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Glynda is the vice headmistress - now headmistress - of Beacon Academy. She is Ozpins left and right hand woman and someone who has been with him through everything during his time as headmaster.

We've seen posts going on and on about Qrow and the other members of the inner circle, especially the ones that have characters to do with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz but they never mention her or how she copes with everything. I think I might try and fix that.

(T.W: this is going to contain a theory of mine on how her semblance works),

Glynda's semblance, as we know, is telekinesis. She moves objects on either smaller or larger scales and has the ability to fix and repair things with her mind. We've seen her control and fix things on large scales before (the breach and the food fight) and as we know by now a semblance is a special power made by the soul/ Aura to fit one's personality, mental, or emotional state.

Depending on your mental and emotional health your semblance can evolve it doesn't matter if your feelings are negative or not your semblance will automatically evolve and to stay compatible with your personality and traits, you can still train it to get stronger though. Ren and Ruby are perfect examples for this.

Glynda is a vice headmistress, a member of the inner circle, Ozpins closest confident, a renowned huntress, and a combat teacher and disciplinarian at Beacon Academy. The most successful and prestigious of all four Academies. Safe to say she's got a lot of power at Beacon. We see that she cares about the students following the rules and staying on track while trying to enforce said rules. She has control on just about everything at Beacon. We also see that she's trying to keep everything together, keep her students safe, keep Ironwood trusting Ozpin, keep the school in shape. She needs to keep things together or else they'll break and fall apart.

After the fall of Beacon we see her trying to put a shop back together using her semblance...but it doesn't work. She's out of breath and confused. Yes you could play it off as she's probably tired from doing other things like putting Beacon back together. But that is not the case. We see that she's started putting the school back together later on after helping repair the city in the books, and the rest of the city still looks very much destroyed.

I have a theory on how a part of her semblance might work.

She needs to KNOW. That's it. She just needs to know. We all know her fairy tale inspiration is Glynda the Good witch of the east and that she is someone very important and someone with knowledge on just about everything. Glynda doesn't know anymore. She doesn't know what happened to her students, she doesn't know what happened to Lionheart or Ironwood, she doesn't know about Oscar or Emerald's redemption, and she doesn't know about Raven, Winter, Penny, Fria, or the maidens. The Good Witch lost her knowledge.

We also don't know how young (or old) she was when she unlocked her semblance. If it was when she was young as in a child or pre teen then I was right and she did not have a fun childhood like the rest of the cast, if it was when she was a student - a new huntress, then the stress was probably getting to her, if it was recent - as in slightly before canon - then the stress finally got to her but she didn't show it (most unlikely in terms of timeline and experience with her semblance (most likely in terms of stress) or it could be all of them but she just didn't show it because of being stubborn and a workaholic

RWBY Theory

Jaune is going to die. There are two pieces of evidence that lead me to this terrible conclusion. The first is Tyrian. He says to Jaune, "you do interest me" while telling off team JNRR. The second, and far more terrifying, is Joan of Arc. Spoiler alert, ms. of Arc was burned as a heretic. And who do we know that desperately wants to burn team JNRR?

I’ve got a theory, please tell me if someone’s already said this so I don’t sound stupid, even though I am.

So you know how Ozpin must of merged with ozma’s other reincarnations, just like Oscar eventually will. So as merged Ozpin, he had a lot of trusted friends and advisors, who may have betrayed him or not but we’re talking about the start. These include all the headmasters, who probably met him after he merged with ozma. But what about his friends as just Ozpin. I doubt he didn’t have friends and people who loved him.

Now to the really drawn out point, I think Glynda Goodwitch was in love with the original Ozpin. Far fetched, I know, but hear me out.

1. She looks around about the same age as Ozpin, so they could have known each other through school or something

2. She’s always with Ozpin in the first three volumes

3. When she stayed behind at beacon to repair the damage, she could of had other motives, like maybe she didn’t want to leave the school he worked so hard on

Random rwby vol8 theory (scroll if you don’t want to see kind of spoilers for chapter 1).

So you know how General Ironwood shot one of the council memebers without any regrets just because they came in asking about martial law and abandoning Mantel. Well, Qrow and Robyn have just been arrested for disobeying orders and the murder of Clover. Robyn definitely isn’t going to stay quiet about Mantel and Qrow “murdered” one of the ace ops. I don’t think he’s gonna have any qualms about killing either of them in cold blood when he meets them.

So if one of them does get killled by Ironwood, I called it

If Neo doesnt come to our rescue with the jabberwockies in volume 10 im gonna throw some hands.

Why Jacques?

Your question, funnily enough, is the answer. Why Jacques? Why Jacques, indeed.

V7 and V8 puts a lot of focus on Jacques's impact in Atlas and on his family. But what is it about Jacques that makes him such a force to be reckoned with?

How did Jacques marry into the Schnee family? He doesn't have any powers or fighting skill. Neither is Jacques from a lineage of any note himself.

Subsequently, how did Jacques manage to dominate Willow, Winter, and Weiss to the extent RWBY states he did? What kind of man was Willow's father, who would force his more powerful daughter to submit to Jacques?

Ultimately, in Jacques's final moments, he proves himself to be just a normal guy involved in matters way over his head. When Jacques says;

"You lose! We both lose."

Jacques didn't gloat over Ironwood's betrayal. Jacques didn't throw a fit. Jacques accepted that he lost. That does not strike me as something Jacques, as he is established so far in the show, would do.

