History Recap / RWBYV5E14HavensFate

* AdviceBackfire: Back in "Recap/RWBYV5E6KnownByItsSong Known by Its Song]]", Raven advises Yang to question everything she's been told, so Yang decides to do just that by [[CallingTheOldWomanOut calling out Raven]] on her cowardice and her irrational perception of strength. By the end, Raven can only whisper a tearful apology before fleeing the Vault in shame.

** The volume appears to be setting up a fight between Blake and Adam during the finale. However, although Blake stands up to Adam, he bails instead of fighting her when he sees his forces being arrested. Sun wants to chase Adam and continue the confrontation but Blake stops him, saying that Adam is hoping they'll chase him so he'll have the chance to separate the two and pick them off away from help.

* AdviceBackfire: Back in "Known by Its Song", Raven advises Yang to question everything she's been told, so Yang decides to do just that by [[CallingTheOldWomanOut calling out Raven]] on her cowardice and her irrational perception of strength. By the end, Raven can only whisper a tearful apology before fleeing the Vault in shame.

* AllThereInTheScript: According to the episode's script, the Seer Grimm stabs Leo in the back and then through his head. All of this occurs off-screen.

** By the time Yang reaches the vault, Cinder is gone and Vernal is dead. All that is left is an open Relic chamber and Raven. Instead of fighting over the Relic, Yang gives Raven a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and demands she hand over the Relic. A distraught Raven agrees to let Yang peacefully claim the Relic as Raven hightails it out of there.

** Yang questions Raven about the previous Spring Maiden's fate as well as her motives. When Yang asks her "Did you kill [the Raven Taiyang told her as a child] too?", Raven's inherent cowardice comes out as she desperately attempts to justify her strength and irrational behaviour, only to be immediately rebuffed. From that point on, she emotionally disintegrates while Yang grows increasingly dominant.

-->'''Blake''': You can try and make me regret coming here, Adam, but honestly... I've got more important things to deal with.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Hazel, Emerald, Mercury, and Leo are fighting the heroes to a standstill, with Hazel obliterating Weiss's Queen Lancer, but when Leo is shot by Ruby and his Aura breaks, he has an "OhCrap" moment and flees, leaving the other three to fight an uphill battle. Mercury isn't amused and says the trope name verbatim.

* AdviceBackfire: Back in "Known by Its Song", Raven advises Yang to question everything she's been told, so Yang decides to do just that by [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out Raven]] on her cowardice and her irrational perception of strength. By the end, Raven can only whisper a tearful apology before fleeing the Vault in shame.

* AllThereInTheScript: When the Seer Grimm drags Leo off-screen to kill him, there's a sound of it attacking him, then Leo weakly pleads for mercy, and the thump of a second attack. As per the script and the creators, it first stabbed him in the back and then through his ''head'' to finish him off.

** By the time Yang reaches the vault, Cinder is gone and Vernal is dead. All that is left is an open Relic chamber and Raven. Instead of fighting over the Relic, Yang [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbally tears down]] Raven's façade of strength, then demands she hand over the Relic. A distraught Raven agrees to let Yang peacefully claim the Relic as Raven hightails it out of there.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Raven planned to steal the Relic to keep Salem away from her tribe. However, Yang points out to Raven that if Salem was willing to pursue her when she thought Raven was only harbouring the Spring Maiden, then Salem will put Raven at the top of her hit-list upon learning that the latter not only is the Spring Maiden, but is also carrying one of the Relics she's after. Thus, if Raven doesn't want to confront Salem directly, she has no choice but to allow her daughter to take the Relic.

* AllThereInTheScript: When the Seer Grimm drags Leo off-screen to kill him, it stabs him in the back and then through his head.

** The volume appears to be setting up a fight between Blake and Adam during the finale. However, although Blake stands up to Adam, he bails instead of fighting her when he sees his forces being arrested.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Raven planned to steal the Relic to keep Salem away from her tribe. However, Yang points out to Raven that if Salem was willing to pursue her when she thought Raven was only harbouring the Spring Maiden, then Salem will put Raven on her hit-list upon learning that the latter not only is the Spring Maiden, but is also carrying one of the Relics she's after. Thus, Raven has no choice but to allow her daughter to take the Relic.

