History Recap / RWBYV9E2AltercationAtTheAuspiciousAuction

* AlmostHoldingHands: While Blake is teasing Yang about how she lost her arm, the two reach for each other's hands, then pull back; their movements are slightly out of sync, so they never quite touch. Weiss, who is walking behind them, notices but Ruby doesn't.

* CallBack: In this episode, Blake tries warning the team not to make Alyx's mistakes, and becoming anxious when they do. At the end, Ruby insists on meeting the Red King, snappily telling them to just follow the story and stop pretending they know what they're doing. Back in Volume 1, Ruby makes a similar comment to Weiss, who is pretending she knows where they're going. The difference is attitude: during initiation, Ruby is frustrated with Weiss' bossy and perfectionist personality. Here, Ruby is despairing over how they ended up in the Ever After, her hope is waning, and she's losing her will to keep fighting their corner.

* DramaticIrony: ** Since Weiss doesn't know what happened after she fell, she hopes that Jaune and Winter managed to keep the Relics away from Cinder. The viewers know only Winter made it to Vacuo, they failed to stop the villains obtaining both Relics, and Jaune has fallen into the Ever After, too.

* DramaticIrony:
** Since Weiss doesn't know what happened after she fell, she hopes that Jaune and Winter managed to keep the Relics away from Cinder. The viewers know only Winter made it to Vacuo, they failed to stop the villains obtaining both Relics, and Jaune has fallen into the Ever After, too.
** Yang dismisses Alyx as a mean person who lied and cheated her way through the story, though the irony that she herself had lied about Raven (via omission) is lost on her.

** Yang dismisses Alyx as a mean person who lied and cheated her way through the story, though the irony that she herself had [[LieByOmission lied about something]] is lost on her.

* DramaticIrony: Since Weiss doesn't know what happened after she fell, she hopes that Jaune and Winter managed to keep the Relics away from Cinder. The viewers know only Winter made it to Vacuo, they failed to stop the villains obtaining both Relics, and Jaune has fallen into the Ever After, too.
* GenreSavvy: Blake and Ruby both grew up loving stories, and Blake throws herself into the realisation that they're in the middle of Alyx's story. She predicts future events on the basis of the story, and tries warning her team to avoid making Alyx's mistakes. As a result, the events in town unfold as Blake anticipated, much to her frustration. Ruby eventually dismisses Blake's knowledge, tells the team to stop pretending they know what they're doing, and gives herself over to the whims of the storybook path they're following.

* AlmostHoldingHands: While Blake is teasing Yang about how she lost her arm, she and Yang reach for each other's hands, then pull back; their movements are slightly out of sync, so they never quite touch. Weiss, who is walking behind them, notices but Ruby doesn't.

* CallBack: In this episode, Blake tries warning the team not to make Alyx's mistakes, and becoming anxious when they do. At the end, Ruby insists on meeting the Red King, snappily telling them to just follow the story and stop pretending they know what they're doing. Back in Volume 1, Ruby makes a similar comment to Weiss, who is pretending she knows where they're going. The difference is attitude: during initiation, Ruby is frustrated that Weiss is being bossy and trying to act like she's perfect. Here, Ruby is despairing over how they ended up in the Ever After, her hope is waning, and she's losing her will to keep fighting their corner.

* DramaticIrony: As Weiss doesn't know what happened after she fell, she hopes that Jaune and Winter managed to keep the Relics away from Cinder. The audience knows that only Winter made it to Vacuo, they failed to stop the villains obtaining both Relics, and Jaune has fallen into the Ever After, too.
* GenreSavvy: Blake and Ruby both grew up loving stories, and Blake throws herself into the realisation that they're in the middle of Alyx's story. She predicts future events on the basis of the story, and tries to warn her team to avoid making Alyx's mistakes. As a result, the events in town unfold as Blake anticipated, much to her frustration. Ruby eventually dismisses Blake's knowledge, tells the team to stop pretending they know what they're doing, and gives herself over to the whims of the storybook path they're following.
* GivingUpOnLogic: Weiss desperately tries to find logic in what they're experiencing, such as initially dismissing Blake's conclusion they're in a fairy tale and the idea that she can't just walk straight to the tree. Every time the reality of their situation hits her attempts to rationalise what's happening, she ends up in the background muttering to herself.

* IntangiblePrice: Jinxy sells a diamond rabbit for a hug, the golden scepter (actually Yang's arm) for the feeling of being loved, and a jade marionette for enough hope to fill a jar. Blake also mentions that Alyx gave up her happiest and saddest memories to get her dagger back. Yang is shocked by the price of giving up the feeling of being loved; when Jinxy's glamour vanishes, she grabs her arm from the soldier that bought it. Ruby is unable to pay the price of filling a jar with hope because she doesn't have enough left, so Little steals the doll the way Jinxy stole from the mice. The heroes have to make a run for it for both reasons.

* NotHelpingYourCase: When Weiss disagrees with Blake's assessment that Team RWBY are in a fairy tale, she tries to figure things out logically. After listing every improbable thing that's happened - Ruby befriending a talking mouse, Weiss and Blake being captured by living vines, Yang losing her arm to a talking raccoon - Weiss awkwardly admits that Blake might be right.

