History Recap / RWBYV6E2Uncovered

* ItIsDehumanizing: Ozpin knows full well that the Relic is a female entity named Jinn. However, until that secret is revealed, he refers to the Relic as 'it' to maintain the illusion that it's just an object.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Ozpin knows full well that the Relic is a female entity named Jinn, yet insists on referring to her as an object to hide her true nature.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Ozpin constantly expresses his faith in humanity and believing in their ability to overcome adversity and their willingness to stop the worst people from causing chaos. However, despite this, he doesn't trust humanity enough to share his knowledge and secrets — not even with those who are putting their lives on the line for his quest to defeat Salem. When Ozpin insists that he be the only person to carry the Relic and Ruby asks him if his talk of having faith in humanity means everyone except the very team that's putting their lives on the line for him, he tries to explain that she's misunderstood his action. However, all it does is convince Ruby that she needs to ask the Relic of Knowledge to reveal what Ozpin is hiding.

* {{Hypocrite}}:Ozpin constantly expresses his faith in humanity and believing in their ability to overcome adversity and their willingness to stop the worst people from causing chaos. However, despite this, he doesn't trust humanity enough to share his knowledge and secrets — not even with those who are putting their lives on the line for his quest to defeat Salem. When Ozpin insists that he be the only person to carry the Relic and Ruby asks him if his talk of having faith in humanity means everyone except the very team that's putting their lives on the line for him, he tries to explain that she's misunderstood his action. However, all it does is convince Ruby that she needs to ask the Relic of Knowledge to reveal what Ozpin is hiding.

* BigNo: Normally calm and placcid, even when Ozpin is angry he doesn't get too loud. However, he desperately yells "No!" when Ruby asks Jinn the fateful question.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Yang sums up the train cash as thus:

* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Yang is by far the angriest and least tolerant person where dealing with Ozpin's lies and half-truths are concerned. She's also the one that insists he doesn't have to worry about losing their trust or loyalty if he does tell the truth. A flashback to then discussing the need to travel to Atlas, makes it clear that she hasn't told anyone that Raven is the Spring Maiden and there's no indication that she plans on sharing this secret.
** Ozpin constantly expresses his faith in humanity and believing in their ability to overcome adversity and their willingness to stop the worst people from causing chaos. However, despite this, he doesn't trust humanity enough to share his knowledge and secrets — not even with those who are putting their lives on the line for his quest to defeat Salem. When Ozpin insists that he be the only person to carry the Relic and Ruby asks him if his talk of having faith in humanity means everyone except the very team that's putting their lives on the line for him, he tries to explain that she's misunderstood his action. However, all it does is convince Ruby that she needs to ask the Relic of Knowledge to reveal what Ozpin is hiding.
* IResembleThatRemark: Maria takes umbrage at Yang calling her a "defenseless old lady", but ultimate concedes she's not wrong.

* RealityEnsues: Ozpin has been trying to defeat Salem for thousands of years. He's tried being open and honest in the past, only to have been betrayed to such an extent that he has learned to guard his secrets and only spoon-feed information as necessary. As a result, people now struggle to trust Ozpin because of the dangerous secrets he keeps withholding from them which increases the likelihood of people abandoning him, and this further increases his mistrust of sharing information. This vicious circle that Ozpin is trapped in causes the confrontation between him and Team RWBY that leads to Jinn being asked to reveal the truth.

* BrokenPedestal: Yang and Weiss get impatient with Ozpin's lies and half-truths and insist on full disclosure immediately. When Ozpin tries to calm the situation down by suggesting they need to accept that his decisions are based on rationale and experience, they aren't placated. Even Oscar sides with the girls by temporarily wresting just enough control of his body back to tell them how to summon Jinn so that she can reveal what Ozpin's hiding. When Jinn inadvertently reveals that Ozpin lied about the number of questions she could ask, all Ozpin can do is appeal to Ruby not to ask the question he knows they all want answered. The moment triggers Qrow into stepping forward, only to find Weiss and Yang pulling weapons on him, and Blake ready to back them up. However, instead of defending Ozpin as they expect, he simply tells Ruby to do whatever she thinks is right. At that point, it's clear that Ozpin has lost everyone's support -- even Oscar and Qrow's.