Then there is Jacques's final words;

"You're... You're going to open mine too, right?"

That hit me harder than Yang's death. Jacques really is out of his depth, and that is the last thing he is aware of before James blows Jacques to ash. It wasn't a demand. It was Jacques's last hope. Jacques knew he was going to die, but he was hoping he wouldn't.

In the end, Jacques was a Man who got caught up in events greater than himself. RWBY makes it seem like Jacques deserved it, I don't see why. Therefore, why Jacques? What did Jacques do to end up as he did. Exploring that question was interesting to me.

More money should be spent on developing robots to fight Grimm instead of training Huntsmen.

No you don't get it. You don't understand. You worship your heroes and your world renowned hunters who haven't shed blood in the name of freedom and you think you did something. You feel attached. You feel attached to a hollow husk of glorified angst that serves absolutely no purpose other than to be a vessel for privileged white cissies and heteros.

Raven the Deadbeat Dad - When a theory feels Just Crazy Enough to Work

You ever get one of those ideas or see one of those theories that seems like a complete joke at first, but the more you think about it, the more it starts making a weird amount of sense? One of those theories that is fairly bonkers, yet feel weirdly fitting to the story?

Yeah, this is one of those.

So to start off, the idea that Summer and Raven had some romantic history is one that I very much support. Beyond the simple ‘they look cute together’ shipping mentality, a Summer/Raven relationship makes the backstory of Team STRQ all the more interesting and adds so much context to Raven’s character. If Summer was indeed the teammate that Raven loved the most, than that would go a long way in explaining why Raven is the kind of person she is in the present.

But then there’s the theory that takes the Rosebird ship one step further. The theory that Summer and Raven weren’t just romantically involved, but that Raven is Ruby’s real father.

Yeah, it’s a pretty bonkers theory.

And yet, the more I think about it, the more this theory actually makes a lot of sense as a narrative twist.

(To get something out of the way before we start, the question of the ‘mechanics’ of how two women conceive a child is entirely irrelevant here. Need I remind everyone that this is a Fantasy World, with both futuristic technology and outright MAGIC, the latter of which both Summer and Raven have ties to through Silver Eyes and Shapeshifting powers respectively. There are plenty of ways that could explain how Summer and Raven conceived Ruby, from medical technologies to weird side-effects of Old-World Magic. The point is that there are all kinds of ways the story could justify how this happened so that’s not what I’m going to be focusing on here.)

Consider the following: Thusfar, the show has seemingly laid a lot of groundwork for a ‘Qrow is Ruby’s real father’ reveal. We’ve been shown Qrow filling a very clear father-figure role to Ruby (more details on that here), while at the same time we’ve been shown almost nothing of Ruby’s relationship with her supposed real father, Tai. Narratively speaking, it would normally be pretty easy to guess where this is going: ‘Oh, Ruby! This man who has been a father figure to you your whole life was actually your REAL father all along!’ There’s a reason people keep bringing this theory up.

However, there is one pretty major wrinkle in this theory: As many others will be quick to point out, CRWBY have gone on record multiple times saying pretty definitively that Qrow is NOT Ruby’s father. And sure, you could always say the creators are just lying to cover up the twist, but that kind of repeated bold-faced lying seems a bit out of character for CRWBY.

So where does that leave us? We have what seems to be a whole lot of setup to some kind of reveal involving Ruby and Qrow, but also very definitive statements from the creators that Qrow is NOT Ruby’s father.

The thing is, a reveal that Raven is Ruby’s real father is kind of a perfect narrative ‘wait, what?’ curve-ball in this situation. We get all this buildup between Ruby and her honorary ‘Uncle’ Qrow that points to Qrow being more than just an ‘Uncle’ to Ruby… but then we get a curve-ball that Qrow is her Uncle, just not an Honorary one.

And the best part is that Raven being Ruby’s real father still works as a reveal. So much of the foreshadowing that pointed to Qrow as Ruby’s father can just as easily be applied to Raven, and some parts even work better with Raven.

All that talk people have made about how Ruby looks nothing like Tai and looks a lot more like Qrow? Well she looks even more like Raven. Even Ruby’s semblance has more similarities to Raven’s than Qrow’s, both being mobility focused.

Then there’s Ruby’s and Raven’s color schemes. Or rather, color scheme because Raven has the exact same color scheme as Ruby’s first outfit. And the thing is, nobody else on Team STRQ has that combination of red and black. Back when Raven first showed up in Volume 2 and saved Yang from Neo, I was convinced that she was actually a not-dead Summer Rose, simply from that color scheme. It just feels really weird narratively that Ruby has no apparent link to Raven, and yet Raven is seemingly the one Ruby inherited her color scheme from.

Also, Raven being Ruby’s father still maintains Ruby’s and Yang’s sister relationship. If Qrow was Ruby’s father, then she and Yang would turn out be cousins, but with Raven, Ruby and Yang are still half-sisters, just with their shared parent being Raven instead of Tai. And as stated previously, Qrow is still Ruby’s Uncle in this, just more than an honorary one. If anything, it makes Ruby referring to Qrow as her Uncle all through the show into foreshadowing to this reveal.

