Sooo...I've been meaning to ask this question for a while.
The name of this series is RWBY, is the main character's name Rwby?
The first initials of her team-mates' names are a coincidence?
And Roses are Red, like the Red Ruby.
edited 13th Apr '16 12:10:37 PM by randomness4
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@Jovian And there is also the possibilitie that they might retract what they did and bring her back to life. That would probably enrage half the fanbase and endless debates about her revival would be everywhere.
We cannot say for sure if Pyrrha was going to last long. Maybe she could've died later but people wouldn't be complaining about it? That's what i would have hoped so.
My biggest complain about Pyrrha is that she doesn't get that many meaningful interactions with anyone besides Jaune. That's why i feel sometimes that her character got shafted to levels of almost Satellite Love Interest. At least Vol. 3 gave her something that wasn't Jaunecentric. Until, you know, she dies
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But she wears black, isn't that weird?
edited 13th Apr '16 12:11:48 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I forget, have you watched this show, or are you genuinely asking?
And Jovian, I'll respond in-depth once I have a little time to, uh, give a full read to your posts. You have a tendency towards the wall-o'-text, mate.
The first initials of her team-mates' names are a coincidence?
For that matter, RWBY also refers to the color-coding of all the characters. R = Ruby = Red, W = Weiss = White, B = Blake = Black, and Y = Yang = Yellow.
edited 13th Apr '16 12:16:50 PM by NativeJovian
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x5 I was genuinely asking about the name...they never spell it in the show.
edited 13th Apr '16 12:18:56 PM by randomness4
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Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.

On an unrelated note: how the hell did Cinder even figure out where the hell Ozpin was keeping Fall, anyway?
Something like, say, Weiss finally using her summoning ability at a decisive moment would be a much better example of a Chekhov's Gun. It's established that she has the potential, she just hasn't been able to use it successfully before. There was nothing to establish Ruby's ability, though, not even in a vague "Ruby has enormously powerful abilities that she has yet to tap into" way.
Which would have been easy to do, incidentally. Have a situation where Ruby gets in over her head somehow, and her powers awaken and save her (or someone on her team) at some point prior to the season three climax. Use the same "no one really saw what happened" trick or else have them tell Ozpin or someone about it and he tells them not to worry themselves over it. There, foreshadowing complete. Now we know that Ruby has some sort of unexplained power that she neither understands nor controls. It's not like they didn't have enough time to write that in somewhere in three seasons before the fall of Beacon.
And then suddenly those same battles with those same grimm and those same villains are getting people killed. Why now, and not before? Because the writers said so. It felt like a ploy for cheap drama rather than a natural progression of the plot. As I mentioned earlier, other series that have done the Cerebus Syndrome transition better make it clear that the rules have changed, things are different now. When Harry Potter goes from dealing with relatively harmless things like students throwing jinxes at each other to facing down Death Eaters who are willing and able to kill, it's made very clear that "this is different from before, things are serious now". When Avatar: the Last Airbender goes from wacky fantasy-world travelling adventures to dueling the Fire Lord for the fate of the world, it's abundantly clear that the stakes are no longer "getting delayed on our journey" or "being put in some embarrassing situation", it's "if we lose, we die and the bad guy takes over the world".
RWBY starts with the "if we lose, we die" thing, but never actually goes through with it. They're fighting horrific demon-monsters that specifically want to destroy humanity, but even when fighting enormously powerful grimm (which happens in the first few episodes of the first season, when they end up fighting the deathstalker and the nevermore), no one's ever so much as moderately injured. We see people get tossed around and a few comments of "my everything hurts", but no one ever actually needs any medical attention. We literally don't see so much as a trip to the nurse's office. That's the way the series works for two full seasons. It's very firmly established that in RWBY, the only thing at risk is Amusing Injuries which will be all better after a good night's sleep, at worst.
Until suddenly that's not the case anymore. No warning. No logical progression of the threat. Same opponents, same fights, except now people are being killed off and permanently maimed.
It just doesn't work, at least for me. My reaction wasn't "holy shit, things are getting intense!", it was "what the hell? Where did this come from? Why now and not before? This is stupid."
The whole subplot does nothing but remove Pyrrha's agency as a character. She doesn't do anything, things simply happen to her. She's paralyzed with indecision, then forced by events, then killed. She goes from a confident, competent huntress-in-training at the start of the season to getting Stuffed into the Fridge so Ruby has a reason to activate her Deus ex Machina by the end of it. It abandoned her characterization as an interesting exploration of The Ace with serious Lonely at the Top issues and instead fed her to The Plot Reaper in a way that was contrived and unsatisfying.
What did the subplot add to Pyrrha as a character? She never really questioned her willingness to risk herself to protect the world. The only thing that seemed to be holding her back was the possibility of a relationship with Jaune. But she never actually decides — is it okay to be just a tiny bit selfish and want something for herself, instead of giving everything up for the good of others? Or does she have to regretfully let go of her personal feeling if that's what's necessary to do the most good for the most people? But then they bail on the question, bail on making her live with the consequences of her choice (or lack thereof), and bail on the character entirely. Hell, even if they wanted to kill her off, they could have had her accept the power, use it to fight Cinder, and lose. The plot would have ultimately ended up in the exact same place, but it would have been a much more satisfying end to Pyrrha's character arc.
Not to mention that there's a million better things they could have done with her than killing her. Let's say they had given her Yang's fate (maimed and retreated into Heroic Safe Mode) — then that could have led to something interesting where she becomes a Broken Ace and has to decide her real priorities in life. It would also free up Yang to be a part of Ruby's season four shenanigans — either alongside her with the remains of team JNPR, or separately as a B Story.
Damnit, now I'm doing the thing where I end up writing a Fix Fic in my head for a show that I don't like.
edited 13th Apr '16 11:59:27 AM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.