* WhamLine: "A girl named Salem..."

* TakeThatUs: A flashback showing the group planning their journey to Atlas where Weiss bemoans that she has to return to the very kingdom she struggled to escape in the first place. Nora tries to cheer her up by pointing out the bright side to the journey: finally escaping the house they're staying in. It's an in-joke reference to the fandom's biggest complaint that most of Team RNJR's storyline in Volume 5 was confined to that house.

* BigNo: Normally calm and placcid, even when Ozpin is angry he doesn't get too loud. However, when Ruby asks Jinn the fateful question, he yells a "No!" that makes them all react in shock.

* BigNo: Normally calm and placcid, even when he's angry he doesn't get too loud. However, when Ruby asks Jinn the fateful question, he yells a "No!" that makes them all react in shock.

!!This Episode contains examples of:

* BrokenPedestal: Yang and Weiss lose all patience with Ozpin's lies and half-truths and insist on full disclosure immediately. When Ozpin tries to calm the situation down by suggesting they need to accept that his decisions are based on rationale and experience, they aren't placated. Even Oscar sides with the girls by temporarily wresting just enough control of his body back to tell them how to summon Jinn so that she can reveal what Ozpin's hiding. When Jinn inadvertently reveals that Ozpin lied about the number of questions she could ask, all Ozpin can do is appeal to Ruby not to ask the question he knows they all want answered. The moment triggers Qrow into stepping forward, only to find Weiss and Yang pulling weapons on him, and Blake ready to back them up. However, instead of defending Ozpin as they expect, he simply tells Ruby to do whatever she thinks right. At that point, it's clear that Ozpin has lost everyone's support -- even Oscar and Qrow's.

* TakeThatUs: A flashback showing the group planning their journey to Atlas where Weiss bemoans that she has to return to the very Kingdom she struggled to escape in the first place. Nora tries to cheer her up by pointing out the bright side to the journey: finally escaping the house they're staying in. It's an in-joke reference to the fandom's biggest complaint that most of Team RNJR's storyline in Volume 5 was confined to that house.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: After all the effort Weiss had to go through to flee Atlas, and then escape bandits, just to reach Haven, she is dismayed about returning there only to deliver the Relic to Ironwood.

* TakeThatUs: A flashback showing the group planning their journey to Atlas where Weiss expresses dismay at having to return to the very Kingdom she struggled to escape in the first place. Nora tries to cheer her up by pointing out the bright side to the journey: finally escaping the house they're staying in. It's an in-joke reference to the fandom's biggest complaint that most of Team RNJR's storyline in Volume 5 was confined to that house.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: After all the effort Weiss had to go through to escape Atlas, and then escape bandits, just to reach Haven, she is horrified that she now has to return there just to deliver the Relic to Ironwood.

* BigNO: Normally calm and placcid, even when he's angry he doesn't get too loud. However, when Ruby asks Jinn the fateful question, he yells a "No!" that makes them all react in shock.

* RuleOfThree: The Relic can be asked three questions every one hundred years.
* TakeThatUs: In a flashback, Nora expresses excited at finally getting out of the house they stayed at in Mistral, which was one of the major complaints of Team RNJR's arc in the previous volume.
* TimeStandsStill: When Jinn is released from the Relic, the small snow storm around everyone suddenly stops, the snow left frozen in the air.
* WasItAllALie: After Ozpin goes into a RantInducingSlight over trust, Ruby asks him just how much of his faith in humanity was true, and how much of it was just meant to encourage others. Ozpin doesn't have an answer, he just denies it. From what he's said though, Ruby doesn't seem to be wrong for asking.
* WasOnceAMan: Jinn begins her story about Ozpin's secrets by stating it began with Salem, except Salem was a human. Instead of her monochrome and red color scheme, she was pale, blonde, and had blue eyes.
* WhamEpisode: Very much so. Cinder survived the end of Volume 5, Ozpin is hiding something very important, the Relic works through a being named Jinn who will answer three questions, and we finally get to see Salem's backstory: she used to be human.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Jinn''': ''Once upon a time, there stood a lonely tower, that sheltered a lonely girl, named Salem...''
* WhatTheHellHero: Ozpin's entire appearance has him on the receiving end of this from team RWBY, who are tired of being lied to.
* WhiteVoidRoom: After Ruby ask Jinn what secret Ozpin is still hiding from the group (and right before Ozpin lunges at Ruby), the background switches from the snowy plain to a plain white void, from which Jinn can then build scenery from the past. Everyone seems to be separated from each other as Jinn recounts a tale directly related to Ozpin's secret.
* WishingForMoreWishes: Once Ozpin explains how the [[TheOmniscient Relic of Knowledge]] works, [[GenkiGirl Nora excitedly]] wonders if they could "ask for more questions." Ren points out "they're not wishes," as questions don't work that way.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Weiss's reaction in the flashback where she learns that she has to go ''back'' to Atlas is disbelief.