Finally, Raven being Ruby’s father fixes an odd little narrative hole in the Team STRQ family dynamic; Yang has a connection to all four members with Tai as her father, Raven as her biological mother, Summer as her mother-figure and Qrow as her Uncle/Second father-figure. However, as mentioned earlier, Ruby only has links to Summer, Tai and Qrow, with no apparent ties to Raven. Raven being Ruby’s ‘father’ provides such a link, and also sets up a neat bit of thematic mirroring between Summer and Tai, with Tai’s relationship to Ruby now effectively paralleling the one Summer had to Yang; both being the mother/father figure to the daughter of two of their teammates after her actual mother/father (Raven) vanished. Qrow is still the Uncle to both girls, and Raven is now a deadbeat mom and a deadbeat dad.

Now, do I actually think this is where CRWBY is going with the story? Honestly, I do feel that the Rosebird ship is going to happen in some capacity, ie; Summer was the teammate Raven cared for the most and losing Summer was the thing that truly broke Raven, fully turning her into the callous, cynical deadbeat mom she is in the present, and it wouldn’t be too hard to tweak that backstory to include some romantic history between Summer and Raven.

But do I think CRWBY’s will be going for a full ‘Ruby I am your father!’ reveal from Raven?

I have NO IDEA.

I do believe that there will be some kind of reveal/twist involving Ruby, Qrow and the Team STRQ family as a whole. As mentioned earlier, CRWBY seems to be laying the groundwork for something down the line.

Also, has anyone else noticed that each member of Team RWBY seems to have gotten/is getting a major arc devoted to dealing with some very complicated family issues? Blake had the Anima arc (Volumes 4-6) to deal with reconnecting with her estranged parents and ultimately retaking their shared legacy (the White Fang). And of course, Weiss is going to have a LOT to do in the Atlas arc when it comes to salvaging something from the dumpster fire that is her family (reconnecting with her sister and mother, possibly redeeming her brother, Cask-of-Amontillado-ing Jacques into an abandoned dust mine, etc.).

With all that in mind, it stands to reason that the arc after Atlas will see Ruby and Yang having to deal with some complicated family issues of their own. Sure, Yang got her arc with Raven in Volume 5, but that was clearly only scratching the surface of what’s going on. Ruby’s and Yang’s family baggage might not be as readily apparent as Weiss’s and Blake’s, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

The point being, I believe Ruby and Yang are going to have some pretty heavy family baggage to sort through at some point in the future, and a reveal like this would fit into such an arc very nicely.

I have no idea if this reveal is going to happen. But I’m kinda hoping it will.

Back on this hot bit of Crazy...

As it happens, I am once again on a ‘Raven could totally turn out to be Ruby’s Dad’ theory bent. For the uninitiated, this is the theory that through whatever super-science/magic-chicanery, Raven somehow managed to knock Summer up and Ruby is their magic lesbian lovechild. See here and here for more details. 

So I thought I’d subject you all to more ways that this theory can work into the narrative of RWBY in weirdly specific and fitting ways.

First off, let’s talk about the so far one and only time Ruby and Raven (damn it even their NAMES are phonetically similar!) have exchanged words, AKA; Ruby’s first stint at talking down a bad guy.

It didn’t go too well.

But let’s actually look at Raven’s reaction to this whole speech. Namely, this line:

“You sound just like your mother.”

Not only is this a really good line that effectively confirms that Summer and Raven were quite close once, but the way Raven phrases this line is quite telling.

Raven’s tone is very restrained and forced here. I think it’s pretty clear that Ruby’s speech brought out some emotions that Raven is now clamping down HARD on. We already know from Raven’s scenes with Yang (namely their confrontation in the Haven Vault) that despite caring deeply for her daughter, Raven views those feelings as a weakness and clamps down hard on those feelings as much as she can. It’s not until the scene in the Vault where Yang basically tears those feelings out of Raven by force.

With all that in mind, I think it’s no stretch to say there may well be something similar going on with Raven’s feelings towards Ruby; that she cares for Ruby in the same way she cares for Yang, ie: As a daughter.

Not to mention the line itself; ‘You sound just like your mother’ is totally the kind of line you’d expect to hear from a ‘I’m secretly your father’ character.

Now while we’re on the subject of the Battle for Haven, let’s talk about Cinder.

In hindsight, Cinder’s whole quasi-rivalry with Raven in Volume 5 feels a bit out of place, doesn’t it? Post-Volume 3, almost all of Cinder’s character arc is defined by her lose to Ruby at the Battle of Beacon. As the end of Volume 7 indicates, deep down Cinder is terrified of Ruby, and that fear is the source of Cinder’s obsession with acquiring the other Maiden powers. Ruby made Cinder feel powerless, and now she is desperate to never feel powerless again. So it feels like a weird detour that in Volume 5, the narrative pits Cinder against Raven, a character with seemingly no direct connection to her arch-enemy.

Unless of course, Raven turned out to be the father of said arch-enemy.

Raven being Ruby’s father really streamlines Cinder’s arc and makes her whole journey flow more smoothly. In the Beacon Arc, Cinder overlooks and underestimates a young girl, and suffers a horrific defeat as a result. In the Anima Arc, Cinder makes the same mistake against that same girl’s father and suffers a horrific defeat once again.

It ensures that no matter what she does, Cinder’s fears and obsession with power keeps leading her back to Ruby in some way.

Finally, there is just the sheer symbolism of Raven’s character and how that can tie into the massive amount of Death symbolism and imagery associated with Ruby and other Silver-Eyed Warriors. Ravens of course have always been one of those animals closely associated with Death in literature, which would fit nicely with Raven herself having a close connection with both Summer and Ruby.

