RWBY General Discussion

Oh look, a shittier fighter than Blake... and he still managed to get away.

If you have to force the joke, it's not a good joke.

I'm a bit surprised they're still in Menagerie...unexpected backstory, but I suppose it's better to get it out of the way now, and not in an episode

edited 4th Sep '17 9:27:03 AM by LSBK

Reposting in case the other link went dead or something and because it's a new page and it just came out on their channel.

Chances of Weiss being one of those mean girls Illia was talking about?

is blake, she have to follow the tradition

Not impossible but I don't think it's all that likely.

Considering she claimed to break their teeth chances of Weiss being one of them is rather low. Plus she would have have caught on sooner that blake was a fanus if she had experienced a fanus hiding in plain sight before.

edited 4th Sep '17 11:54:50 AM by Darthwyn

Not something I'm particularly expecting, just something I saw brought up.

Are we to assume that Sun and Blake are just hunting White Fang members now?

Yeah, looks like it. My guess is they're trying to look for potential allies within the White Fang so they can have a better chance of wrenching control of it from the leader/Adam.

That said, they know Adam is in Mistral, so they're probably going to end up there relatively quickly once the volume proper starts, though I wouldn't be shocked if it was after Weiss and Yang end up with Team RNJR.

The one thing I don't understand is why this guy wasn't caught.

Like, all he had on him was a Dust revolver. Is it impossible to tank a shot or two with Aura? I know it's nitpicking, really, but it's kinda egging on me.

Aura doesn't stop you from getting knocked back, so tanking bullets in a chase is counterproductive.

That leads into some Fridge Logic on how impacts interact with Aura. What happens when you get stabbed and Aura shields you? Does it bounce off? The physics in basically every fight in the show imply otherwise, but that's pretty much just Rule of Cool. A bullet won't send you reeling, but will it just hit you and fall to the ground? Ricochet? Who knows.

I like Ilia's design. And VA. Better than the average for this show.

I know, but I thought she travelled to the Emerald City to meet with them. Perhaps I'm thinking of one of the other books. It's been a long time since I've read them.

Not a massive fan of this trailer, which is unusual for me given that I'll character focus. I think Ilia's not sitting right with me at the moment.

Still, it does give us a good idea of how Blake came up with the idea of passing as human to attend Beacon Academy.

It'll be interesting to know if Ilia was in school with Weiss, however. I can't imagine they'd have been friends since part of Weiss's story appears to be that she's had a very isolated upbringing (which doesn't really allow for friends). I'm thinking more along the lines of six degrees of separation: perhaps the girls that Ilia hung around looked up to Weiss as a sort of role-model. Perhaps Weiss - with how she'd been raised to view the White Fang attacks on her family - has heard of the 'infiltrator' in her school without knowing the true version of events.

It'll be interesting to see if there does turn out to be a connection between Ilia and Weiss of some kind. The set up is certainly there.

edited 4th Sep '17 4:11:46 PM by Wyldchyld

Hope the White Fang stuff begins to get wrapped up this season. Like Adam killing the current leader and Blake confronting him.

I very much doubt it will. Blake now has basically the exact same life goal as Weiss — to take back their family legacy and restore its lost honour. I can't see that being solved in a single volume, especially with the White Fang working with Salem. And especially since Volume 1 revealed there were three White Fang leaders and the most significant one has yet to be revealed.

Yeah once the White Fang plotline gets wrapped up that's Blake's life goal done. Where does she go from there?

edited 4th Sep '17 5:56:18 PM by Shaoken

Why can't she join the fight against Salem? Not like she'll have anything to distract her beyond possibly a personal hunt for Adam.

I mean, her life's goal is equality for the Faunus. Reforming the White Fang doesn't really accomplish that, it just gives a better outlet to try and accomplish it.

Still this is a big part of her life, starting to wrap the entire WF plotline now would be a waste. Same way it would be if Yang met Raven and resolved everything with her in Volume 5. Too much too quickly

edited 4th Sep '17 5:58:43 PM by Shaoken

Dang it Blake, you had one job.

Using these character shorts to expound on the supporting cast is smart. Better than just being a fight sequence or existing solely to show off the new animation style.

edited 4th Sep '17 7:46:35 PM by Soble

I personally thought the exposition kind of clashed with the action. It became less about Blake and more about Illia.

Though I've come to hate Blake thanks to Volume 4, so I didn't really care that her short got co-opted.

I just figure that Illia is just going to be another archenemy for Blake. A bit to better understand their background and why she's hesitant to fight her.

Really? To me, it seems like they're building up towards Ilia eventually turning face, between the extremely sympathetic backstory and her continuing to refuse chances to hurt Blake directly.

I'm just worried that she'll be sacrificed to Adam to fuel Blake's angst even more.

Left-field theory: When Cinder tries to pull a Heel–Face Turn Salem will get Illia to kill her and inherit the Fall Maiden power from her.