* LiarRevealed: Before leaving the safe house, Ozpin explains that the Relic of Knowledge can answer any question, but only three every hundred years, shortly afterwards claiming that all three have been asked this century. When Ruby is told to summon Jinn by Oscar from the Relic, Jinn reveals she only answered ''one'' question this century, shortly after Ozpin tries to prevent her from talking (which she ignores).
* LackOfEmpathy: Cinder, as usual.
-->'''Lil. Miss Malachite (looking at money Cinder has given her):''' Looks like your life savings.\\
'''Cinder:''' It was somebody's.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Maria has no idea as to what's going on, and when Jinn first appears, she adjusts her eyes to make sure she isn't hallucinating.
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Right before Cinder meets Lil. Miss Malachite, a news report of the villains present for the attack on Haven Academy is seen, stating they've been missing for about a month now. Last episode, Qrow said before sending his letter to Ironwood that only two weeks have passed since the attack. Meaning, Cinder's plot takes place, at minimum, two weeks after Team RWBY's plot. Additionally, it's revealed that a "big guy" (likely referring to Hazel) has also been asking for RWBY a week prior to Cinder.
* MuggedForDisguise: Cinder kills the woman who first sees her and takes her clothes and money.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: As Ozpin reveals, he's been betrayed so many times across the eras that he never fully trusts anyone with all his secrets, and he freaks out when team RWBY are about to learn something he's kept to himself. Qrow takes this poorly.
* NoExceptYes: Maria objects when Yang calls her "defenseless", saying that she's just a bit hard of hearing... and blind without her eyes... which are in need of repair. She then admits that she sees Yang's point.
* NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, Cinder's alive and well - there was a lake at the bottom of the Relic room and her icy tomb landed there. Interestingly, while she's underwater, despite no longer being encased in ice, she's struggling to even move until she activates her powers, which follows the implication from last volume where Raven seemed to freeze her from the inside out. Which raises the question of how she survived ''that''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Throughout the whole show, Ozpin had been a calm person who never lost his cool or raised his voice, even in tense situations. But for the very first time, he shouts and panics when Ruby ask Jinn what he's hiding from everyone, then charges at her attempting to stop them.
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Jinn is a humanoid blue figure with pointed ears bound to the Relic of Knowledge, who can answer three questions every 100 years. There's even a comparison or two to genies when the heroes learn about her.

* ProperlyParanoid: As Ozpin points out, Leo is apparently ''far'' from the first example of TheMole that he's dealt with, hence his habit of keeping secrets even from his allies.
* RantInducingSlight: After RWBY starts asking Ozpin to put his trust in them, he begins ranting about how Lionheart was only the latest in a series of traitors, ones who said the same things RWBY said, and that he can't openly put his trust in people anymore.
* RealityEnsues:
** Given how old Ozpin is and how long he's been trying to defeat Salem, Lionheart isn't the only person to have betrayed him, which is part of the reason why he's so secretive. And after so many millennia of being unable to stop Salem and humanity failing again and again, he's become something of a StepfordSmiler who encourages hope for the sake of his followers but has lost it himself.
** This in turn gets its ''own'' RealityEnsues moment soon after, as Ozpin's unwillingness to trust others likewise makes it [[{{Understatement}} rather difficult]] for [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating others to trust him]], turning it into a vicious cycle of mistrust.
* TheReveal: As it turns out, another fairy tale is revealed true - ''The Girl in the Tower'' is essentially Salem's backstory.