As I’ve stated previously, while I do really like this theory, I honestly have no idea if this is actually where CRWBY could be taking the story. This is still some pretty wild conjecture. Hell, we don’t even have any direct hints/implications in-story that Taiyang isn’t Ruby’s father.

And yet, it seems like every time I come back to this idea, it keeps seeming more and more weirdly plausible.

WOAH

I know people have picked up on the board game scene in RWBY V2 Episode 2 (Welcome to Beacon) as foreshadowing the events of the show, but for funsies I want to take a stab at how it foreshadows the general arcs of each four kingdoms myself.

So we have Blake playing as the Kingdom of Vale, and she's completely unaware of the events of the game unfolding and not really paying attention, clearly distracted.

"Alright Blake, it's your turn!"

"Huh? Sorry, what am I doing?"

"You're playing as Vale, trying to conquer the four kingdoms of Remnant!"

"...Right."

The Vale arc is the first three volumes of RWBY, where all our protagonists are at Beacon, but during that time, much like Blake during the game, they're unaware of the larger conflict with Salem, and aren't actively participating in the war at that point. They are ignorant and reactive instead of active. However it's ironic that Blake plays as Vale, since the reason she's not paying attention to the game and seems distracted is because, out of all the main characters in the Vale arc, she is the one most concerned about being kept in the dark and that they're ignorant as to what's really going on.

Blake: I just, I don't understand how everyone can be so calm.

Ruby: (approaching Blake) You're still thinking about Torchwick?

Blake: Torchwick, the White Fang, all of it! Something big is happening and no one is doing anything about it!

She also leaves the game during her turn, much like how she runs away after the FoB and the end of the Vale arc.

"Right. Well, I think I'm done playing, actually"

Yang is playing as Mistral, and she's the most savvy and knowledgeable (hah) player, winning many rounds of the game, teaching Weiss how to play, and has the other players falling into her trap cards.

"Heh, pretty sneaky sis, but you just activated my trap card!"

There's two ways this can be interpreted, with how the Mistral arc (volumes 4-6) is when our protagonists start to gather more knowledge and awarenesses of themselves and the world. It's also in Mistral that our heroes have their most decisive victory so far. It's fitting to have Yang playing as Mistral then, since during the Mistral arc she's the one who who learns from Tai to fight smarter, and to question the authority figures around her from Raven, and after confronting her in the vault is the one who retrives the relic of knowledge.

But, most of the losses our heroes experience are because of Cinder, who is from Mistral, and them falling into her own "trap cards" with the Fall of Beacon being orchestrated by her, killing Pyrrha and Ozpin. And in Atlas the same, with her manipulating Ironwood, undermining the heroes plans to evacuate everyone from Atlas, and killing Penny. She often finds ways to trick and exploit others, and is most dangerous when overlooked and underestimated, like falling into a trap.

Which brings me to Ruby playing as Atlas, where Ruby and Yang have this exchange after Yang's trap card is activated by Ruby:

"Giant Nevermore! If I roll a seven or higher, fatal feathers will slice your fleet in two!

"But! If you roll lower a six or lower, the Nevermore will turn on your own forces!"

"That's just a chance I'm willing to take"

In the Atlas arc (volumes 7-9) the theme of trust and taking risks is very prevalent. Like the move Yang makes in the game it is a risky one, that could end badly for her, but it is one worth taking nonetheless. They take the risk of trusting Ironwood but he ends up turning on our heroes. Oscar takes a risk trusting Hazel and Ozpin, as well as Emerald later on being accepted into their group, and it ends up working out for them. Ruby takes a risky chance in sending a message out to all of Remnant and evacuating Atlas, which saves a lot of people, but they still lose some, including Penny, a dear friend of Ruby's.

"Noooooo! My fearless soldiers!"

"Eh, most of them were probably androids anyways"

"Goodbye my friends... you will be avenged!"

Ruby acts distraught when losing her turn in the game as Atlas, expressing anguish over losing her friends who are described as androids by Yang, just like how Ruby is incredibly depressed and broken after the Fall of Atlas in V9, mourning the loss of Penny, who was both a sentient android and Ruby's friend. (I do wonder if Ruby's comment on avenging her friends might be foreshadowing for her wanting to avenge Penny's death in the future, like how Jaune tried to 1v1 Cinder in V5 to avenge Pyrrha, but I think it's too soon to say)

As a sidenote the fact it is a Nevemore in this turn that has a chance of turning on Yang or helping her is interesting, as it puts me in mind of two characters who can turn into ravens/crows, like the bird and poem Nevermore is associated with. It could pertain to Raven, someone who turns on Yang in v5 during the battle of Haven, but appears to help her and her friends in the V9 epilogue. It could also be about Qrow and his semblance, since during the Atlas arc it begins to evolve so that it is not simply a bad luck semblance, but one that can generate good luck too. In other words he can affect whether the chances are in people's favour or not.

After defeating Ruby (Atlas) Yang says this:

Yang: Not until I draw my rewards! Which are double this round thanks to the Mistral Trade Route!

Ruby: Bah!

Yang: Oh, and what's this? The Smugglers of Wind Path?

Ruby: Bah! Bah, I say!

Yang: I say, it looks like I'm taking two cards in my hand!