* {{Railroading}}: Blake keeps pointing out that they're walking through a storybook and that they should be learning the lessons of the original story to avoid making the same mistakes Alyx made. Initially, Weiss attempts to reject Blake's fairy tale logic, such as not being able to walk straight to the tree, in favour of Remnant-style logic. She eventually gives in. Ruby, who's not in the mood to try and think their way through the fairy tale, eventually tells the team that they should just let the story take them wherever it goes, and stop pretending they know what they're doing.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After hearing Blake's explanation of how Alyx got her dagger back from Jinxy in the original story, Yang still wants to just beat him up and take her arm back. She ends up retrieving her arm by force anyway once Jinxy's glamour is broken.

* CallBack: Blake spends the episode trying to warn the team not to make Alyx's mistakes, and becoming anxious when they do. At the end of episode, Ruby insists on meeting the Red King, snappily telling them that may as well just follow the story and stop pretending that they know what they're doing. During initiation in Volume 1, Ruby makes a similar comment to Weiss, who is pretending she knows where they're going. The difference is attitude: during initiation, Ruby is frustrated that Weiss is being bossy and trying to act like she's perfect. Here, Ruby is despairing over how they ended up in the Ever After, her hope is waning, and she's losing her will to keep fighting their corner.

* CallBack: Blake spends the episode trying to warn the team not to make Alyx's mistakes, and becoming anxious when they do. At the end of episode, Ruby insists on meeting the Red King, snappily telling them that may as well just follow the story and stop pretending that they know what they're doing. During initiation in Volume 1, Ruby makes a similar comment to Weiss, who is pretending she knows where they're going. The difference is attitude: during initiation, Ruby is frustrated that Weiss is being bossy and trying to act like she's perfect. Here, Ruby is despairing over how the ended up in the Ever After, her hope is waning, and she's losing her will to keep fighting their corner.

* DramaticIrony: As Weiss doesn't know what happened after she fell, she hopes that Jaune and Winter managed to keep the Relics away from Cinder. The audience knows that only Winter made it to Vacuo; they failed to stop the villains obtaining both Relics, and Jaune has fallen into the Ever After, too.

* {{Railroading}}: Blake keeps pointing out that they're walking through a storybook and that they should be learning the lessons of the original story to avoid making the same mistakes Alyx made. Initially, Weiss attempts to reject Blake's fairy-tale logic in favour of Remnant-style logic, such as not being able to walk straight to the tree. She eventually gives in. Ruby, who's not in the mood to try and think their way through the fairy tale, eventually tells the team that they should just let the story take them wherever it goes, and stop pretending they know what they're doing.

* IntangiblePrice: Jinxy sells a diamond rabbit for a hug, the golden scepter (actually Yang's arm) for the feeling of being loved, and a jade marionette for enough hope to fill a jar. Blake also mentions that Alyx gave her happiest and saddest memories to get her dagger back. Yang finds the feeling of being loved too high a price, and just [[CuttingTheKnot grabs her arm and runs for it]] while everyone's distracted at the broken glamour.
* MedicineShow: Jinxy's wagon is modeled after one, presenting what he claims to be great treasures but are actually more mundane items that have been glamoured. Little breaks the glamour and they run for it in the confusion, while Jinxy has to give back the hug he got.
* NotHelpingYourCase: When Weiss disagrees with Blake's assessment that Team RWBY are in a fairy tale, she tries to figure things out logically. After listing every improbable thing that's happened - Ruby befriending a talking mouse, Weiss and Blake being captured by living vines, Yang losing her arm to a talking raccoon - Weiss awkwardly admits that Blake might have something.
* OffTheRails: In the original story, Alyx had to barter with Jinxy for her dagger. Yang and Little wind up just grabbing their items and running for it, much to Blake's horror.
* PlotParallel: Jinxy's MedicineShow is one of Ironwood's leadership in Atlas in miniature. In exchange for love, hope and affection he offers things that look like what they want instead of what they actually are. Not coincidentally, the façade is removed and the team is forced to take what they need and leave.
* {{Railroading}}: With Blake constantly pointing out they are going on the motions of a storybook, Ruby bluntly suggests they keep doing that.
** Weiss outright refuses this and tries to go straight for their goal, only to find herself looping through the same area over and over again.
* ShipperOnDeck: When Weiss notices Blake teasing Yang’s hand and Yang briefly trying to do the same, Weiss lets out an “About time” at that. Ruby misses this.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Weiss picks up the slack for Ruby in this department, going so far as to get beaned in the head with a rock she threw and ended up wrapping around back to her.

* TragicKeepsake: Ruby discovers one of Penny’s Maiden-created swords and buys it. She later offers it up for the girls to gain passage.
* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: The clearing Team RWBY are in suddenly becomes one of these when Weiss tries to go straight to the tree, only to find herself looping around back to where she started. In frustration, she throws a rock and hits herself in the back of the head.