* CallBack: When the gang confronts Ozpin after learning the Relic attracts Grimm, Yang demands to know what happened to "no more lies or half-truths". This was exactly what she insisted Ozpin promise to uphold when she first joined the party after leaving Raven's bandit camp in Volume 5.

* EarlyBirdCameo: "Lil. Miss" Malachite was ''meant'' to have one of these in ''RWBY: Combat Ready,'' a Kickstarter board game that was funded prior to Volume 5's release. One of the add-ons backers could buy was a deck themed around an unseen villain, in this case Lil. Miss. However, the game was delayed for four months, resulting in the game only finally releasing right before this episode appeared- and even by then, Lil. Miss had already appeared in the Volume 6 trailer.
* ElectronicEyes: Maria's eyes are artificial, looking like a pair of goggles affixed to her face. They also appear to be a tad faulty, as Maria touching them caused them to short out for a second.
* FairytaleMotifs:
** The crime boss has notes of Little Miss Muffet, and mentions she was afraid of spiders until she made them work for her. And it seems that Salem was once a GirlInTheTower similar to Rapunzel, and so another fairytale Pyrrha mentioned in [[Recap/RWBYV3E6Fall "Fall"]] is revealed to be true in-universe. The Relic of Knowledge is equivalent to the genie's lamp from ''{{Aladdin}}''. Finally, Ozpin, just like the titular [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]] is having his deep, dark secrets forcibly uncovered by a newcomer who grew up on a farm.
* FightingFromTheInside: Oscar rebels against Ozpin's control just long enough to tell Team RWBY how to call upon the Relic's power.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When [[Recap/RWBYV1E2E3TheShiningBeacon Ozpin is making his speech]] at the beginning of Beacon's 1st Semester, Yang and Ruby both note that he seemed off, as if he wasn't really there. Here, Ruby asks him if all the speeches he made about his faith in humanity like the one there he even believed in, or if they were just for the others benefits, making it clear why he sounded off. He was doing the equivalent of reading a script, and didn't really believe a word he said.
** Back during the episode ''[[Recap/RWBYV3E6Fall Fall]]'', when Pyrrha begins listing off the various fairy tales she knows off, she mentions "The Girl in the Tower" before Ozpin abruptly cuts her off and asks if she knows the "Story of the Seasons". The latter is the story of the birth of the Maidens after the Wizard, one of Ozpin's prior lives, bestowed his power to them. The former is revealed here to be the OriginStory to ''[[BigBad Salem]]'', who is directly tied to Ozpin's past, implying he cut Pyrrha off due to bad memories.
** [[Recap/RWBYV5E14HavensFate When Qrow is holding the Relic of Knowledge]] shortly after Oscar passes out, a faint sound can be heard coming from it, akin to breathing. Turns out, the Relic is alive and houses a spirit named Jinn.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his talk of having faith in humanity, Ozpin seems to have none left himself- notably when Ruby asks if all those previous speeches about humanity's qualities were just lies, Ozpin quickly changes the subject. And while no one in-universe has noticed yet, Yang is visibly the angriest at Ozpin's keeping secrets while there's no indication that she's told the others the truth about what happened in the vault.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Ozpin knows full well that the Relic is an entity named Jinn, yet insists on referring to her as an object to hide her true nature.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When everyone points their weapons at Qrow, who tries to come to Ozpin's defense, he merely backs off, telling Ruby to do whatever she thinks is right.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Combined with BrokenPedestal, no one among Team RWBY, Qrow, Oscar, and Maria seems willing to trust Ozpin. Weiss, Blake, and Yang were already treading carefully with him, Qrow is losing faith in him, Oscar knows what he's thinking and is FightingFromTheInside, Maria doesn't know him, and even Ruby is growing tired of his lies and half-truths.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
** When Yang confronts Ozpin over (once again) keeping secrets from the group, insisting that they would never turn against him no matter how awful the truth is:
--->'''Ozpin:''' Do you really think [[TheMole Leo]] was the first? That he didn't say those exact words to me?!
** When Ruby asks if all the times Ozpin talked about having faith in humanity, it was for everyone else's sake. Ozpin's only reply is that that was not what he meant to suggest before asking for Ruby to hand him the relic. He doesn't really give a clear answer, but given the way that he talks about Leo and the people who defected from his side before... It carries the implication that Ruby's not wrong.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Jinn is completely naked except for her chains, but lacks nipples or genitalia.
* BigNO: Ozpin yells "No" as he tries to stop Ruby from asking what he's hiding.
* BrokenPedestal: Team RWBY is ''not'' happy with what they've been told and the end up turning their weapons on Qrow and Ozpin. Even Qrow seems to have become pretty disillusioned with Ozpin, given his look of utter shock when Jinn reveals that Oz lied to them about the questions she could answer, and how quickly he backs down from defending Ozpin.