After the Fall of Atlas Cinder retrives not one but two relics for Salem, and with Atlas falling into Mantle, two kingdoms are destroyed in one fell swoop.

Then it's Weiss's turn. Weiss is playing as Vacuo, but has no idea how to play the game. Yang takes it upon herself to teach Weiss how to play and what she can do to win the game:

Yang: Well, Weiss, it's your turn.

Weiss: I have... absolutely no idea what's going on.

Yang: (Yang slides up beside her and puts her hand on her shoulder.) Look, it's easy! You're playing as Vacuo which means that all Vacuo-based cards come with a bonus.

Weiss: That sounds dumb.

Yang: See, you've got Sandstorm, Desert Scavenge... Oh, oh! (She pulls up a card to show Weiss.) Resourceful Raider! See, now you can take Ruby's discarded Air Fleet—

Ruby: (crying) Nooo!

Yang: —and put it in your hand!

We know from the end of V9 that what remains of the airfleet of Atlas, as well as the airfleet of Mistral and Vale, have all flocked to Vacuo's defence. What remains of the kingdom of Atlas, the airfleet, but most importantly the people, have now fled to Vacuo and are trying to make a home there.

Yang continues to give Weiss advice on how to win the game to Weiss, building her up, until Weiss starts to get arrogant, believing she's going to win the whole game and is the one in control:

Yang: And since Vacuo warriors have an endurance against Natural-based hazards, you can use Sandstorm to disable my ground forces and simultaneously infiltrate my kingdom! (Yang points a finger at Weiss.) Just know that I will not forget this declaration of war.

Weiss: And that means...

Ruby: You're just three moves away from conquering Remnant!

But then Yang turns on Weiss, activating her trap card, and Vacuo loses.

Since this is may be foreshadowing for the Vacuo arc that we haven't seen yet, I can only speculate what this might mean.

...But judging from the V9 extended epilogue and the books, my best guess would be that if Yang/Mistral is meant to be in part Cinder/Salem and their forces, then Weiss as Vacuo is in part the Crown. In the extended epilogue Jax and Gillian appear to be recieving help from Tyrian and Mercury, meaning Salem has decided to recruit them to her cause.

The Crown wants to restore the Vacuoan monarchy and detest outsiders, especially Atlesians. They do however wish to protect Vacuo from the same forces that destroyed Beacon, aka Salem, and so they are likely going to be manipulated like Weiss is by Yang in the game, being offered aid and giving them advice on how they can win and achieve their objectives, making them believe they can "conquer Remnant", only for them to realise later they were being tricked and used.

"Once again, Vacuo had been isolated from the conflict raging throughout Remnant—only this time it was an opportunity. With the global CCT network disabled, Vale in ruin, Haven leaderless, and Atlas closed off, Vacuo was theirs for the taking. This was likely their last, best chance for a generation. And it was their only hope to defend Vacuo against whomever had been targeting the other kingdoms. In likelihood they had written off Vacuo, like everyone else did, but if they tried to move against the Crown, they would have an unpleasant surprise.

Vacuo wouldn't break this time around."

Weiss: (Weiss stands and a thunder clap accompanies Weiss' overjoyed psychotic laughter.) Y-yes! Fear the almighty power of my forces! Cower as they pillage your homes and weep as they take your children from your very arms!

Yang: Trap card... (Yang's arm appears holding the card.)

Weiss: Huh?

Yang: (Yang shuffles the pieces on the board, Weiss' pieces disappearing in a puff of smoke.) Your armies have been destroyed.

Weiss: (Weiss slumps in her chair, cries and whines.) I hate this game of emotions we play!

Weiss as Vacuo may lose to Yang after realising they've been tricked, but is offered comfort afterwards by Ruby who relates to her losses and empathises with her, which is interesting since Ruby plays as Atlas. So I'm predicting at the end of the Vacuo arc they'll experience somewhat of a loss, whether that's the Crown, our heroes, or likely both, but Atlas will give support to Vacuo and the two kingdoms will come together to heal and ultimately work together, making steps to overcome their tense history with one another.

"Stay strong Weiss we'll make it through this together!"

"Shut up, don't touch me! "

...Which does make Weiss specifically playing as Vacuo especially intriguing, as she is the SDC heiress from Atlas, and Vacuo is a kingdom that has suffered the most in being exploited and colonized for it's natural resources by Atlas. From the epilogue it seems like the Schnees are being confronted directly with all the harm that has been caused by their family and kingdom, so I wouldn't be surprised if Weiss recieves a certain amount of focus during the Vacuo arc in deciding what her legacy as an Atlesian and heiress to the Schnee name will be. Moving forward to make amends, maybe inspiring the citizens of Atlas/Mantle to come together with Vacuo so they can all help and support one another, instead of isolating themselves and suffering alone.

Jaune offers to plays Weiss's hand for a turn also, with Weiss refusing:

Jaune: (Begging with both hands folded together.) Come on, let me play your hand for a turn!

Weiss: I'm not trusting you with the good citizens of Vacuo!

Which is reminiscent of how Vacuo is mistrustful of outsiders, as we've seen in After the Fall and Before the Dawn books.

Yang follows up to say that Weiss attacked her own forces, which could reference the infighting in Vacuo, especially with the Crown.

Weiss: Besides, this game requires a certain level of tactical cunning that I seriously doubt that you possess.