* CallingTheOldWomanOut: Remembering Raven's [[Recap/RWBYV5E6KnownByItsSong advice]] to question everything, Yang demonstrates it by challenging Raven's motives. She makes Raven aware that the latter tries to bolt whenever a serious danger arrives like the DirtyCoward she is regardless of how strong she is, while the far less powerful Yang is willing to stand and face Salem, despite being out-matched and frightened, because someone has to do it. Yang also lists off how irrational Raven's behaviour has been, such as setting up Vernal to take the heat, gaining the previous Spring Maiden's trust only to kill her for her weakness, or pretending that she set Yang up because she knows about Yang's strength when it's really because it enabled her to obtain the Relic for her own misdeeds. It reduces Raven to tears and leads to her fleeing the chamber out of regret and leaving the Relic to Yang.

%% * EarnYourHappyEnding: The girls are finally reunited after months of being apart and going through ''many'' personal trials.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Raven planned to steal the Relic to keep Salem away from her tribe. However, Yang points out a glaring flaw in this plan that Raven didn't consider- that she intends on keep one of Salem's most coveted objectives in her tribe's possession to convince Salem to ''leave her alone''. As Yang notes, if Salem is already targeting her tribe just because she thinks the Spring Maiden ''might'' be among them, she'd ''definitely'' focus on them fully if she knew that not only is Raven the actual Maiden, but she has one of the four great Relics. Raven is utterly stunned at this realization and flees, leaving the Relic to Yang.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Raven planned to steal the Relic to keep Salem away from her tribe. However, Yang points out to Raven that if Salem was willing to pursue her when she thought Raven was only harbouring the Spring Maiden, then Salem will put Raven on her hit-list upon learning that the latter not only is the Spring Maiden, but is also carrying one of the Relics she's after. Thus, Raven has no choice but to allow her daughter to take the Relic.

* TearsOfRemorse: Yang criticises Raven for attempting to flee for her life and murdering the Spring Maiden for being too weak to handle being hunted. After Yang makes it clear she's willing to stand up to Salem, even if it frightens her, Raven permits Yang to become Salem's next target by taking the Relic in her place. It reduces Raven to tears as she apologises and flees out of regret.

* PleaseIWillDoAnything: Realising that his allies have been defeated, Leo pulls a VillainExitStageLeft and tries fleeing for his life. However, when Salem catches him with her Seer Grimm, Leo promises to find her and do anything she says. Salem, on the other hand, decides he's no longer useful and kills him almost immediately.

* PleaseIWillDoAnything: When Leo realises his allies have been defeated, he pulls a VillainExitStageLeft and tries to flee for his life. However, when Salem catches him with her Seer Grimm, Leo promises to find her and do anything she says. Salem, on the other hand, decides he's no longer useful and kills him almost immediately.

* GoryDiscretionShot: To kill Leo, Salem has the Seer Grimm drag him off-screen. The creators confirmed on the DVDCommentary that it stabs him in the back and then through his head, but the viewers only hear the sound of him being stabbed twice while he pleads for mercy with his dying breath.