** When Cinder asks "Lil. Miss" Malachite on Team RWBY along with Jaune, Nora and Rin, the pictures she shows were clearly taken during the Vytal Festival. Also fittingly, given how Cinder's own scroll was likely destroyed after the battle in Volume 5, all the images she uses are publically available images instead of from her own files.
** "Lil. Miss Malachite" also shares a surname with Melanie and Militia, Junior's thugs from the Yellow Trailer and Volume 2.
** Yang asks, "What happened to 'No More Lies and Half-Truths?'", her request in Volume 5 "Rest and Resolutions" that Ozpin agreed to - an agreement he appears to have broken.
** Upon hearing Ozpin's patronizing excuse for keeping Team RWBY LockedOutOfTheLoop, Weiss snarls that she's tired of people choosing what is best for her - Ozpin's actions are no doubt reminding her of her father indefinitely grounding after Volume 3 'for her own good.'
** During their fight Raven noted Cinder couldn't defend her arm with Aura. Here it's shown the opposite is true, its strength is independent of her Aura too. Even on the brink of death her arm still possesses the strength to put a hole through stone to get her out.
* CharacterDevelopment: It's subtle, but this episode shows that Cinder is already learning some lessons from the debacle in Haven. Compare the way she deals with Lil. Miss Malachite to the way she dealt with Torchwick. She's more polite and cooperative, keeps her cool, and doesn't flaunt her power to intimidate, the way she did with Roman. Her listening to Lil. Miss' statement about "making the spiders work for her" has echoes of what Salem told her in the previous volume about not underestimating the usefulness of others.

** Back during the episode ''[[Recap/RWBYV3E6Fall Fall]]'', when Pyrrha begins listing off the various fairy tales she knows off, she mentions "The Girl in the Tower" before Ozpin abruptly cuts her off and asks if she knows the "Story of the Seasons". The latter is the story of the birth of the Maiden's after the Wizard, one of Ozpin's prior lives, bestowed his power to them. The former is revealed here to be the OriginStory to ''[[BigBad Salem]]'', who is directly tied to Ozpin's past, implying he cut Pyrrha off due to bad memories.

** When Cinder asks "Lil. Miss" Malachite on Teams RWBY and JN_R, the pictures she shows were clearly taken during the Vytal Festival. Also fittingly, given how Cinder's own scroll was likely destroyed after the battle in Volume 5, all the images she uses are publically available images instead of from her own files.

-->'''Lil. Miss Malachite (looking at money Cinder has given her)''' Looks like your life savings.\\
'''Cinder''' It was somebody's.

** The crime boss has notes of Little Miss Muffet, and mentions she was afraid of spiders until she made them work for her. And it seems that Salem was once a GirlInTheTower similar to Rapunzel. Finally, Ozpin, just like the titular [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]] is having his deep, dark secrets forcibly uncovered by a newcomer who grew up on a farm.
** In-universe, another fairytale Pyrrha mentioned in [[Recap/RWBYV3E6Fall "Fall"]] is revealed to be true, Salem is ''The Girl In The Tower''.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Weiss's reaction in the flashback where she learns that she has to go ''back'' to Atlas.