Yang: Uhh, you attacked your own naval fleet two turns ago. (Weiss makes an annoyed sound.)

Overall Weiss as Vacuo recieves the most help as any player during their turn, being taught how to play by Yang, offered comfort by Ruby after losing, and Jaune wanting to help her by playing her hand for a turn. This seems to fit with both how all kingdoms have flocked to Vacuo's aid in response to Ruby's message, but also Weiss as a character, who starts out "the loneliest of them all" but gradually opens up and warms up to other people. The crux of her arc being looking outside herself and at the people around her, relating to their struggles and coming to support them and being supported by them leads to her better understanding herself and becoming stronger for it... Which is kind of what the Kingdom of Vacuo needs to learn too!

Following this is Blake's turn as Vale, which I covered at the start of this post, but that's not the end of Vale's turn. We don't actually see it, but we know the aftermath of the game is this:

Yang: Ugh, we should have never let him play!

Ruby: You're just mad cuz' the new guy beat you!

Blake leaves the game during her turn as Vale, and presumably the "new guy" which is likely Neptune, who they'd just been introduced too, takes over her hand as Vale and wins the game of Remnant overall, even beating Yang and her trap cards. This is likely the endgame of RWBY itself, our heroes return to Vale after the Vacuo arc during the last volume for the final stand, where they win.

How and what that victory will look like I don't know, as we don't see the last turn of the game, so yet again this is even more vaguer speculation. Neptune doesn't really have much plot significance so I can't think there's any meaning to that except that he's a minor foil to Jaune, and the line of it being "a new guy" that wins, so maybe someone who recently joins our heroes side in the final act of the story, possibly Mercury or Cinder.

WOAH

I know people have picked up on the board game scene in RWBY V2 Episode 2 (Welcome to Beacon) as foreshadowing the events of the show, but for funsies I want to take a stab at how it foreshadows the general arcs of each four kingdoms myself.

So we have Blake playing as the Kingdom of Vale, and she's completely unaware of the events of the game unfolding and not really paying attention, clearly distracted.

"Alright Blake, it's your turn!"

"Huh? Sorry, what am I doing?"

"You're playing as Vale, trying to conquer the four kingdoms of Remnant!"

"...Right."

The Vale arc is the first three volumes of RWBY, where all our protagonists are at Beacon, but during that time, much like Blake during the game, they're unaware of the larger conflict with Salem, and aren't actively participating in the war at that point. They are ignorant and reactive instead of active. However it's ironic that Blake plays as Vale, since the reason she's not paying attention to the game and seems distracted is because, out of all the main characters in the Vale arc, she is the one most concerned about being kept in the dark and that they're ignorant as to what's really going on.

Blake: I just, I don't understand how everyone can be so calm.

Ruby: (approaching Blake) You're still thinking about Torchwick?

Blake: Torchwick, the White Fang, all of it! Something big is happening and no one is doing anything about it!

She also leaves the game during her turn, much like how she runs away after the FoB and the end of the Vale arc.

"Right. Well, I think I'm done playing, actually"

Yang is playing as Mistral, and she's the most savvy and knowledgeable (hah) player, winning many rounds of the game, teaching Weiss how to play, and has the other players falling into her trap cards.

"Heh, pretty sneaky sis, but you just activated my trap card!"

There's two ways this can be interpreted, with how the Mistral arc (volumes 4-6) is when our protagonists start to gather more knowledge and awarenesses of themselves and the world. It's also in Mistral that our heroes have their most decisive victory so far. It's fitting to have Yang playing as Mistral then, since during the Mistral arc she's the one who who learns from Tai to fight smarter, and to question the authority figures around her from Raven, and after confronting her in the vault is the one who retrives the relic of knowledge.

But, most of the losses our heroes experience are because of Cinder, who is from Mistral, and them falling into her own "trap cards" with the Fall of Beacon being orchestrated by her, killing Pyrrha and Ozpin. And in Atlas the same, with her manipulating Ironwood, undermining the heroes plans to evacuate everyone from Atlas, and killing Penny. She often finds ways to trick and exploit others, and is most dangerous when overlooked and underestimated, like falling into a trap.

Which brings me to Ruby playing as Atlas, where Ruby and Yang have this exchange after Yang's trap card is activated by Ruby:

"Giant Nevermore! If I roll a seven or higher, fatal feathers will slice your fleet in two!

"But! If you roll lower a six or lower, the Nevermore will turn on your own forces!"

"That's just a chance I'm willing to take"

In the Atlas arc (volumes 7-9) the theme of trust and taking risks is very prevalent. Like the move Yang makes in the game it is a risky one, that could end badly for her, but it is one worth taking nonetheless. They take the risk of trusting Ironwood but he ends up turning on our heroes. Oscar takes a risk trusting Hazel and Ozpin, as well as Emerald later on being accepted into their group, and it ends up working out for them. Ruby takes a risky chance in sending a message out to all of Remnant and evacuating Atlas, which saves a lot of people, but they still lose some, including Penny, a dear friend of Ruby's.

"Noooooo! My fearless soldiers!"

"Eh, most of them were probably androids anyways"

"Goodbye my friends... you will be avenged!"