** Lionheart has a moment of terror when Ruby takes a potshot at him that breaks his aura, forcing him to run for it as he's now vulnerable. He also has a similar reaction when he realises Salem's about to kill him for outliving his usefulness.
* PleaseIWillDoAnything: When Leo realises his allies have been defeated, he pulls a VillainExitStageLeft and tries to flee for his life. However, Salem catches him with her Seer Grimm. [[OhCrap Realising he's screwed]], Leo promises to find her and do anything she says. Salem, on the other hand, decides he's no longer useful and kills him almost immediately.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Raven planned to steal the Relic to keep Salem away from her tribe. However, she failed to take into account that if Salem was willing to pursue her when she thought Raven was only harbouring the Spring Maiden, then Salem will put Raven on her hit-list upon learning that the latter not only is the Spring Maiden, but is also carrying one of the Relics she's after. When Yang makes her aware of this, Raven has no choice but to allow her daughter to take the Relic.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Yang brutally calls out Raven for murdering the previous Spring Maiden and justifying it as an act of mercy, as well as running away from the war with Salem out of fear, while Yang herself is fighting despite her fears. The speech is so effective, it actually gets through to Raven, who can say nothing but tearfully apologise before she bails out of the vault.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Leo has been a very useful mole for Salem throughout the volume, passing her information from Ozpin's inner circle such as the location of the Spring Maiden, and forging transcripts to allow Cinder's team to enter the Vytal Tournament as a cover so they could bring down Beacon Academy. He also used his seat on the Mistral Council to give Salem the location of the kingdom's Huntsmen so that they could killed off. However, once the plan to destroy Haven and obtain the Relic of Knowledge fails, Salem decides that Leo's outlived his usefulness. When he tries fleeing for his life, Salem has her Seer Grimm kill him.
-->'''Salem:''' ''[bored]'' Coward.

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-->-- '''Yang Xiao Long''' tearing down her mother's "social darwinist" mindset

[[caption-width-right:350:''"That's all that matters... that we're all here together"'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:"That's all that matters... that we're all here together"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''You're lost...You're found'']]

* AdviceBackfire: Back in "Known by its Song", Raven advises Yang to question everything she's been told, so Yang decides to do just that by [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out Raven]] on her cowardice and her irrational perception of strength. By the end, Raven can only whisper a tearful apology before fleeing the Vault in shame.

* IronicEcho: In "[[Recap/RWBYV5E6KnownByItsSong Known by its Song]]", Raven tells Yang to question everything Ozpin tells her about himself and the war with Salem if she's willing to find Ruby and Qrow. Taking her mother's advice to heart, Yang proceeds to repeatedly question Raven about everything she's told her.

* PleaseIWillDoAnything: When Leo realises his allies have been defeated, he pulls a VillainExitStageLeft and tries to flee for his life. However, Salem catches him with her Seer Grimm. [[OhCrap Realising he's screwed]], Leo promises to find her and that he will do anything to prove his usefulness. Salem, on the other hand, decides he's no longer useful and kills him almost immediately.

* ThatWomanIsDead: As part of her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Yang briefly mentions what Taiyang said about Raven: she was a complicated person who fought for what she believed in. When Yang gives her ArmorPiercingQuestion about whether Raven killed that version of herself that her father described, it causes Raven to stop dead in her tracks and emotionally disintegrate.

* ThatWomanIsDead: As part of her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Yang briefly mentions what Taiyang said about Raven: she was a complicated person who fought for what she believed in. When asked ''"[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Did you kill her, too?]]"'', Raven snaps upon realising that Yang is talking about whether Raven killed that version of herself that her father described.

* ThatWomanIsDead: As part of her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Yang briefly mentions what Taiyang said about Raven: she was a complicated person who fought for what she believed in. When asked ''"[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Did you kill her, too?]]"'', Raven flinches upon realising that Yang is talking about whether Raven killed that version of herself that her father described.

* ThatWomanIsDead: As part of her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Yang briefly mentions what Taiyang said about Raven: she was a complicated person who fought for what she believed in. When asked ''"[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Did you kill her, too?]]"'', Raven briefly thinks that Yang is referring to the deceased Vernal, until she realises that Yang is talking about whether Raven killed that version of herself that her father described.

* ThatWomanIsDead: In her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Raven, Yang briefly mentions what Taiyang said about her: Raven was a complicated person who fought for what she believed in. When asked ''"[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Did you kill her, too?]]"'', Raven initially thinks that Yang is referring to the deceased Vernal, who is lying behind her, until she realises Yang is talking about whether Raven killed that version of herself that her father described.

* ThatWomanIsDead: In her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Raven, Yang briefly mentions what Taiyang said about her: Raven was a complicated person who fought for what she believed in. When asked ''"[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Did you kill her, too?]]"'', Raven initially thinks that Yang is referring to the deceased Vernal who is lying behind her. Then her inherent cowardice comes out as she realises Yang is talking about whether Raven killed that version of herself that her father described.