* {{Glamour}}: Jinxy's items are all under one to seem like treasures, and the heroes have to guess which one is the item they need. Yang correctly identifies her arm, and Ruby senses that there's something off about the jade puppet before it's revealed to be one of Penny's swords.
* InformalEulogy: Ruby gives a sort of eulogy to Penny when offering her sword as a gift for the King's birthday, describing it as the weapon of a powerful warrior who gave her life for thousands, sent a message of hope to the stars, and saw the world through better eyes. It moves the toy soldiers enough that they cry and immediately agree to bring them to the castle, so that such a precious gift can be given to the King.

* AlmostHoldingHands: While walking, Blake and Yang reach for each other's hands, then pull back, just a bit out of sync.
* BrokenAesop: InUniverse, Yang saw ''The Girl Who Fell Through The World'' as this, as Alyx lied and cheated her way through most of the book. It's why she's so willing to go OffTheRails.
* CallBack: Ruby snaps at her friends, telling them they need to stop pretending they know what they’re doing. Ruby said the same thing to Weiss way back in Volume 1. The difference here is attitude: In Volume 1, it was out of frustration towards the snobby Weiss; here, it’s anger and depression over how they got here.
* DespairEventHorizon: With the revelations of last chapter, Ruby’s hit this big time, and doesn't have enough hope to fill a jar. Weiss is also there, but not as bad, as she feels that she failed Atlas.
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Little is shocked at Yang's suggestion that Jinxy steals from the mice; according to Little, he just takes things they're not looking at (presumably without permission), which Little considers fair game.
* DramaticIrony: Weiss, unaware of what happened after she fell, expresses hope that Jaune and Winter managed to keep the Relics away from Cinder; the audience knows that they failed, with Jaune falling not long after Weiss did, and Cinder escaping with the Relics while Winter had to escape to Vacuo.
* GenreSavvy: Blake more than anyone else is taking the fairy tale premise of the Ever After seriously, predicting the traps in Jinxy's auction before they actually show.
* GivingUpOnLogic: Weiss does this twice, first when she admits that Blake has a point, and then again when she can't just get to the tree.

Team RWBY’s trek through the Ever After sends them to a bazaar selling items at a price…

!!Tropes involved in this episode:

* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: The clearing Team RWBY are in suddenly becomes one of these when Weiss tries to go straight to the tree, only to find herself looping around back to where she started. In frustration, she throws a rock and hits herself in the back of the head.

* IntangiblePrice: Jinxy sells a diamond rabbit for a hug, the golden scepter (actually Yang's arm) for the feeling of being loved, and a jade marionette for enough hope to fill a jar. Blake also mentions that Alyx gave her happiest and saddest memories to get her dagger back. Yang finds it too high a price, and just [[CuttingTheKnot grabs her arm and runs for it]]] while everyone's distracted at the broken glamour.

* TragicKeepsake: Ruby discovers one of Penny’s Maiden-created swords and buys it. She later offers it up for the girls to gain passage.

* IntangiblePrice: Jinxy sells a diamond rabbit for a hug, the golden scepter (actually Yang's arm) for the feeling of being loved, and a jade marionette for enough hope to fill a jar. Blake also mentions that Alyx gave her happiest and saddest memories to get her dagger back.

* DespairEventHorizon: With the revelations of last chapter, Ruby’s hit this big time. Weiss is also there, but not as bad, as she feels that she failed Atlas.

* EmotionEater: Of a sort. Jynxy sells items at the cost of certain emotions. He first wants enough hope to fill a jar, which Ruby can’t do. When he next wants the feeling of being loved, Yang backs out of the price.

* CallBack: Ruby snaps at her friends, telling them they need to stop pretending they know what they’re doing. Ruby said the same thing to Weiss way back in Volume 1.

* NotHelpingYourCase: When Weiss disagrees with Blake's assessment that Team RWBY are in a fairy tale, she tries to figure things out logically. After listing every improbable thing that's happened - Ruby befriending a talking mouse, Weiss and Blake being captured by living vines, Yang losing her arm to a talking raccoon - Weiss awkward admits that Blake might have something.

* EmotionEater: Of a sort. Jynxie sells items at the cost of certain emotions. He first wants enough hope to fill a jar, which Ruby can’t do. When he next wants the feeling of being loved, Yang backs out of the price.

* NotHelpingYourCase: When Weiss disagrees with Blake's assessment that Team RWBY are in a fairy, tale, she tries to figrue things out logically. After listing every improbable thing that's happened- Ruby befriending a talking mouse, Weiss and Blake being captured by living vines, Yang losing her arm to a talking raccoon- Weiss awkward admits that Blake might have something.

* DespairEventHorizon: With the revelations of last chapter, Ruby’s hit this big time. Weiss is equally there, but not as bad, as she feels that she failed Atlas.

* EmotionEater: Of a sort. Jynxie sells items at the cost of certain emotions. He first wants enough hope to fill a jar, which Ruby can’t do. When he next wants the feeling of being loved, it seems that Yang accidentally gave that up.