Ruby acts distraught when losing her turn in the game as Atlas, expressing anguish over losing her friends who are described as androids by Yang, just like how Ruby is incredibly depressed and broken after the Fall of Atlas in V9, mourning the loss of Penny, who was both a sentient android and Ruby's friend. (I do wonder if Ruby's comment on avenging her friends might be foreshadowing for her wanting to avenge Penny's death in the future, like how Jaune tried to 1v1 Cinder in V5 to avenge Pyrrha, but I think it's too soon to say)

As a sidenote the fact it is a Nevemore in this turn that has a chance of turning on Yang or helping her is interesting, as it puts me in mind of two characters who can turn into ravens/crows, like the bird and poem Nevermore is associated with. It could pertain to Raven, someone who turns on Yang in v5 during the battle of Haven, but appears to help her and her friends in the V9 epilogue. It could also be about Qrow and his semblance, since during the Atlas arc it begins to evolve so that it is not simply a bad luck semblance, but one that can generate good luck too. In other words he can affect whether the chances are in people's favour or not.

After defeating Ruby (Atlas) Yang says this:

Yang: Not until I draw my rewards! Which are double this round thanks to the Mistral Trade Route!

Ruby: Bah!

Yang: Oh, and what's this? The Smugglers of Wind Path?

Ruby: Bah! Bah, I say!

Yang: I say, it looks like I'm taking two cards in my hand!

After the Fall of Atlas Cinder retrives not one but two relics for Salem, and with Atlas falling into Mantle, two kingdoms are destroyed in one fell swoop.

Then it's Weiss's turn. Weiss is playing as Vacuo, but has no idea how to play the game. Yang takes it upon herself to teach Weiss how to play and what she can do to win the game:

Yang: Well, Weiss, it's your turn.

Weiss: I have... absolutely no idea what's going on.

Yang: (Yang slides up beside her and puts her hand on her shoulder.) Look, it's easy! You're playing as Vacuo which means that all Vacuo-based cards come with a bonus.

Weiss: That sounds dumb.

Yang: See, you've got Sandstorm, Desert Scavenge... Oh, oh! (She pulls up a card to show Weiss.) Resourceful Raider! See, now you can take Ruby's discarded Air Fleet—

Ruby: (crying) Nooo!

Yang: —and put it in your hand!

We know from the end of V9 that what remains of the airfleet of Atlas, as well as the airfleet of Mistral and Vale, have all flocked to Vacuo's defence. What remains of the kingdom of Atlas, the airfleet, but most importantly the people, have now fled to Vacuo and are trying to make a home there.

Yang continues to give Weiss advice on how to win the game to Weiss, building her up, until Weiss starts to get arrogant, believing she's going to win the whole game and is the one in control:

Yang: And since Vacuo warriors have an endurance against Natural-based hazards, you can use Sandstorm to disable my ground forces and simultaneously infiltrate my kingdom! (Yang points a finger at Weiss.) Just know that I will not forget this declaration of war.

Weiss: And that means...

Ruby: You're just three moves away from conquering Remnant!

But then Yang turns on Weiss, activating her trap card, and Vacuo loses.

Since this is may be foreshadowing for the Vacuo arc that we haven't seen yet, I can only speculate what this might mean.

...But judging from the V9 extended epilogue and the books, my best guess would be that if Yang/Mistral is meant to be in part Cinder/Salem and their forces, then Weiss as Vacuo is in part the Crown. In the extended epilogue Jax and Gillian appear to be recieving help from Tyrian and Mercury, meaning Salem has decided to recruit them to her cause.

The Crown wants to restore the Vacuoan monarchy and detest outsiders, especially Atlesians. They do however wish to protect Vacuo from the same forces that destroyed Beacon, aka Salem, and so they are likely going to be manipulated like Weiss is by Yang in the game, being offered aid and giving them advice on how they can win and achieve their objectives, making them believe they can "conquer Remnant", only for them to realise later they were being tricked and used.

"Once again, Vacuo had been isolated from the conflict raging throughout Remnant—only this time it was an opportunity. With the global CCT network disabled, Vale in ruin, Haven leaderless, and Atlas closed off, Vacuo was theirs for the taking. This was likely their last, best chance for a generation. And it was their only hope to defend Vacuo against whomever had been targeting the other kingdoms. In likelihood they had written off Vacuo, like everyone else did, but if they tried to move against the Crown, they would have an unpleasant surprise.

Vacuo wouldn't break this time around."

Weiss: (Weiss stands and a thunder clap accompanies Weiss' overjoyed psychotic laughter.) Y-yes! Fear the almighty power of my forces! Cower as they pillage your homes and weep as they take your children from your very arms!

Yang: Trap card... (Yang's arm appears holding the card.)

Weiss: Huh?

Yang: (Yang shuffles the pieces on the board, Weiss' pieces disappearing in a puff of smoke.) Your armies have been destroyed.

Weiss: (Weiss slumps in her chair, cries and whines.) I hate this game of emotions we play!

Weiss as Vacuo may lose to Yang after realising they've been tricked, but is offered comfort afterwards by Ruby who relates to her losses and empathises with her, which is interesting since Ruby plays as Atlas. So I'm predicting at the end of the Vacuo arc they'll experience somewhat of a loss, whether that's the Crown, our heroes, or likely both, but Atlas will give support to Vacuo and the two kingdoms will come together to heal and ultimately work together, making steps to overcome their tense history with one another.

"Stay strong Weiss we'll make it through this together!"

