Screaming Eternally

so beyond happy that their story gets to continue, that bumbleby will be breaking the cancelled sapphics curse and that we’ll be able to see them again as an established couple 🖤💛

Hey so has anyone else thought about the fact that the whole 'Your mother said those words to me', 'That's what happened to mom...', 'Summer Rose was captured by Salem and has most likely been subjected to horrific grim-hybrid experimentation' revelation(s) is something that really ONLY Team RWBY has been privy to and also haven't really gotten the chance to actually TELL anyone, at least anyone who would recognize the full import of that information (ie; Oz or Qrow) until... basically NOW?

I mean, yeah the Ace-Ops were present for Salem's epic 'Yo mama', but between that having a LOT less significance to them as it did to Team RWBY and, well... everything ELSE that happened before and after, I kinda doubt the new Team MEH really remembers it at this point.

And yeah, Willow and Whitley were there for the Hound's big reveal, but remember that they weren't exactly positioned to get a good look at the person inside it like Ruby, Weiss and Blake were. I imagine any recounting those two might do of those events don't describe the Hound in any more detail then 'there was a GUY in there, it was pretty fucked up'.

And it seems that while Blake did tell Yang about the Hound, I've always gotten the sense she told Yang only. Given that Blake clearly mentioned the silver eyes to Yang, I imagine that Blake recognized that this had very serious and very personal implications for Yang, and thus told her privately.

And obviously after that it's not like Team RWBY had the time to actually tell ANYONE else about this before they fell into the Ever After.

What I'm saying is that we can expect a very, very, VERY AWKWARD conversation between Team RWBY and their close friends and allies in the future.

You know, on TOP of the conversation that RUBY is going to have to wrestle out of Raven.

the 10 image limit is homophobic

anway more rwby jokes

vacuo, and in particular shade, is so funny. the contrast, man. you had time to build a wall to separate shade with that massive yard from the rest—and the buildings don't even come close to the wall!—but couldn't built one around the rest of the city?

the priorities, man. the priorities.

so what do i need to sacrifice to get an episode with raven, qrow, yang & ruby. is a 'pretty please' enough? 👉👈

As a guy who absolutely wanted more Jaune and Oscar moments, this EPISODE WAS GREAT.

I’m also so glad that it was for this reason because I had wanted this to happen after vol 9 ended too

Me when I absolutely kill myself at this scene.

Alyx and Lewis being from before the Great War and Huntsmen and Lewis writing the book after returning oddly means Jaune was the inspiration for future huntsmen because they exchanged notes and Jaune told them about how far from the future he was.

idk if it's jaune being a bit oblivious or oscar doing a good job hiding how far the merge has processed from others, but what i do know is that this boy is adorable

What could have been...

That banana placement HAD to be intentional

After the banana hair jokes??

they're really going to end all these episodes like that huh. don't give up hope, but even if this is the end focus on the positives and remember the good times 🥺😭

My face when Reddit says the next RWBY Beyond is going to be about Jaune

And cue the fanart.

Theodore concept from Erin Winn's twitter

So, we can all agree that when Oscar eventually gets his semblance, it's going to have something to do with Ruby, right? And I'm not even saying this from a shippy lens. Kid has an immortal wizard move into his brain at 14 that he can't kick out, immediately becomes a child soldier, lives through a train crash, countless grimm fights, crash lands a plane, gets shot in the chest, falls for - quite possibly - a few kilometres after blowing up a hole in the bottom of a military compound, gets beaten up and abducted by a goopy grimm super monster, magic blasted by his headmate's ex-wife, tortured and beaten up by a man six times his size, fights off Salem again to save his friends, and not ONE of those instances has been stressful enough to awaken it.

But both times he's talked about his semblance manifesting, it's been with Ruby. The first is in v5 after they spar and Ruby cheers him (and Jaune) on about getting there one day, while Ren makes a comment saying:

The second time is in v7 when Ruby does something new with her own semblance and Oscar asks if she's always been able to do that. Eventually leading to him lamenting again about how he's not unlocked his yet while everyone else's are evolving. And it's Ruby that responds with:

And then, from both Ruby and Oscar's perspectives, we are shown their attachment to each other. Ruby throughout V9 with Neo's illusions, and Oscar with - many instances - but especially in the recently released epilogue where he speaks at her grave. And in this speech we're reminded of that attachment as well as his struggles with identity. Specifically how those two things are intrinsically linked together:

Oscar can't grasp his own personal super power that's "a part of himself" when he doesn't know who he is. He's losing himself to the merge, the boundaries of where he ends and Oz begins are blurring by the day, and he's only 15 and still growing into the person he could become. And the one person that was always certain of who he was, always made him feel like he was his own person... isn't around anymore. So he feels even more detached from his identity and the parts that comprise it than ever before.

But she returns in Vacuo before their final fight, and his semblance has been teased too many times to never appear. So my current guesses are either:

Only one way to find out.