there! Ironwood would probably help her. She could get a message smuggled to Winter, who would probably help her. Or, best case scenario, she summons that knight from her trailer, hops aboard, and rides that dude right out of the mansion to freedom. It's not like any of the staff is likely to be able to beat that knight (or they'd be so busy fighting the knight that Weiss could use him as a diversion and slip out then.) Whitley hasn't been training as far as we know, so it's unlikely that he's a match for Weiss or any of her summons. All she has to do is wait until Jacques is in a business meeting or whatnot, and there's no one there who's likely to be able to stop her.

Weiss can summon her knight, escape, go check on Yang (I doubt she knows that Blake ran off to Menagerie (unless Sun sent a message to Neptune who sent a message to Weiss, but we've seen no evidence of that so far) or that Ruby is off questing her little heart out, so Yang would be the one for her to go to.) Taiyang would probably all but adopt Weiss, and Weiss and Yang could support each other until they are both get back on their feet, and then go after Ruby. Then they'd just need Blake to re-form their entire party.

Blake, of course, will insist on NOT going back because Adam is definitely for sure going to kill her parents because he's a giant pile of fetid buffalo dung and I hate him. (Unless someone kills him when he attacks Menagerie. I wouldn't even object. Especially if he does something so dumb that he accidentally kills himself. BYE BOY.) (When on earth did I get so bloodthirsty against fictional characters?)

Speaking of bloodthirsty! I understand that Ruby, Jaune, Nora, and Ren are children and probably aren't down with murder. And I understand that Qrow was injured and probably not in any state to commit murder. BUT HELLS TO HELLS, WHY WOULD THEY LET TYRIAN GO?! They needed to kill him. They needed to kill him real good. He's going to run straight to Salem whimpering about how Ruby has Qrow as a guardian, and next time Salem's just going to send someone to keep Qrow busy while someone else abducts Ruby. Also, once Tyrian gets over being afraid that Salem will be mad at him for failing, he's going to be PISSED that Ruby got rid of his stinger. Next time he goes for her, it's going to be personal. Even if the stinger will grow back, he's still going to be furious over the humiliation of it after he gets over his fear.

Okay yes, they are kids. But holy smokes! This is not the time for catch and release! That evil scorpion is going to come back and make them regret the heck out of letting him go.

Yeah, I hope to all heck that Tyrian's stinger wasn't venomous.

I have to admit that I was mad at Ruby over it. If he hadn't been focused on her, then Tyrian wouldn't have landed that hit on him. He instructed her to stay back, so she started shooting from afar. She should have kept shooting from afar, every time Qrow and Tyrian were separated. Even if she never landed a hit, she'd wear Tyrian down quickly from having to dodge all of the time. But she should DEFINITELY have been able to land a hit or twelve. It's a sniper rifle. It's meant for long distance precision hits. And she knew to sever the stinger, so why not shoot the stinger off the tail from a distance? Assuming she's been practicing sniping, she could have removed the stinger from halfway across town.

Instead, she chose to ignore his instructions and got him hurt because of it. Kids these damn days. In fact, Nora had a long-range weapon, too. They could have both been shooting at Tyrian every time he and Qrow separated, while still keeping perfectly well away from the fight itself, while Jaune and Ren kept guard.

KIDS. UGH.

Anyways, speaking of kids, Oscar. He's just a child. Ozpin seriously needs to explain a thing or twelve to him BEFORE he gets the poor kid killed.

And Whitley. That guy is so slimy and creepy. I thought at first he was just awkward or didn't know how to relate to Weiss, and that's why I was creeped out by him. But nope. He's creepy, THAT'S why I was creeped out by him.

And sad as I am for Weiss, I'm also kind of happy for her. This takes a lot of the pressure off her. And hells no she's not trapped there! Ironwood would probably help her. She could get a message smuggled to Winter, who would probably help her. Or, best case scenario, she summons that knight from her trailer, hops aboard, and rides that dude right out of the mansion to freedom. It's not like any of the staff is likely to be able to beat that knight (or they'd be so busy fighting the knight that Weiss could use him as a diversion and slip out then.) Whitley hasn't been training as far as we know, so it's unlikely that he's a match for Weiss or any of her summons. All she has to do is wait until Jacques is in a business meeting or whatnot, and there's no one there who's likely to be able to stop her.

Weiss can summon her knight, escape, go check on Yang (I doubt she knows that Blake ran off to Menagerie (unless Sun sent a message to Neptune who sent a message to Weiss, but we've seen no evidence of that so far) or that Ruby is off questing her little heart out, so Yang would be the one for her to go to.) Taiyang would probably all but adopt Weiss, and Weiss and Yang could support each other until they are both get back on their feet, and then go after Ruby. Then they'd just need Blake to re-form their entire party.

Blake, of course, will insist on NOT going back because Adam is definitely for sure going to kill her parents because he's a giant pile of fetid buffalo dung and I hate him. (Unless someone kills him when he attacks Menagerie. I wouldn't even object. Especially if he does something so dumb that he accidentally kills himself. BYE BOY.) (When on earth did I get so bloodthirsty against fictional characters?)

Speaking of bloodthirsty! I understand that Ruby, Jaune, Nora, and Ren are children and probably aren't down with murder. And I understand that Qrow was injured and probably not in any state to commit murder. BUT HELLS TO HELLS, WHY WOULD THEY LET TYRIAN GO?! They needed to kill him. They needed to kill him real good. He's going to run straight to Salem whimpering about how Ruby has Qrow as a guardian, and next time Salem's just going to send someone to keep Qrow busy while someone else abducts Ruby. Also, once Tyrian gets over being afraid that Salem will be mad at him for failing, he's going to be PISSED that Ruby got rid of his stinger. Next time he goes for her, it's going to be personal. Even if the stinger will grow back, he's still going to be furious over the humiliation of it after he gets over his fear.

Okay yes, they are kids. But holy smokes! This is not the time for catch and release! That evil scorpion is going to come back and make them regret the heck out of letting him go.

I'm going to have to re-worry about the stinger. Perhaps Tyrian could control if/when venom came out, so he could choose to poison Qrow but not Ruby.

Or, and this is a bit more far-fetched, perhaps the venom turns whoever got stung to Tyrian's side. So if Salem wanted Ruby to join her team, Tyrian's venom could make her join that team.


And I'm not very happy with how the writers are handling Blake. Yes, Sun interrupted an important moment, and yes, Sun was being annoying. But domestic abuse is domestic abuse, and it's NOT okay. I hate how the writers keep having her slap him around. Maybe it's just that that's what she knows, since her relationship with Adam was abusive, but they need to stop trying to make domestic abuse normal or cute or funny or whatever they are aiming for here.

And they need to stop having Sun just accept that his crush is abusing him and keep going back for more. He doesn't deserve that no matter what moment he interrupted.