"Shut up, don't touch me! "

...Which does make Weiss specifically playing as Vacuo especially intriguing, as she is the SDC heiress from Atlas, and Vacuo is a kingdom that has suffered the most in being exploited and colonized for it's natural resources by Atlas. From the epilogue it seems like the Schnees are being confronted directly with all the harm that has been caused by their family and kingdom, so I wouldn't be surprised if Weiss recieves a certain amount of focus during the Vacuo arc in deciding what her legacy as an Atlesian and heiress to the Schnee name will be. Moving forward to make amends, maybe inspiring the citizens of Atlas/Mantle to come together with Vacuo so they can all help and support one another, instead of isolating themselves and suffering alone.

Jaune offers to plays Weiss's hand for a turn also, with Weiss refusing:

Jaune: (Begging with both hands folded together.) Come on, let me play your hand for a turn!

Weiss: I'm not trusting you with the good citizens of Vacuo!

Which is reminiscent of how Vacuo is mistrustful of outsiders, as we've seen in After the Fall and Before the Dawn books.

Yang follows up to say that Weiss attacked her own forces, which could reference the infighting in Vacuo, especially with the Crown.

Weiss: Besides, this game requires a certain level of tactical cunning that I seriously doubt that you possess.

Yang: Uhh, you attacked your own naval fleet two turns ago. (Weiss makes an annoyed sound.)

Overall Weiss as Vacuo recieves the most help as any player during their turn, being taught how to play by Yang, offered comfort by Ruby after losing, and Jaune wanting to help her by playing her hand for a turn. This seems to fit with both how all kingdoms have flocked to Vacuo's aid in response to Ruby's message, but also Weiss as a character, who starts out "the loneliest of them all" but gradually opens up and warms up to other people. The crux of her arc being looking outside herself and at the people around her, relating to their struggles and coming to support them and being supported by them leads to her better understanding herself and becoming stronger for it... Which is kind of what the Kingdom of Vacuo needs to learn too!

Following this is Blake's turn as Vale, which I covered at the start of this post, but that's not the end of Vale's turn. We don't actually see it, but we know the aftermath of the game is this:

Yang: Ugh, we should have never let him play!

Ruby: You're just mad cuz' the new guy beat you!

Blake leaves the game during her turn as Vale, and presumably the "new guy" which is likely Neptune, who they'd just been introduced too, takes over her hand as Vale and wins the game of Remnant overall, even beating Yang and her trap cards. This is likely the endgame of RWBY itself, our heroes return to Vale after the Vacuo arc during the last volume for the final stand, where they win.

How and what that victory will look like I don't know, as we don't see the last turn of the game, so yet again this is even more vaguer speculation. Neptune doesn't really have much plot significance so I can't think there's any meaning to that except that he's a minor foil to Jaune, and the line of it being "a new guy" that wins, so maybe someone who recently joins our heroes side in the final act of the story, possibly Mercury or Cinder.

Semblances are a manifestation of one’s soul, a semblance embodies its user’s identity or smth. So what would be a better semblance for Oscar, whose soul and identity is being taken over, than to have a semblance to negate it?

Why has no one that I’ve seen so far consider Oscar to eventually manifest a soul-based semblance? Most of what I’ve seen suggested is just sand-based semblances because…Vacuo…which makes no sense to me since semblances aren’t regional, they’re personal.

But seriously, please, anyone with a similar thoughts to mine, DM me. Let us ramble into the sunset.

RWBY Volume 9 Theory

Saw the Rwby volume 9 trailer and opening and you got to wonder, what happened to Jaune and Neo? Well in the trailer there was a women talking to Ruby about her hardships and loss (like Penny) and offering to take it all away. You know who else lost someone? Jaune. Him and Neo are the only odd ones out, but Jaune is the only one we see, other than posing, being actually shown. What I mean like moving or interacting or give any clue on him. The only scene close to that was a scene where we scene what looks to be Jaune but almost empty, like he’s been brainwashed. I have a theory that the women offered help in their loss, Like Jaune’s loss of Pyrrha and Penny (especially since he had to kill her himself), maybe taking all the pain away, but not just the pain, that’s the price, she takes everything, all that you are as a person leaving you an empty husk, what Jaune is in the trailer. This most likely leaves you to be a slave to do her bidding in return, so I definitely think maybe Juan’s will be a enemy they will have to fight, at least that’s my theory.

Obviously Neo’s the mad hatter, and I remember in the movie him being surrounded by his little merry crew, that’s what I think the shadows are, people that she knows that she recreated like roman, her parents, and so on, but people to do her bidding,

Rwby volume 9 theory

*Spoiler*

Okay with the new episode out and more info about what went down with alex I have a theory

In the new episode jaune told the story of how alex fell with her brother lewis, they met up with the curios cat and jaune but after meeting the herbalist Alyx distrusted them, drugged Jaune and then she, Lewis and the curious cat left, the problem was that Alyx was the only one in the book so Jaune deduces that Lewis was sacrificed to the tree and went through “ascension” and the curious cat was involved

But I have a theory that despite what Jaune thinks the cat truly didn’t cause what happened to alyx and lewis cause he wasn’t there. They left Jaune then at some point as stated by the curious cat (I think he was honest hear) tricked and ditched him before they went to the tree by themselves but LEWIS was the one that got out and wrote the book in memory of his sister, Since he’s most likely named after the writer of Alice in wonderland.

I also bet the cat wanted to leave because he actually hates the ever after, he himself doesn’t like ascension and hates having to force others to go through with it so this was an out