History Recap / RWBYV9E2AltercationAtTheAuspiciousAuction

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point in the opening credits (and for subsequent episodes), team [=RWBY=] and a silhouetted character are walking and eventually running to the right, all except for Ruby who is looking downcast as she ambles along and eventually falls behind the group. It isn't until the end of Episode 6 that the reasons for this become apparent.

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* QueerColors: When team RWBY are walking to palace to get Yang's robotic left arm, the plants can be see the three colors: pink, purple and blue, that deserves Blake and Yang as they confess in [[Recap/RWBYV9E6ConfessionsWithinCumulonimbusClouds episode 6]] (Although Yang is AmbiguouslyBi).

* QueerColors: When team RWBY are walking to palace to get Yang's robotic left arm, the plants can be see the three colors: pink, purple and blue, that deserves Blake and Yang as they confess in [[Recap/RWBYV9E6ConfessionsWithinCumulonimbusClouds episode 6]].

-> ''"We may not know exactly what's going on, but -- for whatever reason -- this place is putting us on a similar path as a book we all read when we were kids. I say we follow it, and stop pretending we know what we're doing."''
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Team RWBY’s trek through the Ever After sends them to a bazaar selling items at a price...

* 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’s pretending she knows where they're going. The difference is attitude. During initiation, Ruby was 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 in their corner.

-> ''"We may not know exactly what's going on, but -- for whatever reason -- this place is putting us on a similar path as a book we all read when we were kids. I say we follow it, and stop pretending we know what we're doing."''

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Downplayed. When trying to rationalize the situation Team RWBY have found themselves in after the end of Volume 8, Weiss immediately dismisses "The Girl Who Fell Through the World" as pure, childish "make-believe" with no basis in reality when Blake syggests they're in the story's alternate world; despite Team RWBY having previously become privy to the real events, figures and supernatural beings that strongly influenced several other children's fables on Remnant ("The Girl in the Tower", "The Two Brothers" and "The Story of the Seasons").

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Downplayed. When trying to rationalize the situation Team RWBY have found themselves in after the end of Volume 8, Weiss immediately dismisses "The Girl Who Fell Through the World" as pure, childish "make-believe" with no basis in reality; despite her having previously become privy to the fact that several other children's fables on Remnant -- namely "The Girl in the Tower", "The Two Brothers" and "The Story of the Seasons" -- were strongly influenced by real events, figures and supernatural beings.

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* 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 was 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 in their corner.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: PlayedForLaughs. When Little casually informs Team RWBY that they've taken them further away from her homeland than they've ever gone before and they can't make it back on their own, RWBY react with [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rwby_9x2_freakout_0.jpg a line-up of four distinct freak-outs]]. Blake and Ruby look especially horrified.

* GenreSavvy: Blake and Ruby both grew up loving stories, and Blake throws herself into the realization 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.
* GivingUpOnLogic: Weiss desperately tries finding 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.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: PlayedForLaughs. When Little casually informs Team RWBY that they've taken her further away from her homeland than she's ever gone before and she can't make it back on her own, they react with [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rwby_9x2_freakout_0.jpg a line-up of four distinct freak-outs]]. Blake and Ruby look especially horrified.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Disagreeing with Blake's assessment Team RWBY are in a fairy tale, Weiss tries figuring 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 Blake might be right.
* OffTheRails: In the original story, Alyx had to barter with Jinxy for her dagger. Yang initially just wants to hit Jinxy and grab her arm, but is talked into attempting to barter. However, she's unwilling to pay the price for her arm and Ruby's unable to pay the prices for a green puppet that she's drawn to, so Yang and Little end up grabbing the items they want, forcing the team to make a run for it.
* {{Railroading}}: Blake tells her teammates they're walking through a storybook and they should learn the lessons of the original story to avoid making the same mistakes Alyx made. Weiss initially tries rejecting 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 to let the story take them wherever it goes, and stop pretending they know what they're doing.

* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: When Weiss attempts to go to the tree directly, she finds this happening to her, just as it did to Ruby. Fed up, Weiss throws a rock, only for it to loop and hit her in the back of her head.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Weiss is reluctant to believe that the realm they've landed in is the Ever After from "The Girl Who Fell Through the World" on the basis that it's nothing more than a bedtime fable, despite her having previously viewed the real events and figures which inspired "The Girl in the Tower", "The Two Brothers" and "The Story of the Seasons".

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Weiss is reluctant to believe that the realm they've landed in is the Ever After from "The Girl Who Fell Through the World" on the basis that it's nothing more than a bedtime fable, despite her having previously witnessed the real events and figures which inspired "The Girl in the Tower", "The Two Brothers" and "The Story of the Seasons".

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: PlayedForLaughs. When Little casually informs Team RWBY that they've taken her further away from her homeland than she's ever gone before and she can't make it back on her own, they react with [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rwby_9x2_freakout.jpg a line-up of four distinct freak-outs]]. Blake and Ruby look especially horrified.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: PlayedForLaughs. When Little casually informs Team RWBY that they've taken her further away from her homeland than she's ever gone before and she can't make it back on her own, they react with [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rwby_9x2_freakout.jpg a line-up of four distinct freak-outs]].